I don’t know much about Rays skipper Joe Maddon except what I see, but what I see usually looks pretty good. From a Uni Watch standpoint, he has the glasses, …
Category: MLB
Would Any of These Guys Wear a Nats Cap?
As some of you may be aware, on Monday afternoon the Nats announced that tahey’d be wearing Navy SEALs caps for Tuesday’s game against the Reds, in honor of the …
And They Cut Off the Breathing Ethier Collar
Andre Ethier is big. How big? Six hundred and two big, that’s how big. Geoff Poole snapped that shot at last night’s Dodgers/Brewers game in Milwaukee, where they’ve apparently come …
Ditching the Black, One Little Bit at a Time
When the Mets wore their blue Los Mets jerseys a few weeks ago, literally dozens of readers asked me if it might have been a test-drive for a blue alternate …
Uni Watch DIY Project: Distilling Your Own Tequila
Back in June, I spotted a blank tequila sunrise jersey on eBay, linked to it from the Ticker, and suggested that it would make a good project for a DIYer. …
Buffalo Debut
By John Ekdahl The Buffalo Bills wore their new uniforms for the first time last night in a preseason game versus the Chicago Bears, in what was just a brilliantly …
What Do These Three Guys Have in Common?
As you may have heard, the defending World Series champs visited the White House a few weeks ago. Most accounts of the event focused on Brian Wilson’s mohawk or Tim …
Fiesta Latina
By John Ekdahl The Mets wore “Los Mets” jerseys last night during Fiesta Latina Night at Citi Field. The public address annoucements were done in spanish by Veronica Contreras of …
When the White Shoe Was ‘Hot’
By Phil Hecken Back about three weeks ago, the day of the MLB All Star game, in fact, I had wanted to do a piece on specialty cleats players wear …
Rooting for Laundry
By John Ekdahl We’ve all heard it before, and while it’s generally true that your allegiance to a team supersedes that of any one player, it doesn’t make it any …
Stand Up to Pink
By John Ekdahl The Harvard Business Review has found that using the color pink in breast cancer awareness campaigns is actually counterproductive. From the study: Stefano Puntoni ran a battery …
The Joy of Sox
By Phil Hecken Two days ago, my buddy Mike Styczen put together a really neat post on the MLB panel cap phenomenon. It was a nice retrospective and Mike did …
Meet The (Mercury) Mets
By Phil Hecken Twelve years ago tonight, I watched a baseball game with my dad (and as it would turn out, it would be the last Mets game we ever …
When the panel cap was *in*
By Phil Hecken As part of my commitment to bring you the best content while Paul is away, and because of my schedule, I am precluded from being able to …
Turning Back the Clock in Pittsburgh
By John Ekdahl The Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals wore Negro League uniforms last night for Heritage Week. The Cardinals were outfitted in the uniforms of the St. Louis …