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What entity purchases these and chooses the design (MLB or the AL/NL)? I don't know, but if I had to guess, I'd say that it's a gift from MLB (i.e. not the team). The conferences leagues are run by the same commish anyways.

Didn't know players got these:

The Maple Leafs will move to Saskatoon. Ehh, I'm hearing Moosejaw.

How so? They each spent six years there. In 10 years, maybe. Now? No. That's what I think of whenever I hear their names.

Agreed. I'd agree, if that template wasn't an Edge monstrosity begging to be fill-tooled. As it was, it was one of the best examples of a RBK Edge disaster. FTFY

They use silver as well.

Josh Hamilton, Devil Rays:

The scripts weren't bad, but everything about that set sucked serious . The new set is good design-wise, but the colours are so dull. The BiG set is my favourite by a mile, and I maintain that that logo is one of the best in sports history (which may be an unpopular opinion by its self). Also, I quite liked these: I still think their current set is far superior, however.

This. It was actually a pretty good jersey, but it just didn't work because it was the Blue Jays. If that was for some 2008 Toronto expansion team, it probably would've gotten a lot more love. Regarding socks, I personally prefer them high because they add more colour in the uniform and can really help in terms of colour balance. When I used to play baseball, I only wore my socks high during rallies (that was because I didn't really care about uniforms, not because of comfort or lack thereof). I stopped playing a few years ago, and I'm kicking myself for not keeping a pair of socks in hopes that one day I'll join a rec softball league for the unathletic (I know they're not that hard to find, but still).

I think the caps of the Mets, Royals, and Rangers (for example) are all ruined by the button that doesn't match the bill: IMO, under no circumstances should a button not match the bill. If the bill is a different colour than the crown but the button matches the corwn, I don't really mind that much. But I absolutely abhor when the bill matches the crown, but the button is a different colour than the crown, which seems to be an unpopular opinion. I know some people will give it a pass because the colour of the button matches the cap logo, but I disagree (at least we have common ground on the Phillies, though).

(Tom Henke again)

I can't remember if I already posted this, but I don't get all the hate about that jersey. I've seen several Blue Jays fans here call it the worst in the team's history, but I actually really like it. Also, I think that as a whole (meaning their entire uniform history), the Expos are/were one of the best-looking MLB teams ever.

yes league decisions are subject to the whims and ego of Gary Bettman and not the best interests of the team owners who want to make as much money as possible "no doubt" hahahaha you idiots won't be happy until every Canadian city with more than 30,000 people has an NHL team OMMF. Not this again. First of all, CRichardson is American, which completely throws your argument away. Second of all, I have never met one of those "all Canadian cities deserve a team", let alone one on this board. No one thinks Saskatoon deserves a team. No one thinks Fredrickson deserves a team. No one thinks Moosejaw deserves a team. That notion was only created by people like you. The only thing I - and people like me - want is for the Coyotes to move to Québec, and perhaps another Ontario team down the road. That's it. Eight, maybe nine Canadian teams. That's all. I'd actually rather see Seattle get a team over Toronto/Markham. Anyway, point is nobody wants 30 Canadian NHL teams. Not 25 either. Not 20. Not even 10. If I had a penny for every time Ice Cap went through this, I'd be filthy rich. Oh, look. Ice Cap just went through this with you. How did I know?

You are correct. So let's get this straight: The banners have been replacedDimensions were not changedThe font was changedThe colours probably weren't changed

That video is from 1992, the second after they hung them. With regards to the colour, the Blue Jays never wore navy, so either 1) The colours were wrong and they have since fixed it or, more likely, 2) It's just the camera/video, since the white banners are much darker than white in both the 1992 pic and the 2000s pic. But I do remember them being much darker than they are now. Hmm... And yes, the font is exactly the same. No idea where the notion it was different came from. Oh, and they can take the All-Star Game banner down. Like now.

I don't know if those are facts or not to be honest, I'd like to see a source. I'm fairly sure that the Coyotes made money in their first 5 years in the desert. I remember that being mentioned on a major news source (TSN IIRC). I don't have any evidence; sorry, but I don't keep every newspaper clipping, show, and magazine article I learn something from with the intent to cite it on a message board a few years later. I will hold you to that.

Will they ever just die?

Just change the thread number in the URL. Semi-related, but I bookmarked that link under the NHL Season thread, and now I can't view stats for that thread (I can for all others, though).

Not only for the team, but also the number: Not so much that he's wearing #42, but anyone wearing it looks odd (with a couple of exceptions).

Right as soon as something new comes up, it will go away.

A little while ago they did that (limiting the number of quote tags to 3 while the rest appeared as

Click multiquote on all the posts you want, and click 'add reply' on the bottom of the page. Thank you.

How do you use the MultiQuote feature? It's getting kind of annoying to open 3 tabs, write out my responses, and then copy and paste them into another window when I want to reply to several posts.