What started as a one day, maybe purchase turned into a serious mission when rain put a Nats game into a delay and I went to the team’s website to look up something.

The main picture featured pitcher Max Scherzer and his beautiful glove (this is not that exact photo, but I assume the same glove):

With a vague idea that I wanted to look into getting a new glove, I next visited the Rawlings site.  The first thing I saw there was the ability to create a custom glove, so naturally I had to see what that was like:

You get to pick the color of every piece of leather, a dozen different webbing designs, optional finger holes and hoods, custom text or even country and state flags.  This is not even close to the ugliest glove you can make with all those choices.

The real one I built was far simpler, with a two-tone color pattern.  Like the bat I got in January, I went with my “brand” but skipped the flag this time.  Three weeks later, this beauty showed up at my door:

This is by far the most comfortable glove I’ve ever owned and I’m pretty sure it is impossible to make any errors with it.  The smell should also be a cologne. There’s also the bonus that after playing catch for a while, the baseball starts to get a nice red hue.  So many things for the Rawlings marketing department to work with.