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Brian E

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  1. i think the excitement is two-fold. 1) it's clear the CCs will be something different, whether that ends up being good or bad. in a league where alternate looks are generally just re-colors of home looks, i think fans get pumped up about, "how will they re-imagine my team's identity?" 2) on-field baseball looks lend themselves exceedingly well (i would say probably the best) to merchandising. there are two on-field elements that fans can buy, and it ranges based on how much you want to invest ( $43 for a cap vs. $130 for a jersey, plus the $35 "shirsey"). for my team, when they get their CC look next year, i'm excited about the prospect of working a new-look mets cap into my rotation. the bad reactions are predictable (some valid, some, IMO, overblown), since it's usually a divestiture from the normal team aesthetic.
  2. actually, it's going to switch sides based on the player's handedness to give the advertiser "better visibility." so yeah, you're going to see a whole lot of non-uniform uniforms next year. i'm super opposed to uni ads, but i'd be lying if i said i enjoyed the NBA or NHL any less. what i don't get is why baseball decided to go this big. all uni ads look like garbage, but comparative to the NBA (the size of which really doesn't bother me that much) it really does looks terrible..
  3. basically going to echo what people said here: the 'stros' CC unis are good. a couple of the elements (sunrise headspoon, pant numbers, and the cap_ are excellent. i deduct points for the navy pants (mostly because only a handful of players are going to show the socks and a mono-navy with pro-flare pants is going to look drab. overall: B+ as-is if they had gone with white pants: A
  4. may i humbly submit that teams that use red should just eliminate the red and have gold and their other primary color for the post-title unis? the extra gold outline just gets lost as a third color, as the red pulls your eye away. boston did the same thing when they did it.
  5. "Honor the past, celebrate the present, embrace the future. This year we celebrate 60 years as a franchise (NOPE). Celebrate with these 60th anniversary (YUP) ballcaps, available now in the Astros Team Store."
  6. it's wild to me that the astros can't tell the difference between an anniversary and an ordinal, so they just use them interchangeably. did anyone bothering counting how many seasons there were between 1962 and 2022?
  7. some of the dugout jackets for 2022 are visible on MLB shop. noteworthy things, i guess, would be 1) the blue jays' is navy, 2) they're longer, 3) the price is hilarious: https://www.mlbshop.com/?query=dugout performance full-zip jacket&_ref=p-PDP:m-SEARCH
  8. honestly, the swoosh on the front doesn't really bother me. it speaks to the huge equity nike has as a global lifestyle brand, but the swoosh is basically as ubiquitous on clothing as buttons or a zipper. i lean traditionalist, so i know it should drive me crazy and all that, and i know this is simply my opinion and doesn't speak for anyone else, but it's much ado about nothing for me. i agree though that i'd rather it was rendered in blue or orange.
  9. i was sort of wondering if they're going to ditch the blue home alts. maybe in favor of their eventual city connect uniform? i have no idea if the mets are one of the teams getting them in 2022, but if they are, it might make sense. they hadn't worn the blue home alts for almost two years before they broke them out late last summer. maybe they wanted to pop them in there to try and clear out some of the last lingering inventory? this might not be an unpopular opinion, but for as long as the black unis are a friday night special (which is fine, IMO), i'd like them to ditch the home blue alt and make changes to the blue road alt. make the lettering and numbers on the road alt orange with a white outline (like the blue home alt is). the grey numbering isn't necessary. so they'd basically have: pins, black alts (friday home), greys, tweaked blue alts (road). and then eventually, their CC for six games.
  10. i actually think that's an upgrade. the headspoon, while favored by the mets, seems out of place on the black jerseys. always has, IMO. i wish that while they did that, they had added orange and blue to the blue sleeve piping. maybe it sort of a tri-color sleeve piping to mimic the script.
  11. yeah to add to that, i think new era actually has a very strong lifestyle brand. like, wearing a 5950 means something to a bunch of different demographics. not that i'm sure if they switched to fanatics and that's the only way you could get your favorite team's fitted cap that people wouldn't just buy the fanatics version. but i do think MLB and new era's relationship is a symbiotic one.
  12. no, not diamond era (or hex era or whatever they're calling it nowadays). we're talking poly blend front two panels, trucker mesh for the back four.
  13. it was removed from youtube. uni watch originally ran the link as part of its ticker.
  14. that's cool. NBA jerseys can be purchased with or without. and guess what? some people actually want the ad patch bc it adds to the authenticity. i, too, would rather buy a retail jersey without an ad patch on it. but surprisingly, some people want them, hard as that may be to believe.
  15. also, there's new BP/ST and dugout gear coming. i don't remember if anyone saw the new era leaks on the buyer presentation youtube video from a few months back, but some of it was in there. ST/BP caps are mesh-backed.
  16. i think that's a change for the better. also, i didn't expect that seeing jordan eberle in a kraken jersey would hurt so much.
  17. FWIW, i'm totally torn on the giants. i love the home white pants, and thought that was a huge upgrade for their set. i know why the fan base loves the current roads (won 42 and 46 in them), and in a vacuum, they're fine. big upgrade over the set they replaced. it's my personal taste, but i far prefer their color rush set to the current road. all that said, i think some royal blue could be worked into the sleeve/pants striping to get the best of both worlds.
  18. haha imagine if they spent two years coming up with a name and were like, "okay, we thought about it. introducing...the washington redmen. HTTR!!!"
  19. this is the ultimate compliment. everyone knows tommy as green ranger > tommy as white ranger.
  20. training camp hats are out. interesting tidbit here is that a few teams have "historic logo" options. to me, it looks like the bills, browns, broncos, dolphins, patriots, jets, eagles, and bucs. could mean nothing, could mean these are teams fanatics/NFL identified as clubs that sell lots of retro merchandise. but considering a few of these are tried-and-true alternates (pat patriot, elway-era 'D,' standing buffalo, bucco bruce...plus we know the browns have a new throwback this year) makes it noteworthy.
  21. i agree that the timing would seem to be off, but it is worth noting that the league and retailers have sort of gotten away from the traditional timeline, whether that's pandemic-influenced (i assume the case with the NHL's reverse retro) or not (nike seems like it had this timeline for city connect planned, but maybe i'm wrong). if the NFL did waive the one-shell rule, i could see them taking, like...six teams and trotting out throwbacks/existing designs on thanksgiving weekend (maybe like cowboys, bucs, pats, etc.). could goose holiday retail sales and put new merch in the pipeline for after the crucial catch/salute to service stuff wraps up.
  22. i was specifically talking about the green elements on the black alternate, but hey, why have a discussion when you can score some cheap likes with a snarky comment! how edgy!!
  23. here's a weird take (especially as a fan who has been pretty opposed to the various attempts at shoe-horning the color black into his team's -- mets, islanders -- identities): i kind of like black's inclusion in the jets' set. full admission, the jets splashed some black into their set when i was a kid just starting to root for the team, so that undoubtedly colors my view. but i do think the black (in small doses) works for them. i specifically think it's great as a trim element on the road unis. in fact, i'd love to see them mix-and-match a little. maybe try the black pants with the green jersey. my biggest objection to any jets look is when they go monochrome. though mono football uniforms aren't my taste, i can admit that some teams can make it look palatable (for example, the seahawks look isn't my favorite, but for me, it works for them). but for the jets, i think it looks atrocious. even all-white doesn't work well, IMO. that's another big fix that they need: they need to use green pants with the black alt. i think breaking up the mono-black would make all their green elements pop more.
  24. eh i sort of feel the other way. the 'jet' silhouette works as a logo, but not really as a striping element. i think on a jersey or pant, it dates it/makes it gimmicky, but as a logo, it's a good subtle nod. maybe that's just personal taste.
  25. always felt like there was an easy fix for the current jets set: current helmet logo/'jet' wordmark hybrid traditional sleeve striping traditional pant striping remove 'new york' wordmark
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