CubsFanBudMan

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Thanks for the heads up.

Likes: Seahorse, especially the "hidden" N in the trident.

Dislikes: almost everything else. Green and orange are not nautical colors, and they don't look good together here. Too much going on with the wordmark, and the outlines are too thick. Like Gothamite said, the anchor logo is a stretch and doesn't work. Seeing the "T" logo alone makes me thing the "T" stands for "Turtles."

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Not saying it was perfect, but if they wanted to update, they shouldn't have had to stray too far from that.

WHAT?!

Kane County is a surprise. I think it's an upgrade, but 1991 is a long time for nostalgia to build. Probably would have preferred the colors to stay a little closer to home. Lime green is a bit jarring for the Cougars.

The old logo was tired, but all attempts to modernize it have been cartoonish. I would have preferred it stick around as a sleeve patch rather than a cap logo. It always struck me as 1980s madcub-like anyway.

And not one KC cap in the bunch?!

But I love that script.

Oh, funny you mention Indianapolis. One of their TV stations has picked up the package of over-the-air weekend games from WGN, so 20ish Blackhawks games are now on TV there. I've been saying the Hawks need to explore this for years:

If the Blackhawks still aren't willing to have another team up the road, the least they can do is syndicate their 20-game-or-so over-the-air TV package to Milwaukee, or Milwhawkee, and see if they can make some inroads there (plus Madison, Rockford, South Bend, while we're on the topic). Otherwise, they're just squatting.

The Blackhawks aren't doing nearly enough to capture outlying areas and make themselves a fully regional team.

Case in point: just like the other Chicago teams, the Blackhawks have telecasts on WGN. However, while the Cubs/Bulls/Sox have their games aired nationally on both WGNs (9 and America), the Hawks are only on channel 9. I'm guessing this has something to do with Gary Bettman being a doodoohead and trying to further protect failing southern markets from the superstation. Anyway, the unintended consequence here is that not all cable systems in areas overlapping Comcast Sportsnet's reach--downstate, South Bend, Rockford, Quad Cities--carry the local feed of WGN, rather WGN America, so most weekend games are blacked out there, which means the Hawks have essentially re-Wirtzed their television contract. Why not work out some deal to syndicate the WGN package to local UHFs in their satellite markets, the way the Cubs have their stupid channel 26 package syndicated to similar markets? While they're at it, get that slate on in Milwaukee and Madison, too.

Weird that Indianapolis would be the first television market to get some Hawks games. I'd have gone after Madison and Milwaukee.

The Quad Cities ABC affiliate shows some Cubs & Bulls games on a subchannel, and added the Blackhawks a few weeks ago:

http://wqad.com/2015/10/09/chicago-blackhawks-games-to-air-on-wqad-and-mytv-8-3/

...and made her into the story now that the original story doesn't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. Or maybe that's what they wanted. I don't think it's serving anyone well, though.

That is absolutely what they wanted. She was writing articles 45 people read and reading score updates on the radio, and now people have heard of her across the country. DiCaro will get a nice career out of it. Sarah Spain got a national gig out of nothing more than being cute and having large breasts, and ESPN trots her out a few times a year on the main channel to cover women's issues when Jamelle Hill is busy or the story is beneath her. Julie got a feature story on Deadspin and is apparently quoted there regularly now. She's positioning herself to be the "rape expert," and I wouldn't be surprised if she starts showing up on ESPN every time there's an athlete rape case. She's made a name for herself on this case. And that's not to say that she in any way deserved death threats, but they'll end up helping her career.

Oh no, Spain got noticed by offering herself up in exchange for a Super Bowl ticket.

/neverforget

Of course, without the two things you mention that pitch would have likely been ignored.

How the hell did I miss that?

I guess because that show wasn't on anywhere but CSN Chicago every time I was in the mood for Beer Money. It's out of my rotation on TV other than live games.

But that tells me I should probably expand my range beyond 670 & 780 on the dial. Bulls season is coming.

EDIT: Just read the story. Kap needs to get out more, too: "I'm getting an opportunity to go to the four greatest letters in sports, E-S-P-N." L-O-L.

Also, CS85: I can say with a minimum of 90% certainty that Dan Bernstein is not making any hiring decisions at The Score. "Get me a woman in the update booth so I can save some face after I went all boobs-crazy" is not how that hire was made.

I was hoping you could shed some light on this one. I feel a bit better about the world in that case.

It seemed like coincidental timing to me... Kerry Sayers seemed to go out the same time as DiCaro came in. Sayers always seemed to be a Mac-influenced hire.

But all the "WGN The Game" stuff that DiCaro came from and a bunch of other Scoreheads left for makes things much more confusing for me.

How the hell does Kap & Haugh survive that purge? That is bad TV and radio.

The Score used to be much more blatant about it, even when the Blackhawks were on their airwaves. It always surprised me once they got good how they tried to elevate it after years of "talk hockey!" mockery ... but it has been a struggle.

I listen more often than I should, but not to Bernstein anymore. Whoever said he became a parody of himself nailed it.

And as far as Twitter, it drives me nuts when people retweet their worst followers -- sometimes people with one tweet and an egg. We can all go in your mentions if we are curious just how horrible people can be.

This might have been posted before, but the Fireflies story got me thinking about the Capital City Bombers and some of the other classic MiLB caps that could be purchased back in the early '90s via the Manny's Baseball Land catalog.

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/sports/professional/story/2015/feb/11/lookouts-will-resemble-dodgers-aga2015/287708/

The Chattanooga Lookouts changed affiliates to the Twins, but have uniforms heavily inspired by the Dodgers, including an interlocking CL cap as an alt to the classic C-eyes cap.

The above article says it was too late to switch for 2015. Probably just colors, but I'm a bit surprised they latched on to the LA theme so heavily after 30 years in red and black.

The franchise used some variation of this from 1989-2006, so I'd expect it or something like it to make a return as a cap logo.

As we've discussed in this thread, MiLB teams do this all the time in an attempt to be all things to everyone. This will be their nostalgia play.

Wild guess: Black Knights will be among the options.

When you get the U.S. Army to cave, I think it's a safe bet you will take up the mantle.

Oh.

The NHL wants Seattle and Portland more than either want the NHL.

However, Vegas and Quebec seem to be willing to overpay just to get in the club. $2 million out the door and unfazed by a $500 million asking price.

With the Coyotes out clause and the knowledge that Seattle was close and Paul Allen was lurking, why overpay when a team falling in your lap is a real possibility?

Of course, this is the league that had more than one mystery owner of the Coyotes fall through or never appear -- even the most recent one that had only a 30-minute "away game" to offer to the Glendale city council -- so is it possible that the $500 million is just for show and that money never changes hands?

This operation is more arena league than NFL, and it seems some of this is in response to the $2 billion the Clippers got. If the charade that is the Coyotes franchise has been allowed to go on this long... what else is up their sleeves?

Plus Maloofs, right?

Um... it's two days later. I'm sure they'll sell some snapbacks eventually.

The goat is a fine minor league cap logo, and yes, if a team jumped off a bridge many would follow that trend, just like eyes on caps, claw balls and swinging mascots with random equipment.

Wait... here's footage of a logo jumping into a river now...

This is a really well-done minor league package so far. Great colors, LOVE the font and the goat looks good on those caps.

The letters flow so nicely, and the YG works despite not being the city initial.

The H cap is a little odd, but everybody in MiLB has 5 caps these days. Would have preferred an H in that train font.

Nice job, Brandiose.

NBCSN cut away from the Coyotes' pick at #30 to show a Women's 100M Dash from some club track competition at Nikegon.

The NHL Draft: more important than a car auction, not as important as club track and field.

I figure part of the TV deal is Bettman gets a 5-second delay button so he can kill any negative comments about the Coyotes before they air.

The default backup for NBCSN must be that Universal Sports Network...

The Red Wings won the Western Conference 6 times in 20 years. There was no reason for them to move. Meanwhile the Blue Jackets had to move east for the health of the franchise and also we're the eastern most team. It should've been us all along.

I was thinking the Red Wings are probably ready to come back to the West by now.

But if not, leagues do bad alignments all the time ... when they have leverage ... so making Quebec pay $500 million to play in the West for "a while" isn't out of the question.

Milwaukee's not walking through that door. Had the Bucks' arena plan fallen apart, perhaps the Bradley Center would have been a good fit for the NHL. As it is...

And $500 million per expansion team? Okay then.

71st & Harlem. Easily accessible by no means of transportation.

I once decided that the best way to get to a Fire game from (roughly) Wrigleyville was Irving Park Road and a left on Harlem.

Took. For. Ever.

And Portland has always been mentioned as relocation-only market because Paul Allen supposedly has no interest in expansion fees.

Shame I never saw #honoryourageement trending.

Is it a Tommie Agee reference? The Mets honored him at Shea with a sign commemorating a long homer.

I'm not sure the Cowboys' Tommie Agee was ever honored, other than being immortalized in Tecmo Super Bowl.

And it still didn't even get a "Here We Go Again" subtitle?!

Did this get merged with some old Panthers thread? I found myself in the middle of a 2014 Florida discussion on page 226 of a 286-page thread. "Last read post" and all, I guess. Megathreads, man...

Is it over? After 4 years and over 5600 posts, is it all going to come to an end?

And this is the 2nd Coyotes thread. The first one turned into a Winnipeg Jets celebration thread... or something.

Tawny is stretching before hopping on the hood of that car... again.

Ball clutched by claw/paw/talons is becoming the new disembodied eyes in MiLB.

Quad Cities River Bandits (Astros Midwest League Single A) introduced this cap last year as one of 3(?) on-field alts: