Michael Shapiro is a sports reporter for Chron, covering the Astros, Rockets, Texans and every team in town. Michael is a Denver native and graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, and a noted fan of pull-up threes, wide-receiver passes and a good hot fudge sundae.

In the Rangers’ case, the “T” sat in the middle of “TEXAS” to block out the X and create an inadvertent visual of a Spanish slang vulgarity for women’s breasts. While some other hats in the collection appeared to create other potentially questionable or funny malaprops, the Rangers hat was the only one apparently pulled from the collection.