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  1. You and I have done this before and I just don't agree. I can't see how anyone could find them anything other than hideous. We're getting into personal preferences territory so I'll just say if you removed the number font, which is the Jaguars black/gold helmet of number fonts, they'd still be disgusting in my eyes. They're every bad modern trend of the late 2000's/early 2010's, used entirely thoughtlessly, and the Bucs took their color palette and turned it into mud. The whole thing reminds me of when you're a kid and you mix mustard and ketchup together. I'm not a fan of the Rams and Commandos looks or any of the other All Time Bad contenders mentioned here (The Browns 2015 update would be my easy #2), but none of them combined bad design trends with bad design choices with bad color usage with bad logo updates with bad facemasks choices with bad everything quite like that Bucs uniform. It's the biggest mess I've ever seen and that's why it's my #1. And the number font should be an actual crime. It can't just be handwaved away like it's not a huge part of the problem. Everyone responsible for that shouldn't have to go to prison, but, like, 500 hours community service every year would be a good first step towards justice.
  2. I think they chose that color to evoke a feeling rather than a specific reference to one object or another. Plus it was completely unique to the sport so they could own it in a way that you can't with white or black helmets. Some of the prototypes look great, but they don't have the punch that the pewter helmets have and other teams were already using those colors at the time. Textured helmets weren't a thing in 1997. Your choices back then were basically gloss metallic, gloss non-metallic, or semigloss like the Steelers.
  3. For my money those are the worst uniforms in NFL history. There isn't a single good decision anywhere in that steaming pile.
  4. Jags Falcons Bears Browns Commandos Lions Bills Seahawks Steelers Chiefs Packers Eagles 49ers
  5. I totally get that with the Dodgers. The calm, chill, business-like demeanor works over the course of a long season when you're in game 11 of a 12 game road trip to get through and you're looking at the Pirates' 4th best starter, but the playoffs are a completely different animal . The Dodgers feel like a lot of guys who don't really mind that it's the offseason right now while the Phillies feel like a lot of guys who get into street fights for fun*. The exception to that is the late 90's Yankees were a bunch of boring c-suite suits and they won a lot of games and a lot of championships so I guess it's just about how teams funnel the thing that works for them into a positive output. *Except for Trea Turner who looks like your fifth best friend from middle school that you don't talk to anymore.
  6. I grew up watching ECHL and college hockey in the 90's. Wearing a dark helmet with a white jersey will never not look extremely bush league. I don't get why the league allows the Hurricanes to do it and I don't get why the Hurricanes insist upon it.
  7. yeah that's totally what I meant
  8. They and the Astros along with a few other teams in the past (namely the stupid Cardinals and stupid Giants of the early 2010's) have me convinced that some teams are just better at playoff baseball. People say this is luck and there is an element of BABIP at play and there is, but I also don't see why it couldn't be a skill that some teams have and some teams don't (the Dodgers, for example)
  9. I've said before the 97 logo is superior because it has a message, a point of view, a mise en scene, if you will. It looks like it was lifted off a treasure map. The update has none of that. It removes all the character and sterilizes it. It's genericizes it. It looks like someone took the 97 logo and changed it just enough for one of those crappy websites that sells stock logos. It looks like it was lifted off a party plate for a kid's pirate themed birthday party. It STINKS and I hate it.
  10. yeah that was me. You need a darker color than red as the base otherwise the colors are just too close to one another. I'm not going to go through the trouble of doing a uniform concept, but I'd keep everything the same with orange as the dominant color and change all the red to a medium darkness purpleish burgundy.
  11. This is where I'm at. I think the novelty of the creamsicles would wear very quickly if they were an every game look. One thing I've always liked about the 97 rebrand is it kept the creamsicle colors so they didn't completely throw away the DNA of the franchise - It added contrast and gave it a cannonball like feel with the black and pewter. The solution is keep the creamsicles as an alternate, but stick with the sturdier red and pewter with metallic pants and go back to using the superior 1997 logos for the 16 other games.
  12. The new Cardinals road whites feel closer to how the Cardinals should look. It's at least, spiritually, in the right direction. The new cardinal and black home looks do not.
  13. I only use run-differential as one part of a whole evaluation of a team. Wins and losses are most important and finishing games is a skill good teams have to have otherwise you're this year's Padres. Also some managers bail on regular season games earlier if things get out of hand so they don't burn pitchers in a lost cause and their RD can get goofy in a hurry. But over a full season it's useful. I only brought it up because people acted like the bye killed the Orioles when the Rangers had a significantly better regular season run differential so it wasn't the monumental upset it may have appeared to be. Sure. I've grown to appreciate Harper as a player just because he had so much hype coming out of high school and he's actually surpassed even the most optimistic projections. I'm always very impressed by him. Also I liked when he did the throat slash gesture and it pissed me off the fanbase who does the axe chop gesture. "NOOO only we're allowed to pantomime fake violence with fake weapons"
  14. I know. Use your imagination.
  15. It would look something like this.
  16. The explanation I’ve heard is at the time helmet manufacturers had a far more limited number of color options. The Giants and Rams had to choose between dark navy blue or bright Royal blue, which is what the Broncos opted for. My guess is they decided darker blue looked better with their royal blue jerseys than the brighter blue would have. When the Giants and Rams redesigned their uniforms in 2000 metallic flake paint was an option so both teams were able to more precisely match their jersey colors.
  17. As someone old enough to remember when they actually wore these full time, I can attest to this. Youths don't understand how much of a joke the Bucs were. The team was really bad, yes, but they were really bad while wearing the softest uniforms you could come up with. In the early 90's they felt like they existed specifically to wear goofy uniforms with a logo ripped from the cover of a trashy romance novel, and fill out easy wins on other teams' schedules. The rebrand saved the franchise. It's not a look that travels well and it's kind of wild that it made it until 1996. It was tough to make the colors work on sideline apparel or fan wear and everyone just looked kind of silly while wearing it. At home with the orange jerseys and white pants wasn't so bad, but it looked especially goofy in the last few years when they insisted on wearing orange pants with orange socks to achieve one of the weirder colored leggings look of all time. They're a fun curio in uniform history. It's hard to believe a pro sports team really chose to wear those colors for that long, but it's really for the best to keep it at a distance. I would hold it off for every five years whenever there's an anniversary.
  18. It's a great color scheme that they should readopt full-time. My only issue with this alternate is it's close enough to the originals that it begs the question why not just wear the originals?
  19. The NL Central was the second weakest division in the league and the Brewers lineup doesn't strike fear into anyone. They have good pitchers, but a couple hiccups in two wildcard games was all it took to wipe them out, which is why nobody would ever prefer to start in the wildcard series. It's not shocking at all that they lost two straight to Arizona. I think the Dodgers just Dodgered their way to 100 wins through sheer Dodgeriness, but if Betts and Freeman go cold you have Max Muncy and then basically no protection down the lineup, which is what happened. And Kershaw not pitching well in the playoffs is the norm. If it had been a tough 5 game struggle then maybe I'd listen to some arguments, but if you get swept by the Diamondbacks I can't feel bad for you. It is not shocking to me that the Dodgers lost a playoff series - like you said, they've been doing that for over a decade excluding the COVID NIT. Looking at these losses closer*, Texas' run differential was significantly higher than Baltimore's and the same as Tampa's. It's safe to say those weren't upsets. Philadelphia has been on a 100 win pace over the second half and they know Atlanta inside and out so that's not shocking either. I think our friend griping about this is just griping because he loves to gripe about everything (He's complained about the NBA playoffs being too chalk in the past). You will never satisfy that particular individual and I think he needs to find other hobbies. *The funniest thing in digging deeper here is San Diego had the 8th highest run differential and a pythagorean W/L of 92-70 LOL They won 14 out of their last 16 to get to 82-80. A 10 win split between Pythagorean W/L and actual W/L is the highest I think I've ever seen.
  20. They didn't need to change the shape of the stripes to update the orange. I actually like the single color numbers, but the jerseys now are the same amount of "clean" as before. They just chunkified the sleeve stripe and it's no longer the shape that made those Flyers jerseys the famous Flyers jerseys. Now they look like the 80's jerseys, but they don't have the extra black outlining and it feels like it's missing something. I watched it in action last night for the first time and we're discussing personal preferences now, but I don't think it's an improvement.
  21. Not of a fan of the Flyers recent update. The swoopy taper of the original jersey and 2010 rebirth had some intentionality to it. Expanding the shoulder and sleeve stripe to take up more space just looks like someone tried to approximate that 70's look and got stuck with a bad template that isn't quite there. I would've preferred a full readopting of the 80's/90's jerseys to this half step.
  22. You get two home games and the pitching advantage in games 1 and 2 and you don't risk elimination in a best of 3. Every team would take the bye every time. It hasn't been a problem for the Astros the last two years. There isn't an Orioles or Braves fan alive who would've switched places with the Rangers and Phillies ten days ago. The playoff format has nothing to do with these upsets. The Orioles pitching, the Achilles heel their fans worried about all year, gave up 21 runs to the Rangers in three games. They scored 11 runs so it's not like the layoff caused them to forget how to hit. The Braves ran into a Phillies team that is intimately familiar with them and probably the second best on paper team in the National League. It's sports and it's baseball especially where playoff upsets have happened forever.
  23. The soulless, generic, Texasness of their stadium really bums me out. It's like the over-sized coal rolling pickup truck of stadiums. It's like they said "what if Enron Field was worse?" The cheating sucks, but since then I've grown to begrudgingly give the Astros credit. 7 straight ALCS appearances in this era of playoff baseball when good teams can get swept out in 2 if they catch a cold at the wrong time, is nothing to sneeze at.
  24. 7-7 might be the worst I've ever done in a week in all my years of playing. Chieftains Ravens Vikes Bengals Niners phins Jags Saints Raiders Cards Eags Lions Bills boys
  25. The NLDS hasn't started yet and the entire NL Central is eliminated. A banner year for everyone's favorite division!
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