Digby
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More than one Adidas team doing it makes it look like pinkwashing. I'm so old I remember when Nike made a big show of giving the same kits to both teams for the USA. One nation, one team and all of that. -
Basically modeled on the SUM model of convenient business and power linkages between the league, the "nonprofit" federation, and a less-than-arm's-length shell co. to run the business deals. Obviously this was all signed before the MNT had this renaissance in the current World Cup cycle. My read is that sure, the players want more money given their current success, but also a more sustainable and equitable structure going forward... and now is the time that they've got leverage for both. To be frank, as much stick as MLS gets for not being a top-tier league where elite players will play, the CPL is obviously a couple rungs below even that. So it doesn't seem like a great idea to concentrate all the power with those owners if you're a World Cup-quality nation. As a further wrinkle, the men's players were calling to equalize percentages of WC pay between the men's and women's teams, but the women's team actually wants equal dollars. The US equal pay settlement has set the precedent.
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Most of my favorite Cavs uniforms have been navy blue (or even a lighter blue, that OG CavFanatic...), but I think the overall logo set/color palette looks nicer with black. Obviously they shouldn't do both. I'm so torn! (But at any rate, only works with a bright gold/yellow to lighten the triad of them... metallic gold makes it all too muddy.)
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Yeah, I felt similarly, even if the chest area took up more room and the raglan sleeves took up less, maybe it'd work. I'm pretty close to liking the shirt a lot (putting aside the block graphic pattern AND curvy knit pattern, which is altogether too much -- the players will always look like they're hidden behind fencing) but as part of the whole kit, that's where the too-much navy really takes hold for me.
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I think he worded it poorly, and weirdly xenophobically, but neither on purpose and was just speaking honestly in the moment. I don't see the harm at all. Between the Equal Pay situation on the women's side and the men's side's most public face embarrassing the USSF in a situation they deserve to be, it's nice to see the empty suits actually face some accountability for a change. With more games this cycle at the federation's favorite repeat heartland venues, we'll have more data points in the next couple weeks on this.
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The minimalism of the "ball" in the new Cavs wordmark is really bothering me. It feels odd to me to have thin lines making up the net element, and the inner line in the text itself, but to not have any in a classic basketball stitching formation there.
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I actually have no idea if it still is, but I can't ever extract it from my memory from when it did, unfortunately.
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I'm ostensibly the target market for this, as a cord-cutter, but there's no way I can rationalize paying $30 a month. Luckily my top sports interests locally are NBA and MLS whose affiliates are on most of the live streaming services. If $60-70 a month gets me live basketball, soccer, and football, not to mention all the other live TV channels AND the entire regular Hulu library, there's no way I can increase my budget 50 percent for only baseball and hockey. (And that's all this is really for, with all due respect to uh, the Red Sox dating show and that obnoxious fishing guy that's been on for 30 years and whatever other originals NESN's got for me.) Actually just noticed that the annual $330 plan includes 8 unspecified Red Sox tickets -- gotta love state-run media! I'm sure those will be bleacher seats for Tuesdays against the O's or Royals or something. Throw in a voucher for a $14 Narragansett tallboy can and maybe we'll talk.
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The kicker is I just scrolled quickly past and initially assumed that photo was a poorly lit photo of the Mets in black jerseys.
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This is pretty much what I was worried about, color-wise. Give me a bright yellow-gold paired with that wine every day of the week. They're going to look blah and faded all over again.
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NESN purportedly the first RSN to jump into direct-to-consumer streaming, including live streams of Red Sox and Bruins games. Notably, they're not on YouTube TV or Hulu Live TV ... maybe on some of the other streaming services but I haven't checked in a while. That price point is... wowza.
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He was the one who was talking sh-t to the media about his club's transfer policy before the year even started, right? I can imagine there was some behind-the-scenes conflict there. That said, if the FO wants to win games, hard to see how replacing a coach who's got an expansion team running pretty well is the right thing to do.
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IDK, to me they all look like ordering jerseys from some rec-league wholesaler, and you want a striped kit but there's only a limited rectangular chest area on which they'll allow printing. Just doesn't look right to me at the international level!
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What is with the printed-on stripe elements for Iceland/Egypt/Cote d'Ivoire? Astonishingly cheapo looking straight out of the rec league catalog.
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My unpopular opinion is that the LeBron 1.0 jerseys weren’t very good. The red and gold were a dull, washed-out palette; that chunky number font is painfully early 00s. The navy alt of those years saved the entire set.
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^ that was my exact first thought too, just looks like a somewhat slapdash mix of the old Impact shield and Inter Miami. Maybe this is their revenge for Miami taking IMFC as an acronym and confused mixes of languages in the team names. Sad to see the modernist snowflake go, a legitimately good piece of design and the only part of the update I thought made any sense.
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The colors work great, the license-plate motif is silly. The decal patches on the sleeve and hat drag the whole look down. The roadkill jokes will write themselves if they get blown out wearing these.
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The people mover looks more OAK than SFO. far as I’m concerned it’s a bus on tracks until proven otherwise!
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i just begrudgingly said a nice thing about trains in LA, but I’m fortunate to balance that out with the note that this new extension will *still* require a bus to both LAX and the Rams/Clippers stadia. So close!
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something something made the trains run on time ironically fitting here
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and damn near broke the thing. really leaning into his Carolina transplant life. I don’t think he’ll ever be milkshake duck-ed; anyone who shows up to their first TV anchor jobs as obviously stoned as he was is probably a legitimately cool dude.
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Anyway, the Dodgers have led MLB in attendance for a decade. The traffic in Chavez Ravine is unpleasant, but not something I’d personally bet my billions against.
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True, but, find a US city that has done more to build out its public transit system in the past 10 years than LA. Better late than never. I'd place a bet on a Union Station-Dodger Stadium gondola waaaay before one on a downtown LA Angels stadium.
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None of these make a solid case for women's teams to have different kit sets than the men's teams.
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It's worse than that. At least the current Clippers and Chargers fill dates where their venues would otherwise go empty. Building a brand-new ballpark in the shadow of Dodger Stadium that's not for the Dodgers is a great way to waste some of the most valuable land in the country.
