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Colgate has a long history in college athletics and deserved a look befitting of that, but a lot like Harvard has a modernized identity that can shine through a design that isn't templated. Like the intro post image says, the overarching design comes from a short-lived helmet stripe that existed for just a season, maybe two. Football: Helmets - Ironically, the inspiration for the whole design can't be found here. I felt like it was a little too cluttering. But the shells remain pretty similar to the IRL buckets. Crimson and white, primary helmets get the team's 'GATE wordmark on the sides, with an alternate helmet using the team's C logo. Jerseys - The new jerseys replace the templated double stripe look with the new stripe, that bears a similar resemblance to the Vikings throwback tops, with the larger stripe being un-outlined. Pants - Pretty scratch here, with the pants having the stripes on the sides. Hockey: Jerseys - Probably the biggest departure. The jerseys take the team's shoulder stripe uniforms from the past season and adds the new Colgate stripe to them, creating a quasi-90's Flyers look. The alternate jersey goes a little more traditional with chest stripe and the Raiders' alternate logo. Pants/Socks - Like a few teams before, plain pants to not clutter every thing up. Socks match their jerseys. Equipment - Crimson all around. Helmets have the 'GATE wordmark and the 13 stripes shield. Baseball: Baseball used to be a varsity sport at Colgate until the program was shuttered in 1996 due to Title IX concerns and limits, but the Raiders did make it all the way to the CWS in the 50's, losing their lone trip to the eventual champs, Wake Forest. Headwear - Crimson and silver for all 3 uniforms. C logo front and center. Jerseys - A little sampling of everything. Full stripes on all 3 uniforms. White jersey has a wordmark, Crimson does the number-logo combo and the grey alts go for a V-neck with the 'GATE wordmark and slightly bigger stripes. Pants - A much simpler take, just a single stripe down the sides. Socks are all striped. Basketball: Jerseys - Another similarity to Harvard in that, almost anything would have been an improvement on the IRL uniforms. Another somewhat traditional take, just with new elements. Single color stripes on the arms and neck with the full stripe running down the side. The grey alts are the only uniforms to make use of a triple stripe and the full sides go away. Shorts - Pretty much a mirror of the jerseys. Alternate moves the stripes to the bottom and features the C-Shield on the sides. C&C Welcome as always!

I felt like that the pinstripes might be a potential issue. First things first, I went back to the two stripe trim the team currently uses. I can't remember what the rationale for the original change was but it was iffy, even while I was designing it. As for the pinstripes, I went to grey across the board which might create more issues on the white jersey, but everything is now consistent across the two jerseys. But the potential other option of pinstriped jerseys/plain pants wasn't even a halfway decent option. I completely forgot the pants number! It was right in front of me on my reference images and my reverse retro design I was pulling stuff from and it just didn't make it onto the final design.

I've drug my feet on these long enough, which we'll discuss on the alternates. The White Sox have a historical record and timeline that suggest they shouldn't be messing with a modern look. Well the City Connect look got me thinking because if you ask me, it sort of completed the current branding for the ChiSox. So let's dive into it. Home & Away: Headwear - No change. Like their Massachusetts counterparts, changing the brim color didn't work for the full time. Jerseys - Despite my documented and well-iterated disdain for pinstripes and unlike the last time I worked on the MLB, I kept the pinstripes around this time. The white jersey remains largely the same, with a triple stripe now being found on the sleeves, and positioned up from the cuff, which has some historical precedence to the team. The black jersey is where things get a little off the books, which for starters now unseats the grey uniforms as the road look, and becomes a color flipped version of the home tops. Replacing the SOX logo is the CHI logo from the City Connect hats. Also coming over is the font from the CC jerseys. It felt like a natural addition and really rounds out the newish identity. Pants/Socks - White pants just have the triple stripes join the sides. Black pants also join the rotation, complete with the pinstripes as well. Hanger Effect - While their City Connect jerseys were among the best, their lasting impact can be felt throughout the uniforms now, and this applies to the collar, which now features a greystone pattern with the Southside wordmark. Alternate: Maybe a little bit of a let down with the changes to the primary uniforms but keeping the alternate a little more mundane felt like a good breathing point. Headgear - no changes from home/away. Jersey - The grey jersey doesn't change too much. The wordmark gets updated to closely resemble the wordmarks from 1967-1968, 69-70 & 71-75, adding the tail and WHITE SOX to the tail. Pants/Socks - Other than a color change, no changes. South Siders: Because I can't just call a heritage uniform a heritage uniform, the South Siders uniform does, you guessed it, celebrates over 100 years of White Sox baseball (minus that snafu in 1919) & I liked how my reverse retro uniform turned out for them, like Cleveland, and wanted to rework it again. Headgear - We go to navy, featuring the team's jersey logo from the late 30's, with two added outlines. Jersey - I feel like it's a pretty sensible statement to say the chest stripe jerseys from the mid 80s are one of, if not the most iconic uniforms the team has worn. So we start there. The v-neck collar stripes change to the 1967-1968 style, which is also where the light blue comes from. The sleeve and chest stripes are pretty much as they were in the 80s. Replacing the wide SOX wordmark, is a spurred/Tuscan font, which represents the big collar/shorts uniforms. My personal favorite part of these, is the modernized logo on the sleeve which resurrects the 1949-1970 logo. Pants/Socks - Pants stay easy, with the same stripe as the collar down the side. Socks are all navy or stirrup navy. BP: I don't plan on making a habit of having two distinct BP sets but the 4th uniform needed it's own in this case. Home/Away Hat - tri-color, Diamond Sock on the front. Jersey - Larger stripes on the lower half of the sleeves, Sox logo on the chest. Alternate Hat - also a tricolor (homaging the 80's hat) with the same logo as the on-field hat. Jersey - light blue, chest stripe, smaller stripes on the sleeve cuffs. Modernized logo front and center. C&C welcome!

It definitely was. I toned the peach out of it some but left it there a little to be visually different from Boston's. I go back and forth on it. I feel like the block letters work better than the winged logo, but that's a different conversation. After having to illustrate one of the Guardians of Traffic for work and then do some other Guardians related stuff, I felt that maybe an art deco avenue could work but I didn't like what I came up with for work and what I wanted to try here, but it also fell short here.

Well that'll go down as a bogey on the scorecard... But let's take a look at it. I personally think the larger wordmark works better on the BP tops than the uniform. It feels a little less fauxback-y to me but I'll let you guys see what you think about it. And since we're here: Home & Away - I think I've finally come around or have at least turned the corner to the name change. The G logo still leaves a lot to be desired but I don't quite have a solve for that that I like enough. So anyways. I felt that even though the Cleveland franchise has over 100 years of history, that we could go a little more modern with it, but ever so slightly. Headwear - No major changes, other than the all navy hat getting dropped from the rotation. Jerseys - Despite the history, Cleveland is the first team in the series to drop grey. It was going to be Boston, but I felt more at ease dropping Boston's navy tops. Some actual stripes join the party, with the single color striping going away in favor of outlined triple stripes that terminate at the ends like the wings of the Guardians of Traffic statues have. The Winged G goes on the right sleeves. The new number font sticks around, but the NOB font changes to a serif font that I felt fit the vibes a little more. Pants/Socks - Nothing crazy, matter of fact nothing going on the pants at all. Socks have the same style stripes as the jerseys. Hanger Effect - Also nothing crazy, STAND GUARD in red/white. Alternate - Headwear - No changes. Jersey - Design flips to a red jersey, with the wordmarks going away for a logo - number combo not seen on a Cleveland jersey since the 60's. Pants/Socks - Only real change is the socks turn red. The Land - (I promise not every team is getting a vintage white 4th jersey) - Cleveland digs back into their history, basing it off my Reverse Retro design which itself is based off of the 1933-1935 uniforms. Headwear - all navy returns to the field, with a G based off wordmarks of the era. The batting helmet goes red, based off the team's use of red hats in the past, and I used it on the RR design and I liked the way it looked. Jersey - vintage white with a full color placket design. Same G as the hat, both having a small drop shadow based on the one-year only uniform from 1970. Joining the design are the late 80's to mid 90's shoulder stripes that I swear were in a movie somewhere. Pants/Socks - vintage white, navy belt with red loops. Socks go to navy stirrups with solid red stripes. Batting Practice: Hat - Red/navy with the Flying G. Tops - A little less designed than Boston, but putting the stripes on there made it look too Adidas so these tops stay pretty basic. Player number moves a little lower on the sleeve. The Flying G on the chest, STAND GUARD down by the hip. C&C welcome!

I figured you meant the more modern BP tops with the wordmark logo treatment so I tried it out on both colorways. Also tried out the fauxback sox logo on the hat with the Fenway jersey. It was the uniforms that inspired your Red Sox jersey that gave me the inspiration for the vintage approach, but wanted to do something different than the Boston sock logo from that era. The version I use is built in Illustrator and at the moment that's the only version it exists in at the moment. When the series wraps, I'll have a PSD version done and both will be made available.

Football - Howard U is really one of the first schools in the FCS that I knew existed but beyond that I really didn't have too much off the dome to work on. I knew they are one of the few schools at the FCS level to be affiliated with the Jordan Brand and they had a huge upset over UNLV but that's where my knowledge ended. After doing my work, there was one thing I wanted to change almost immediately and that was the grey. They use a lighter shade of silver and so does Hampton. Really no issue, except that Howard has a nice unique grey already. So the teams switch over to that shade. The team's existing stripe carries over, but now ends in a horn point (sorry Texans, I've had this idea since 2021). The number font keeps the spurs but changes ever so slightly. I also went with the leaping Bison logo on the two helmets, which work better IMO than the static bison head. I tried shoe-horning the stripe onto the pants, but it fell flat in every attempt so plain pants with the logo on the side. Hockey - Howard joins NC Central in the creation of a hockey team, but as I found out, Howard U is in the process of starting a ice skating team, becoming the first HBCU do so. Pretty cool if you ask me. As for the hypothetical hockey team, the horn stripe ends up sitting much closer to the numbers than a traditional hockey stripe would. As a result, I added a second stripe at the bottom of the sleeves. Bison head logo anchors the chest. Alternate uniform swaps out the second stripe on the sleeves for a solid navy stripe, and moves the hem stripe up and makes it a chest stripe with the full Bison + Leaping logo. Silver helmets and navy pants for all the uniforms. Baseball - So Howard currently has no baseball presence. I can't find much information on their varsity team or when it shuttered. Their club team's Facebook page's last post was in 2013. So for the most part we are starting from scratch. but it's a baseball uniform and I kept some traditional conventions in place. It's seemingly a paradox when you look at the basketball uniforms that I created a new wordmark for, but I didn't do the same because I didn't like how the current ones fit on a baseball uniform. So I went with the Bison head opposite a player number, with the horn stripe on the sleeves. Pants have the unencumbered stripe down the side. Alternate tops go to a v-neck with a 70's Blue Jays style logo setup. Headgear is navy/grey with the Bison head. The white hat is about the one thing I could find from their baseball history, which was worn in the late 50s. Basketball - Finally with basketball, like I mentioned up above, the biggest thing is the newish wordmarks, which keep the spurred look going but fit better on a basketball jersey. The design pretty much falls in line with the rest of the uniforms. Full stripes on the tops, with the horn stripe finding its place on the shorts around the legs. Alternate jersey loses the arm stripes and uses the Bison wordmark. C& C welcome!

So I've been living in Florida for about a year now and I got to take in a Rays game last April and this spring, finally got to experience Spring Training. What changed between April and now? Well Nike and Fanatics have apparently ruined baseball jerseys (and even though I work for that devil company, the jersey fiasco had nothing to do with me I assure you.) But that aside, between getting to watch baseball and see teams and the uniforms in action, and @MJD7's fantastic Cooperstown Collection thread (check it out here, a lot of great work!), I felt like taking another stab at the MLB uniforms after 7-ish years since my first attempt. The title is a bit misleading because the designs themselves are good, but the production and other elements aren't. So what do I plan on doing? Well my first series was my first true attempt at baseball uniforms and it was alright, but not great. But I liked the forward thinking ideas I tried out on a few teams and I think I tried doing too much but I still want to move designs into the future but respect the traditions of baseball. So, as I always do, the ground rules: Eliminating Nike's 4+1 rule, which in conjunction is also eliminating the City Connect slot, but teams are going to be limited to 4 jerseys. Like my NBA series, there will be home, away, and alternate uniforms. The fourth slot is totally up to team discretion (straight throwback, fauxback, TATC, City Connect, take your pick) Grey uniforms remain optional. The old heads might disagree but I think we're reaching a point where more teams will start shedding them. I'm trying to limit hats and unique hat designs. Before you jump on this one, I'm talking about things like the Mariners having a navy/navy hat & a navy/teal hat. Just pick one. BP "jerseys" are going away, which seems to be the way the league is trending, instead replaced by a 3/4 sleeve shirt. Teams will now have collar decorations. Something I saw MJD7 doing in his aforementioned thread, using the Cooperstown Collection branding and the vintage Nike swoosh was something I liked a lot and I wanted to include that on the throwback and vintage designs. So the modern batterman logo on those uniforms would be replaced with the vintage batterman from the CC logo and the Nike swoosh would also swap. I think that's it for the ground rules I was working with. Now for the team order, which I continuously find new ways to do: Teams will be posted in order of oldest perfect game to latest, which gets us 1-14. After the perfect game teams, same thing for the rest but with no-hitters. American League AL East: Blue Jays | Orioles | Rays | Red Sox | Yankees - AL Central: Guardians | Royals | Tigers | Twins | White Sox - AL West: Angels | Astros | Athletics | Mariners | Rangers National League NL East: Braves | Marlins | Mets | Nationals | Phillies - NL Central: Brewers | Cardinals | Cubs | Pirates | Reds - NL West : Diamondbacks | Dodgers | Giants | Padres | Rockies Alright, I've talked enough, first up: Home & Away - A classic start but not without some changes. After ending up at two Red Sox ST games, I came to one major conclusion: I don't like their City Connect uniforms. they're just too different when viewed next to the iconic red and navy. But the CC uniform sticks around in a couple different ways. Hat - no changes to the hat. adding a red brim was fine for the BP hats, but full time looked too much like Cleveland. Jerseys - the crux of the jerseys stay very much the same. But the white jerseys have so much more life than the drab greys and the biggest thing was adding more life to those uniforms. biggest additions is the Sox logo on the sleeves of both the home and away now, placket piping added to the navy jersey. the double stripe from the CC uniforms is added to the sleeves of both uniforms. Pants/Socks - Nothing too crazy, single color stripe, red on the white pants, navy on the greys. Solid red socks & striped socks modified from the pullover era uniforms. Hanger Effect - using the City Connect colors, BOSTON STRONG with the 617 area code in the middle. Alternate - Hat - A red hat returns to Fenway for the first time since the late 70's but uses the 2024 Spring Training Hat color, with white taking on more of the leg work. Jersey - recolored version of the white home tops, but with similar conventions to the hat. Pants/Socks - same as white jersey Fenway Heritage - not my most creative name for a uniform, but I felt it captured the spirit of the uniform as a whole. Hat - the throwback B comes from the 1936-1945, coinciding with the start of Ted Williams' career in Boston. Jersey - the tops combine the pullover look from the 70s, with skinny triple stripes on the collar and sleeves with a new old logo that blends the 1931-1932 sleeve logo with a font, similar to the wordmarks of the turn of the century Red Sox team, all on a vintage white base. Pants/Socks - these also take from the pullover era, with a faux waistband design. Striped socks go away in favor of a stirrup set. Hanger Effect - Boston Strong goes away for a simple Green Monster shade of green with "THE OLDE TOWNE TEAM". Batting Practice - Hat - Like I mentioned, I didn't like the navy/red look for full time use but it worked for BP, with the Sox logo on the front Tops - navy and red options, both have the double stripe on the ends of the sleeves, number on the right sleeve. Navy has the Sox logo on the front, Red has the fauxback logo. I've talked a lot, now I want to hear what you guys think!

Football - If there's any team or teams in this part of the series that don't need modern uniforms, that would be the Ivy League teams, and leading us off is the oldest "institution of higher learning in the United States" and one of the progenitors of the college football game many of us have fallen in love with. Now like I said, nothing crazy modern but that doesn't mean they're immune to changes. For starters, the updated branding does stick around, with the black outline returning to the H. But more importantly is what returns to the football uniforms, mostly the team's triple stripe, which had existed in on the crimson shells since 1964. The same stripe can now be found on the sleeve cuffs, a bit of a homage to the 1968 Harvard team, famous for the declaration "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29". Finishing us off on football is the same stripe also returning to the pants. Also for the first time, a black alternate shell is added, giving the option for a full blackout uniform. Hockey - Much like football, there's a lot here that stays the same. The biggest changes are to the sleeves, which now fold into the same look as football, but much bigger obviously. Added to the sleeves are a smaller copy of the stripes. Despite it feeling like a tradition for their uniforms, I removed the front numbers in favor of the H-shield. I didn't like the look with the newer numbers under the arch. Other than that, everything comes over from football or previous real life existence and like football, the team now has the option for a black alternate uniform. Baseball - If you can believe it, Harvard's baseball team predates their football team by almost 10 years. That little factoid helped inspire the new home uniforms for the Crimson. Where football uses the cream/gold/tan color for a pants option color, I thought it would make for a unique home uniform for the baseball team, which all fall into the newish look. Biggest change really is the single stripe becomes a triple. The wordmarks also feature an arch, which I think works better than the fully horizontal they currently are. Crimson road tops, which come with a set of white pants. Black alternate that replaces the wordmark with the full boat H & shield. Two sets of headgear, four total sets of socks: sold black and crimson, or black and crimson with small stripes at the top. A white jersey is present in their rotation, but because it's the same design as the home and away its just tucked behind the crimson jersey. Basketball - And closing us out is basketball and out of the four sports, their uniforms needed the most help. Nothing overtly wrong with them from a design sense, but that's also what was wrong with them, there was nothing on them but names, numbers and a wordmark. When I was done with them, the design bears a recolored appearance to a professional basketball team based roughly 15 minutes away from the campus with no traffic. All in all, a very traditional basketball uniform set, also including a black alternate, which in this case, isn't a first for the hardwood team. I feel like I'm repeating this every four teams, but the website is getting worked on, just haven't gotten time to finish up the updates and hit publish. In the meanwhile, C&C is appreciated on the last bunch of teams!

Yes and no. The Browns helmet logo is their primary, but every team has a side view and a 3/4 view in the same graphic style, per our logo guides at work. However we can't use the side view and 3/4 view for the other 31 teams. We have use the newer Revo Speed helmets if we want to use a helmet in a design.

good. the less I have to see of those fauxbacks for the M's the better.

Happy Easter! I managed to get a little sidetracked, trying to get an MLB series set up and started and that took some time building out an updated template and layout. But I certainly haven't forgotten about my work here. Football - We double dip in the SWAC, with Texas Southern. (It's also the 2nd of 3 consecutive red teams, which means I need to have a lengthy conversation my list randomizer), but in a similar vein to Alabama A&M, classic felt like a good approach for the Tigers, which in this case starts with classic UCLA/Colts stripes on the home and away uniforms. The same stripe can be found on the helmets, which come in maroon and white options. Pants match their jerseys. I didn't want to go with just a color swap on the grey alternates, but wanted to keep the classic feel. So the stripes move to the sleeves and are joined by a subtle tiger stripe that fades in towards the tops of the sleeve caps. Hockey - Another first timer to the good ole hockey game, the Tigers also opt for traditionally styled uniforms, but unlike LSU who in the last series got shoulder style stripes on their hockey jersey, I strayed away from that, going for the stripes on the sleeves and hem, and the added shoulder stripes, matched on the white jersey with an added shoulder yoke. The alternate functions like the football one, with the tiger stripe pattern now fading up from the bottom of the jersey itself and the sleeves. Maroon equipment for all the uniforms. Baseball - Somewhat of a paradox when baseball is one of the more forward facing sets. I felt like vests were a good way to go for the baseball team. Can't really explain why, but I just liked the result. Went with one set of headwear, all maroon. The jerseys get the stripes around the neck and arm holes, a lot like the Pirates' Clemente-era jerseys. All three sets of undershirts feature the fading tiger stripes, and would be interchangeable within the uniforms. I also kept the maroon pants the team currently wears. Two sets of socks, solid maroon or striped maroon. Basketball - Finishing up on the hardwood, the basketball uniforms fully merge the traditional with the modern, with the side stripes on the jersey and shorts blending the fading pattern within the stripe. Texas Southern sandwich on the home and away, this time in a block font. They've tried it with a script with a less than satisfying result. Grey alternate gets the abbreviated TSU. C&C Welcome! for those that celebrate, enjoy the holiday!

Gonna have to rethink my Mariners idea a little bit now

Happy March Madness! Boise State is still winless in 10 tries in the tournament but at least that's better than... no one actually. Anyways: Football - This is a may or may not be a first for me, but I can remember maybe one other time that an individual player inspired a look for a uniform, let alone for a whole(ish) athletic department. In our case here with Alabama A&M, I believe its Joshua Williams from the late 2010's who in one picture was seen with 7 or 8 arm bands on that gives us our primary look here. I felt like AAMU has a pretty classic look about them to begin with and this carried it on. Helmets are pretty much the same, white and crimson, single stripe with the interlocking logo on the sides. Uniforms pare down the bevy of stripes to 5. Contrasting collars. New wordmarks and number font system round out the look. Pants match the helmet with a stripe. Alternate takes the newer double stripe look and puts it on a black base. Hockey - The SWAC takes to the ice! And the first go around is a very simple look. The 5-stripes can be found on the sleeves with a solid stripe rounding it out on the hem. Interlocking logo on the chest of the home and away. Just went with the red equipment for all three uniforms. Pants actually receive the stripe this time. Socks match their uniforms. Alternate replaces most of everything. Bulldog logo appears on the chest, Double stripe takes over for the other stripes where it needs to. Baseball - College is a fun place to experiment with uniforms and I want to try doing more non-traditional things, which feels fun doing it to a team that already has a pretty traditional look. So baseball replaces the 5 stripe with pinstripes, which I thought was a pretty equal trade, and adds a solid stripe around the collar and the sleeves. New wordmarks and numbers on the chest of the home and away. Red jersey also sees pinstripes. Black jersey also does something non-traditional, but not something new for AAMU. Headgear is similar to football, all crimson or white/crimson. Socks are striped either red or black. Basketball - I finally get a basketball uniform that isn't a :censored: to translate. A little more modern take on the five stripes, with them being found on under the arm and on the sides of the pants, with one stripe forming a full stripe around the bottom of the shorts. single color stripes around the arm holes. Alternate gets a little more traditional, with the double stripe down the sides, with the interlocking logo replacing wordmarks. C&C welcome and always appreciated!

Football - When I started the planning for this, Valpo had announced in February of '21 that they were moving away from the Crusaders nickname (ironically the same thing my second university underwent in 2017). So when I got around to Valparaiso, they were nicknameless and if I had just waited a few more weeks, I would have known they'd be called the Beacons moving forward. But the new nickname worked very well within the new style I had picked out for them. The Beacons are the first football team that really gets the whole works, with three options each from helmet to cleats. While the "Shield of Character" logo works well, I went with a modified version of their lighthouse logo with a block V as the new primary, relegating the shield to secondary status. The main design feature is the "Beacon Stripe" which stays consistent across the three colors, which does result with some interesting results on the brown pieces. The stripe is also found forming a V on most uses. Pants combine the stripe with a simple wordmark. Hockey - I was a bit surprised to see that Valpo doesn't have as much as a club hockey team, but that just meant a blank canvas to work off of. The same angled Beacon stripe can be found on the sleeves and on the hem line. V logo on the chest of the home and away. Socks match their respective jerseys. Alternate swaps out the angled hem stripe for a straight across and sees a college wordmark + number move the V to the shoulders. A common occurrence in the early hockey teams, but the pants don't get the stripes as I felt it was a little much for the pants when combined with the rest of the design. Baseball - In most cases I try and reign baseball in when it comes to matching the other sports' designs. This wasn't really a case of that. I let the Beacon stripe still shine through on this one, with faux vest sleeves on the white and gold uniforms. Valpo script on the home and away jerseys, block Valpo on the alternate. Pants have a similar stripe to the football uniforms, just sans the wordmark. All-brown and gold/brown headgear with similar colored socks round out the look. Basketball - A common theme here, basketball giving me the most issues. The lack of sleeves on (traditional) basketball uniforms make it interesting for some designs to translate and this one was a perfect case of that. The Beacon stripe becomes a stripe down the side of the jersey, which results in the brown jersey looking a little bit more plain than the rest. But the shorts get the full outcome of the stripe with a bold stripe angled across the bottoms of the shorts. In an inverse of the baseball jerseys, block Valpo on the home and away and script Valpo on the alternate. Wyoming isn't the only school that can make brown and gold look good. Let me know if you agree!