Who is making these shirts

Bahele is run by José Cabrera through Bahele LLC, in Miami, Florida. There is no team, no warehouse and no design department. There is one person who plays pickleball badly enough to have opinions about it.

How it actually works

Nothing is printed until somebody orders it. When you buy a shirt, the order goes to a print facility in the United States, they print that specific shirt in that specific size, and it ships directly to you. That is why delivery takes four to twelve business days instead of two, and it is also why there are 119 designs available instead of the six that would fit in a garage.

The blanks are Comfort Colors 1717, a garment-dyed heavyweight cotton tee. That choice is about how the shirt looks after twenty washes rather than how it performs in a match. We say so on the product pages too, because a shirt returned in three weeks costs everybody more than an honest sentence.

Why the jokes are like that

Every design starts from something that actually happens on a court: the argument about whether the ball was out, the fourth paddle nobody needed, the partner who calls everything. The humor is meant to land with the player, not at their expense. If a design only works by making the person wearing it the punchline, it does not get made.

Contact

Real email, answered by the person who wrote this: info@bahele.com. Bahele LLC, 1173 SW 78th Pl, Miami, FL 33144, United States.

If something arrives wrong, say so and it gets fixed. The return policy is written in plain language for the same reason.