Sunday Open Thread

I love the sausages. I saw the race at a game 2 years ago, quite good. They should wear sausage unis to honor the best entertainment in cheeseland.

Actually, #3 looks like the White Sox “Leisure Suit” style. Good picslinkincluding a good shorts pic.

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Could this be the first Soccer style jersey sponsorship in Baseball.

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With my limited knowledge of the Spanish language I believe Cerveceros means Brewers in Spanish, funny that the brew crew are on here I just ordered their old Cooperstown T, to go with my Orioles one too.

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I wonder if the Marlins, Diamondbacks, Rangers, and Astros will ever try the Spanish uniforms since they are located close to Hispanic areas. I like how the Giants and Brewers have changed the spelling while keeping the integrity of the uniform with the same colors and fonts.

Anyone ever notice that Digger Phelps of ESPN’s College Gameday has a hilighter that matches his tie, no matter what the color is. Orange, Lime Green, Yellow (Last Night) among others. I can’t find any pix though.

So does “Sox” translate to Spanish? Obviously socks does but sox? I guess the White Sox would just be the Sox bloncos and the Red Sox the Sox rojos?

White sox = Medias Blancas

Red Sox = Medias Rojas

The Rangers actually did do a Spanish jersey which looked ridiculous. link it is.

[quote comment=”58350″]The Rangers actually did do a Spanish jersey which looked ridiculous. link it is.[/quote]
The link didn’t work for me.
I found it link though.

Is there a large Latino contingency in Wisconsin? I guess that’s where the spanish jerseys really lost me.

As a former resident of the city I can say that there is indeed a large Hispanic population mostly on the south side of Milwaukee. I was surprised to find that out too.

I happened to be watching the Colorado Avalanche-Detroit Red Wings game on NBC today, and noticed that John-Michael Liles is wearing #4. Liles used to wear #26, but he gave that to Paul Stastny whose father, Peter Stastny, wore the number while with the Quebec Nordiques. He chose #4 after Rob Blake left since he’s worn #4 since he was 14. Stastny actually wore #62 before that.

I hope I didn’t ruin anyone’s Avalanche jersey by bringing this number swap to light.

[quote comment=”58342″]Anyone ever notice that Digger Phelps of ESPN’s College Gameday has a hilighter that matches his tie, no matter what the color is. Orange, Lime Green, Yellow (Last Night) among others. I can’t find any pix though.[/quote]

Digger has always had his own flair, going back to his colorful carnations he wore on his suit when he coached at Notre Dame. Many have affectionately dubbed his highlighter/tie combo the “tie-lighter”.

During march madness final fours and finals he matches his tie lighter to the teams he believes will win.

Re: Spanish Names

Here’s a list I pulled from the site of one of the major networks in Mexico (translations where appropriate):

Filis (uh, Phillies)
Medias Rojas (Red Sox)
Indios
Tigres
Mantarrayas (Rays)
Azulejos (Blue Jays)
Astros (you can figure this one out)
Bravos
Orioles (not sure)
Nacionales
Marlines
Cardenales
Mellizos (Twins–not sure why this is preferred over the more common “Gemelos”)
Rojos (Reds)
Dodgers (The Flying Valenzuelas)
Mets
Piratas
Yanquis (Go home)
Diamantes (this one makes no sense, actually–as they are snakes, not rocks)
Medias Blancas (White Sox)
Angelinos (not sure why they are not just “Angeles”–I have actually seen them referred to as “Serafines” (seraphim) as well.)
Rockies
Cachorros (Cubs, though the translation really is for “Puppies”)
Atléticos
Padres
Marineros
Reales
Rangers
Gigantes
Cerveceros

The Brewers sell a Cerveceros T-shirt (same font on dark blue), but no Cerveceros jerseys. Go figure.

I have a question, What is with the spanish jerseys? Is this something MLB is trying out?

[quote comment=”58346″][quote comment=”58344″]

Will the Padres try out English jerseys?[/quote]

HAHAHA. The Dads.[/quote]

In the case of the Padres, the name actually translates to FRIARS not Dads. The sleve patch of the “Swinging Friar” might be a hint.

[quote comment=”58371″]We can add Greg Paulus to the list of wearers of the body armor under the jersey.[/quote]

and that’s of course after ‘my’ Tarheels spanked the blue devils…

let’s hope tyler hansbrough is ok…

and on the only uni related part of this post: I can’t wait to see what the ‘heels’ (thats wierd) new uni for the tourny look like….please don’t loose the argyle..

Louisville decided to go with their red uniforms on senior day (which I think are their alternates, since they’re quite fond of the black unis on the road). While a home team wearing a color isn’t unprecedented, Seton Hall played in their white home unis. This is the first time I can remember something like this happening outside of hockey and football ( the American or the Association kind).

[quote comment=”58372″]let’s hope tyler hansbrough is ok…[/quote]
Unless he’s a giant wuss, he’ll be fine. The refs blew that call six ways to Sunday.

As for changing unis for the tourney, that’s dumb. Of course, I hate black alternates so I suppose it’s only natural that I’d hate gimmick unis for the tourney.

[quote comment=”58380″][quote comment=”58358″]Is there any explanation for the message appearing at link
A) Why and for how long has it not been working?
B) Why does it have the same note left by Paul when Uniwatch was down?
C) When’ll it be back up?[/quote]

Part of solving the server problem was that Ditch the Black had to be temporarily suspended. I honestly don’t know or understand why that particular message is there (webmaster John Ekdahl handles that stuff), but yes, we’re aware of it, and yes, it’ll eventually be fixed.[/quote]

As an aside, Paul, how many signatures do you want/need before you can present it to the Mets?

[quote comment=”58383″]This has probably been mentioned before but I can’t justify digging through the comments, why are the Yankees wearing a black band on their home jerseys? As seen link[/quote]

I would guess the Yankee armband would be for Cory Lidle.

[quote comment=”58375″]While a home team wearing a color isn’t unprecedented, Seton Hall played in their white home unis. This is the first time I can remember something like this happening outside of hockey and football ( the American or the Association kind).[/quote]

Unfortunately, it’s been an annoying practice in my opinion that happens quite too often. One such example would be the 2/23 Cavs-Bulls game in Cleveland. The Cavs wore their orange throwbacks while the Bulls wore their white jerseys ON THE ROAD… link.

In his first start for the Bruins, Joey MacDonald was wearing his old Red Wings equipment, complete with the Red Wings symbol still on his mask. I hope he gets that fixed soon.

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In his first start for the Bruins, Joey MacDonald was wearing his old Red Wings equipment, complete with the Red Wings symbol still on his mask. I hope he gets that fixed soon.

The classic example of this was Johan Hedberg, who wore his blue Manitoba Moose mask when he was traded to Pittsburgh. People noticed, fans would chant “Mooooooose” when he made a big save, it became his nickname, and his black-and-gold mask still said “Moose”. I even have foam “antlers” that the Penguins gave out at a playoff game.

I don’t like the idea of having the Spanish names on jerseys. I think its kind of dumb. Yes the leauge is highly influence by the Spanish community, but if they are going to have Spanish, they should have all languages. Or, in my humble opinion, just stick to english. I don’t get whats so special about them being in Spanish. Just furthering the trend that Spanish is becoming more and more influential as a language over english unfortunatley. But that is neither here nor there. This is sports.

I love that site with the hockey jerseys. There are some crazy ones in the minor leagues for the special days. I wish the NHL wasn’t so uptight with all the rules about everything, I would love to see some Christmas jerseys.

As for the Bruins goalie wearing Red Wings stuff, I see that often and find it funny. When a player comes up from the minors it is really common too, it looks rediculous sometimes.

[quote comment=”58395″]I don’t like the idea of having the Spanish names on jerseys. I think its kind of dumb. Yes the leauge is highly influence by the Spanish community, but if they are going to have Spanish, they should have all languages. Or, in my humble opinion, just stick to english. I don’t get whats so special about them being in Spanish. Just furthering the trend that Spanish is becoming more and more influential as a language over english unfortunatley. But that is neither here nor there. This is sports.

.[/quote]

I think it is very cool, as someone mentioned before the Giants and Brewers pulled it of beautifully since it matched the fonts perfectly. But in cases like the “Los Rangers” jersey…….well it looked plain bush league.

So it is perfectly fine for teams to acknowledge Irish tradition and make their uniforms green? Hispanics are a bigger minority if that is the case.

Mind you, having said that, here’s a photo from a game I attended last year, link

Yep.

I thought teams only had one BP jersey, and one BP cap (other than Detroit, of course, with the navy/white and navy/orange home/away scheme). Is Boston going to use the blue jerseys and caps for away games, and the red/red for home games? The blue jersey does say “Boston,” while the red jersey says “Red Sox.” At least they got New Era to synchronize the hat color and faux do-rag on both hats.

What’s the story here?

Blue:
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Red:
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These pics from MLB 2K7 show the Phillies jerseys have “Phillies” underlined. Does this accurately reflect a uni change or is it a mistake?
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[quote comment=”58534″]So the Brewers are now officially adding the Chorizo to the sausage race lineup? Last I heard, they had tried to introduce the new sausage, but MLB told them to stop, since they had to approve of all mascots.[/quote]

MLB stopped them from using the Chorizo last year because they felt it was an attempt to increase merchandise sales in the middle of the season.

It was too bad, I was a big advocate of letting the Chorizo run last year (even had a couple of t-shirts printed up). At least we’ll have the benefit of seeing it run this year. :)