Saturday Open Thread

Paul, I’m guessing that the Bishop Heelan team wears “PRIDE” on their jerseys instead of wear wearing it. ;)

[quote comment=”61006″]New Era has a preview page for the 5950’s up.

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What’s with the 3rd Padres cap, is that new? I’ve never seen that before.[/quote]
I’m guessing that’s for when they wear their camo jerseys.

[quote comment=”61010″][quote comment=”61006″]New Era has a preview page for the 5950’s up.

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What’s with the 3rd Padres cap, is that new? I’ve never seen that before.[/quote]
I’m guessing that’s for when they wear their camo jerseys.[/quote]

I think that’s awesome having a picture with all the caps together.

[quote comment=”61011″][quote comment=”61006″]New Era has a preview page for the 5950’s up.

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What’s with the 3rd Padres cap, is that new? I’ve never seen that before.[/quote]

Wait…here’s one. I thought the Reds were ditching the black hats. I even referenced Paul’s link of the new unis from December. No black hat.[/quote]

It still exists as some sort of Alternate hat, but they have never modeled them with any of their new uniforms, so I have no idea when they plan on using them.

Paul–Bishop Heelan is a Catholic school in the Sioux City district. I lived in the area until I was 13, and ALL of their sports wear “PRIDE” on the back of their uniforms.

They believe in the “Play for the name on the front of your jersey, not the one on the back” philosophy, and also play for pride. I think their official nickname is the Crusaders, but they’re usually known as the Pride.

Just to follow up on a comment way back in December about Marc-Andre Fleury’s helmet, I was able to link of the “E.F.G.T” and the fleur de leis on the back. The letters stand for the first initials of his deceased grandparents: Estelle, Francois, Gaston and Therese.

(hopefully this wasn’t covered already)

The Red Sox announced today that they will wear their green uniforms and hats for their April 12th home game. They will be honoring Red Auerbach and the Celtics apparantly

[quote comment=”61025″]The Red Sox announced today that they will wear their green uniforms and hats for their April 12th home game. They will be honoring Red Auerbach and the Celtics apparantly[/quote]

the greens look so good for the Sox. I wouldn’t mind them being used as an alt instead of the kool-aid jerseys.

New Miami Hurricanes football uniforms

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well, the A’s are right down the street from me (almost) and I can’t recall the last time I saw those black hats.

Couple of things:
mlbstyleguide.com does have the show the Padres camoflauge jerseys and caps officially listed as an alternate home uniform… it’s a hideous design but a great gesture and if they limit the dates they wear to Memorial Day and 4th of July games, it’s a terrific idea.

The PRIDE names on the back of the HS unis should be changed to LAME. Silly. Sophmoric. Lame.

Green jerseys to commemorate Red Auerbach’s passing is a terrific gesture and speaks volumes for the classy Red Sox organization.

[quote comment=”61033″]After viewing the New Era site:

I wish Texas would wear those red T hats, since their logo has a red T. Use the white T hats for away games, and scrap the black billed hats since black is nowhere in the team’s logo.

Tampa Bay should scrap the all black hat (even though its my favorite of the 3) Use green at home and black/green bill on the road.

I remember seeing alot of people wearing the black A’s hats when they came out (I live in Illinois) but they wore those on 02 or 03 only and havn’t been seen since…weird.

Marketing idea: Baltimore scrap the O’s hat and have one with the cartoonish Oriole. I think it would be a hit ala Milwaukee’s reintroduction of the MB hat.

Toronto get a blue hat.[/quote]

I’d be happy if Toronto got a blue anything. It’s in their freaking name, for crying out loud.

The Cardinals will follow the Red Sox and White Sox in Opening Day Championship jerseys and hats.

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[quote comment=”61006″]New Era has a preview page for the 5950’s up.

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What’s with the 3rd Padres cap, is that new? I’ve never seen that before.[/quote]

I think, since that cap is olive green, that it might be the cap they plan on wearing with their camo jerseys, rather than the navy that they usually wear with it.

[quote comment=”61018″]Paul–Bishop Heelan is a Catholic school in the Sioux City district. I lived in the area until I was 13, and ALL of their sports wear “PRIDE” on the back of their uniforms.

They believe in the “Play for the name on the front of your jersey, not the one on the back” philosophy, and also play for pride. I think their official nickname is the Crusaders, but they’re usually known as the Pride.[/quote]

I live in Sioux City, IA and coach football for the crosstown rival of the Heelan Crusaders, the East Black Raiders. The “PRIDE” thing goes back as far as I can remember but I don’t recall anyone ever calling the team The Pride. They are most definately known as the Crusaders.

[quote comment=”61042″][quote comment=”61036″]I really like the black A’s hat, but then again, I like black and dark green, so it’s kind of expected.

I’m curious about the home and road Padres caps. Are they identical? One looks a little lighter and fuzzier, but that’s hardly enough to merit two separate caps, right???[/quote]
I think the “SD” on the middle hat is outline in gold while the other one is just white.[/quote]

The road Padres hat has gold lettering with a thin white border.

…and when I say dinner bell, I mean one of link variety, and not link. I say that now, but there will probably be a day when Nike will decide to outfit our nation’s finest basketball programs with something similar to link.

Mets in Spring Training – wearing green caps with orange bills. Shamrock on left side.

Pedro Feliciano pitched the top of sixth with an ADJUSTABLE BACK green Mets cap!!! WTF!!!!

[quote comment=”61032″]well, the A’s are right down the street from me (almost) and I can’t recall the last time I saw those black hats.[/quote]

They wore black jerseys to go along with the black cap.

This look did not last long, I think it only lasted a season or two in the early 2000’s.

[quote comment=”61039″]The Cardinals will follow the Red Sox and White Sox in Opening Day Championship jerseys and hats.

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I read they were wearing those the whole season.
Could be wrong bout that tho.

The Knicks rocked a green and orange look link.

Maybe it’s not such good luck to wear green on the day before St. Patrick’s Day.

I thought it looked pretty bad.

Appreciate the coverage of the Iowa Boy’s State Basketball Tournament!

White Sox vs Angels

White Sox are wearing green caps but they’re ADJUSTABLE!!!

The Mets used to have an ‘Irish Night’ promotion at home; I wonder if the players will wear the green caps that they hand out to the fans?

Anybody else notice that Seattle seems to ghave dumped their classic navy-with-aqua-bill home cap and has only the all-navy one now? Liked the discontinued one myself.

Still a good sign that a healthy 9 of 30 teams only use one cap and haven’t gone in for the merchandising-oriented alternates.

Also, in the past I’ve complained about the excessively-low positioning of the numbers and player names on some of the newer jerseys, and now it’s spreading even to link link he actually has to untick his jersey a bit so that his number isn’t stuffed down the back of his pants!

this will alwaysbe my favourite home jersey for the blue jays

my canada jay sersey would sitll be this link

the throwboack should be this one link

[quote comment=”61006″]New Era has a preview page for the 5950’s up.

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What’s with the 3rd Padres cap, is that new? I’ve never seen that before.[/quote]

As an Indians fan, I am still upset that they went to the SMALLER WaHoo logo a couple of years back. The cap looks like a cheap dime store replica.

Here are a couple of pictures from the Red Sox St. Patrick’s Day Game: Jonathan Papelbon sports a green jersey and cap and note the link And Manny Ramirez was sans snood link
Also, thought it was interesting the Sox did not update the green jerseys and caps to this years models of spring training garb.

[quote comment=”61088″]Here are a couple of pictures from the Red Sox St. Patrick’s Day Game: Jonathan Papelbon sports a green jersey and cap and note the link And Manny Ramirez was sans snood link
Also, thought it was interesting the Sox did not update the green jerseys and caps to this years models of spring training garb.[/quote]

The green jerseys were updated. They are alternate jerseys, not batting practice jerseys, and they have the correct Red Sox wordmark (not the fat round one shown in the logo, and on most replica jerseys).

link isn’t the best example but watching Wisconsin yesterday the ‘lowered rear stripage’ made it look like guys were losing their pants. The effect was more pronounced on TV than it is in static photos.

Why do the Red Sox have names on their green jerseys? They’re at [i]home[/i].

Padres have switched from the camo hats to the solid green with brown “SD” logo hats. A bit of an improvement if you ask me. The camo hats were just embarassing. As far as the teams with more than one hat, I have no problem with them coming up with a road jersey hat – but the 3rd “alternate” jersey just rubs me the wrong way. At this point it just seems to be a blatant marketing scheme for the teams that have no idea how to sell hats.

Oh well, it’s not like MLB ever listens to fan input anyway.

As far as the A’s black hat – the last time I saw it worn was back when Giambi played for them – if that gives you any idea as to when it was last used.

Not sure how many teams impliment this process, but I read a few years ago how the Diamondbacks allow the starting pitcher to select what jersey they will wear that evening. Obviously with the old Diamondbacks plethora of jersey combos (vest, solids, pinstripes, pinstripe vest, etc, etc.) they had a lot to choose from. Does anyone know or have heard of any other team that uses this system?

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…I read a few years ago how the Diamondbacks allow the starting pitcher to select what jersey they will wear that evening…anyone know or have heard of any other team that uses this system?[/quote]

I know the Cubs do this as well.

[quote comment=”61088″]Here are a couple of pictures from the Red Sox St. Patrick’s Day Game: Jonathan Papelbon sports a green jersey and cap and note the link And Manny Ramirez was sans snood link
Also, thought it was interesting the Sox did not update the green jerseys and caps to this years models of spring training garb.[/quote]

They should wear those more often.

[quote comment=”61087″]Cubs are wearing pinstipes – thumbs up.
They and the Padres are also wearing velcro, adjustable St. Pat’s caps – thumbs down! Cubs have the red “C” outlined in white, and the Padres’ have the swinging friar logo over a white shamrock. Judging by the sweat lines on Will Ohman’s cap, they are not made out of the “wicking” material.

Bush league, New Era, bush league.[/quote]

Amen. You know … logo creep doesn’t bother me as much as it does some people. But for some reason, I really cannot stand to see the New Era logo on the side of their hats, and they slap it on everything that isn’t an authentic-collection 5950. That’s what bothers me most about the green hats.

Not sure how many people have gotten a really good look at those new jerseys that Nike has Florida and OSU wearing, but Eastbay has the detailed shots that show some things I hadn’t noticed or actually seen earlier. First off, the Florida jersey has a scaled pattern on it and I have to say, it’s link. Just thought a few of you might want to get a better look at it, computer generated or not.

Secondly, I found it interesting that OSU is sporting the link emblem instead of the normal link or link logos. According to the SI article from a few weeks ago, they did this because it is where LeBron would’ve gone had he gone to college. The Jordan brand is used for UNC, but also with Cincy and Georgetown among other things. Does this mean we’ll soon be seeing the LBJ23 brand branching out in the same fashion?

They’re both pretty insignificant and have been mentioned before probably, but things like this catch my interest.

[quote comment=”61109″]Michigan State vs North Carolina…is there a Spartan wearing sunglasses?? Sorry no pic but I was getting a quick score check between wrestling matches and saw a quick shot of someone with what looked like tinted glasses giving a high-five on the court.[/quote]
That would be Maurice Joseph. I don’t know why he’s wearing them, though.

[quote comment=”61113″][quote comment=”61109″]Michigan State vs North Carolina…is there a Spartan wearing sunglasses?? Sorry no pic but I was getting a quick score check between wrestling matches and saw a quick shot of someone with what looked like tinted glasses giving a high-five on the court.[/quote]
That would be Maurice Joseph. I don’t know why he’s wearing them, though.[/quote]

Found a pic. Not a good one, but you can make out the link logo.

So for many years..oh, I’d say 1984 to about 2001, I wore nothing but Nike. Played a lot of tennis, and their shoes fit great. And for several years, I got all the free pairs I could handle. But around 01, I switched to Adidas. Well, my Adidas are worn out..and I CANNOT find a pair to fit right. I have normal feet..nothing strange. SO my wife suggested, “Try Nike again..didn’t they always fit great?” So we went to Kohl’s and I got two pair that felt like they were made for me.

I say all this because..HONEST..the first thing I thought when I once again swooshed myself was…”What would Lukas think?”

I need more of a life.

link about Ryan Francis and the patch USC basketball wears to commemorate his death.

[quote comment=”61119″]I’m just waiting for the day when someone’s link gets caught on a cleat and they link.[/quote]

Allison, the links work fine for me. I will laugh hysterically the day this happens—and it will.

Paul, I was watching the MN Girls’ High School Basketball Tournament (interspersed with March Madness, of course), and I saw a guy wearing a Mets’ t-shirt. Orange, with a script Mets. As neither team is nicknamed the Mets, I can only assume he is a Mets’ fan, and, yes, I immediately thought of how you would be so happy there was nary a speck of black in sight.

Hm. I, too, must stop reading this blog so much.

[quote comment=”61099″]Nike World meets Fifth Third Bank!

From the web page: “After working with Deskey, a retail product branding consultancy for 18 months, Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank has released its new identity. Unfortunately, they traded in a readable, recognizable mark for a trendy, often parodied swoosh/horizon/.com logo (see before and after marks above).”

Scroll down to Comment #2…enjoy!

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From the comments “As an older American, we hate to see lighter colors and smaller letters. We can’t read them! Do you or do you not want our business?”

OK thats the thing. For company logos, you can kinda get away with something like that, but that’s why I always support uniforms with simple contrasting color schemes, simple patterns, and big block lettering. Let me see what team you are or what number you are or what your name is when you’re running/jumping/whatever.

Instead they’re whores to adidas.
Just only half joking though, i think the ucla and Indiana jerseys are top-notch, it just annoys me when people focus on swooshification and nike (which i hate as much as anyone) and give adidas (and reebok, which is owned by adidas) a free pass.

The padres swinging friar hat on green yesterday looked horrible on tv. It looked like a blob. What is that classified as? Alternate? It’s not on the New Era site?

They were this during the season don’t they?

[quote comment=”61128″]How many of you saw UCLA vs. Indiana? What a pleasure to watch two teams wearing uniforms that represent the great traditions of their schools, instead of being whores for Nike![/quote]

That was by far the worst game of the day – it negated the traditional uniform appeal.

Butler vs. Maryland had good unis
as did Texas A&M.

This is pretty ironic since pride is a sin.
— Milk-Run

[quote comment=”61018″]Paul–Bishop Heelan is a Catholic school in the Sioux City district. I lived in the area until I was 13, and ALL of their sports wear “PRIDE” on the back of their uniforms.

They believe in the “Play for the name on the front of your jersey, not the one on the back” philosophy, and also play for pride. I think their official nickname is the Crusaders, but they’re usually known as the Pride.[/quote]