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  1. Just curious, has anybody here ever conjured up a league using contraction? 48 teams in MLB seems pretty unreasonable, but has anybody come up with a smaller league, perhaps realigned in different ways besides putting teams in Portland, Charlotte, Nashville, etc? The once possible prospects of a three 'division' MLB set into East, Central and West seemed exciting for a short season. But what happens if baseball isn't played for two years? Can Miami survive? Cleveland? What would MLB look like with 22 teams? I'd be curious to see what people think.
  2. Mars Attacks! Burning Cows intro Maybe the designer was a really big fan of Mars Attacks!
  3. I do live in KC, so I know my way around the metro area I think they're moving to Olathe when the arena they are building there will be finished, which is just another 15 minutes fown the road. I'm not sure how handcuffed they were on the logo (due to NHL copyrights and Native American restraints), but the logo?/wordmark? is Oklahoma City Thunder level simplicity. EDIT: Oh, looks like they have an actual logo:
  4. The Kansas City Scouts are officially back! Well, not in the NHL, in the NAHL. And not actually in Kansas City, Missouri, but Shawnee, Kansas.
  5. Okay, so the failure aspect of this entire thread is one big failjack with limited results, but here's a rebrand that cost the already successful company $35 million to roll out and another $20 million in lost sales. The story behind it is pretty interesting as well.
  6. I'm no familiar with a lot of the logisitics of the AHL, understand they're at 32 teams, and matching a team with an affiliate is essential now. But there's been a lot of talk about the AHL here in Kansas City, and I thought it would happen until I read this : https://arenadigest.com/2020/02/28/should-blues-pursue-kansas-city-ahl-affiliate/ The Sprint Center seats well over 16k for hockey, was built for an NBA/NHL team, and is in the middle of downtown, the Mavericks currently play in Independence, about 10 miles west of KC and seats just under 6,000. I can't see an AHL team moving into the Sprint Center as its one of the most used and profitable arenas in the country, and annually gives about 1 million a year back to the city (KCMO paid for it after all). I'd say moving an AHL team into Independence would not hurt, but taking over 40+ dates at the Sprint Center would most likely be a disaster.
  7. The rumor is the Mavericks get moved up to the AHL. I'm not sure how exactly that works, but Hunt Jr is all about it and St Louis needing an affiliate kinda makes the logistical pieces work.
  8. Lamar Hunt Jr just bought the NAHL Topeka Pilots and is moving them to Kansas City. http://www.nahl.com/news/story.cfm?id=29100 There's no way the Mavericks don't move up to the AHL now.
  9. I missed something there. I mean Disney started his career in KC, but is there another connection? Hallmark just laid off another couple thousand people here, so I guess they won't bring an XFL team here either. Edit: He's from Missouri? Like St Louis is also in Missouri?
  10. Well, I guess I learn something every day.Gentle drinking buzz and general bias against everything Massachusetts aside, I stand corrected. It's a better name than the Worcester Wind Fits!
  11. I don't care, I lived in central Mass for 20 years, that's really not a thing. I don't care how you pronounce 'haaaaht'.
  12. I'm lost trying to figure out who exactly would have official XFL merch on their Christmas list.
  13. Each new Brandiose design isn't just boring for the same tropes used over and over, but the line quality on every single design is so thick and dull. It looks like sketches I'll do with my finger in a text message using the default draw option. The word marks are usually well produced and the strongest part of each identity. Also, all these logos have way more going on than their others, and it's not helping here.
  14. I had never really thought about why the White Sox are such a bland team before, but being split from those teams damaged their club a ton.
  15. Here's a very interesting article about the original realignment in Major League Baseball. It's funny to see the concerns and what upset teams back when it was happening.
  16. Barstool is notorious for using other people's content. https://deadspin.com/comedian-says-barstool-sports-stole-her-video-tried-to-1833048577
  17. That rock may be the single worst depiction of an object in logo history. And that all too common fat sized stroke/line quality is doing it absolutely zero good.
  18. The NLL's Saskatchewan Rush wear a bright, bright green. https://www.saskrush.com/
  19. I always associated the Eagles with silver and black as the central difference between the two teams, mostly because of the one year the Eagles placed electrical tape on their helmets' wings as a memorial. (For the trainer?) I never realized it was a one year thing until a few years ago because their new helmets solidified black in the uniforms.
  20. The first thing that stuck or about that picture was the black threads around the numbers. As a Jet fan, all I could think about was the early nineties jerseys with the black trim. I was so worried about them getting a black third or taking away from the simplicity of the green and white.
  21. The original unused Charlotte Bobcats' cheerleaders outfits just leaked.
  22. It's refreshing to see a studio create a well crafted original identity without having to settle on a 'mascot swinging a bat logo'. It's almost as if Simon Studios created this identity and its mascot logos as pitchers just to drop the mic at Brandiose's feet.
  23. An interview with Brandiose about weird names for minor league teams.
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