Silent Wind of Doom

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?

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.

Yeah. That's why I loved them. The Yankees uniforms felt like a representation of the team's history and high times. The home represented the old days of the guys on the monuments and the road greys represented the Bronx Zoo and 90's dynasty. With pinstripes, I see pastoral grass in the afternoon summer sun and Ballantine. With the road greys I see bright lights, wild crowds, and Nobody Beats the Wiz. It did look really cool for a game harkening back to that time. Same for the Red Sox 100th Anniversary of Fenway game, but I wouldn't want them to switch to a plain white cap full time. At least half of the crowd were severely disappointed with the Astros new set for being old-looking and lifeless. For years as Cleveland tried to bury their old identity and go early days in their uniforms, I felt the same way. Single-line dark colors just feel old to me, not retro. Boston should've never left from their Reverse the Curse grays. The Dodgers at least have a the red number. I'd mentioned above that I feel that the lack of an outline seems much more "of a bygone era" The Cubs isn't a bad move considering the bright red outline would have the same effect. Detroit doesn't have white elsewhere on their uniform (the Meijer logo, I imagine, would also be changed) and orange is a nice outline. But I wouldn't want to see the White Sox, Angels, and Reds to lose their outlines. Definitely not the Phillies, which were mentioned earlier, with their outline keeping consistency with their logos and home uni. I'm glad they're at least going with the modernized lettering, which is a major part of the team's identity. It evokes something... I'm not sure what. "Art Deco" is the first thing that comes to mind, and the only, but I don't think that's the right word. It feels uniquely of the team and city. These pictures really show why I love the new version with the extra outline so much more. The navy and green bled into a dreary mess. The current wordmarks are brighter, stand out more, and you can see all the colors.

Heh. And we're right back to the old Majestic logo.

I know we've done this before, and I've realized that my love of the Twins' pullovers have more to do with how good-looking I find thick red and blue/the fun of the switched cap color than the actual template (same for California for the former and Boston for both), but whether or not one thinks it's better than the button-down I still think Toronto's deserves some recognition alongside Oakland, Pittsburgh, and Chicago.

@The Easter Beagle, I was worried at first, but once everything was cut down to just the championships and championship appearances, it was a tidy little package. I imagine that's what you meant by "pennant", but if you want more I can expand. I also assumed you didn't care about the Boston or Milwaukee Braves. Lemme know if you do want them.

Well, Michigan has won so many things that it's officially the first team to have their achievements be too much for the length limit of signature images on this board. You mentioned "add", but you're currently not sporting your old sig, which was already straining the bounds of the image limit. This is what you asked for... Do you want more on top of that?

Heh. No problem. Here ya go!

@AnPheitseog, I was worried given that your old sig is bigger than the current limits, but fortunately you've cut out a lot of extra. I also added the new wins for the Outlaws and the Pen's new division championship. We'll see if I have a new addition for tonight, but as a Phins fan I hope not. I also decided a while ago to change the Pens to black to better fit their actual appearance. Lemme know if you prefer the all-gold. @Burmy, speaking of size limits, you've officially gotten two long for one line. Hope this isn't too disruptive to you. I also added the other Milwaukee wins that hadn't gotten updated yet. @maxwasson, here ya go! Also, @JerseyJimmy, I gave you two options and you liked the post but never actually answered me.

The team with an upper-half City Connect and an identity that throws away a clear slam dunk with their original colors is looking to change... the former. Unless they're going to teal-ify the City Connect as a test balloon. Or they could just be planning on making the throwback their City Connect so they could add another alt in their current scheme.

I have very little familiarity with their work elsewhere and... am really failing to look up a comprehensive collection of their jerseys. Do they make raglan sleeves for pinstriped uniforms? I see, like, racing stripes, so I'd think it would be possible, but am not sure. I doubt they'd tell the Yanks, Cubs, and Brewers to kick rocks when it comes to this touch,

We saw that Rangers uni on the new template. Is every uni on every team switching come the spring? Or a slow roll out with new unis/as old stores empty out?

I know at least a tweak of Seattle has been mentioned by management and... wasn't there some rumblings about Colorado? Or did that wind up being their City Connects?

Oh, I wasn't making a call based on my preference. But the red A cap is only shown as an alternate home cap to go with alternate red accessories and teams time and time again have fallen back on black, including the Diamondbacks since the introduction of Sedona red to last year. I can see it being a designer choice that the players rather immediately abandon.

I don't doubt it. I just didn't realize it until you said something. If it weren't for the Serpientes alt, I would have been all for them going sand full time on the road or at home. I also wouldn't be averse to a graphite away since they've lain claim to that before and it would probably allow the turquoise outline to pop better. Is there any reason besides changing their minds for being so outside the box that they dropped those?

Same notes too. Have they finally darkened the turquoise, or is it just the difference in the use of it, the concentration of it, and the lack of white bordering it? The black stands out to me as the best. But it's the most uniform in its use of the color scheme. The only color to touch black is turquoise: the piping, Nike logo, and outlines of the logos. Meanwhile, the red alt mixes black-on-red with the piping and number and turquoise-on-red with the cap, wordmark, and Nike logo. I don't know if the D would work switched, but switching the wordmark colors would go a long way to cohesion. (The Nike logo takes turns on different uniforms across the league matching the outline or inside of wordmarks depending on balance and whim of the designers.) The new wordmark looks lovely, although I have no idea why instead of going with the established outer-K fang and the I they came up with a new K to go with the A. The away gray does seem the weakest, the turquoise not looking good against the gray and not seeming to fit with the entire rest of that uniform. The easiest remedy is to just remove it, but then you've got the exact problem they've been having with different color schemes on different uniforms. I do think that the plack piping makes no sense and instead they should have gone with piping like the red alt. Have the two wordmark uniforms look alike and cut down on the disjointedness. And the home has the same problem of the outline washing out against the base. The problem is that it seems they do not under any circumstances want to change the logo. I think they'd be better served switching it up depending on the application, something they did in their 98-07 sets. Switching the black and turquoise on the chest could be given a try. But I wanted them to go red and purple, the purple replacing the black on the A. The two tones aren't used in the majors and go well together. Purple belongs in the Diamondback's identity, but Sedona Red fits so well. Someone mentioned earlier the disparate identities of the two colors, so why not both? They may have been birthed a primarily purple team, but I think with the long time off the Rockies should really be the ones in the division to lay claim to that color, but as a secondary to red it wouldn't feel like having too much overlap. I... didn't even realize it wasn't white. It looked like a lighting matter, save for the buttons. The old creams seemed more like a sand thing than a retro thing, although famously the region was full of old-time NL fans leading to them joining the NL instead of the AL like every previous expansion so it may have been with that in mind/old-timey minor-league teams in the region I assume existed. So are all the pants cream, or are we doing the ol' extra white pants for the alternates even though we don't wear whites with our "home whites" thing? If it were wordmarks across the board, that would have been one thing, but having the split Nationals or Reds style chest logo on one side and numbers on the other feels like it would make things feel even more jumbled. I immediately saw this and thought that that red A hat would be the first to completely disappear (see the orange Astros hat).

They have a history of absolutely refusing to spell their whole name out without making it two lines, but I am really shocked that nowhere in their identity, even off their uniforms and just put on a wall in the BOB somewhere, there isn't one instance of an arched "DIAMONDBACKS" with the I as the right fang to mirror the K. It seems like a slam dunk. I guess since they won't put the full name on the uniforms they don't want to put it anywhere to show what could be? I dunno. "San Francisco" has been on uniforms plenty of times.

They've always been a weird outlier. While everything else changed and updated, they stayed the same with their front number and weird font. The uniform limits that prompted the ditching of gray may have happened quicker than the allowed time for new uniforms, and the differences were probably a lot more noticeable when they were getting so much more play. But I wouldn't mind a little freshening of things. Not too big, but the 2015 addition of the silver really made the home wordmark pop while the two hues touching made it become a drab blob. I wish they could do this for the Seattle wordmark, but I'm not sure how that would work, unless the navy outline were replaced with teal and a white outline like the pre-2015 grays were added?

Worse, they're there to make room for ads and if the Phillies win tonight there will be empty real estate on the arms of both teams.

I wholeheartedly agree. I assume this is a sign of sticking with the City Connects for the long-term to the point of wanting to represent them somehow in the identity. It's the one place in their... anything that features the color. Well, besides the stone in Globe Life Field. Oh lord, we just got away from Kasota Gold. WE CAN'T GO BACK!!!

It doesn't seem to be 100% complete, but it looks like almost every game back to 2007 is on Getty. Early in the season before any other sites update I use Getty to track uniform use and appearance since it's updated every day for every game.

Yeah, I don't know why I said "Irish Spring". Perhaps because it's one of the more famous brands in popular culture, at least in my lifetime. Honestly, I've never seen a bar. I personally use Dove, but the brand I've seen everyone else use is Coast, which is what I meant. Nevertheless, that's a far difference between two shades. It looks so washed out compared to the original hue. Those two colors look so different side-by-side I kinda would like to see a team run with those as an identity. It is crazy, tho how it does look darker as a swatch than it seems to me looking at the thing. I wonder if it's a matter of materials or lighting.

When the "turquoise" was introduced, I was crying to the heavens over it. It's not a throwback. It's Irish friggin' Springs. It's soap. It's a literal pale imitation. The color is sapped out of it and it's never looked right. When they said they were introducing an old color to the existing set, I really expected it to be purple. I'd love to see how they'd look in a red/purple/copper set. Sedona red is nice, and it would be a shame to see it go fully. Doing some very shoddy mockups (too shoddy to share) using the below pic does show the chest logo looks sharp in those colors. But the problem is if you're going to reintroduce the old set with one color difference, it's going to be a hard sell to not just go all the way. Although it did work for Milwaukee... (And then there's always going with all five like the Coyotes have in their history. Anyone up for kachina D-Backs?) Unless it's in huge print and gradient. Then people love it. (EDIT: Whoops, for some reason I thought you said any name that necessitates being broken up into two lines, like their old roads, shouldn't exist. Well, I referenced this pic above, so I'll leave it.) Wow... I don't know if it's the shades that are being used, but my immediate thought on looking at this is that this is how Colorado should look.

I wonder whether or not the Dodgers would riot like the Giants did over "their" territory if the A's had an interlocked LV in their set at all, given that it would essentially be the same logo, just with the two legs of the A flipped.

XFL (2023) Western Division Arlington Renegades Referencing the Styx song "Renegade" Houston Roughnecks Referencing the city's previous oil-themed team and the team's undefeated 2020 iteration Orlando Guardians Referencing the words of Frederick the Great San Antonio Brahmas Referencing a catchphrase of the team's namesake and the league's owner (which may have inspired the lightning aspects of the team's logo)