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  1. Ferdinand Cesarano
    Since they're smartypants college boys, maybe they could be the Hannibal Lectors.
  2. Ferdinand Cesarano
    Well, I'm sure it does. Most basketball players get pretty sweaty. It looks nice to these eyes, though. Of course, I think the Pacers' current uniforms are probably their best ever, so I may not have the most orthodox tastes. Also, agree that the suit and tie look nice and wish more coaches in both football and basketball would dress that well today. I was referring to the colour of the jacket more than to the fact that it's a suit jacket. Because NBA coaches wear suits, the jacket should have a team insignia, such as on Hank Stram's suit. Baseball gets it right by outfitting the manager and coaches in uniforms. But I also like the practice in soccer, where each manager decides on a game-by-game basis whether to wear a suit or casual wear or the team's gear. And I also think that the Pacers' current uniforms are excellent.
  3. Ferdinand Cesarano
    I think those are underrated. Dr. Jack's jacket is underrated. That uniform stinks.
  4. Ferdinand Cesarano
    I do, too.
  5. Ferdinand Cesarano
    At some time over the past couple of weeks, I seem to have lost the ability to resize a picture in a post made in the mobile interface. I used to be able to tap twice on the picture in order to call up the dialogue box that allowed me to adjust the image's length and width. But no more. Now when I tap twice on a picture that I am including in a post, this has no effect apart from highlighting that picture. I can no longer adjust its size. Some photos and graphics are a lot bigger than they need to be for a post; and so the ability to shrink them down a bit was very useful.
  6. Ferdinand Cesarano
    The Giants, Braves, and A's all encourage their fans in this direction. The A's use the Philadelphia white elephant logo, and the Braves have a Warren Spahn statue. The Giants have been most vocal about this lately, having brought their three recent World Series trophies to New York for display in their "former home" (in Larry Baer's own words), and having partially paid for the refurbishment of the outdoor stairway that stands near the Polo Grounds site and was installed by the New York Giants' owner. But the Dodgers, being the biggest of all these clubs, have kept the continuity up the strongest. It started early, when they filled the Coliseum for Roy Campanella Day in 1959. In 1972 at Dodger Stadium, they retired the numbers of Campanella and Jackie Robinson, neither of whom ever played in Los Angeles, alongside that of L.A. Dodgers star Sandy Koufax. (Note the Brooklyn hat on Campy, as opposed to the L.A. hat he sported in 1959.) In thinking about Kareem, a native New Yorker, who remained a Dodger fan even after the move, I can think of two other famous people who did the same: Larry King and Don Rickles. (One might be tempted to name Frank Sinatra here also. But in fact Sinatra had been a New York Giants fan as a kid; he started supporting the Dodgers only after they went to Los Angeles, and really embraced them after Lasorda became manager.) Side note: the Dodgers should take the L.A. logo off the sleeve. It clutters up a classic jersey, and stops the jersey from being identical to the jersey from the Brooklyn days.
  7. Ferdinand Cesarano
    Kareem in an L.A. Dodgers jersey with Jackie Robinson's no. 42 and a Brooklyn Dodgers cap. You can't see the cap from the front; but that Brand 47 cap uses the better Dodger cap logo with the circular loops in the B.
  8. Ferdinand Cesarano
    Mr. Jet in a Yankee uniform.
  9. Ferdinand Cesarano
    Well, having similar road scripts didn't bother the two teams once before. Anyway, what is the story behind that prototype Yankee road uniform?
  10. Ferdinand Cesarano
    If the standard is an all-time great for one team and very good for another team (as opposed to terrible for another team, as many of these late-career "wrong team" guys were), then Ty Cobb fits the bill. After having played 22 years with Detroit, Cobb played two more with the Philadelphia A's. His service with the A's is not long enough to allow him to be considered one of the club's all-time greats; but, still, he hit .357 and .323 for them in those years, at ages 40 and 41.
  11. Ferdinand Cesarano
    Apologies if the following has already been brought up in this thousand-page thread. As a result of the outrageous expansion of this topic beyond its few true exemplars out to the flimsy standard of "any guy who has ever been traded", as well as the parade of hockey players, all of whom are utterly unrecognisable to me regardless of uniform, I admit that my perception of the topic has become somewhat deadened. But here is a guy who ranks alongside Namath with the Rams and Killebrew with the Royals as one of the core illustrations of this phenomenon:
  12. Ferdinand Cesarano
    This reminds me of two other pitchers who made comebacks with their teams after those teams had changed uniforms. Mike Norris with the A's in 1990: Dave Stieb with the Blue Jays in 1998: Edited to add Jim Palmer in spring training of 1991:
  13. Ferdinand Cesarano
    That StL logo really works beautifully as a chest logo.
  14. Ferdinand Cesarano
    Actually, the White Sox started their current look in 1991 (though I believe they jumped the gun a bit and actually started wearing those unis in the waning days of the 1990 season). Ah, right you are! Thanks for the correction.
  15. Ferdinand Cesarano
    Rick Dempsey as Babe Ruth: Right team, right uniform, right number, wrong ... body?
  16. Ferdinand Cesarano
    The right uniform for Luke Appling: Kidding. Though that was a great moment, and probably the one single feat for which he is most remembered. (For you kiddies: at age 75 in 1982, he hit a home run against Warren Spahn in an Old-Timers' Game played at RFK Stadium.) But you make a great point about Appling's career. This is true for anyone who played a long time for the White Sox in any era, be it Appling, Ted Lyons, or Luis Aparicio. Even Carlton Fisk wore four different styles. The defining feature of the White Sox for their entire existence was their changing look. It's amazing that this came to a halt in 1̶9̶8̶7̶ [edit: 1991, or, more accurately, late 1990], when they adopted the uniforms that they still wear. The Sox have now completely turned it around, and have become one of the most stable teams, uniform-wise. Indeed, all four of the big uniform changes that came in for 1987 lasted a very long time. Three of them (Sox, Braves, A's) are still with us; and one (Twins) was around until only a couple of years ago. [Edit: @mpcincal has corrected my erroneous assertion that the current Sox uniform debuted in 1987.]
  17. Ferdinand Cesarano
    It's supposed to be so that you can get name+numbering done on any shirt at any shop in the world, since there's only 5 number colors for the whole league and pretty much any shop that customizes will carry the font. Plus it identifies the league, which is why the little logo is there, on top of making it harder for counterfeiters. personally I'm not a huge fan of it, especially limiting the colors available like the EPL does, which leads to disasters like gold numbers on shirts with volt trim or black numbers for teams that don't use black I don't like this either, because it seems to me that the choice of number font should be part of a team's look. This is why it is so comforting to see Champions League matches in which the teams' numbers contrast just as much as their colours do.
  18. Ferdinand Cesarano
    A team in the ABA 2000 is already using that (awful) name.
  19. Ferdinand Cesarano
    This could go in the "Team Names That are Also Names of People" thread.
  20. Ferdinand Cesarano
    I am getting the same error message when I try to use a URL. But why don't you just copy/paste the image? I don't mean copy the image's URL; copy the image itself, and then paste it here. Test: That is working for me.
  21. Ferdinand Cesarano
    For some of us, the hammer and sickle is a symbol of justice. I consider it one of the most meaningful and beautiful symbols I have ever seen, which is why I display it prominently at home, at work, on my bike, and frequently on a button affixed to my clothing. Someone of my ideology should sneer at commodification; but I will not deny that I find it cool to be able to have a hammer and sickle on my keychain or on a bag or on a cap. I wear any logo as a means to express something about myself; and the ability to wear a symbol which I love so much is something I greatly appreciate. In between the Soviet flag and another flag very beloved by me: the Esperanto flag.
  22. Ferdinand Cesarano
    That's me, the prolix proletarian.
  23. Ferdinand Cesarano
    (Fixed it for you.) (In the interest of accuracy, I will note that I fly the Soviet flag out of a profound respect for the Revolution, and also out of admiration for the establishment of the world's first workers' state. However, by the time Stalin's descent into madness was complete -- and certainly by the time the term "tankie" was created by apologists for American war crimes -- the workers' state in the Soviet Union had been crushed. Still, even in its degraded post-proletarian-state condition, the Soviet Union continued to do humanity a great service by functioning as a counterweight to U.S. imperialism.)
  24. Ferdinand Cesarano
    What's that mean? Just a little joke. When Dave Magadan was traded from the Marlins to the Mariners, this somehow caused me to conflate these two teams that had names and colours that were pretty close. For years I often said "Mariners" when I meant Marlins and "Marlins" when I meant Mariners. Eventually I got over it -- or so I thought! Blast you, Dave Magadan!
  25. Ferdinand Cesarano
    Oops! Marlins, Mariners -- whatever. Call it the "Dave Magadan Syndrome".
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