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Switch out the Uncle Sam hat on the bat for a mortarboard, ala this logo,

You're just going to drop that in there partway through your manifesto? I also think swapping wives and subsequently families is something that is going to get some level of mocking and questioning. The two of them were also the ones that made it public in the first place.

Yes. What's Diamond Baseball Holdings' deal? I know they're a subsidy of a private equity firm but is there that much money in buying and then owning a bunch of minor league teams?

I do miss the Perds blue triangle. Why it was there in the first place, I don't know (potentially worried about a fairly white/light based logo on a white jersey?)

The Honda Center is 30 years old and the Samueli's are doing a $4 billion project to turn the area around the arena into one of those entertainment districts. The project isn't projected to be be done until 2029 plus they've put a bunch of money into the arena within the last decade or so, so the Honda Center is looking like an arena that'll be around a while as well. I also think the Samueli's and the Ducks org as a whole are seeing what's happening directly across the freeway with Arte and have decided to be better civic members of Anaheim.

I didn't follow the league as much back then so I don't know about that. However, I don't think there's any interest in Edmonton because the Oilers essentially ran the Rush out of town. So it would be ill-fated, I would think, to have an Edmonton team that wasn't owned by the Oilers and they haven't appeared to want a lacrosse team.

I think Arte might be on the horn with Greinke's agent right now. The Angels have let Trout kind of control his own destiny. He's never made much of issue and seemed to always value, for whatever reason, staying with the team. The Angels issues are top down and everybody knows it. There was this Athletic article from the end of September that is kind of the most recent comprehensive coverage of the entire situation. Arte runs cheap to make money and now his biggest cash cow is gone.

Maybe this will be the death blow to Arte's ego and chequebook? One can only hope. I'm just sad I never got to see him in person with the Angels.

Not for nothing (but it probably is), the Roughnecks have started using red as an accent colour on their website and social media graphics this season. Since the, sponsorship related, rebrand in 2021 they had been using the teal from the turf. I'm not expecting the red to come back officially any time soon but it's an improvement over using the teal, even just on principle.

It's not even that somebody saw a person and mistook them for Shohei. It was college football-esque tail number tracking because someone noticed a private jet chartered from Anaheim to Toronto along with all these "reports" saying Shohei signing with the Jays was a done deal, so it just had to be him. Then later, better, reports said Shohei was still at home outside Anaheim with no decision from him yet and then the plane landed with Mr. Dragon's Den, further confirming that Shohei wasn't signing with the Jays tonight.

I think the Marlins current colours are great, it's the application that stinks with only thin slivers of colour. Also, the stitching in the logo is dumb and the placement has made me think the marlin needs to visit a urologist.

I quite like the primary logo and the top left N, but there's too many logos here.

There's been discussion on the last two pages of this thread about the team. I thought the name was already dumb as a concept, see at the top of this page, but I didn't know the local angle of it and didn't really know the absolute lack of connection to the Golden Knights, which makes the name even dumber. Re the Reno and the lack of parking thing; I've never been to Lake Tahoe, nor know the surrounding areas, but it kind of reads to me like a situation I'm familiar with being from Calgary with the nearby Banff National Park (the arena mockups scream the architecture style of towns like Banff and Canmore). Touristy nature area with towns that don't have a lot of available real estate, including parking, and what real estate is there is legislated by the government? Is it a case where the team isn't able to easily house the players and build an arena.

Obvious bias, but IMO, the best Teddy Bear Toss jersey was worn yesterday. It's fun, but not garish as still looks like normal jersey and has become a defacto alternate jersey because it's been the same (minus minor template changes and a font update) since about 2010.

Is this serious? With the visuals and that music choice, it's like a video version of these posts, Inside you there are two wolves.

Because it's a bold move unofficially naming your brand new minor league team after a professional team you currently have no affiliation with. Plus, a knight monster isn't a thing and since they got too cute with the name trying to force a connection, it also doesn't follow the naming convention of using an adjective to further describe a team name. A swamp rabbit is a real animal while a ghost pirate and a solar bear are obvious plays on tangible things and all three of those teams follow the "adjective-name" convention as well. Same with the Golden Knights being the knights of gold, the Silver Knights being the knights of silver, the Sound Tigers previously being the tigers of the Sound, the Oil Kings being the kings of oil, the Wheat Kings being the kings of wheat, etc. They are the monsters of (the) knight. What does that mean? Obviously, it's intended to be a play on Night Monsters, aka, monsters of the night, but that's not what the name is and isn't nearly as tangible of a thing like a type of knight or a king or a pirate or a bear. Night Monster sounds like someone who was terrorizing co-eds with Zodiac and BTK. Plus, the logo is a water serpent of some kind, who I don't think have ever been really associated with night when talking about animals, real or cryptid.

It's fine. I don't like the plain one-colour block numbers though.

I have to think that it's either that or possibly some sort of substance issue and he refused treatment? Neither of those things necessarily have to rise to or result in a criminal matter. As a Ducks fan, Perry never was labelled as an off-ice problem nor problematic person, if anything he was made fun of by other Ducks teammates for being quiet/milquetoast, and every team he's played on during his current journeyman phase has seemed to make him out to be a great veteran presence. I guess it really does only take one incident/opportunity for a person to do something wrong.

I quite like the wave pattern but I don't think that lighthouse T in the wordmark on the back works.

I don't know, I think that's a pretty cool deal. Looking at the site, it's only Upper Level seats and people have to claim their tickets at the beginning of each home series, so it's not like they're handing out primo seats.

I just picked Dallas NFL and Philadelphia MLB because those were the two most recently listed in this thread. I don't seriously think it would work there, it was just examples I don't seriously think Constitutions would be a good name. I thought that might have come across since I named the Dallas team the Fort Worthers, but I guess not.

Sure there might be a high enough population in a given city/market, but will there be enough people to switch their existing allegiance for a second team? Be it the Philadelphia Constitutions baseball club or the Dallas Forth Worthers football team, is there enough space to wiggle in a build a fanbase?

The sock proportions are off and I also prefer the old, non-red all the way down sock style.

I forgot the Celtics do that for the retired players.

I was at the Saddledome last weekend and I counted 46 banners spread across 4 teams. That's got to be one of the most in terms of teams and combined banners, right? The only ones off the top of my head that I can see being higher is Staples and the TD Garden, but those both have less teams. Any other thoughts? For the curious, the Hitmen have the most with 21, then the Flames with 18, the Roughnecks with five and the Wranglers have two. The Flames and Hitmen banners are on big pipes at the opposite far ends of the arena, while the Roughnecks are on the first blue rafter to the left of the scoreboard (in this picture below from however many years ago) and the new Wranglers ones are on the first blue rafter to the right of the scoreboard (not in this picture). I'm in the Saddledome mostly for Hitmen games and first noticed last season that they started pulling the Roughnecks banners up into the rafters for those games, which I overheard an usher answering someone else saying that those were pulled up because of the Flames flamethrowers. Two weekends ago I was at a Hitmen game and the Wranglers banners were down as the Wranglers had only raised them the day before but during the Hitmen game last weekend, the Wranglers were pulled up also. I'll be at the Ducks game in Calgary this season and plan to attend at least one Roughnecks game, so I'll have to remember to see which banners are out when.