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For the Houston Railmen or Locomotives, maybe.

Meh, the Dodgers and Yankees both look better without white outlines. In a similar vein to @Gothamite's observation about the Mets, the Rangers' "T" logo (minus drop shadow) is asymmetrical. Look at the lower right half of the "T" compared to the left top bar. The drop shadow does distract from it.

Whatever. Soccer is soccer, no matter the league model. Following the rest of the world’s lead is a good thing for names (not as much for everything else - pro/rel is disgusting and should be avoided). It leads us away from the MLS 1.0 dark times. However, single-entity should go away once the strike inevitably hits and exposes this structure for how it suppresses player salaries.

The Gobbeldy (I am racially insensitive)ger was a terrible idea.

Yeah, no. They're not cringe-worthy or inappropriate. They're dignified, effective, and fit with what the rest of the world does with Association Football. Sporting Kansas City, the FC/SC teams, and Inter Miami are all acceptable and work well for their teams. Even the "United" names are fine (uniting of ownership groups/fans/other associated individuals). Also, "organic-sounding" is just elitist gobbledy(I am racially insensitive) used by American-style name fans used to demean teams that follow the rest of the world's lead. It's also a fun statement used by "Class of '96" fans to insult supporters of newer teams (that have their crap together from founding). EDIT: I am sorry about that one, I had no idea that it was a racist term. What I meant to say was "nonsense."

This might be close: Herchey Creative Market has many similar cursive script fonts that look relatively close.

As somebody with family from the area, this is correct. Loo-vul is also sort of correct, depending on who is saying it. I go between New Or-leans and New Or-lee-ans, depending on the setting. For St. Louis or Looey, I tend to favor the former.

The A’s elephant patch needs significant updating. Here’s the white version, to best illustrate the line work: The ragged attempts at detail, inconsistent line weights, and mismatched “A’s” insignia necessitates an overhaul. It somehow manages to look worse in green. Of course, this what you get when folks in the late-1980s try to resuscitate a 1950s design. Part of the design quality may be poor digitization, but I’m sure that these issues exist in the original renderings.

Pattern trim never ceases to look good to me. It wasn’t right for the Nets, but it worked for a bunch of other teams. The Timberwolves, Diamondbacks, Ottawa Senators, Vancouver Grizzles, and so on all pulled it off very well.

I miss those uniforms. They never should have dropped red.

Besides, 500’s wouldn’t be my first choice for a new name. Of course they shouldn’t use this design, which looks exceptionally dated and sloppy.

I have no problem with the Phillies wearing powder blue throwbacks at home. Wearing them as a road alternate would be ideal, but home use is A-OK. In fact, it’s an excellent way to hammer home how maroon/powder should be and should always have been a package deal.

They're an amazing resource for throwback/fauxback concepts, given that finding color pictures (heck, any pictures) of a lot of these teams is like searching for a needle in a haystack.

Gross oversimplification, I know. Still, I’d argue that fending off nascent British imperialism had something to do with it.

I wouldn’t mind reviving the “Connecticut Colonials” name that one of the groups vying for the Expos proposed. Certain steps would have to be taken to avoid a Patriots rip-off, but I’m sure it could work.

You’re g-d right! However, it really should have been the Brewers or Royals re-introducing a powder blue set. I guess the Cardinals were desperate to build back the good will that the f—kwit Matheney destroyed.

UWM has/had a similar design. This school of design is exceptionally dated.

Judging by the "G" hat (worn by Toronto Chairman Paul Godfrey), I don't think the color change proposal would have stuck or was the only option: The blue/green "TG" was either a later addition or rejected for a black/orange redesign. One has to remember that the Giants' brand had lost much of its cache by the mid-late 1970s, with the team struggling competitively in one of the worst stadiums in Big Four history. The 1976 (when the Toronto move was supposed to happen) team was a hapless bunch, like most Giants teams from the early-1970s to the late-1980s. Changing things up to match their new setting, while a bad idea from a historical POV, might have worked. This is especially the case for the Giants of the time, who would have lost many historical ties with relocation (e.g., rivalry with the Dodgers, being one of the first teams to move out west, etc.). I can definitely see your point about wanting a new Toronto team to "fit in" with the other teams in the city, especially with the later possibility of throwback gear. I could also imagine the inverse, with nostalgia around the blue/green look and the modern team deciding to opt for the historically-significant black/orange (e.g., like what the White Sox have done with the "Winning Ugly " set). I even mocked up a potential uniform, with cues from the inaugural Blue Jays: I'm not keen on it, for personal, historical, and aesthetic reasons.

There was also the recent failure of the Pohlad’s attempt to sell the team to Triad-area investors and move the team to Kernersville, NC. The voters gave the proposal a firm no. The Pohlads deserve more recognition as horrible owners. They may not have the Griffith-style racism, but they keep up with the cheapness. Nowadays, if contraction did come up, I’d imagine the focus would be on the Florida teams. Had Marlins Park not been built, a merger or contraction would certainly be discussed.

I would agree. Theseus’ Ship the stadium a bit more, while also forcing the team to re-adopt the “Anaheim” city name. Force an end to Arte’s obsession with trying to extent beyond the Orange Curtain. It is, after all, the Anaheim Angels who won it all in 2002, while the Los Angeles Angels’ big claim to fame is wasting Mike Trout’s early career.

Hello Young Sapien, the flag of the infamous Aum Shinrikyo death cult was a good-looking banner. As as far as cult flags go, it’s better than the Branch Davidian one. The sperm eel (or serpent/snake) really nails it. Yes, that terrible phrasing was intentional.

The roundel typeface is pretty good, especially for its use of the lowercase “i” and “e:” I just wish went all the way with rounded letters.

I'd have preferred a "shooting train" design based on this: Of course, you can't really do that with a steam train, and pop culture has steered memory of the old Astros towards the Tequila Sunrise.

Truer words have never been spoken.

Cleveland deals are a disease to official record-keeping in sports. The fewer there are, the better. The real San José Earthquakes are in Houston right now, while the Fake Quakes shouldn’t have the right to the old team’s legacy. The Wild are the Wild, they will never be the North Stars (also, if they were, they shouldn’t get the records - the same goes for a future Seattle basketball or Montréal baseball team). Let them live with their bad name, because it at least gave them a top-10 crest in the NHL. The Texans are the Texans, they should NEVER be the Oilers (such an overrated identity that I’m glad is gone). The pastels really needed a contrasting color.