How New Is Fausto Carmona’s Lid?

My brother and I jokingly called CC Sabathia “3C”, because he was pushing three bills

I bought a new 5950 yesterday, and had to rip off the hologram within about 2 minutes. So annoying up there in the very top of your vision.

[quote comment=”282069″]http://www.tampabay.com/sports/football/bucs/article741349.ece

Am I the only one who wishes the Bucs had some sort of 3rd jersey with their practice number fonts?

Also, do any other teams wear practice jerseys with numbers so different from their game jerseys?[/quote]
Yes and no

[quote comment=”282074″]Maybe Paul would like link version of the Mets’ black hats better… but since link won the game for the Cards with a two-run bomb in the 14th, maybe not… ;-)[/quote]

I saw that last night, thought they looked like a little league team haha.

On a side note, I always thought that the Indians should have used their alternate cap for the Stars-and-Stripes cap, that way it looked like the colbert report logo. anyone else agree with me on that?

[quote comment=”282073″][quote comment=”282069″]http://www.tampabay.com/sports/football/bucs/article741349.ece

Am I the only one who wishes the Bucs had some sort of 3rd jersey with their practice number fonts?

Also, do any other teams wear practice jerseys with numbers so different from their game jerseys?[/quote]
Yes and no[/quote]
Don’t think that could happen anyway. NFL third jerseys, with the exception of throwbacks, have to have the same style as the primary colored or white jersey, with the difference being a color swap where a non-dominant team color becomes dominant.
For example, the Buccaneers could have an orange, pewter, or black jersey, but it would have to have the varsity font and the pirate ship patches like the others.
The reason for this is because there are only 16 regular season games. It’s a way of trying to preserve team identity while allowing for extra merchandise sales at the same time.

Speaking of alternate jerseys, what about Phils v. Braves yesterday?

Cole Hamels lookin’ classy:
link

Mike Hampton lookin’ something else:
link

I love the phillies alt’s, god to finally see them live at a game the other week, definatly my favorite hat to wear, and ye awithin 1 minute or so, I took off all the stickers, and curved the brim.

[quote comment=”282079″]Mike Hampton lookin’ something else:
link

The fact that it’s a picture in 2008 of Mike Hampton actually throwing a pitch is something else!

Ramirez’s glove was a wilson A2K with a teal web and accents.

Kumasi Asante Kotoko, who usually wear link, decided on link for their CAF Confederations Cup campaign. Strange choice! Not quite as weird as when the Fabu chose to wear yellow in the 2004 CAF Confederations Cup finals but we all know link don’t we?

I’m sorry, but I completely missed the point of today’s topic. What exactly are you trying to get across here Bryan? The only “uniform” related sentence was about the hat.

I’m lost, can anyone catch me up here?

I’m catching the Royals for the first time in their powder blue alts. I’m a little conflicted. The reincarnation, link , looks OK, but I’m still a fan of the original, link . But if they went back to the originals, the new baggy style would look just awful.

[quote comment=”282092″]I don’t know if anyone’s seen this uniform before, but as I was searching for a picture of the Astros’ tequila sunrise uniforms, I came across link of Doug Rader from (supposedly) 1975. I’m a huge Astros fan and I’ve never seen these unis before. If anyone has any info that’s willing to share, I’d be interested to know.

link of Cliff Johnson in the same uni.[/quote]
Red sleeves, red hat, sansabelts…that picture is from 1972, 73, or 74.
link.

Well, those jerseys were theoretically from May 31, 1975 when the Astros dropped 12 in the 8th inning against the Phillies en route to a 15-3 victory. It’s totally possible they were still left around from 1974 because in that jersey timeline 1975 was the dawn (no pun intended) of the tequila sunrise jerseys.

Rays are wearing batting practice shirts today. Maybe if they’d worn real unis, they’d have understood that the game actually started.

[quote comment=”282082″]Did anyone see Hanley Ramirez’s really weird looking glove yesterday? I only got a couple of looks at it and it was really brightly colored.[/quote]
My friend was talking about it but we cant find a good picture of it

[quote comment=”282094″]The baseball pants people here sometimes refer to as “pajama bottoms” look really comfortable. I wish they made dress pants out of the same material. Can anyone confirm or deny that they are in fact as comfortable as they look?[/quote]

I have a pair for the wooden bat league I was in and they are extremely comfortable. This being said, I go with those instead of the traditional look because I can’t find regular baseball pants in my size with enough give to run and slide without ripping them. The downfall of the pajama bottoms are that there is nothing keeping your socks up so I found myself pulling my socks up more often.

Went to the Phils – Mets game last Tuesday (you know, the one where the Phils came back to win in the top of the 9th) with my buddy Skip, and after looking at the pictures I realized Skippy could be Paul’s long lost brother. Judge for yourself:

Me and Skippy – link

Paul – link

I came across some pro beach volleyball on ESPN an hour ago. Those chicks are covered in temporary tattoos for Gatorade and upmteen other sponsors. They look like living, breathing NASCARs.

Fasto has been doing this for some time. i think i noticed this last year.

But, I will add… I’ll bet they sell ALOT of practice jerseys, seeing that they are so different but still official team gear.

[quote comment=”282109″][quote comment=”282069″]http://www.tampabay.com/sports/football/bucs/article741349.ece

Am I the only one who wishes the Bucs had some sort of 3rd jersey with their practice number fonts?

Also, do any other teams wear practice jerseys with numbers so different from their game jerseys?[/quote]

It looks VERY VERY XFL. The Bucs need wholesale uni-changes. The pewter is cool but the fonts and logo stuff seem way too amateur for the NFL.[/quote]

The Bucs PRACTICE JERSEYS are 400% better than their game jerseys.

SWITCH ALREADY !!!!

[quote comment=”282112″][quote comment=”282109″][quote comment=”282069″]http://www.tampabay.com/sports/football/bucs/article741349.ece

Am I the only one who wishes the Bucs had some sort of 3rd jersey with their practice number fonts?

Also, do any other teams wear practice jerseys with numbers so different from their game jerseys?[/quote]

It looks VERY VERY XFL. The Bucs need wholesale uni-changes. The pewter is cool but the fonts and logo stuff seem way too amateur for the NFL.[/quote]

The Bucs PRACTICE JERSEYS are 400% better than their game jerseys.

SWITCH ALREADY !!!![/quote]

i had to check the name box twice to see that it wasn’t marty who just said that…

to each his or her own of course, but methinks those numeral fonts are neither timeless nor classic…and therefore, should best be left to the practice field…tampa’s fonts are uniqueish enough…don’t start putting the numbers in that font too…just my $.02

if the red sawks have (finally???) grown weary of manny being manny…does he possibly have a new uni by thursday afternoon?

that’s like unpossible, innit?

[quote comment=”282111″][quote comment=”282101″][quote comment=”282094″]The baseball pants people here sometimes refer to as “pajama bottoms” look really comfortable. I wish they made dress pants out of the same material. Can anyone confirm or deny that they are in fact as comfortable as they look?[/quote]

I have a pair for the wooden bat league I was in and they are extremely comfortable. This being said, I go with those instead of the traditional look because I can’t find regular baseball pants in my size with enough give to run and slide without ripping them. The downfall of the pajama bottoms are that there is nothing keeping your socks up so I found myself pulling my socks up more often.[/quote]

Where did you pick up those puppies? I’m thinking about grabbing a pair of Marlins pants to watch TV and grocery shop in but feel like I need to try them on first to see if I look like a clown before I buy so the Internet won’t work.[/quote]

I bought them online completely blind and they worked out well. They fit like regular cut jeans if I had to compare them to normal clothes. These are the ones I have: link . They also have cool stuff like authentic 86 Mets pinstripes: link and Pirates yellow: link . Cool stuff, I think.

the best thing about the HOF induction ceremonies?

no blow morgan on snb

[quote comment=”282117″][quote comment=”282093″]Red sleeves, red hat, sansabelts…that picture is from 1972, 73, or 74.
link.[/quote]

When the ‘Stros went to the tequila sunrise uniforms, were the home and road unis identical? I thought that the road unis were a shade of cream or something along those lines to distinguish them from the home unis, but on the Dressed to the Nines website they both look white. Realizing that the website is not always correct, can anyone confirm/recall?[/quote]

Tequila sunrise unis were exactly the same home and road, despite what others will try to claim. Pants were white…home and road…always. Later they added the rainbow striped shoulder uni, which was originally a gray road only, and the home hats with rainbow body changed to Navy. When they adopted a home version of that uni is was a color called “Alamo cream” or something. Eventually those creams and gray became their only unis and the Rainbow guts were abandoned altogether.

Also—and this has been mentioned here before—for all or part of the first season of Rainbow Guts, shoes were black.

[quote comment=”282107″][quote comment=”282077″][quote comment=”282073″][quote comment=”282069″]http://www.tampabay.com/sports/football/bucs/article741349.ece

Am I the only one who wishes the Bucs had some sort of 3rd jersey with their practice number fonts?

Also, do any other teams wear practice jerseys with numbers so different from their game jerseys?[/quote]
Yes and no[/quote]
Don’t think that could happen anyway. NFL third jerseys, with the exception of throwbacks, have to have the same style as the primary colored or white jersey, with the difference being a color swap where a non-dominant team color becomes dominant.
For example, the Buccaneers could have an orange, pewter, or black jersey, but it would have to have the varsity font and the pirate ship patches like the others.
The reason for this is because there are only 16 regular season games. It’s a way of trying to preserve team identity while allowing for extra merchandise sales at the same time.[/quote]

I don’t know whether that is an actual rule since the Jets are going on their second season in which they will wear their “Titan’s throwback” alts twice. These jerseys not only contain an entirely different color scheme but they also have a different numbering font. I know these are replicas but compare (the twos in particular) link with link[/quote]
Exactly. The Jets-as-Titans is a throwback uniform. Therefore, it does not have to match a home or road jersey. Teams are allowed to have a throwback set or a third set (not both) and may be worn once or twice in the regular season, in addition to once in the preseason.
For example, the Eagles’ black jersey is a third jersey. It is a color swap with the green jersey. The green jersey has white numbers with a black drop shadow, while the black jersey keeps the white numbers, but uses a green drop shadow. No special helmet, pants, or socks went with the black thirds. But last year, the Eagles had their Swedish pastel throwback sets, forcing the black thirds to go on hiatus.

ok…his exact words were:

“benji molina’s younger brother…jose molina…one of his younger brothers…at the plate now”

not so sure whether or not he said “horsay” or “ho-say” posada…it sure as hell wasn’t “hor-hay” tho…

/sad

[quote comment=”282128″]im an idiot…not miller…

i get all those molinas confused…he IS one of the molina brothers

…so tired

he did botch posada’s name tho

/carry on[/quote]
Sorry Phil, better luck next time.
Tune in next time, to everybody’s favorite game show: Name That Molina!, exclusively on the ESPN family of networks. On behalf of everybody, I’m Steve Berthiaume–good night!

ALFRED!!!

No, wait, he’s the guy in Spider-Man 2.

[quote comment=”282135″]About those Indians “harkbacks” (cuz they aren’t throwbacks).

Quite an interesting amalgam.

Plain white jerseys with Wahoo on left shoulder (’54).
Lettering style (’72) but red with white border like ’58.
Pants like ’45 home.
Plain navy socks like ’45 and early ’70s.
Topped with a hat that’s sorta ’41 (“C” was white in ’41).[/quote]

Plain navy socks like ’54, not ’45.

[quote comment=”282137″][quote]About those Indians “harkbacks” (cuz they aren’t throwbacks).[/quote]

ricko…

i am not sure how PL feels about the terminology, but i had a off-board discussion with another UWer a couple months ago, and we decided upon the following…

perhaps PL, if he’s reading, would like to clarify/comment/disagree…

a throwback is, as best as can be attempted, a ‘direct reproduction of a specific year’s uniform’ (i.e. the astro rainbows, which, although butchered, was an attempt, or the A’s 68’s from earlier this year, which were beautifully recreated)

a RETRO uni is what the phils or indians are sporting on the weekends…as you described (“harkback”)…borrowing various years elements in semi-hodgepodge fashion to create a feel of a past era, but not any specific one…

to sum then (in my terminology, but not official UWese)…a throwback is a direct recreation of a previous year(s) uni, while a retro is an old-time feel, but not a specific attempt to recreate any particular uni

what do you think?[/quote]

Sounds good to me, as long as there isn’t any sort of negative connotation to a “hark-back”/retro jersey, since sometimes those can be pulled off far better than a jersey that is supposed to perfectly represent an old jersey.

[quote comment=”282138″][quote comment=”282137″][quote]About those Indians “harkbacks” (cuz they aren’t throwbacks).[/quote]

ricko…

i am not sure how PL feels about the terminology, but i had a off-board discussion with another UWer a couple months ago, and we decided upon the following…

perhaps PL, if he’s reading, would like to clarify/comment/disagree…

a throwback is, as best as can be attempted, a ‘direct reproduction of a specific year’s uniform’ (i.e. the astro rainbows, which, although butchered, was an attempt, or the A’s 68’s from earlier this year, which were beautifully recreated)

a RETRO uni is what the phils or indians are sporting on the weekends…as you described (“harkback”)…borrowing various years elements in semi-hodgepodge fashion to create a feel of a past era, but not any specific one…

to sum then (in my terminology, but not official UWese)…a throwback is a direct recreation of a previous year(s) uni, while a retro is an old-time feel, but not a specific attempt to recreate any particular uni

what do you think?[/quote]

Sounds okay to me, as long as there isn’t any sort of negative connotation to a “hark-back”/retro jersey, since sometimes those can be pulled off far better than a jersey that is supposed to perfectly represent an old jersey.[/quote]

“Retro” works. For me, anyway. Although outside U-W it may mean the same thing as Throwback.

Meant nothing negative about “harkback,” was just making up a term I thought might explain the concept of looking back but not necessarilly replicating. Think the Indians and Phillies retros look great. That is, of course, unless they begin to overwear them. Then they just become some kind of “alternate.”

Not sure what color the Phillies Retro hats are, navy or royal. Hope they’re royal—and thought they were when first saw them—cuz would be true to their late ’40s colors.