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An when I look in the toilet bowl, it's purple. PURPLE AND BLACK

The plain white socks look especially silly with white pants that have giant side panels. I can't believe how much this league has lost its way.

I hated the New York Titans uniforms in 2008 or whenever that was. Favre wore them, I think. Just a really unpleasant color palette, felt like Ye Olde-Fashioned St. Louis Rams or something and really took away from those perfectly nice Jets uniforms. So no, I don't think that would work for Nashville. 

The difference between the Rams' gold pants and their yellow ("sol"?)  pants is really striking. I don't know how much is lighting and material (as Bucfan pointed out with the Chargers looking underwhelming at SoFi) but what a difference. The first picture is a football team, the second a bunch of dingy slobs.

16 hours ago, SFGiants58 said:

Slate blue is too close to a bright orange lighting-wise, and red + orange is hard to pull off in any circumstance. You'd probably be looking at a faded version of the above jersey in terms of the aesthetic.

Yeah, I played around with it and it doesn't work. There has to be some way to carve out a unique blue for the Titans, though. Right now they feel about as create-a-team as the Texans are accused of being.

I wonder if the Titans could have made Crapitals/Wizards slate blue work, maybe with Volunteer orange and Tennessee flag red as secondary colors.

7 hours ago, Sodboy13 said:

The bold new era in Chicago White Sox baseball began this morning, with Bob Nightengale reporting the team has re-re-hired Tony La Russa to be a special consultant who will meet with manager Pedro Grifol after today's game.

Why? Is Grifol a mortician?

9 hours ago, RyanMcD29 said:

Are the White Sox kind of like the Mets in terms of the geographic and demographic split we have in New York? So like the Mets fanbase is mainly Irish and Jewish or you're from Queens or some of Long Island if you're not in a majority Italian neighborhood (and unsurprisingly the two demographics has a lot of the old Brooklyn Dodger fanbase) while the Yankees pretty much have everyone and everywhere else. Then for the White Sox's case replace Jewish with Black and Queens with the Southside.

I think of the Sox fanbase as primarily black, Irish, Jewish, and Hispanic. There are Jewish Cubs fans, but the Sox fans tend to be more like Basketball Jews. (This is not coterminous with religion/ethnicity. Chuck Klosterman is a gentile who is still a Basketball Jew.)

That the Sox fanbase is as geographically limited as it is makes them admittedly a neat oddity of baseball. The only other team that that's the case for is the Islanders. (Topic for another day and another thread, but the Bears really punch below their weight as a national fanbase on both the "Chicago team" and "major-market NFL team" axes.)

Anyway, Jerry Reinsdorf just fired his adopted son and a Jewish guy (not an adopted son) from the top of the org chart, so crap, maybe he is cashing out.

Then why double up on any media market? Move the Mets to Raleigh. Move the Angels to Salt Lake City. Only game in town, baby! What if Nashville just sucks for hosting and televising a Major League Baseball schedule, especially for a team that moved in from somewhere else like everyone else did?

At my local Goodwill, I found a polo shirt with teal and banana-yellow stripes, a/k/a the colors of the last iteration of the Oakland Seals. I was like "ooh, Seals colors, well, I gotta get that," But I looked at the tag, which said XXL, and was like, "I dunno, I usually wear a medium or large," but I bought it anyway. To my surprise, the Seals teal shirt was rather small on me. It occurred to me that I had bought the clothing of a very fat child.

1 hour ago, Dilbert said:

I get that the Sox have a history in Chicago and on the South Side, but no matter how bad the Cubs have been , the Sox have always played second fiddle to the Cubs in Chicago. From a business standpoint, I could understand Jerry and the Sox wanting a market for themselves. From a historic and nostalgic standpoint the Sox belong in Chicago and belong on the South Side.  I could honestly go either way here.

There's no either way. The Sox have been here for nearly 125 years and they still have one of the best sweetheart stadium deals any team has.

14 minutes ago, Cujo said:

Going back 35 years... Would the White Sox have been better off/could they have renovated Old Comiskey into a landmark-type relic, ala Fenway or Wrigley?

I'm not entirely sure, but I would lean toward no. I guess the question is "when would they have made that decision?" Bill Veeck was pretty much broke, and Reinsdorf and Einhorn intentionally let the building rot out to build their case for a publicly funded replacement (among others, the Bucks would later do this with the Bradley Center), so it was in pretty poor shape. I think by the time Illinois stopped time to approve the new Comiskey, the old Comiskey was too far gone to save anyway. 

But let's say for the sake of argument that Reinsdorf didn't neglect the building. Even then, I'm not sure embracing Comiskey was ever in the cards. Everything about Reinsdorf/Einhorn's early ownership of the team was about trying to gentrify the team, from getting rid of Harry and Jimmy's broadcast to putting the games on pay TV to not letting a random dude dressed as a clown mill around the joint as an unofficial self-proclaimed mascot. (It wasn't Gacy.) And getting off 35th Street was the biggest part of that. They didn't want to be in the city anymore and designed New Comiskey to fit suburban sensibilities. Then that plan fell through and they built their suburban stadium on 35th anyway. But it's hard to lay out an alternate history where the Sox leaned into Old Comiskey's mystique. Compared with Wrigley and Fenway, I'm not sure it ever really had it.

15 minutes ago, Carolingian Steamroller said:

The defining moment of the last three decades of the franchise. Red accented jersey, red socks.

Yeah, I know, it's a real shame. It's not "Cavaliers win their first title in Under Armour t-shirts" bad, but it's still, all things considered, kinda bad. Those jerseys need blue.

Sox are quietly starting to make some unconvincing noise about moving out of Comiskey or the Chicago market altogether. https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/report-white-sox-are-weighing-stadium-options-with-team-saying-discussions-havent-begun/3212014/

Sick to death of hearing about Nashville. They've sniffed around or been sniffed around by the Indians, Orioles, and White Sox at this point. Another New South sprawlopolis built on tax breaks. Stay out of White Sox business. And I don't even like the Sox.

EDIT: I suppose the Brewers are probably looking at Nashville now too.

Team is associated with a color, jersey and socks are not that color. Sounds like a branding failure to me. I'm sure Mister Mara liked them, though.

7 hours ago, FinsUp1214 said:

With all due respect to Mike Breen, who I genuinely think is a great broadcaster himself and not the problem, ESPN’s NBA broadcasts have always seemed so mediocre to me in comparison to NBC’s. The NBA on NBC felt like a massive spectacle that you couldn’t miss, and the coverage was excellent. Outside of Breen, ESPN’s has always felt a bit mailed in and somewhat forgettable.

That's what's so insane. The line used to be that everyone in Bristol was a hockey fan and it bled through into their NHL coverage. Obviously, that's not the case anymore with the NBA's ascension to Prestige League status since the last time ESPN lost the NHL. I don't think anything could bring more happiness to the lives of the Twitter-addled Syracuse graduates who populate ESPN to sit and talk all day about what it really means in 2023 to like Klay Thompson, but this zeal for Real Housewives For Men has never translated into an enjoyable presentation. Go figure. Never should have gone beyond being a baseball/hockey/junk-drawer channel, I say.

The NBA on ESPN has always been worse than NBC or Turner. Somehow, the NBA being the preferred league of the media class only seems to make ESPN's coverage worse. They overhaul their personnel every two years and it never makes a difference; no one ever says anything interesting or appears to be enjoying themselves. Maybe their next round of budget cuts will make it so they can't send a camera crew to the arena and just have to cut to Mike Greenberg in a studio doing "What We Talk About When We Talk About LeBron."

Al Michaels did not care about the NBA, by the way.

2 hours ago, MilSox said:

I get that Minnesota is the Land of Lakes, and Milwaukee is on a Great Lake, but are there any NBA teams that aren't on an ocean, lake, or river of some sort?

Salt Lake City doesn't touch the Great Salt Lake. Increasingly, water doesn't touch the Great Salt Lake, either.

I didn't expect to see "blamed for ugly Lakers jerseys" in the annals of Being Unfair To LeBron.

The ugliness of the home run sculpture should have remained as a monument to the ugliness in Jeffrey Loria and David Samson's souls. 

Turning things around, something that's probably difficult to do when you have one of Tom Dundon's subprime auto loans.

Really excited to pick up my "Minnesota: modern solutions for a changing world" jersey. Wonder if I have to buy one from the company e-commerce platform or if I can just steal one from the supply closet when the office admin asks me to help carry some 24-packs up from her trunk.

Please stop eroding the most famous sports brands in the world so that you can post tweets of guys looking downward captioned "you better know we already tried to tell you what this is"

"Black people will riot. Jewish people will file lawsuits." How's that for openers.

On 8/13/2023 at 2:35 PM, Morgan33 said:

The Coyotes Kachina isn’t just a great jersey, it’s a work art…

 

But yeah, everything else about the franchise is a joke and they probably should have left back in 2007 if not earlier.

15 minutes away from being gone for good in 2010. Man, what if.

On 8/13/2023 at 5:26 PM, Ark said:

 

My reaction after reading that

 

Carron is Zombie Deadspin's leading race warrior. You know it thrilled it him to lead off a column with the n-word.