Just when I thought the Mets couldn’t get any stupider — well, I should’ve stopped thinking that a long time ago, right? The latest installment of the Citi Farce began …
Category: Patches
History’s Most Memorialized Figure Gets Yet Another Shout-Out
Remember Matt Stover’s Gene Upshaw memorial sleeve band/patch thingie? It was pointed out in yesterday morning’s comments that Brian Dawkins was wearing an Upshaw armband (or maybe just a sleeve …
‘Well I did my best to bring her back to what she used to be / Then I soon learned she loved those bright lights more than she loved me’
OK, so as everyone on the planet knows by now, the Orioles have unveiled their new uniform set. This took place about 19 entire hours ago, which means it’s already …
Cubs, as in Wreck
As the Cubbies and their fans sift through the rubble of yet another disappointment, reader Dave Lundborg has alerted me to something that may explain some of the team’s recent …
Monday Morning Uni Watch
Spent the whole weekend upstate in Ulster County. Not far from NYC in terms of distance (about two and a half hours), but a universe away in all other respects. …
Good Thing Chris Hovan Isn’t a Union Rep
Kickers don’t get on the field very often, plus the Ravens had a bye in Week 2, so it’s taken a little while for the issue of Matt Stover’s black …
It Ain’t Easy Being … Well, You Know
By Bryan Redemske The Phillies — those forward-thinking, tree-hugging Phillies — on Wednesday announced a “going green” initiative, starting with the purchase of 20 million kilowatt hours of Green-e Energy …
You Say It’s Your Earth Day
MLB’s continuing drive to mark every single game with some sort of uniform tribute ventured into new territory last night, as a few teams trotted out the first-ever Earth Day …
Bobby Bonilla Isn’t the Only One Who Can Show You the Bronx
Whatever you think of the House the Ruth Built, its impending demise has had at least one salutary side effect: New York’s tabloid papers have been publishing plenty of historically …
Not Quite the Roman Coliseum, But It’ll Do
[Editor’s Note: Longtime reader Mike Cooperman attended last Saturday’s Dodgers/Bosox exhibition game at the fabled L.A. Coliseum and generously offered to provide the following account of his day — enjoy. …
Going for Broke
It’s pretty simple, or at least it should be: You don’t wear an alternate uniform for the first game of the season. And that goes double when you’re playing the …
Far Eastern Promises
Whatever you think of the advertising patches that were worn in the A’s/Bosox series in Japan, one question remains: Why is uniform advertising used exclusively in these season-opening series in …
Which Is the Greater Exercise in Futility: the Pro Bowl, or the Pro Bowlers Tour?
It remains one of the sports world’s enduring mysteries: Every year the NFL selects the best players at each position, gathers them together for an all-star game in Honolulu, and …
Coughlin to Media: ‘I don’t like to brag, but it’s this big’
Ah, Super Bowl Media Day — otherwise known as “the price we pay for having a free press.” I’m sure there are sillier rituals out there, but thinking of them …
The Ruptured Duck
On the “Dressed to the Nines” page devoted to patches, there’s a small paragraph that reads as follows: In 1945, former servicemen Peanuts Lowrey, Paul Gillespie and Mickey Livingston of …