In late August, during the road trip to Cincinnati and New York, I was on my laptop and came across a website that sold these funny sweaters/sweatshirts. I saw one that immediately reminded me of Belt: Bugs Bunny with half-closed eyes and droopy ears. A rabbit version of Eeyore. I showed it to Belt. “Oh god,’’ he said. “That’s perfect.’’

I saw a few more that related pretty well to other guys on the team. There was one of a Furby with its eyes squinted and the words, “Fight me, you little !%$#@.’’

Bum!

I showed a few to Buster and Longo, who thought they were great. I thought it would be funny if I could find one for every guy. But first I wanted to know if Bum would wear his if I got it. It had to be the whole team. “Yeah,’’ he said, “I’ll wear it.’’

I wasn’t thinking at the time about September call-ups. We’d have guys coming up from the minors who I wouldn’t really know very well. But I rolled with it and found something for everybody.

The shipment arrived — Longo split the cost with me — and before Saturday’s game against the Rockies, we hung all the sweatshirts in the middle of the clubhouse. We had a team meeting and I presented them to each guy, along with an explanation if necessary.

Some were pretty straight-forward. Will Smith’s was covered with a bunch of headshots of the actor Will Smith. Stratton’s was covered with a Fortnite map because he likes Fortnite. Blanco’s said Gotta Go Fast.

For some reason there were a lot of Sponge Bob options on the website. There was Sponge Bob with his butt sticking out, which went to Okert because he has no butt. His back goes directly to his legs. Longo’s was a picture of Squidward dabbing the way Longoria does on extra-base hits.

I gave Ray Black one with Patrick from SpongeBob looking even dumber than usual. I thought of Ray Black because he kind of just has that persona — the guy who comes out of the bullpen like he’s ready to fight somebody and throws a hundred miles an hour. He came up to me later and said, “Is this because I’m ugly or because I’m dumb?’’ But he laughed about it.

Moronta’s had a picture of Super Mario but said Super Thicc (in modern lingo, it’s a good thing). He’s a big boy.

Joe’s really had nothing to do with him. It was an old lady licking a popsicle. I just wanted to see his reaction to putting it on. (He laughed).

Hunter had a stick figure lifting weights with the words “Getting’ Swole.’’

Hundley is gluten free so he got a shirt with a huge piece of bread.

Holland loves Bob Ross, the guy with the big hair who had a painting show on PBS. Now Holland has a shirt with an enormous picture of the painter. (Holland has already told everyone he wants all the sweaters when the guys are done with them).

Choosing my own shirt was tough. You might be wondering why there’s a cat and a pizza on mine. I do love pizza, but who doesn’t. I have no association with cats. I picked it because the cat and the pizza are on a turntable. So it’s DJ-themed.