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Incredible game marred by an all-time horror of a call. The conspiracy theorists were looking for any reason since Monday, and they could not have crafted a better one on their own.

This is an organization that considers John Fisher to be an owner in good standing.

Add the Brewers to the list. Their City Connect jerseys have yet to arrive.

From Evan Drellich and Ken Rosenthal's article in The Athletic:

Whoa there, easy now.

Finally, yoga pants designed for a man's needs!

"Hey, maybe even longer!" --the Arizona Coyotes

I love how that numeral font is just different enough to be "the Reds" on sight without any of the bespoke bullcrap we've seen on so many modified block numerals in the NFL. Now that the "temporary" move to Sacramento is official, my guess on the A's 2025 uniforms is this: No change to the home whites, the road grays get the "Athletics" script across the front instead of "Oakland," the kelly green jerseys get mothballed, and the still-active yellow alts get pulled out of storage. Like everything involving the Fisher A's, the bare minimum will be done.

The White Sox delayed a game because they could not find their first base coach, had said game called in the 8th by their social media team, but team officials couldn't officially tell the press the game was called until about 20 minutes later, lost the called game in another shutout, and then signed back Mike Clevinger. This is a dark ride.

No, this is just an upcharge strategy New Era has implemented for several years. Slap a couple of patches on the side of an existing 59Fifty and up the price $5-10.

Yeah, that's been a fashion jersey for a good while. The big jersey store by me actually has black Ohtani jerseys in youth sizes, and they're devoid of all the little City Connect affectations, so I wouldn't read anything into it.

So it's looking like this may be a case of Fanatics being unable to deliver four full uniform sets to every team on time. The Mariners aren't wearing their blue/yellow/cream Sunday alts because they haven't been delivered. The Cardinals aren't expecting their powder blues to arrive until June. Maybe the White Sox throwbacks are in similar production limbo, or as is the case with so many Fanatics orders, unable to depart the FedEx facility in West Allis, Wisconsin after being shipped there for reasons unknown.

Considering that last season there wasn't an ESPN-branded sportsbook app, I would not get my hopes up on that front.

Now that plain white has been "optimized" to off-white by Nike and Fanatics, the off-white of the Phillies' alts seems to be a downright unpleasant shade of almost-yellow.

Michigan's QB is wearing faux jersey sleeves. Basically flaps of jersey material that come down from the shoulders but don't actually wrap around the upper arm. It's odd.

Per Paul Lukas, the Royals were forced to switch from normal-sized player names in Spring Training to the new tiny ones for the regular season, due to an unknown entity demanding "consistency."

USFL revived two red/gold teams with the Stallions and Stars, and needed to differentiate. So they moved Philly to athletic gold and gave Birmingham the white britches.

Just like the AFL in its heyday.

If these uniforms are going to stick around (and of course they are, money's going to trump aesthetics 11 times out of 10 in modern pro sports,) the Mariners need to make adjustments as urgently as anyone. I never liked the switch to three-layer letters and numerals that forced in silver, but with the size reduction and new "I can't believe it's not screen printed" twill eliminating the sparkle of the silver, the two outer layers completely disappear at any distance. They look like Rays jerseys when the M's are pitching.

Improved moisture wicking capabilities.

Dodgers players are reportedly wearing last year's pants for Opening Day. Someone will have to track the belt loops to see if anyone else follows suit.

They'll point to a team like the Panthers and say something about how modern uniform cuts make shoulder numbers almost vestigial, and that the idea of "TV numbers" need not apply in the age of HD. Really it's because they get to charge the same price for thousands upon thousands of replica jerseys whose margins inched up just a little by eliminating two print locations.

I just can't shake a parallel here to the University of Houston wearing Oilers knockoff uniforms. These look and feel like there's a school named Houston Tech or something, it's their first year of D-II football, and they really want to make a connection to the big team in town, but this is as close as they could get with the available stock options in the Don Alleson catalog. Maybe the full set proves out. But I'm not seeing anything above a lateral move so far.

I think this is completely unfair to Under Armour, who we all know are fully capable of designing garbage templated football uniforms all on their own, without any outside assistance.

So the XFL teams stay not-good and the USFL teams get uglier.