Digby
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Weird! Learned a new thing about English climate today!
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Do we have a marketing-copy explanation for why Bournemouth is embracing palms, or can they just admit "floral patterns look cool" and call it there?
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The Bears have an opportunity to control their stadium and build a mall full of Sweetgreen and Fabletics outlets next to it. They'll never get that at Soldier Field, regardless of who the mayor is or what political pearl-clutching is going on.
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Benintendi came up as a Red Sox, remember? Including the 2018 team, won a World Series and naive dorks like me thought we'd have an all-star outfield set for a generation, lol. He'll be fine in the spotlight unless he sucks; he was always a pretty no-fuss, no-drama, gets the job done type of player when he was here. Of course that was before players were required to do a very small, simple thing to play all their games with their team but refused to due to "personal freedom" like a stubborn dumbass six-year-old.
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No facial-hair team policy: stupid, paternalistic, annoying. Yes vaccination team policy: actually good!
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Definitely an improvement over the various black-jersey-with-robocop-deer-head designs they've been using since the rebrand. (Assuming this replaces that? Hard to keep up.) The blue is an unfortunate detail as it renders the green, which is the real Bucks color, nearly invisible. Why are they still trying to make blue happen? They did have the green one last year which I liked even better... their brand works well as just dark green, black and cream. No white needed. Definitely no blue needed, but.
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I wouldn't be quick to rule it out. Boston didn't sacrifice any depth to get Brogdon and Gallinari, so they could plausibly do so to get Durant. And Brad Stevens as GM has not shown the pick-hoarding mentality that Danny Ainge did (though they're already getting low on those). I don't think I want the trade to happen, I think the risk is too great when the team is already a Finals contender, and I admittedly am a team romantic and like roster continuity. But if A.) there's indication that Brown will want out when he's due for a supermax in two seasons, and B.) you can make a trade that doesn't include Smart, I'd at least listen. And I can definitely imagine Stevens at least picking up the phone (and then Brooklyn leaking that info).
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Looks too big considering the Fire's long history of underwhelming attendance, but this does seem like the most likely outcome and would open up design possibilites to at least partially undo the architectural monstrosity they built in the 2000s. Fire downtown and Bears in the burbs, how the turn tables!
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Generally I like this sort of thing, e.g. NHL outdoor games, but it doesn't work as well for baseball for me. A combination of baseball already having more interesting, idiosyncratic home fields by default in a way that no other sport has, while also looking especially messed up when played wildly out of shape. I'm also not sure the buzz would even hit the way a Winter Classic does or when the NBA plays an ASG in a dome. I don't know if any venue can overcome the fact that the MLB ASG is fundamentally a boring, meaningless game played between "stars" that aren't really stars. Maybe just lean into the Home Run Derby and doing whatever local events that local fans will pay a bunch of money for. I think all the Big Four ASGs are similarly spiraling. I'd be happy to retire the whole concept, personally. -
How about we play baseball in stadiums that are meant for baseball? Put it in a football stadium, sure, you get lots and lots of people watching an oddly shaped field from bad angles, who cares? We've tried this before and don't need this again.
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The parking lot complex has always been convenient in its own way, especially since at least they've got a subway stop down there which is more than a lot of sportsplexes in America can say. But it also does seem out of step with a city like Philly. Indoor arenas SHOULD be in downtowns, take a dang train if you wanna go.
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Sixers unveiled a plan to build their own arena in downtown Philly (9 years from now). Seems smart if they can pull it off and bid farewell to the great South Philadelphia sea of parking lots, though also a lot can happen in 9 years. Would leave (I think) Dallas, Detroit and Boston as the only NBA teams who don't control their home arenas by that point.
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I want the terrazzo pattern FC Lorient kit. Such a sucker for that.
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Nothing personal against the design, I liked it too though I can’t explain why! But they weren’t worn in anything of consequence for the men or women. Not even sure the covid schedules were to blame, they just throw new kits out too frequently.
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Atlanta or Texas seem like the obvious ones given new ballparks, but may force Manfred to admit that MLB's "getting political" era only happened because they wrongly thought the new culture wars would blow over quickly. Chicago/Wrigley seems due as well with the renovation project complete (?). Weird that the last Fenway ASG was actually before the Henry ownership and pre-renovations, when the park was still a decaying dump.
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I think the cycle has extended a few months due to the men's World Cup being late. In a normal year the World Cup and its new jerseys would be happening by now. Given that the dazzle-camo jerseys were halfway-cycle releases I didn't mind them still being worn now. (Remember the navy bleach-spill shirts? Seems like those were a waste of time.)
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The minimal trim thing just makes them all look like the cheapo no-brand jerseys that Target or Kohl's always sell. Regardless of any personal feelings on the aesthetic, I don't understand the appeal of the no-trim look on authentics, especially at a time where Nike's soccer division seems to like increasingly detailed, elaborate, and busy designs (ostensibly to throw off the counterfeiter industry), and at a time where the design/fashion culture at large has moved back toward maximalism in all things.
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Won't be Boston these days, they're Tampa Bay North in this new era. More likely sellers (of Bogaerts, Devers, etc.) at this point.
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The Massachusetts House passed oddly specific legislation last week to rezone an industrial site near the new casino north of Boston such that, maybe, you could put a soccer stadium there. Apparently no formal talks (even on background) have been reported, but this is something more concrete than the usual every-three-years Revolution stadium scuttlebutt. Of course I've yet to figure out how the numbers would work for a standalone Boston stadium in a hypothetical scenario, never mind one that involves environmental remediation of old gas tanks first. But, it's not my money! https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2022/07/16/house-measure-eases-path-for-a-professional-soccer-stadium-in-everett/
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Not to say you're wrong about the general sketchiness/obvious side-deals happening here, but half of the NBA was at Rubin's party, fwiw.
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I mean, I don't see what's amateurish about the Nets' rebrand. It's simple and minimalist, but the type size and leading both look proper for a basketball uniform, unlike the Jazz.
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I've always disliked the numbers that Brooklyn uses; in a vacuum the Utah number font is better but it's ruined by being too large, applied amateurishly, and of course being part of this entire senseless rebrand.
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I’ve been banging the drum for the NBA All-Star Game to use basically this exact design so I guess I like it, even though this shouldn’t exist in the MLB ASG. Closer to maintaining team identities is at least a less bad option.
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Been waiting for the Spurs to bring back the black-on-black jerseys for so long. Great look.
