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I should add that I still prefer stirrups over some of the socks you see today....... (eww)

In baseball, stirrups don't look good. It's baseball's version of football's obsession with gray facemasks (which I also expressed my "this is overrated" opinion on earlier in this thread). Except, unlike gray facemasks being overrated but generally fine in terms of appearance, stirrups just look silly - especially when they arch so high up that they become basically nonexistent. Don't get me wrong: short pants > long pants, hands down. But stirrups are just generally lame, IMO.

Idgaf if it fails. Idgaf if it works. I'm just here for the chaos. If the Steelers are content to become a perennially mid franchise, then might as well be entertaining while doing it.

Uniform have more than two color. Uniform doesn't look like from 1975. Uniform make me mad. Depth? Contrast? Pssh. ALL THE BRIGHT COLORS! If you can't find it in the default MS Paint color palette, don't use it. Change your TV's settings and cope if you don't like it, b*tch. Am I doing this right?

I always loved banners that resemble the jerseys, so I'll miss that about the old ones, but the consistency of these is nice. With two (maybe three or four) more numbers going up there in the next decade, I get the move. The Pens have redesigned their banners multiple times in recent decades. The Stanley Cup banners alone have been redesigned twice. I wonder where all the old ones have gone. The original triple banner design for the 91 and 92 cups was awesome.

Careful what you wish for, folks... Home: I like that it's black. That's about it. It looks like a photo that had a stock photoshop filter run on it. Also, the choice of bridge is odd since it's not the one that's visible from damn near everywhere in Highmark Stadium. Rroad: I get the gray for the steel, but it'd be better if the stripes were black or black/white. If they'd done that with the road jersey, and simply flipped it for the home, it'd be one of - if not the - best look they ever had. But this is almost "cartoon logo and default Microsoft Paint color palette shade of blue" era bad.

Please, soccer gods, let me see tomorrow that the Riverhounds have finally ditched the horrid bumblebee look.

It took a mediocre, disjointed, very 90's-looking logo and turned it into a very 2000's-looking logo that is still disjointed and, somehow, more mediocre. The Lightning's history is 90's overdesign and 2010's oversimplification with a 2000's "wtf is this" era sandwiched in between. That said, I'd take their 90's look before the Reebok Edge disaster and the current wannabe Maple Leafs yawnfest. You're a 90's expansion franchise based in Florida with a pretty badass name - it's okay not to look like a 100-plus-year-old Original Six team.

"Diamondbacks" is a little too long for the chest, imo. But it's definitely better than "D-Backs"... then again I have an admittedly somewhat irrational hatred for informal nicknames on uniforms (looking at you Senators, Lightning, and Hurricanes of the NHL).

Number 68 will hang from the rafters in Pittsburgh next to 66, where it belongs... finally.

When you see a station running an abnormally high amount of promos for its own programming, a former broadcast professor of mine always said, "you have to sell something. When you can't sell anything else, sell yourself." I didn't watch the World Series, and in school I was focused more on the nuts and bolts than the marketing side, but I'd guess that the majority of ad time during primetime broadcasts of a major league professional sports championship being promos and PSA's (which are often buried in off-hour blocks and not given more time than the FCC mandated minimum) means there's straight-up nobody offering to buy that space. I also doubt the matchup has much to do with it when the teams competing in any given final aren't known until a few days, sometimes even a day, before the competition begins. I'd be inclined to believe that ad space is sold well in advance, and you'd see the same ads during a TEX vs ARI series as you'd see during a NYY vs LAD series.

Take off the logos and it look like something you'd get from the young men's department at JCPenney

They're definitely up there. Especially on the road. On a white, black, and gold uniform, you have a red and blue logo on the chest and a huge green logo on the helmet. Now, on the home uni, the chest ad is on par with a lot of teams out there with clashing chest ads. And the helmet ad matches in color and even has a penguin in it, but having the words "BOLD Penguin" feels corny as hell, even if it is an actual company (based in a division rival's city). Even then, I could at least attempt to tolerate it, if they didn't make both helmet ads MASSIVE. I love this team, but everything about them off the ice has felt so stale, bland, and corporate-focus-group for years. Boring social media, lame in-game presentation, a sickening abundance of advertising and sponsorship activations everywhere you look in the arena - and this goes back years before COVID. I mean, know it's happening everywhere to some degree, but as soon as the NHL announced uni ads I knew the Pens would be one of the first to jump on and make a mess of it like they have. And yet, across town, the team owned by notorious cheapskate Bob Nutting has resisted uni ads for an entire season. I've been holding that rant in for a long time.

Popping in to briefly vent about Dubas requiring Pens goalies to wear white pads like it's still the dark (light?) era of goalie equipment in the late 20-aughts when everyone believed that one eye doctor who said it'd mess with opposing shooters. Jarry's black pads with the Pens' black uniform(s) was sick. Watching him wear white pads with their third jersey tonight just feels off.

Yooooooo...

The negative reactions we already have all carry their own sort of nuance, but none quite capture the sassy "ugh, this is so dumb" energy in the way every teenager has enjoyed giving their parents for generations. I like it, but I wouldn't add any more reactions after this. I just realized the ratio of negative to positive reactions we have here. We are a grumpy bunch. EDIT: One day, probably soon, I am gonna regret advocating for this reaction. I just know it.

The creamsicle Bucs uniforms are just okay at best and they need to let the look stay dead.

I get the reason for almost all the flags to be the same. And I get the reason for wanting them all to be different. Both are entirely valid. It's a union of states, but it's also a union of states. A new flag doesn't take away the history and symbolism of the old flag or suddenly mean that state didn't do its part to save the Union a century and a half ago. Why not a system similar to a lot of other countries that have a civil and a state flag? For example: Germany. We all know the plain three-stripes flag. It's what you see representing Germany all the time. We all know and recognize it. But, the actual flag of Germany is the version with the eagle and shield on the front. The state flag is also often the war flag. So why couldn't US states have their own version of a "civil flag" that is slapped on t-shirts and bumper stickers, flown outside people's housesand civilian buildings, etc, and then, the blue-and-seal design in government chambers, outside government buildings, and by each state's National Guard (making it similar to a "war flag" and preserving the initial function of that flag back during the Civil War - where some state national guards had their finest hours). And if some of them want to use it for both, then fine. But no matter what, it is still there to keep that connection to the Union. That might be overcomplicating it a tiny bit, but it's a compromise. Also, if we are going to rule aesthetics as not being the priority in US state flags, and for symbolism to be considered first, then I don't think the proposed designs should be getting instantly written off for looking "looking like it's from some amateur or graduate student in 2015," hence judged by it's aesthetics before symbolism.

Putting a logo in place of the second "A" isn't my favorite thing ever, but my real problem is with the color of the hats. Why couldn't it be a shade of teal/blue/whatever matching something that's on the jersey? This is similar, but still not as bad, as my problem with special event/holiday hats. Otherwise, I think it is actually just fine. Especially when you go in with the expectation that it's going to be pretty different, being an All-Star jersey. I miss when All-Star jerseys were only for batting practice and the Home Run Derby.

I'd estimate I've read the MKE patch as "Mike" at least half of the times I've seen it.

On field it looks like the uniform for a generic Pittsburgh team in an unlicensed futuristic-themed baseball game for cell phones. Especially with those helmets. EDIT: Okay, this is probably a generous read of the situation, but... Considering everything about the jersey and theme and everything, I'm wondering if it's meant to resemble the dirt and grime and soot that would build up on a steelworker's hard hat?

I think it depends on the design of the script itself, and the jersey it is on. When Calgary did it, they included the flaming C and it filled up the jersey well (granted, it looked a lot like something you'd find on a t-shirt). Anaheim looked okay, but only because it sort of went with the swoop. But Washington does, indeed, look a little empty on the front. Dallas filled the space with a number on the front when they did it, which I like for college, but looks out of place in the NHL. Diagonal is the tried and true method, though. The only times script on a hockey jersey annoys me is when it's an informal nickname. (It ruined what I thought was an otherwise killer Tampa Bay jersey years ago).

What I wish for - and I know it's likely not feasible for hockey like it is for other sports like soccer and basketball, due to logistics - is for a soccer-style "primary" and "clash". (And however many alternates you want, within your league's limits). I've always preferred the color option. Reason being, and as I've always liked to say: Everyone has a white jersey. Not everyone has a <insert your team's color here> jersey. Even if WAH was still a thing, I'd probably buy all dark jerseys.

Hasn't American society been on the verge of collapse for, like, 250 years now?

Exactly. The amount of apparel and merch with "PGH" you see in one day is plentiful. You almost never, ever see "PIT". Around here, only the University of Pittsburgh is "Pitt". So to say "P-I-T" out loud sounds like an incomplete Pitt chant. To say it like "Pitt" sounds like the college. So when analysts, athletes, etc refer to Pittsburgh as "Pitt" I always get a kick out of it.