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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...