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Digby

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  1. Where was it, Denver that they had to drag out the corner clocks from some dusty storage unit last year, when the real clocks were on the fritz?
  2. I don't get it either. The double outline blurs everything, the typeface is dull and has a weird V shape, the husky dog in the logo of that time looks like he's old and panting like a mouthbreather. Their late-90s look was corny, but much more memorable and interesting. I still place the Wolves as a team that doesn't have a "look" that they need to own, they haven't found the perfect thing yet, so I'm fine with them being one of those teams that just rebrands every so often. Not everyone can be the Celtics or the Bulls, as I've mentioned as a hobby-horse of mine before. I think their current logo package would be more than salvageable if the core home/away uniform set didn't miss and if they hadn't forgotten about the green.
  3. Today in MLS unseriousness: New England somehow has home-field advantage (e.g. hosts second leg) of the next round of Concacaf Champions Cup against none other than Club America. But they have motocross at Gillette Stadium that week so the team asked to swap the legs so now they’ll voluntarily play the 2nd leg at the Azteca. oh and 1st leg in Foxboro is on a Tuesday at 9pm. Feels like they’ll be lucky to keep the aggregate goal differential in single digits.
  4. But how could you say no to games where one team's at home and one team's been traveling for three weeks, and also the rules are different for some reason??
  5. Mexico has done black home kits so frequently in recent cycles that this doesn't even register to me. As a federation they're clearly not into the tradition at this point, so whatever. Lots of nice designs and interesting color choices here but the template is just horrendous.
  6. Wonder how many of these we're going to see this year. I made sure to sell my Revs vs Miami tickets early on just to safely lock in those profits.
  7. People celebrating the 4th? 5th? death of Deadspin as if it's a grand act of justice and not just private-equity doing its usual work. I don't really understand what value the brand held at this point. Surely anyone who liked Deadspin for Deadspin followed the staff to Defector and that was what, three years ago? Who's even been reading the thing?
  8. If anyone ever brings us back to late-90s-ball it should be the Knicks, so that checks out.
  9. Believe Chase Center is one of those basketball-layout-only type of arenas. Can't quite tell this with certainty, but it seems like their fancy VIP areas near the court would preclude an NHL-sized ice sheet. Is the Cow Palace still standing? I also think -- and prognostication is a bad idea I realize -- that down the road, the sports industry will eventually view its abandonment of the Oakland market specifically as a mistake. It looks bad on paper but it's kind of a unique confluence that three different teams (two incompetent and bad-faith, one competent but too techbro-desperate) bailed without a fully fair shot.
  10. Every American transit system outside of New York is very hub-and-spoke though, no? To LA’s credit, they are building out their transit system right now at a scale that I didn’t think was possible in post-1970s America. At least that’s how it looks to me. Though things don’t connect the way they should. I was almost excited for a train to LAX option.
  11. Vermont is number one on this list, which is a searingly obvious tell that the methodology is too flawed to take seriously. Real numbers say SLC's public transit usage is pretty anemic. Not really out of the ordinary for American cities but I'm not seeing this as a special selling point necessarily.
  12. Nike has done a similar thing where they debut a new template and highlight that template as obnoxiously as possible. Limited bespoke design, brash colorways that may or may not be appropriate. Then that template grows a little old and everyone settles down, and that seems to allow design that seems more successful on a team-by-team basis. This Adidas batch is not just a shift away from MLS but from what they were doing for like, the Women's World Cup last year. Seems to have subsequently been a pretty significant design philosophy change at HQ. Hopefully they get sufficiently roasted for it.
  13. Minor subject change but: I was surprised MLS agreed to put a team in Snapdragon, and this W Gold Cup semifinal in the rain tonight unfortunately is not a great showcase for it. Drainage on this field is roughly level with your median high school field. Worse than that snow game in Salt Lake in terms of anti-soccer.
  14. Oh boy, those swoopy butt stripes are beyond hideous. This template will go down in history infamously as the Speedo silhouette.
  15. I've imagined it would end up being something like, MLS 1 gets to be in Leagues Cup and MLS 2 doesn't. Maybe they get to be the bone thrown to the US Open Cup, at least the American teams. But that would get logistically dicey given the MLS geographic element that other soccer leagues mostly don't have, and even if it doesn't carry the stink of true "relegation", I just don't see any group of owners consenting to a system where they won't have a guaranteed date on the Messi World Tour/its sequels, or miss out on the big funds of Mexican fans that Leagues Cup is designed to provide. Feels like those big spectacle business models are designed to wean MLS off the expansion fees and toward something that, idk, "sustainable" doesn't feel like the right word here but you know.
  16. Would be cool if Barclays hadn't done it 12 years ago/if we knew these things aren't just giant, obnoxious billboards for advertisements. For NYCFC anything is an upgrade, but ick, that stadium is looking like those big square modern cheap-luxury apartment buildings that everyone hates.
  17. An armadillo-baseball concept is kind of cool but the prospect of that as the basis for a creepy, uncanny, bastardized A's rebrand is nauseating.
  18. The other benefit to 40 -- and this has never seemed to be a rumor, only speculation from online people, but it does make a lot of sense to me -- is that it would allow for MLS to form two tiers with pro/rel between them, but not outside of them. Is this likely to happen? I kinda doubt it, I think there are more "against" than "for" reasons that I can think of, even when I put on my cynical capitalist suit as a thought exercise. But I would never totally rule out MLS doing the sort of thing that looks like "traditional world football" on the surface but is actually the Mickey Mouse version.
  19. So that's one group escaping the inconvenience, cool, but it's still a nuisance of a policy, especially for women who are more likely to rely on (totally reasonably sized!) purses and bags. You can't get into a Bruins game for less than $150, why treat customers like schoolchildren? (Just kidding, I know why, there's a $15 bag locker truck (but only at one corner's entrance) and the beers inside are up to $18 this year.)
  20. I am so, so tired of gigantic screens bigger than the playing surface. Everyone has tiny screens and then there's also huge screens. It's all too much.
  21. NYCFC updated branding package. With some new extra colors and icons and some very cool, old-New-York fonts. Seems unlikely that any of this will be used very much in practical ways, this being MLS and a CFG team, so kind of a lot of money and effort for a press release and some new graphics on a Tuesday. But here we are. https://www.newyorkcityfc.com/brand
  22. Rolling into my middle-aged phase as a childfree person is like half of my personality trait, and even I think this is a bad take.
  23. it’s basically beginning and ending with: how much money can we convince Ryan Smith to contribute? My big takeaway from this conversation is that there aren’t really any good ideas for expansion or relocation.
  24. I’m sure they are. But also maybe it’s not award-level coaching to leave Jaylen Brown open on every possession in the first quarter.
  25. Halftime and the Celtics lead the allegedly resurgent Warriors by a score of 82-38. lmao.
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