So it kind of spilled earlier today that Topps had accidentally tweeted out a picture of the new logo. That sucked. But when fan @Astromo1977 tweeted a pic he took at a Houston-area Academy of some new merchandise, it got fishy.
Turns out, yep, Academy had started selling the new Astros merchandise before the Astros had unveiled it.
This prompted an apology from Academy which basically said, "Yeah - we kind of nutted that...sorry. Looking forward to the launch!"
We didn't come out here to play tiddlywinks, son.
-Hal Smith