Landfill-Ready MLB Merch of the Week

In honor of our nation's 233rd birthday as well as America's throwaway culture, the commanders-in-chief at MLB ordered a league-wide deployment of "Star-Spangled" garb over the long holiday weekend. Besides astonishing Cubs fanatics and Dodger die-hards by outfitting their teams in red hats, the league's bold marketing approach has solidified MLB's street cred with the increasingly lucrative norteno and mara salvatrucha market segments.

Predictably, there's a merchandising tie-in, with MLB generously donating a portion of the profits to veterans. Tubesox Nation especially recommends this scarlet Giants lid. Priced at only $36.99, it's just as sure to turns heads at the corner of 2Oth and Mission as at 24 Willie Mays Plaza.

Landfill-Ready MLB Merch of the Week

Continuing their tireless efforts to ensure that the next generation of baseball fans can look forward to a world filled with even more crap, the marketing honchos at the MLB Corp. have introduced a line of scratch-and-sniff kids hats including this watermelon-scented Red Sox lid. Not only do these hats look good and smell better, when improperly disposed of in Asian landfills (garbage outsourcing, baby, it's the wave of the future), they make a favorite food source for honeybees, baby pandas and probably sea turtles.