Sunday Open Thread

When Paul Gets back he should do a story on the Tour De France uniforms some of them are acctuly pretty cool

Boston Cannons (lacrosse) had a link. I think Lucky from the Celtics might have had an unfair advantage

When I used to go to watch the Packer training camp (mid 70’s era, prior to the arrival of Favre and after the Lombardi era) there were more players than kids with bikes. You could run behind your favorite player as he crushed the air out of your tires (on your Schwinn ‘banana seat’ special) without fear of getting assaulted by autograph hounds. The only obstacle was the occasional (players/coaches?) car parked in a nearly empty lot. I know, I know I sound like your grandparents but ‘those really were the days’! (Go Lynn Dickey!)

Someone posted a pic pf skinny Barry Bonds wearing a #7 Pirates uniform.

Anyone know the story behind that? Was 24 already taken when he first got called up?

[quote comment=”125608″][quote comment=”125604″]When Paul Gets back he should do a story on the Tour De France uniforms some of them are acctuly pretty cool[/quote]
Toronto Fan, Paul actually did a link article about jersey classifications back in ’05. Can’t remember if there has been a blog entry regarding team uniforms, though.[/quote]
I’m sure he knows this by now, but I’ll throw it out here right now: that “alien” helmet is a time-trial helmet. All riders have separate gear for the time trials, where comfort, ventilation, and safety are all sacrificed in favor of aerodynamics and speed. (Note the rear wheel without spokes.)

Notice that the Bruins and Sharks mascots have otdated uniforms…

[quote comment=”125609″]Boston Cannons (lacrosse) had a link. I think Lucky from the Celtics might have had an unfair advantage[/quote]

Note from Panthers Training Camp yesterday…

Dan “the walking concussion” Morgan was sporting a Schutt DNA helmet. It’s the first I’ve seen in the NFL. hope the SKYDEX Cushioning helps him play more than 12 games this year.

Here’s a link:

Here’s a link to my other pics of the day at camp, although there’s nothing really interesting o note on the uni front.

[quote comment=”125626″]what does everybody think of the new link?
I don’t think that they’re the worst but they’re certainly not the best[/quote]

Is it just me, or does it not make players look like they’re donning a freakin’ red cape?

[quote comment=”125659″]I think the panthers have needed a color/ logo change for a while, and I was hoping for that to occur here. They haven’t been relevant for years, and a team in south florida should not have a red/ yellow/ navy blue color scheme.[/quote]
You would maybe prefer something like link?

The Panthers downgraded, I think. The Predators-style piping doesn’t work and, once again, gives it the apron look, though I notice it much more in Florida’s uniform. But they have a good color scheme (would have liked to see a red home jersey, though). A complaint against the Preds jersey was the T-shirt look, but upon furthur examination the Bruins away jersey has the link

[quote comment=”125693″]New Calgary Flames JERSEY HERE:
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is it just me or does the logo on the tag look like the under armour logo?

above response to Panthers new Uni’s…

Just too many superfluous lines (piping plus stripes?) on these jerseys with no real reason for being…

Has anyone else noticed that the Indians’ Fausto Carmona still has the little MLB Authentic holographic sticker under the brim of his hat? Annoying.

[quote comment=”125697″][quote comment=”125694″][quote comment=”125693″]New Calgary Flames JERSEY HERE:
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is it just me or does the logo on the tag look like the under armour logo?[/quote]
I believe thats the Canadian flag.[/quote]
yea, i thought it could be that after i posted. do they put the country the team is in on the tag though?

[quote comment=”125704″][quote comment=”125697″][quote comment=”125694″][quote comment=”125693″]New Calgary Flames JERSEY HERE:
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is it just me or does the logo on the tag look like the under armour logo?[/quote]
I believe thats the Canadian flag.[/quote]
yea, i thought it could be that after i posted. do they put the country the team is in on the tag though?[/quote]
No, that flag tag is on all of Reebok jerseys. It signifies “Made in Canada.”

[quote comment=”125704″][quote comment=”125697″][quote comment=”125694″][quote comment=”125693″]New Calgary Flames JERSEY HERE:
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is it just me or does the logo on the tag look like the under armour logo?[/quote]
I believe thats the Canadian flag.[/quote]
yea, i thought it could be that after i posted. do they put the country the team is in on the tag though?[/quote]
Nope. I have an authentic Ranger jersey and it too has the Canadian flag on the tag.

doh
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i swear to god these new hockey jerseys are disgusting..I have not seen 1 design that i liked

[quote comment=”125719″]i swear to god these new hockey jerseys are disgusting..I have not seen 1 design that i liked[/quote]

I pretty much agree.

I do like most of the Bruins changes…but they certainly don’t need the new secondary logo placed on the shoulders — too cluttered a look for their otherwise classic jerseys. The secondary logo is great, but it should not be on the jersey.

5th inning, EE up for the reds, he fouls one back right at the Ump. On WGN they show the replay, once the ump goes to get ready again, he flips his hat around. It’s not a real hat, it was a helmet, you could tell. it stayed solid, not floppy like a hat would. someone get this, today’s Reds Cubs game.

Looks like I got my answer on why the Vikings are wearing grey facemasks and the old horn logo design: they’re going to wear the throwback helmets during the Packers-Vikings game at the Dome this year, the same day Chuck Foreman gets inducted in the Vikings Ring Of Honor. They’re apparently wearing them now during traning camp to break them in.

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Those Flames jerseys are photoshopped and are not authentic.

Ubaldo Jimenez: still in backwards stirrups
Glenallen Hill: still wearing a helmet coaching first base.

This has been your Purple Mountains Majest(ic Athletic Apparel) update.

[quote comment=”125654″][quote comment=”125642″][quote comment=”125640″][quote comment=”125608″][quote comment=”125604″]When Paul Gets back he should do a story on the Tour De France uniforms some of them are acctuly pretty cool[/quote]
Toronto Fan, Paul actually did a link article about jersey classifications back in ’05. Can’t remember if there has been a blog entry regarding team uniforms, though.[/quote]
I’m sure he knows this by now, but I’ll throw it out here right now: that “alien” helmet is a time-trial helmet. All riders have separate gear for the time trials, where comfort, ventilation, and safety are all sacrificed in favor of aerodynamics and speed. (Note the rear wheel without spokes.)[/quote]
Follow-up to myself: I doubt Mr. Lukas would find the cycling uniforms “cool.” Can you say “logo creep?”[/quote]

I know its splitting hairs, but I see a difference between a sponsor’s logo being plastered across a cyclist or driver vs. Nike, Adidas and the like placing their logo everywhere.

I don’t know why, but link bothers me more than link.[/quote]

Bothers me a lot. The Nike/Adidas/Reebok/Champion/Russell/whatever logo is a nuisance (OK, the three stripes is more so) but I hope the major sports never go the soccer or NASCAR route.

I’m watching the Yankees-Orioles game, and I’m not sure but I think Kyle Farnsworth is wearing the same type of “bag” shirt that McLain was photographed wearing.

[quote comment=”125790″]As feared, Tony Gwynn has been memorialized as link in Cooperstown.[/quote]
Hard to tell from that pic but it looks like they went with ‘Bald Grey Cal’ on Ripken’s plaque.

[quote comment=”125783″][quote comment=”125654″][quote comment=”125642″][quote comment=”125640″][quote comment=”125608″][quote comment=”125604″]When Paul Gets back he should do a story on the Tour De France uniforms some of them are acctuly pretty cool[/quote]
Toronto Fan, Paul actually did a link article about jersey classifications back in ’05. Can’t remember if there has been a blog entry regarding team uniforms, though.[/quote]
I’m sure he knows this by now, but I’ll throw it out here right now: that “alien” helmet is a time-trial helmet. All riders have separate gear for the time trials, where comfort, ventilation, and safety are all sacrificed in favor of aerodynamics and speed. (Note the rear wheel without spokes.)[/quote]
Follow-up to myself: I doubt Mr. Lukas would find the cycling uniforms “cool.” Can you say “logo creep?”[/quote]

I know its splitting hairs, but I see a difference between a sponsor’s logo being plastered across a cyclist or driver vs. Nike, Adidas and the like placing their logo everywhere.

I don’t know why, but link bothers me more than link.[/quote]

Bothers me a lot. The Nike/Adidas/Reebok/Champion/Russell/whatever logo is a nuisance (OK, the three stripes is more so) but I hope the major sports never go the soccer or NASCAR route.[/quote]

or the Pro Fishing route.

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ahh keeps messing up on me so heres the link

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I just saw a clip from the A’s-Mariners game ’77 throwback game. The verdict: A’s are dead on with the stirrups and yellow sanis. Mariners look like dogshit with the pajama pants.

[quote comment=”125811″][quote comment=”125756″]Those Flames jerseys are photoshopped and are not authentic.[/quote]
He’s right. The Flames are actually the new Rangers jerseys horizontally flipped, then photoshopped to resemble the new Quad City Flames jerseys.[/quote]

I second that.

[quote comment=”125823″]A’s vs. Mariners throwback pics…

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Didn’t the Mariners break in with the double-knit waistband?

[quote comment=”125821″]I just saw a clip from the A’s-Mariners game ’77 throwback game. The verdict: A’s are dead on with the stirrups and yellow sanis. Mariners look like dogshit with the pajama pants.[/quote]
I’m quoting myself and I stand corrected. Looks like both teams had some good and some bad interpretations of a 1977 uniform.

Heres a question..which franchise should wear Seattle Pilot throwbacks, the Mariners or the Brewers?

[quote comment=”125836″]hmm..could someone explain why Ichiro and Gary Thurman appear to be wearing different stirrups in this pic?

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I think Thurman just has ’em stretched all the way up so the vertical part of the stirrup gets really thin.

[quote comment=”125834″]link 1st base coach Gary Thurman is dead-on. Ichiro is close (pants too high, tongue on cleats way too big). And no, the didn’t have the stretch waistband.

I can’t believe Ichiro already has 1500 hits.[/quote]

I like the way Ichiro is wearing his stirrups MUCH better than Thurman.

That’s uniform perfection, IMHO…

[quote comment=”125835″]Heres a question..which franchise should wear Seattle Pilot throwbacks, the Mariners or the Brewers?[/quote]

The Mariners wore Seattle Pilots jerseys last year in a road game against San Diego.

[quote comment=”125841″][quote comment=”125835″]Heres a question..which franchise should wear Seattle Pilot throwbacks, the Mariners or the Brewers?[/quote]

The Mariners wore Seattle Pilots jerseys last year in a road game against San Diego.[/quote]

really…have to find some pics of that!

[quote comment=”125714″]doh
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and they’re different how?

I’m losing badly to the comment filter…

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[quote comment=”125823″]A’s vs. Mariners throwback pics…

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dan johnson has the fake stirrup striped socks on!!! NOOOOOO!!! why would he do that to us?!?!

I promised pictures from the game, but I am unable to deliver, as my friend left the camera in the car. We were watching from next to the visitor’s bullpen in Safeco, and we were pretty much the only people watching Dinardo warm up. First off, none of the Athletics had the MLB logo on the back of their hats. Secondly, most of the players were wearing real stirrups, but Dinardo was not. We heckled Dinardo while he warmed up, most of the time about his fake stirrups, but I also told him that has pants were “all wobbly” at the bottom because he wasn’t wearing real stirrups, and pointed out that his pitching coach was wearing real stirrups. Safeco is pretty strict about taunting and heckling, so we were being decently polite and not vulgar. After he got done warming up, he walked straight back at us, and then tossed the ball over the fence to me. I have to thank UniWatch for my only MLB baseball. Dinardo then gave up 6 in 3 innings.

Regarding the M’s-A’s throwbacks…

The good: M’s jerseys and numbers, accurate helmets; A’s jersey’s, white coaches caps.

The bad: Both teams wore belted pants as opposed to waistbands, the M’s wore names on their backs (I don’t think they had them in ’77); A’s names appear to be arched as opposed to horizontal.

oops, forgot the link.

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[quote comment=”125848″][quote comment=”125714″]doh
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and they’re different how?[/quote]

Addition of silver

The Mariners have always had names on the back of their regular-season jerseys. In the days before dedicated BP jerseys, the M’s spring training uniforms were identical to their regular season ones, with the exception of the name over the player’s number on the back; as most of the baseball card photos were taken during the spring, they don’t feature names on the jerseys.

Majestic doesn’t produce the double-knit waistband/belt, and apparently they’re either unable or unwilling to outsource the waistband to someone else (perhaps because of their exclusive deal with MLB). The M’s did a similar Turn Back the Clock day back in 1997 vs. KC, complete with waistbands, and I believe they went with Ebbets Field Flannels. I agree the belts were disappointing, but I think they should get some points for getting the Mariner Moose in a ’77 uni too.

The Pilots game last year was in Seattle, vs. Detroit on July 9th.