Digby
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Yeah, I didn't realize this was going to be a whole separate subscription on top of the usual one for Apple TV...? Given how historically in the toilet MLS TV ratings are, hard to see how this is a worthwhile endeavor considering how much investment the buildout will require. Oh well, not my money.
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To a worse location with 40% less capacity? Seems unlikely. The bad dimensions and field quality of the baseball stadium seems like it matters less for those novelty bowl games than it does for regular soccer games. If the Yankees side of the operation didn't torpedo the Yankee Stadium-adjacent site... kinda wonder how invested they really are. Maybe it doesn't matter.
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I mean I've always thought the city flag is a pretty classic cherry-ish shade of red. A brighter shade, but not magenta and certainly not all the way into pink the way the team seems to be using. Personally would like to see the shirt be, maybe, halfway between its real color and this flag color.
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I agree, overall a smart and distinctive effort (not always a given in this league) -- my only complain is that I find the pattern to be excessively fussy, especially for a first shirt which I'd prefer to be simple. Also I generally find half/half looks ugly, subjectively. But generally pretty nice and the colors are nifty.
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Congratulations to the oil barons for finally getting this done (five years from now). It's a good location next to Citi Field and the Tennis Center although I will miss the third-world how-does-this-exist-here seediness of the Willets Point chop shops. Hope they have a good marketing presence in Queens because this location, by subway, is no closer to Brooklyn or probably many places south of Midtown than RBA is... the lengths to which New Yorkers will go to avoid a PATH transfer, I guess.
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I do wonder if this is the play going forward, a la NBC closing the Sports Network and losing no sleep (plus moving more stuff to its streaming service). A Turner/Discovery lash-up in particular seems to have a whole lot of dead weight from circa 2000 cable.
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A Pawnee jersey would surely have to belong to the Pacers, no? Considering how they beat the Hickory thing to death and that kind of predicted a lot of the nonsense we see now... let's not give them any more ideas.
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I was surprised he even made it past the summer window. Ten Hag didn't seem to rate him from the start. Too bad the Glazers probably overpaid a year ago and now are blinded by the sunk costs.
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I thought maybe they were going to connect the jersey with the Metroparks branding, but I don't know where tan and the light blue circle thing and this font are coming from. The Cleveland Metroparks branding is pretty standard parks department stuff, with a logo that's dark green in Helvetica. Though I will say I've been waiting for someone to go full Department of the Interior collab; the design language of the national parks and forests seems like it would have fun potential.
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You really can't let it go, huh? (For the record I didn't even learn about it in art school. And yet.)
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Shift the hue of this year's Lakers City jersey juuuuust ever so slightly and you'd have the reverse.
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I don't know, a Nets jersey with "CROWN HEIGHTS" across the front might not be a half bad idea. Arena's more that than it is Bed-Stuy!
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Was watching the other night and it was, in fact, covered up by cameramen. Not sure why they didn't see that one coming. (Also I simply hate the Knicks wearing black!)
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I mean I do think the City Editions are "for the locals" insofar as the teams that use local references -- worth noting that not every team even does this the way Portland does, FWIW -- that would resonate particularly in-market. Even non-City gear is mostly for the locals, that seems obvious. But of course that doesn't mean the appeal outside a 50-mile radius is zero, or that they couldn't be sold elsewhere online -- you'll always have expats who still like their old hometown team, collectors who want everything, people who just like the design for whatever reason, etc.... The whole scheme, as I see it, is (mostly) geared toward pushing city-inspired streetwear lines with the established legacy team brands as the entry point for marketing.
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Like that a lot. Really feels fitting for the market, apart from the shades of blue and yellow being a little dark for Rhode Island (imho). They found a way to be nautical-core and pirate-y, without all the overdone Disney pirate cliches, which is perfect for them. Can see the locals wearing this gear and getting very rowdy on Narragansetts.
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Why would these be limited to local markets? With the Fanaticsization of everything, it costs the teams/Nike nothing extra to make these items available continent-wide, even if they're selling the vast majority of it to a team's local-ish fans.
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I so don't get the point of these clubs. Who signs up to be the Washington Generals?
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I have to point out that this, too, has a Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(design) Unfortunately, any geographic links are tenuous at best. Maybe like the o.g. Orlando Arena was the first building to get them and so the Magic will steal this idea. Just spitballing.
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I mean, I feel like I'm in a Twilight Zone episode when people react as if this is an unthinkable City Edition jersey. This was one of the first ideas I thought was coming when the whole City thing started up. I'm honestly surprised the Blazers took this long to get to it. The point isn't knowing the world's airport carpets or the minutiae of cities you have no connection to. My reaction is when I see people reacting to this like it's Nike overreaching to parody levels, or that there's no way any Blazers fans would have been clamoring for this one -- I'm just trying to point out, this isn't because Nike's new schtick is lifting airport decor, this specific concept for Portland comes from somewhere, it's nothing new, and now you know. Adidas and Damian Lillard drank from this same well for his sneaker 8 years ago. I'm not saying you have to like that it's raining, I just don't wanna hear that it's preposterous to suggest that it's raining at the same time my hair's getting wet.
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This is exactly why I've never been able to get into Reddit. Although this board suggests that avatars and linear threading, alone, do not rescue us from empty-brained takes dished out regularly.
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I couldn't tell you what any other airport carpet looks like, including my local airport. Portland made theirs a thing. That's the whole point. I mean, I wouldn't run a government election on Twitter, but if some concept goes wild on Twitter by orders of magnitude more than others, safe to say it resonated for whatever reason. Same with Wikipedia; I'm not gonna assume they have the Pantone shade of the teal right but if it's the world's only carpet pattern with its own article, that's not nothing! This is a very reasonable post.
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It's just a silly little piece of local culture. Sometimes people take pictures with their shoes on the carpet when they land at PDX. Not worth calling anyone dumb or having their head up their ass about it. Take a breath. I really don't give a crap about how many reTweets something got. Share 'em while the platform still exists I guess. Dame tweeted his own Photoshop of it in 2015... our own Conrad had a very popular concept around it... I personally bought socks with this pattern on it as a Portland souvenir well before Nike outfitted the NBA. The PDX carpet has been a thing for a long time, I don't know why you're so set on denying that as someone with no connection to Portland anyway. Doesn't mean you have to like the jersey or anything else.
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I mean, I'd certainly prefer for the whole City program to not exist. But by its standards and in judging NikeSpeak, "we heard you quirky weirdos love your airport's 90s carpet, so here you go" is a lot less nonsensical than "we are the knights of the Orlando kingdom" or "the Lakers are a blank slate" (what???) or "Denver has iconic architecture and that's what the blue lines mean".
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Are you the market expert? The Timbers had a merch line (though not a jersey) on this same theme years ago, before Nike even took over the NBA. The PDX carpet has been a locals' meme for many, many years. It's a silly thing but who cares?
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By the standards of the City program — taking some other symbol of local pride and tying it in with the team — the PDX jersey ticks all the boxes. By that standard it fits the program more than Orlando in a marginally different black jersey, or whatever the Lakers are doing. The nerds on this board aren’t really stakeholders in this thing.
