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Put that on a jersey and Ron DeSantis will ban the team from the state.

You can shrink the MLB logo by 5 mm to make it fit in the new, narrower neck cowl, or you can mess up the entire back of each and every jersey. It looks like the lowest rung of NHL replica jerseys for children and toddlers, where everything is screenprinted on, and the league shield is printed below the point of the V-neck instead of sewn onto it. But these are adult professional athletes wearing it, and it's going to retail for upward of $400.

"The back's really nice. Fans are going to love it. No, I'm not going to show it to you." I recommend going through the replies to discover a product and marketing campaign so obviously bad that the majority of people who think it's a good use of their money to pay for Twitter are saying, "What kind of sucker do you think I am?"

Okay, I guess I'm on one about this. Also nervous about some other stuff and this is making a good distraction. Back in 2000, I decided to splurge a little, went to Woodfield Mall, and bought a blank authentic gray White Sox jersey for $109, which is $195.22 in today's money. For that, I got an actual field-quality jersey made of doubleknit polyester with tackle-twill script across the front, an embroidered sleeve patch, elastic knit cuffs, and even velcro in the placket. I wore it a lot, but also made sure to take care of it, because that's a lot of money for a shirt. 24 years later, I still have it, and it still looks very good. Now you try to convince me that one of these jerseys could even last through one decade of wear, no matter how much care you took in cleaning, storing, and maintaining it.

Also, we need to talk about how hilariously fake those "quotes" from MLB players in the post were. I was waiting for Adley Rutschman to say "I loved it. It was much better than 'Cats.'"

As a fellow CCSLC Oldhead, I found myself thinking about the old megathread on calling out counterfeits, which took off as they began flooding eBay and swap meets. There was a lot of back-and-forth, heated at times, between the "It's cheap and close enough" crowd and the majority opinion at the time, which was that these were sweatshop-made crap that would fall apart in the wash, accompanied by the ethical concerns over IP theft and undermining the legit work of fellow designers. Seems quaint now, doesn't it? I had a brief, perhaps delusional, moment of optimism this morning when I first saw Chris' post. Sure, these new "limited" jerseys were $175, but we were finally getting MLB replica jerseys with sleeve patches and front numbers after more than three decades, even if they were screened twill. Then I got to see a photo of the actual product and was quicky reminded how Nike and Fanatics have engineered screen twill down to the thickness and durability of the vinyl film that gets heat-pressed on at your local t-shirt shop, and apparently have found some new corners to cut. At this point, why wouldn't you roll the dice on a $30-50 knockoff instead? Last season, I loved the Mariners' City Connect wordmark, and wanted a shirt. Unfortunately, that meant a $40 Fanatics shirt, and I've learned the hard way what that gets me. So instead, I got a $16 heathered royal blue shirt with the old Pilots road wordmark on TeePublic. I kept $24 in my pocket, MLB and Fanatics didn't get any of my money in theirs, and I have a shirt I can still wear after more than three washes. Eventually, more consumers may make decisions similar to mine, to a point where it may make a tangible impact to Fanatics' bottom line. But everyone making these shortsighted decisions now will have cashed out by then.

Well, everyone sure got their money's worth out of that set!

I bought each of our boys a Brewers Kids Crew membership for Christmas. This year's kit included a promo-grade City Connect jersey, and even that has a sewn and embroidered sleeve patch and "MKE" jock tag. And that was $45 including all taxes and fees, including sunglasses, a hat, a set of Crocs charms, and oh yeah, six ticket vouchers.

This is South Carolina, not Kenilworth.

Ideally, one of them goes well beyond that.

And in the next breath, they're telling people they want to build a new domed stadium in the south parking lot of Soldier Field, presumably with loads of ISFA bonds because they suddenly can't find $200 million they had just a second ago, no idea where it went. Now, call me crazy or a cynic if you must, but I am beginning to believe the McCaskey family may not have the sharpest business acumen.

Having worked with and knowing some people in Omaha sports broadcasting, let me put it like this. Omaha is a sports-mad town. Remember, this was basically the only market where the UFL got something approximating a following. Omaha also has an unusually high number of high-capacity arenas for a city its size. BUT. You have established fandoms spending their hockey dollars on UNO and the Lancers. When Calgary marched in with the Ak-Sar-Ben Knights, I was told their marketing was mainly "Here's the highest-level product in town, you're welcome, come see it" and that went over about as well as the several other markets where Calgary salted the AHL earth before and after. You also have to consider that the NHL would probably want another shiny new arena for every expansion team they award, and like I said up there, Omaha has kind of a glut. Plus, basing NHL viability on the other hockey successes in a market that size feels a bit like giving a franchise to Ann Arbor, because look at how they turn out for the Wolverines. It seems like an NHL success in Omaha would require a high number of things to break just right all in sequence, and even then, your ceiling on success is about 0.6 Columbus.

Volleyball is a sport where the contrast between teams doesn't matter quite as much, like baseball. Players of a given team are always going to be on one side of the net or the other, not intermingling. The contrast issue applies more to distinguishing the libero from the other five. That said, strictly on aesthetics, I don't want two similarly dressed teams facing each other on the court, either, and it shouldn't be that tough an ask in a seven-team league.

Cripes, Philadelphia, the local minor (now indy) league team managed to do it better.

Through the first couple of matches, I'm more optimistic on the PVF than I had been before the season. They seem to have their stuff together on presentation and fan experience. I just hope this doesn't turn out to be another AAF, where everything looked really polished and thought through out of the gate and then it was "Oops, we forgot to have money."

That Supernovas tertiary logo is really nice and I hope it makes it onto merch. Beveled numerals on the Rise made me initially think of the old Buffalo Destroyers, but I think the US national VB teams used a similar number treatment for a few years as well.

An unexpected financial lifeline has come into play today. Dwayne Johnson is now a board member of TKO, the Endeavor-owned conglomerate that operates WWE and UFC. This means, in theory, he now could have Ari Emanuel and the Saudi Kingdom's money to play with for his upstart football league, after the Fox money runs its course this season and if Redbird wants to sell. Looking forward to the expansion Baltimore Bonesaws and Philadelphia PowerSlaps.

Still hoping they get worn instead of the white ones, because at least the gray pants have stripes.

We have just seen a running back, on 3rd Down in a playoff game, get slowed down just enough to be stopped short of a 1st because a defender was able to get a hold of, pull, and tear his extra-long undershirt. So that trend may start fading.

Should it actually happen (it will not,) I imagine it'll go about as well as the North American (baseball) League's entry in Maui, at a time when the circuit had Edmonton, Calgary, Yuma, and Zion, Illinois. This group can't get its logistics together on what markets will be in the league or what its schedule is, and you're going to expect them to coordinate Hawaiian travel? Furthermore, you're expecting weekend warrior players to commit to that kind of travel in exchange for like $250-500 a week?

I feel like the numbering treatment is going to make or break the Lightning 3rd. Give me something that goes beyond the standard block they've been using for 20+ years, especially if it's a callback like the italicized, drop-shadowed modified block, or the electrified numbers most recently seen in Reverse Retro 2.0. The lack of shoulder patch feels like a whiff, given how nicely their simple primary logo scales down. It also would have been a great opportunity to modernize the old Florida Bolt shoulder patch, which was so much better than their original primary crest.

Europe, South America, and The Moon are also in play.

Just think how many brains had to malfunction in the same place at the same time for this to be the end result of the merger. 1.5 seasons for the UFL. Hammer the under.