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  1. What are we doing here folks? There are a hand full of different factors (lighting, projection, material, the camera or medium of the photo) that factor into how colors present. Comparing different photos to make distinct color comparison arguments is silly
  2. Fans agree, too. If you try to buy an Anthony Edwards jersey in this throwback, it's sold out. There's three other ugly options though. Come to think of it, I don't even recall seeing the Wolves play in their standard home or away uniforms this season. It's always either the grey alt, this throwback or the meh city edition.
  3. Do we need to settle this outside? I'll see you at *checks notes* Section 19, row 53! Be there or be square!
  4. I have such a greater appreciation, if not a remorseful longing, for the 90s-2000s Chargers uniforms. I was born in 90, so around the time teams began moving to the piped out Reebok styles at the turn of the century I saw it through the lens of either you had cool uniforms (Patriots, Falcons, Cardinals, Vikings, etc) or you had lame uniforms. Even with the bolt convention, I thought the Chargers uniforms were bland and boring and initially thought the changes they made to them with the switch to white helmets was a clear upgrade. I can't disagree more with my former self. Those uniforms were stupendously good.
  5. If this doesn't get fixed before the regular season... What bothers me even more is I can see MLB and Nike using some type of "material matching challenges" as justification for eventually moving every team off of grey tops for road uniforms, and then phasing out grey pants. Within 2 seasons we will all have teams dressing in colored tops over white pants and/or their gaudy City Connect uniforms because "well, we just couldn't match the grey color" Same thing that has happened with shiny pants in college football and the NFL.
  6. That might explain it, but it is giving bad "chinny" selfie
  7. It's better, but the forcing of the basketball design on top of a ship being forced into a compass is just too much. This league's biggest problem is still having universal rules for logo suites, it's sapping it of creativity. This logo feels like it is trying to hit a checklist more than it is thoughtfully designed. I hate it, I just hate it way less than whatever the crap they had previously was.
  8. I went to my local Dick's Sporting Goods today to see these jerseys in person. Even with my expectations low I was shocked to see something and am wondering if anyone else has noticed this: Not every, but multiple of the new Braves jerseys I saw hanging up had cuff stripes that were not equal width. Old version: Three-stripe piping of blue-red-blue laying on top of the sleeve material, about an inch up from the edge of the sleeve. All three stripes (or you could say, a thin red stripe on top of a thicker blue stripe) are the same width. (above detail is pretty much the convention for stripes on any sports uniform, especially baseball, for decades) New version: The cuff is a single piece of blue fabric (noticeably lighter shade of blue, btw) with a single red strip. However, on some of the jerseys the single red stripe was not centered on the blue fabric, but slightly closer to the edge of the cuff, leaving one blue stripe noticeably thicker than the other. My best guess in how this happened is that there's standard dimensions for the cuff on the end of the sleeve on the new template, but also standard line width for the blue-red-blue Braves stripe, creating a discrepancy to where if the red stripe is low enough for the bottom blue stripe to match up, it's too low for the top. What blew my mind was that this was inconsistent from jersey to jersey -- I was looking at multiple Braves home jerseys that were all in retail purposes the same, but some had equal-width stripes and some did not. These were selling for $175 a pop. Unbelievable.
  9. I am loving the partial logos popping up with a lot of these, more of that please! Charlotte especially would do itself favors by putting their monogram logo on a kit instead of the crown roundel. (not that it definitely looks and sounds like something else) The only team that is a disappointment based on leaks so far is Seattle. That kit isn't bad in any sense, but it's very traditional/classic looking for a team running out its first kit after a rebrand -- a team that already has a very contemporary image. They have this brand new tri-color colorway to work with and they give us a kit that appears to be rave green and white with pinstripes?
  10. I approve. Can't wait to snag one when they go on sale. Kind of a weird way to get leaked, though? Capela was wearing one too, the Hawks social team didn't make mention specifically or allude in any way that they were aware they were leaking them, but surely they were aware.
  11. A certain terrible human being ruined red ball caps for me. For the Braves, I would actually like to see a cap that incorporates yellow into a tri-color. It could be as subtle as a yellow squatchee on a BP cap that is otherwise in the conventional navy blue base and red brim (maybe trim the brim with yellow too).
  12. Yeah, I am kind of bummed Chattanooga is moving to adidas per its move to MLSNP, because their Hummel kits were all excellent.
  13. It's the armpit squares. Why are there armpit squares? (My theory, and i am being 100% serious, is that they decided they wanted to retain a piece of the old uniforms so they slid the shoulder yokes -- which in the Nike era were so thin they could almost be described as stripes -- down under the armpit so that they could place the new kewl sword design thingy on the shoulders. And someone at Nike explained that and somebody representing the Titans was like OH HECK YEAH THIS IS GENIUS) The result? Armpit squares.
  14. You guys know how whenever you read about sports uniform history there's these little anecdotes here or there about how certain uniform elements came to be? For example, Vince Dooley picked the oval G and silver britches at UGA. Paul Brown literally brought the Bengals helmets with him to Cincinnati, from Cleveland. The Rams horns were hand-painted on a few helmets, looked good, eventually became standard. Point is, for decades, if not a century, sports uniforms were designed and built for sports teams, by the sports people affiliated with the sports teams. In any case, there were usually only a few people making decisions on how the team uniform would look. That Phillies "City Connect" shows how far away we are from that. It's the same with the nonsesne Nike has done with the NFL, the NBA, and now baseball. There's layers upon layers of marketing people and just straight up MONEY PEOPLE who have no reverence for what makes a good sports uniform and are only concerned about 1) selling MORE 2) infiltrating new demographics to SELL MORE. That's how we are getting junk like this. They're getting handed a checklist of mandates for a new uniform to hit the shelves based off lifeless market research and spitting out whatever checks those boxes, regardless of whether it resembles anything worthy of these franchises or not. I feel the same way about the WASHINGTON road jerseys. In what scenario did that change take place other than someone just saying, "based on our research, we need a road jersey that isn't similar to the home jersey because the road jersey isn't selling and that is our hypothesis as to why." When in reality, road jerseys just don't sell as well as home jerseys, and certainly just slapping a generic WalMart font on your road jersey to check the box of "have it be different!" isn't going to help it sell more. But these people are THIS disconnected from the final product. It's all numbers, checklists, over-generalized market research intended to attempt to get attention from people who don't pay attention to baseball. And in the process, you're annoying your fans who actually like baseball. Makes the term "City Connect" seem rather ironic. These people can't be more disconnected. That Phillies jersey is a complete piece of junk
  15. Sound point, but to be entirely accurate I searched "who is Inter Miami's kit sponsor 2024" and then left it at that.
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