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Altoona curve were the coasters for a night last year or the year before. The Fresno Grizzlies were the tacos one night last year and this year it's every Tuesday.

Is the bootleggers hat going to be brown or black? I've seen a brown rendering somewhere, but that looks black. The B also looks like the Bradenton Marauders B. On a bit of a side note, since the MLB shop went all fanatics on us, their minor league hat selection is rather poor. Do you think they will restock like the MLB shop used to? They have a bunch of old minor league hats on clearance. For instance, they have the Altoona Curve in the green/black when Cutch used to play there, but they also have the New Ogden Raptors stuff so I'm confused which direction they are going.

I frequent operation sports which is a sports video game page. I run a thread just on the errors for mlb the show. Fan boys always try to throw style guide in my face. I'm not privileged enough for access to it, but there's no way (for example) the Rays faux back hats are all Columbia blue. People run a madden error list as well.

I'm assuming (hoping?) that those aren't all on-field caps. The story on the mothership says the throwback chief-head logo won't be used on-field (dumb, because it's my favorite of the set), and has any team ever worn an all-gray cap on the field before? I'm 99% sure it's only a fashion lid.The color change was a good idea, in order to realign with the Nats aesthetic, but the package as a whole comes off as very disjointed. edit: Admiral summed it up well; I can't make much sense of it either. The Altoona curve use an all gray lid, but it's a darker gray

I just saw (around Thanksgiving apparently) that the Mahoning Valley Scrappers (Indians A) have a new alternate logo. Sorry, can't post pics from where I'm at. Apparently trying to cash in on the Chihuahuas type stuff as it's just MV written in bones. Don't know if this will be a cap or whatever. They have a dark red road cap with a 1990's style clip art bulldog in a hard hat and a navy blue dog tooth home hat (think Lake Elsinore Storm) The MV was their twitter avatar...white bones on blue background.

Well, reading through these posts on the Akron Aeros/Rubber Ducks...first (this is a stretch ) Akron is the rubber capital, second, if it's a fightin' phils leftover (with the hotdog) they couldn't just be the rubbers, and third, maybe they were inspired by that giant rubber duck that spent a month in Pittsburgh which is only a couple hours away...

Well, since I created some controversy with the "cater to big market" comment...I'm not saying there is a conspiracy or anything or the larger cities shouldn't get some extra attention or have multiple teams, but what I was getting at was that how many Sunday night baseball games are the same teams: Yankees, Angels, Red Sox, Rangers, etc.? They will never have a salary cap because that would level the playing field some...especially with teams having their own tv stations/contracts to feed even more money. I don't fault them for being innovative or rich or playing within the rules at all. Milwaukee isn't big market. When typing, it doesn't come as to read as I thought. I'm not saying he was "pulling strings" for them, but since he has ties there, he made sure things got "done" like stadium issues, moving them to a new division...There is no conspiracy theory here. It's just the way MLB runs, it doesn't create a level playing field yearly. The rich teams have down years and the poor have up years, but how long do each sustain them? (And by no means do I give "poor" teams like the Marlins a pass for getting what they want and being cheap with talent on the field) With all that being said, I hope the Rays don't move, but I just don't see him "moving" them to a state-of-the-art facility in downtown Tampa.

I've been a Pirates fan all of my life. I have relatives down there so I am a Bucs fan. As I visited over the years and took in baseball games, I started to like the Rays because they were in the AL (never faced the Pirates), were built similar to the Pirates, and stood up to the big dogs in Boston and New York. They filled a very big void that the Pirates give every year (heck, I was two when they won the WS and in middle school last playoff). As I tour Tampa or St. Pete, there is so much to do rather than go to a baseball game, but when I go into their stadium and think two things 1) what a dump and 2) how empty it is for a pretty successful team *unless it's filled with Sox or Yankee fans. From what I know, the mayor (or anyone for that matter) doesn't want to be the one who loses a sports team...instead of letting them go across the bay and be successful there. I don't think Bud Selig is getting involved to save Tampa Bay. I think he's getting involved to break a lease and see which city wants the Rays. Selig caters to the big markets...LA, Boston, NY and to Milwaukee. Anyone else is just for them to go out and watch a baseball game and spend money. I hope he and the city of St. Pete prove me wrong. It's a tough sports area because of so many transplants there who follow their own teams. I think they can be good with an established fanbase as kids actually liking players like Longo and Price and being raised with them. The kids here in Pittsburgh weren't alive to see a good team and the stadium is full of fairweather fans now. It's a bunch of tools who flash the Zoltan or do the sharktank thing. It's not people who had to watch Derek Bell or Kevin Young for all those years.

Around my inception, an NFL team was born where a lot of my family lives...Tampa. They told me to not get involved in that Pitt/Cleveland rivalry so I took to them. I also took to the bright orange colors. I started liking the Hurricanes as the major college team. There was no baseball/hockey in the area, so I went with the home town teams Pens/Pirates. No b'ball up here so I watched Larry Bird and became a Celtics fan. So in conclustion... NHL: Pens MLB: Pirates NBA: Celts NFL: Bucs NCAA: Canes

How about Kirk Gibson as a Pirate? Gretz as a Blues? Sosa as an Oriole? Lott as a Jet or Raider? MJ as a White Sox? Some how I don't think I pluralized Sox and Blues right