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  1. Digby
    It is Marathon weekend, so there's a plausible reason to deviate from the plan at the moment.
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    It's Mike Gorman's last regular season game doing play-by-play for the Celtics and there's all sorts of pomp around it. Hard to imagine the team going forward without him, he's been as much a piece of the Celtics as any player or coach over the course of my entire lifetime. One of the last of a dying breed, I've always liked hearing a classic Dorchester accent while watching a Boston team.
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    If you've ever wanted to know what early-era Stadium Series special jerseys would look like when worn in 100% of the games...
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    The infamous Norby is finally out at ESPN
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    Best "Connection" will just be raiding the closet of the apartment they're squatting in. Major League RiverCats, baby. The Roots/Soul could really feast if they could get a solid stadium setup in Oakland proper, I think. Seems like the sort of community where lower-league soccer could thrive, especially with the MLS offering being a moribund franchise out where it is.
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    The turning off of replies is very funny to me. I thought the PR playbook would suggest keeping them open to let the people have an outlet. Not like anyone who watches baseball is unaware of all that's going on with this situation. The ESPN headline on this said the A's are playing here "before Vegas residency", which I thought was unusually clever for their newswriting desk, and also a good way of not just making a Vegas joke but also making it clear how much nothing they've planned will really feel like a home.
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    This is true, but also why ATL is the worst of all worlds. I've flown out of there and the TSA setup, at least at the time, was among the very worst I've dealt with, and the longest lines outside of the Boston JetBlue terminal in an early holiday-adjacent morning.
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    I actually prefer the numbers as they are on the right chest under the swoosh, but (pet niche interest alarm goes off) I think it would look better if the swoosh and number were moved up, so that the collective unit of the two is what gets vertically aligned with the crest. As it stands, it's the swoosh only that gets vertically aligned with the crest, which makes the number look more like an afterthought and lends a sense of imbalance to the layout.
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    I used to prefer the darker shades for the USA (still think the 2011 Gold Cup dark red shirt/dark navy sash was an underrated gem, top 3 for them all-time). For this set the brighter colors work well for me though. I don't mind USA teams being loud and bright, for one, and the royal helps extra to offset them from England. Plus, with SO many of the recent USA kits following the template of a plain white shirt with color cuffs and collar, going royal this time out gives us something different. But yeah, agree with the others that the navy printing is a mistake. (Just please never give us the light blue effect of 2016 ever again for something "different", please.)
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    Well, design is not just art, design is also context and history and community and usability. Something that hits all the right notes technically speaking and fits into the trend boxes of the moment may not fulfill all those other elements. Sports, in particular, is founded upon a certain pride in messy, flawed history for a lot of people. Personally I think that the Twins brand is one of the stronger ones in MLB, centered on the red/blue mix and the quirkiness of the TC logo. The home set is strong because it does the rare feat of expanding on that history in a new way. Losing one of those colors, or losing the TC hat, is a miss for me for that reason (I know there's a history of M hats but I didn't like those either; this gets into the debate over whether a team should have multiple cap logos or not. I say no, mostly.)
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    Yeah, I'd agree with that -- nudging the color balance toward navy and the front number would've helped. That or the curly-W only on the front, though that's not my favorite look (more of a beveled-DC guy I think). Obviously they've gone well into the realm of confusion, regardless. One other thing I still want to complain about re: the Twins is that, while the home looks great and has grown on me for the reasons others have beat to death already, it also looks a little bit lonely in the overall set, given the away set's abandonment of the TC and the script, and the City Connect (which is worn too much) losing the red. I know uniform set-wide cohesion and consistency is an outdated concept but it bugs me.
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    It's hard to say that anyone looks "similar to the Nationals" because they've changed things so often that they don't even look similar to the Nationals. If anything, gold/mustard trim felt more Nationals-y (the Twins had dibs on that script/color treatment decades earlier) but the Nats didn't keep that, either.
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    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?
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    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.
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    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.
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    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??
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    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.
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    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.
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    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?
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    If anyone ever brings us back to late-90s-ball it should be the Knicks, so that checks out.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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