A year ago if I showed you a picture of The Pope wearing a Baseball cap for the Chicago White Sox (or any Amercan team) you would assume it was computer-generated. And you would likely be right.
Are there any real pictures of any Pope before Pope Leo XIV with a baseball cap on?
I doubt it
A real picture of Pope Leo wearing a Chicago White Sox baseball cap is here.
1) Having an American Pope is so incongruent with how we think of Popes that pictures like Pope Leo XIV in a baseball cap look very odd.
2) Pope Francis was a soccer fan (see here). Is there a real pictures of him wearing a soccer jersey?
3) Before the web we didn't know much about the personal lives of leaders. I don't just mean we didn't know about (say) their affairs; we didn't even know about non-controversial things like what sports team they root for.
4) Lance has tweeted that he never thought he would see the day where he and the Pope rooted for the same baseball team. I want to see a picture of The Pope and Lance together at a game, both wearing Chicago White Sox caps. A real picture may be hard to do, but I suspect that once The Pope see's this post he will create such a picture.
5) I hope the next Pope is a fan of the San Diego Padres for two reasons
a) The name of the team.
b) They have never won a World Series. They need all the help they can get.
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