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Silent Wind of Doom

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  1. Wow... That is very stupid, but at least it does confirm for us that most of what we're seeing is officially new on-field in-season alternates. Those shop images have looked 110% computer generated from the start to me. I'm not trusting a thing on them until I see them in photos or video. One of the articles linked mentioned that, while the Japan link is the application of the logo, the true identity change that is happening here is that the helmet logo and cap logo now match. The helmet logo has always been wider. One of those little quirks, likely not a purposeful design choice like the Detroit D. I remember the Yankees having a similar situation, with the cap logo seeming to be the "print logo" but much chonkier. Sadly, I believe that went away with the change from the lovely shiny helmets that reflected the grand circle of lights around the Stadium.
  2. Also I didn't think that or the White Sox because it was high enough to at least overlap whereas I thought we were specifically talking about severely lower numbers. Although that Oakland example may be just as low and the A is just huuuuuuge. It seems taller than the usual chest logo. Besides the URL and the lack of alternates, what makes Dressed to the Nines obsolete, especially when it's still getting updated? I've always found it useful for finding trends. Set to the larges amount of unis per page and see what year a change was made in a few seconds/the rise of powder blue and pullovers/etc. Besides, alternates exploded in this millennium and I have my own records past 2007.
  3. Huh. You're right. I'd forgotten how far back some of those examples go. I went to the Dressed to the Nines archive and unfortunately it doesn't show alternates and it turns out all of the examples nowadays seem to be alternates. But, it did show that those who do it nowadays wore them alongside or after wearing wordmarks with front numbers, so perhaps it was just a matter of one team saying "we put the numbers here, so keep doing it" and others following or just a number of people coming to that same conclusion.
  4. I've never really found this odd and the Reds having the number up at the same level seemed unique and different. But I just realized looking at it why it is the way it is. Front numbers came into existence on uniforms with wordmarks across the chest. When they were put on uniforms with just a logo on one side of the chest, I imagine no one thought to switch the numbers from where they originally were even though there now wasn't a wordmark in the way of higher placement. It just felt like the natural place where front numbers go. Probably why until you asked I never thought it was an oddity in any way.
  5. I'm sure all teams are looking. But whether patches are switching sides or not means nothing in terms of whether ads are immediately coming, as last year proved. I have to say, watching two teams that didn't have names on their back under the sun yesterday, the change really didn't seem noticeable. The collar cut is obvious, but I mean the drop in quality/transparency. Dunno if we made out due to our design practices or it was just looking from a distance during the day. I wonder if there's any chance someone inside thought the old roads would look stupid with the new sleeve design and that was behind the update. The Twins navy today looks all right except for that stupid arching of the name. Santana's name has plenty of room to fit with a less dramatic curve. But red lettering on navy is hard to read in any manner of shade on a good day.
  6. This actually proved false last year, but I can't for the love of me remember the exact examples. I watched carefully through every team's patches because I gotta show something in the Wikipedia uniform images. I decided to go with every example being right-handed, and so for teams with switching patches the patches showed on the left sleeve, but there were a number of teams who did not switch patches. I know Minnesota and Kansas City were two , and indeed did not get an ad patch last year. But I do know for sure there was at least one team who switched patches without getting an ad... or had fixed patches but then got an ad. Unfortunately, my memory is failing me. I do know for sure that Philly ditched their sleeve numbers to seemingly make way but never did.
  7. I should not be able to know the type and color of underwear of my pitcher.
  8. Does anyone know what causes some sleeves to bunch up and shrink and others to stick out? Sometimes they look like an elastic band tighter than the rest and others like that Reds sleeve seem the opposite.
  9. You know, there's no other teams in the state, the upside-down trident is bad luck, and the DC natives keep saying they don't want the name. Screw it! Washington Mariners!
  10. Honestly, I'm not too worried about the size, although the size is causing finer details to get really messed up. The thing that's messing with me is the odd arching. It feels like all the names are being kerned over the same space and arc and it looks like it doesn't fit with the numbers AT ALL in many instances.
  11. Have... have I never seen a 4 on the team all these years? That looks so wrong and I thought it was part of what people were complaining about, but apparently that's the way it's always been. The extra serif at the top looks like it's off a completely different team's font. It's all just so weird looking.
  12. @maxwasson, the top level finally got too long so I had to shift things around a little. Hope you don't mind. But congrats! @thebutkiker, not only did it all fit, but it all fit exactly on one line! Any more wins and it's two lines for you.
  13. Hrm... I can see them not wanting to feature the pinstripes on the road, but having a grey alt cap only to have a bright white logo? I'd had rather they gone grey crown with navy brim, button, and logo.
  14. There's an easy solution to that. Imagine the old gradients using these colors. I... can't decide whether that would be awesome or the ugliest thing ever. I think using a gradient of these colors in a 70's fauxback style would world really well for the team's identity and history. Dunno if it would be good, but it would be fitting.
  15. Wow... I really thought they'd roll out 5 and 5. Could this actually mean... Dare I hope?
  16. Given your thumbs down, I'm not sure if you didn't see the progression of the joke or you think Rickety Cricket should be on the Phillies' batting practice hats.
  17. It and the layout of the city with the central streets and the grand diagonal to the art museum are works of art. I love the city. And considering my other favorite is Notre Dame de Paris (the third is the Forbidden City but wear and modern photography and other issues are dulling my taste for it), I regard it highly.
  18. Admittedly, I do think the Penn statue is a reeeeeeally good call. The team did reference it in past logos, and if the City Connect series have taught us anything, screw the idea of things being "too esoteric". Go with what clicks with your people. Although I may be biased in that Philadelphia's City Hall is one of my favorite buildings of all time. But the real answer?
  19. Yeah. I wasn't sure if that was, much like player names and numbers often are, an inaccurate photoshop. The seam seems completely missing on them, so it's hard to tell, but those photos make it super clear. I wish the Mothership would do an article on it. I would love to see an aggregate of all the photos out there of the new unis.
  20. After redoing all uniforms with the new placks and collars, I did not expect the sleeve issue. I've been trying to figure out how to best render them. But while looking at all the different new unis, I came across something that confuses me. I wasn't watching like a hawk, so this may have come up earlier. The Rangers have the same number of stripes on their sleeves as a few other teams, but they're clearly bigger. Yet the seam is still in the same location above the top stripe. Are the Rangers getting more material below the seam? Are their sleeve seams higher? And either way, why are they getting a different treatment than others? So many issues could be fixed with this extra space. Did the other teams just not care enough to even ask? Is there something that would make the Ranger special in this respect?
  21. I... have... always been in the camp that finds the block W to be in the same camp I find the old and now new Yankees away gray. Not retro, but archaic and far too simple for modern usage. But the one used on the ST cap has enough weight and volume and texture that it is making me rethink the possibility. I don't know if going to white or red and losing one of the outlines will cause it to look less impressive and it obviously isn't workable as is, but it does intrigue me for possible future application in future identities.
  22. Based on their retired numbers? I dig it for what their use is. Feels like it was rendered based on what parts of the state the average local feels is most important. But in all seriousness, for this application I don't mind the outline to be so stylized to fit in the halo and not be too large and unwieldy.
  23. My immediate thought was Milwaukee. That might just be the roundel. Yeah, what the heck is the font? This uni seems to use it for their numbers?
  24. Meek Bill The one good part of the new look. Putting together looks that go together. The manifest destiny of the Capitol Dome cap was a horror. I'm reminded of those times, but because seeing the wordmark in white makes it just look like the previous set to me. Its brightness hides the other colors, so I barely even see a difference between this and the last black alt (besides the font) I... think that might have more to do with team quality than anything.
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