I know marketing departments dominate Major League color-scheme decisions, but it always bothers me how dull the variety is in baseball. It’s like every team is some variety of royal or navy blue with white, sometimes highlighted by red or orange.

I’ve been campaigning for several years to no one in particular that some team should adopt the UCLA color scheme — sky blue and yellow. The Rays added both colors when they ditched the “Devil” from their nickname, but they’re tethered to the navy-and-white hat for whatever reason.

Anyway, they introduced new sky blue jerseys today, another step in the right direction. And it appears their batting-practice caps are sky blue with white. It’s not hard, Rays’ marketing department: You change your hat to sky blue with yellow letters, and I’ll buy one. That’s one sale, done. It helps that your hat has my initials (and Taco Bell’s) on it.

H/T to Craig Calcaterra for the link.

Bobby Kielty’s in the news this week, apparently trying to make a comeback as a pitcher after being cut by the Mets in the great, mysterious Lake Erie Eradication of 2009.

(If you’ve forgotten — and you probably have — the Mets cut Kielty, Javier Valentin and Wily Mo Pena from their Buffalo club on the same day in late June last year. I’m still not certain why it happened — for all I know, there were contractual reasons for the moves — but it did seem funny that a team desperate for depth should cut the only three hitters on its Triple-A club with any history of Major League success in one fell swoop.)

Anyway, Kielty’s return gives me enough reason to reprint this split image, an underrated athlete/celebrity lookalike, I feel. It’s Kielty with his hat off, and South Park’s Kyle Broflovski in the same condition. Daywalkers both: