The_Admiral

Just out of curiosity what is your guys' perfect rebrand of a MiLB team in recent memory? Seems to me the majority of people on here think most rebrands are either too gimmicky and whimsical or too boring and forced. Too many Statler's and Waldorf's in the balcony.

I like how the Buffalo Bisons turned out. I think the Nashville Sounds package could be really, really good.

To be truthful, most of these minor-league rebrands have been awful.

This doesn't feel right.

The franchise hasn't seen "crowds" like this since my uncle, cousins, father and I were contributing to the Hartford Whalers' average home attendance of 10,144 fans-per-game during the 1992-93 NHL season.

No, they've been seeing crowds like this over at least the last three years that I've been dropping in on games around the NHL. Not every single night, mind you, but they've been just as capable of bomb threats as the Coyotes, Panthers, and pre-sale Stars. No one talks about how freaking empty Stars games were through 2013. It's been Victory Green-washed, apparently.

I agree that the mods don't share my sensibilities, but I also agree with nuking all Car Talk-related content, so I'm at a bit of a crossroads here.

I fundamentally disagree with that about as fundamentally as I can disagree with anything. Thread titles should either be ridiculously specific or maddeningly unspecific. That way, who knows how they'll grow? Plus, I like the dialectic of Thread and Anti-Thread. My hope is that we arrive at NFL Syn-Thread by Christmas.

Raleigh is a better market than Hartford ever was because reasons.

Read that URL as "Got Hunderheads?" I dunno but I hope not lol

Assorted ignominies and indignities, yes.

That part, of course, being the part of you that is a fan of the New York Islanders? Because other than the absurd annual payments to play there, the Brooklyn thing sucks.

I see where the Long Island Rail Road might finally provide service to the Nassau Coliseum now that the team is gone. God, Long Island is all about closing the barn door after the horse is out, isn't it?

Madison Square Garden probably should go bye-bye, but my guess is that they don't.

Never should have torn down the original Penn Station in the first place.

Also,

http://nypost.com/2014/12/01/barclays-center-sale-buzz-builds/

AEG believes Yormark is paying too much to keep the arena booked, sources said. It was Yormark who guaranteed $50 million a year to the New York Islanders once they move to Barclays next season.

“AEG sees the Islanders deal as too risky,” the source said.

After roughly five years, Barclays can get out of the Islanders contract, sources said.

AEG declined to comment.

Time to start exploring construction of a new Nassau Coliseum or other new hockey-specific facility in Queens, Nassau, or western Suffolk, with the understanding that AEG (Kings ownership in a roundabout way) will stop paying the Islanders $50MM a year to exist. They could even use some of that silly money to finance the construction of their new arena that will allow paying customers to watch the hockey game they're at.

Like so many Long Islanders, they can move to Brooklyn, realize it wasn't for them, and go back to the suburbs to raise a family where the schools are good.

oh goodness this is too perfect

I think he's a Quad Cities guy, so the Swing, is it still? No, the River Bandits. See, that's a good logo.

From outside appearances, it's almost as if Brandiose has been secretly overthrown from the inside by a parody account of themselves. Every year, their designs get more obscure, nonsensical, and just plain dumb. Before they used to only get a little zany when the project called for it; now, they can't seem to release a logo package without including some strange stadium food personified into a baseball player. Brandiose is now like a hipster who has taken his love of irony so far, he's lost track of everything he actually enjoys and can now only communicate through obscure Golden Girls quotes while riding his Razor scooter.

The term for this is "going up your ass." Brandiose has gone up its ass.

Starsies are talkin' a big game for a team averaging 3.32 goals against and with five missed postseasons in the last six years. Hope the conversion rate on Internet Cool Points to Conference Standings Points helps you pass Winnipeg.

Someone should be defending Casey and Jason the same way people defend Nike or adidas. The redundancy is not entirely their fault. Sure, it seems formulaic to see each minor league team release an identity with an ornate custom wordmark, a batting mascot logo, and a tertiary logo that is based off something off the beaten path.

It's not just the formula, which all their designs do follow, it's that they're so obviously done by the same people. Same text treatments, same line weights, it's like it comes off an assembly line. I'm not going to defend "Casey and Jason" for a string of perfunctory crap. Maybe because I'm not on a first-name basis with them.

The Simpsons went downhill after the Avs won the Cup, COINCIDENCE I THINK NOT GOOD SIRS

It's amazing how many minor league teams are starting to look eerily similar. While the cartoony mascots are unique...the presentations and stylings of hats and wordmarks are approaching rinse-wash-repeat status.

That's what happens when one agency gets every single job.

Because he's mad at you.

HE'S JALAPENO FACE!!!!

Are you srsly dropping the royal we on me? condescending quotation marks? "hypothetical certificate of sorts"? Who the hell are you, Brian In Boston's little brother?

Yeah, I'm not a :censored:ing idiot, I know what artistic license is, but what it isn't is carte blanche to do crap that doesn't make any sense. You can connote action and excitement without italicizing a building, which is plainly dumb.

Then don't put them next to them. It's a big building; hang them somewhere where both teams' banners won't be in most people's line of sight. The Clippers owe it to their fans to acknowledge what achievements the team has had.

Since the Alamo isn't a tall building, the slant doesn't really bother me as much as it would if it were a skyscraper.

So buildings can be skewed at 15-degree angles that they're not actually at as long as they aren't tall? MOD EDIT It makes no sense whatsoever. What are they doing, trying to show that there's something progressive and "forward-facing" about a historic building? There's one historic building I can think of that should be drawn so that it's leaning, and it's not because it's progressive.

Hey, my running shoes look like the ones the guy in the home uniform is wearing.

WHY THE :censored: WOULD THE ALAMO ITSELF BE ITALICIZED?

NHL arenas keep you from heading to your seat while the puck is in play.

I don't think all NHL venues do this, but I applaud the ones that do. I know Chicago and Boston do. It reminds me of high school band concerts and how we all had to be told that we couldn't stroll in and out while ensembles were playing. Here's to a modicum of human decency!