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Guess "Regulators!  Mount Up!" was too cliche?

If you didn't so much as touch a basketball on Tuesday, you attempted and made as many free throws as the Celtics

48 minutes ago, MJD7 said:

I’ve always liked the old-timey font  It alludes to the Reds’ history as the oldest MLB franchise

Even though they're really not...the Braves have more valid claims to being that, the Reds are just a phoenix club by comparison.

7 hours ago, floydnimrod said:

I'm not sure what I think of the New Yankees gray uniforms. As someone who values parallel looks between homes and roads when possible I guess it's good that both and home and away uniforms have no cuff stirpes. 

 

More of an overall question: not considering the new template, are there any teams whose road grays are better, or at least on par with the home whites? I can't think of a single team where the road gray isn't just a worse uniform design than the home uniform

I feel the Mets, Tigers and White Sox have fantastic road grays.  Most others are on par or close to it, and the Nats have managed to somehow surpass the Cubs for worst gray uniform.  Seriously, the Cubs should just make the blues the road jersey and fill one or both of the other slots with throwbacks, that'd be an improvement over the snoozefest that is their current grays.

On 3/26/2024 at 12:28 PM, leopard88 said:

Whenever I see a college that just uses "State" like Mississippi State or Michigan State (or like N.C. State back in the 70s and 80s), it reminds me of old movies or TV shows where they never say where everyone lives and some character talks about "going to State".  It usually seemed to be a teenaged boy talking about going there to play baseball or something.

 

I guess this is the much older version of the Fansville concept.

Probably a good thing there's no Wisconsin State University...around here the context of going to state usually means a high school team/athlete heading to Madison (or elsewhere, but usually Madison) for the state championships.

Mississippi State, though...c'mon, man.  Is their AD Sheriff Boz?  They seriously should have rethought this, either that or just shrug and stitch on some Dr. Pepper patches on their uniforms.

Nice to see you put it to good use 

On 3/8/2024 at 9:42 AM, Sec19Row53 said:

I *think* it's more of a stitched style logo rather than a puffy sticker. More like cloth and less like foam.

 

PS - You clearly weren't the only one who wasn't sure on the difference.

So basically what the Cubs do, then.

3 hours ago, MCM0313 said:

Now keep in mind that TSB came out in 1991. The first of the Front Page Sports: Football series for computer (a much more powerful medium than an NES!) wouldn’t come out till the next year…and wouldn’t have real player names until 1993…and wouldn’t have real logos until 1994. Even Madden wouldn’t feature actual player names till what…1993? 

IIRC 1994 actually (Madden 95). 

I have a Portugal away shirt, the Euro 2020 mint green one.  I am not of Portuguese descent, I just really liked how it looks.

5 hours ago, Ted Cunningham said:

Custom number fonts, especially of late, are an excellent encapsulation of "just because we can doesn't mean we should".

 

Since it used to be that suppliers (at least to a degree) dictated what number styles were available, there was more uniformity, at least in concept, among number sets. And differences in generally similar styles led to interesting (but tame) quirks and differences (like the "Champion" numbers essentially being "block" but with the curved 7, etc.). Because of certain teams sticking with styles over time, even after changing suppliers, we ended up with some teams with contextually unique numbers. (Two examples that stick out there are the Bears, and to a lesser degree, the Red Sox.) But somewhere around the mid-to-late 90s (I suppose starting with the Ravens, Eagles, and then Broncos), that changed. Those number sets were, at least, somewhat coherent in their designs though. Now, with numbers like the Texans, Dolphins, Seahawks, Titans, etc., it just seems like numbers are designed first and foremost to not look like other numbers, and then Nike et al back into some brand-speak, brand-related explanation for why they look like they do.

You forgot the Patriots

Not gonna lie, I tried this Dodgers idea at least twice, and I'm not proud of either version even though that Brooklyn uniform is among my favorites.  I think this version works a bit better than either of mine, though...now a Mets fauxback version I made, I'm a lot more proud of.  Weirdly, the plaid uniforms the Giants wore at about the same time, I could actually make a San Francisco version look great, even choosing to use violet plaid like the 1916 Giants did (yeah, I later made a Mets version of that too, complete with violet).

I know of it, but never looked into it.

I got one of those super tank printers back in the summer and have barely used it...such is life.  Anyway, figured I'd play one of the many games I've downloaded but had yet to actually play.

Highlight Maker Baseball, not to be confused for History Maker Baseball, is another of Soren Narnia's offerings, and it's unusual in that the vast majority of baseball games simulate every plate appearance.  Highlight Maker doesn't, instead using an inning launch table to either get through scoreless half innings or pick things up with the batting team in a promising position, and from there you go through different batter tables until the side is retired or a result is the last key moment of the inning.  Also unusual is that it differentiates between the two teams, but not individual athletes, a trait shared with Fast Inning Baseball, which I know of but have yet to try (so if you wonder why I don't say any player names, that's why).

I don't play series very often, but figured I'd give it a shot, so I pitted the Orioles against the Rangers, live from Arlington.  In game 1, the first key moment came up in the top of the 3rd, with two out but men on the corners...the first batter I rolled for drew a walk, and the next batter singled in a run, but Texas was able to get out of the inning afterwards, and then the Rangers tied the game at 1 with a single scoring a man from third.  Baltimore scored again in the 4th, but Texas would respond in the 5th.  Entering with two outs and a man on first, the runner stole second on a play so close the Orioles manager ran out to argue, to no avail.  The runner would then score on a single to once again tie the game at 2-2.

In the top of the 6th, the Orioles put some distance between themselves and the Rangers with a 3-run bomb, only for Texas to respond with 3 runs of their own to maintain the tie ballgame, 5-5 at this point.  The 7th inning was not so lucky for the batters, as the Orioles struck out with the bases loaded, while the Rangers grounded out with a man on second, but the O's would draw final blood in the 8th via a solo homer.  The Rangers managed a double in the 9th, but couldn't get the runner home, so game 1 ended Baltimore 6, Texas 5.

Game 2 had fewer moments, though they mostly favored Baltimore, beginning in the first inning, where the O's loaded the bases with one away.  To the Rangers' credit, they only gave up one run on a wild pitch, though not much happened until the top of the 4th.  The Orioles were able to get a man on first all the way home, making it 2-0.  After a homer made it 3-0, Texas finally got a run across on a 6th inning fielder's choice, as Baltimore tried for the double play but could only get the force at 2nd.

The Rangers were able to keep it within striking distance, surviving a bases loaded scare in the 7th and throwing out a runner at home in the 9th, but their comeback attempt was hampered by a double play.  A subsequent triple gave them some hope, which was dashed with a groundout to end the game, Orioles 3, Rangers 1.

On getaway day, the Orioles didn't wait, they homered to start the proceedings.  The Rangers responded in the 2nd with a sac fly, but Baltimore hit a 2-run homer in the 3rd, a lead they would never relinquish.  Texas responded in the bottom half with an RBI single to make it 3-2, but that's as close as they would get, as after two more Oriole home runs sandwiching a 5th inning Rangers score, it would be Baltimore 5, Texas 3 to start the 7th inning.  A 3 run bomb didn't make things any easier for the Rangers, who now trailed 8-3.

In the bottom of the 9th, Texas led off with a home run, but the side was otherwise retired to give the Orioles the sweep.

Gotta say, this was a novel experience.  For the most part, if you don't really feel like making any decisions for either side and just want to spectate, this one's for you, about the only decisions I made were whether to have the infield in or not, and whether or not either team should trot out an Ace pitcher, which I did for Texas in game 2 and the Orioles in game 3...the Rangers might have had a better shot at avoiding the sweep if I'd chosen differently.

No guarantees, but I might pull the trigger on the soccer management game Eleven in the near future.

On 2/29/2024 at 7:57 AM, floydnimrod said:

I've never seen these before, but I wish someone would the use this font with these 1s

You mean like this?  Granted, neither uses the 93-94 Patriots font, but both use similar 1s

9 hours ago, Old School Fool said:

Also check out those socks! NFL teams use to have wordmarks on socks and nobody remembers that!

It was basically entirely an AFC thing...most notably, the Bengals and Dolphins had them for most of the late 80s and early 90s.  The Patriots and Jets both used sock wordmarks for one season (1989), and the last team to use them was the Chargers, the lone team to take them into the 2000s.  Doesn't look like the Eagles' sock wordmarks even made it to the preseason, which would have made them the lone NFC team to use them, as well as the only instance of wordmarks on both the socks and jersey.

Serious Lehigh, my friend

On 2/12/2024 at 9:20 PM, burgundy said:

I'm too young too have seen Bradshaw play either, but from what I have seen and from what people describe, I'd say he's "Matt Stafford, but on a team full of HOFers"

But did he ever start a fight while being blown out and not get ejected for it?  (Yes, while everybody else is irrationally angry about the camera cutting to Taylor Swift every now and then, I'm still irrationally furious about that one time Stafford started a fight while the Bears were blowing the Lions out and somehow didn't get tossed for it.)

On 2/11/2024 at 10:33 PM, ManillaToad said:

The Chiefs won the Super Bowl in the Raiders' stadium and the Lombardi was handed to them by John Elway.  Brutal night for the rest of the AFC West

So brutal that the Chargers went without mention  

4 minutes ago, The_Admiral said:

Oh my God, I've never heard Travis Kelce talk before. WHY DOES HE SOUND BLACK?

Anyway, liked the effort on his rendition of Viva Las Vegas, but hopefully he leaves the music to Taylor.

As someone else who's done a Murray State concept, I applaud this.  Probably would've gone in another riding silk inspired direction in baseball, maybe poca dots, but a very fitting set overall. 

It's only the Rising Stars game, but I like how they based it off one of the Pacers' ABA sets.

12 hours ago, oldschoolvikings said:

Wait… you hate the Minnesota Vikings?  That’s hilarious!  That’s like hating…. I don’t know, like the Indiana Pacers, or old Scooby Doo reruns.  Or your four year old nephew who occasionally says annoying things.  What could the Vikings have possibly done to the fans of any other team to create the least amount of offense? 

Been a Bears fan basically my whole life, also been a Packers fan since middle school.  The Vikings admittedly annoy me slightly less than Dallas, they just have more opportunity to be annoying.  Also grandson of a Kentuckian, so I probably should hate the Pacers for still existing while the Colonels folded. 

10 hours ago, Shumway said:

Grand Rapids...Flying Toasters?

 

 

The logo is somehow better than their normal one at least.

You know what must now be done...the Admirals must dust off the skating fridge sweaters in retaliation

On 1/23/2024 at 3:18 PM, oldschoolvikings said:

I'm just patiently waiting for the day when my favorite team becomes so successful that everyone has to make up excuses as to why their hatred for them is so justified. 

 

I should live so long.

Well, you're a Viking fan, so you're halfway there already I kinda flip flop on who I find more contemptible between you guys, the Cowpokes and the Niners depending on the year before just going with YES.

On 1/21/2024 at 9:07 PM, The_Admiral said:

I don't want to hear about how the 49ers are white supremacists so give me any of the other three but preferably Chiefs-Lions.

Nah, they're chardonnay sippers.  Huge difference.