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Here are 4 Orioles pitchers wearing giant protective caps

They are flashing Blue Steel and very, very safe.

I’m not sure if this was done in jest, or to show solidarity with Alex Torres, but here are four Orioles pitchers wearing giant protective caps:

Looks good from here. I’m anti-hat jokes, as I don’t want to see a pitcher die from a comebacker, so I don’t see a danged thing wrong with those hats. Looks outstanding to me.

Mostly, though, I’m just using the Orioles using the hashtag #Birdland as an excuse to remind everyone that someone made this GIF a long time ago, and it’s still the best.

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