LMU

I mean… if people want to just demand all the elements here, might as well go all the way with it.

The problem is that, from the perspective of this season ticket holder, the team is entering a Padres-level identity crisis only compounded by two Cups and a McSorley stick away from a potential third. The Gretzky look is flawed. The fonts haven’t aged well at all and the crown at the bottom of the Chevy logo is so badly rendered it’s almost pixelated. Yet, throw a 99 on the back of it and it’s managed to stick around to the point that it’s back for the younger generation with chrome helmets and hip hop chains sold in the team store. Then came the late 90s redesign which was the epitome of 90s overdesign with too many number outlines and hem text. Of course, this led to the current primary look in that the late 90s redesign went through multiple revamps (first the crown and shield were switched, then the bottom hem stripe was axed in the Edge revamp, then the crown was shrunk, stripped of purple, and thrown on a simplified shield as a one-year alternate before being promoted to the primary home in time for the first Cup). Not to mention that the 2011/12 change was so haphazard that purple was still the primary color in the media guides and was used in the NBC score bug without a single shred of it anywhere and that the helmets used the Gretzky wordmark despite it matching nothing. The flaws of the primary current look are all too apparent, even without taking into account that the current/former colors were borrowed from a football team now playing in the same city as a rival. The team now uses a wordmark that does not match anything in the current look. There’s still Edge-era sleeve piping, and the home and road hems still don’t match. Then throw in the almost interchangeable usage of the primary logo and the Chevy logo with the RR/RR 2.0 return of forum blue and gold and you have a team who can’t decide what the heck it wants to be.

Everything about this game is art.

I will be live on location for first-hand reporting.

And that’s not including the dropping of the gloves that the FAA’s going to be doing with the project being built in the Sky Harbor flight path.

I was pretty close in 210 and yeah, they weren’t great for legibility.

Only in the Halloween season could we be subjected to this Frankenstein’s monster of a combination. And the designer didn’t seem too excited either from his suite a section over from me.

And… not even a goal horn.

Carolina - throwing it way back to the time when we had two Fyre Festival documentaries and Corona was just a crappy beer.

Or, better yet… just don’t swear.

And if you think about it MLB was harsher with Sosa for having a corked bat than a positive steroid test. There’s been an evolution in ways players tried to get ahead and picking one arbitrary goal post is just disingenuous. Imagine what Cobb’s stats would have been if he didn’t intentionally try to wound infielders with sharpened spikes

Apparently being seventh in home runs in a season prompted as many push notifications as the death of the Queen.

Just as Diamondback = Bobcat or Maple Leaf = Polar Bear or Jet = Moose or Mariner = Moose or Sun = Gorilla or Giant = Seal or Golden Knight = Gila Monster or Canuck = Orca or Clipper = Condor or Hurricane = Pig or Rocky= Triceratops or Chief = Wolf or Titan = Raccoon or Islander = Dragon or “Insert Team Here” = Amorphous Blob

As would the Chargers lung puncturing quack.

Throw into that the complete disregard to the other eras that the supposedly pure records were set in. Deadball. Segregation. Frequent ball doctoring. Stadiums under 300 feet to the foul poles, 500 to center, and massive foul territory, etc.

The Judge chase has to be one of the most meaningless, overhyped stories in recent memory. He tied a league record in a sport where leagues practically don’t matter anymore, putting himself now tied for seventh all-time and eight back. Setting aside feelings about steroids, this whole thing wouldn’t have raised a single eyebrow if anyone but a Yankee was involved.

That’s not the issue. There’s Antonio Cromartie level… and then there’s the gang rape of a child.

Let’s keep that Arte hate train rolling.

The tragedy is that he goes to Vegas after Slots-A-Fun discontinued the 99¢ half-pounder.

Arte is being absolutely torched in the local media.

A couple decades too late.

Small crowd size has its benefits.