Silent Wind of Doom

Might be the shade of the quick mockup, but too much of the color gives me special event vibes. Like Mother's Day.

The tweets and Mothership article don't show the socks, but they're on sale. https://www.mlbshop.com/new-york-mets/unisex-new-york-mets-stance-black-2024-city-connect-over-the-calf-socks/t-36448775+p-46111126168145+z-8-1632730480 EDIT: Wow, they actually are visible in one shot, but the details are so dark that they're nearly indistinguishable from plain black socks.

Full graphite at home has got to be against some rule since the traditional away is gray. While we've gotten some stupid same-color matchups in the past, I can't imagine the league would let a team wear full-gray at home.

I suppose the most famous bridge in the borough and is contains the borough's name, but... am I the only one that associates the team more with the Whitestone? I suppose the Queensborough bridge is also much more visually appealing and you don't want to use a bridge with "Bronx" in the name. But it feels like the Yankees ditching the Macombs Dam Bridge or even the GWB for... well... the Whitestone Bridge. But besides that little block in my mind, these are largely inoffensive to me.

Oof. That makes if even worse. If it's just started now, then it sounds like they're ripping off Cleveland. But, if you're going to keep changing hashtags every year, eventually you're going to run out.

"For the Lou"? Is that a thing?

Whoa! It looks like the Texas Flag only goes one way. The Rangers have their ad patch and flag patch on the same sleeves for every player no matter the handedness. (Also, I forgot to list the Pittsburgh City Connect and Seattle Cream we've already been told is delayed to the earlier list.)

Huh. I went through every game on Getty two days ago. How the crap did I miss that?! Well, the first had this as the thumbnail for the game and I didn't realize that wasn't the regular home white. And the other I just must have accidentally not clicked thinking I did. The thumbnail for that is a Giants player.

Come on... Those things are clearly butterscotch. I've been watching the uniforms to update the current lineup for each teams. Here's the jerseys still MIA at the moment... Boston Red (although it was worn as Spring Training) and Navy Tampa Bay Gradient Toronto Powder Blue Angels City Connect Seattle Cream Texas City Connect Cubs City Connect Milwaukee Pinstripe and City Connect Pittsburgh City Connect St. Louis Cream and Powder Blue Atlanta Red and Navy Washington Pullover Dodgers Los Angeles Gray San Francisco Orange and City Connect Obviously, this early in the season there's plenty of chance some teams just haven't gotten the day to line up (usually home Friday) for them to wear their City Connect uniform and we've gotten direct word that some are delayed, but anyone heard any news on the rest of these? And inside scoop or official word I've missed on any of these being trashed?

Wow. Everyone else is having trouble and the Marlins seem to have gotten every single one of their uniforms. They wore everything, like, within the first week.

All-Star Baseball 2000 I much prefer the Bronx Zoo away grays, but I do have to admit that the change has been... okay. I just kinda don't notice. I wonder what the chances are that we'll see a "Motor City Kitties" somewhere? Man, that LOVE logo is the only local reference that wouldn't be put together by people on the West Coast who've never visited the city (bell, skyline, nickname), huh? I know we have a lot of natives of the area around here. Are we missing something? The weirdest part of this is that this is a ballgame between the 7 train and the Staten Island Railroad in Corona, but that's clearly the Bronx Courthouse on the right that stood in the outfield of the old Yankee Stadium. Perhaps an easter egg by an artist who's a rival fan. I honestly expected for the Yankees' CC to be the home pinstripe uniform with NEW YORK across the chest in dripping graffiti and a white cap insignia in the same style. (I know I've seen a spray painted interlocking NY somewhere, but I can't for the life of me remember where) I was wondering, though, as the Mets were coming first whether they'd go with that idea. Looks like I was wrong.

Wow... That is very stupid, but at least it does confirm for us that most of what we're seeing is officially new on-field in-season alternates. Those shop images have looked 110% computer generated from the start to me. I'm not trusting a thing on them until I see them in photos or video. One of the articles linked mentioned that, while the Japan link is the application of the logo, the true identity change that is happening here is that the helmet logo and cap logo now match. The helmet logo has always been wider. One of those little quirks, likely not a purposeful design choice like the Detroit D. I remember the Yankees having a similar situation, with the cap logo seeming to be the "print logo" but much chonkier. Sadly, I believe that went away with the change from the lovely shiny helmets that reflected the grand circle of lights around the Stadium.

Also I didn't think that or the White Sox because it was high enough to at least overlap whereas I thought we were specifically talking about severely lower numbers. Although that Oakland example may be just as low and the A is just huuuuuuge. It seems taller than the usual chest logo. Besides the URL and the lack of alternates, what makes Dressed to the Nines obsolete, especially when it's still getting updated? I've always found it useful for finding trends. Set to the larges amount of unis per page and see what year a change was made in a few seconds/the rise of powder blue and pullovers/etc. Besides, alternates exploded in this millennium and I have my own records past 2007.

Huh. You're right. I'd forgotten how far back some of those examples go. I went to the Dressed to the Nines archive and unfortunately it doesn't show alternates and it turns out all of the examples nowadays seem to be alternates. But, it did show that those who do it nowadays wore them alongside or after wearing wordmarks with front numbers, so perhaps it was just a matter of one team saying "we put the numbers here, so keep doing it" and others following or just a number of people coming to that same conclusion.