Silent Wind of Doom

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)

There's rumors of the two spring leagues merging ahead of the upcoming season, and we'll see how it goes then, but for now, this is the new upgrade, the third version of the XFL. Hopefully it sticks this time! XFL (2023) Northern Division DC Defenders Referencing the fans' infamous reaction to their beer snake being taken away Seattle Dragons Referencing the Peter, Paul, and Mary song "Puff the Magic Dragon" and Seattle's aquatic location St. Louis Battlehawks Referencing a motto used by fans Vegas Vipers Referencing the words of Jake "The Snake" Robert

I was so focused on the XFL and then baseball that I completely missed this season of the USFL, but with three new home hubs and two years under their belts, I wanted to update the venue pics for each team and replace what was the few pics I could find of players pre-season 1 with pictures of the actual stand outs of each team. (Pittsburgh also changed their color scheme to fit their neighbors) Then there's the Bandits, who were contracted and replaced with the Memphis Showboats

Okay. There's been some updates I've been negligent on, and seeing that surprised Bear face stare me in the eyes every week has finally pushed me to get it done! Firstly, the aforementioned replacement of the old Bears logo for their new one: The San Diego Wave have opened Snapdragon Stadium and set a record while there! And there is a new MLS team I didn't get to, and I decided to add Team GB of Olympic competition alongside the English National team! USFL updates and XFL3 coming in a sec!

Here ya go, @maxwasson. This work for you? I applied the multi-outline of those black uniforms to the modern logos that didn't already have outlines. @JerseyJimmy, I found the HC logo, but it's a bit busy to make legible at the scale. Funnily enough, shrinking the C down to make it fit causes the C to lose its distinctive look that it already has. Here's how it worked out.

Ayyyyy!!! Congrats!!! I.. don't... see a monogram that's not a C. Unless you mean something I don't understand. What do ya mean?

Both my first and middle names end in downward slashes, so I just imagine it's a shorter distance in writing out my name and I learned it that way. I also wear a watch on my dominant hand, cut food with my non-dominant hand and do all sorts of things because I learned it that way myself without anyone saying different and it just feels natural to me.

Given my last name is Snowman, I can't imagine starting an S there. But, I draw my print S from the bottom and was always told that was weird, so... maybe? But I feel that first stroke is necessary to set the tone. The explanation for the Seals bear uniform did it for me.

And so the Marlins have become the new Padres. Just go back to teal, dummies.

After switching the D back. I didn't realize it was any different from any other T and now that I see how short the older T's crossbar is on the right side, I can't unsee "Jigers".

There are many things wrong with the logo. I feel like a college thesis could be written on it. But if I were to say the absolute weakest quality of it is the light color. It's one thing of a black background, but most style guides just present it on white. There's no background. And then you've got the exact same color combination (just reversed) on the helmet! It really weakens the aesthetics.