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Something kinda similar to keep in mind: Note the flat finish helmet.

Are they using red or navy blue baselayers/socks?

Maybe that's just my limited sample size. When I lived up there in the mid 2000's, it was the Chicago transplants driving what little Cub interest I saw with Milwaukee lifers frustrated with the folks coming up 94 buying up the tickets to Miller Park for Cubs/Brewers games. Or maybe I'm underestimating just how many transplants there are up North.

Common myth. The city proper has a slight majority Sox fan base. It's the surrounding suburbs and out of state crowd where the Cubs dominate. (Side Note: Not many Cubs fans North of the border aside from Chicago/suburban students at Marquette and UW Madison and downstate Illinois becomes Cardinal country reaaaaaal quick.)

Counterpoint:

So it's a general East Coast thing to Memory Hole 2005. I thought it was just ESPN.

One detail I'd like to point out in how sports aesthetics traditionally (in the sense of most common usage over the past 150 years) align in terms of color is look at fabric type for each piece of equipment. In sports where the historical aesthetic was matching shirt/pants you usually see that apparel being made of the same or similar fabric such as baseball and basketball. Where you see sports that change material from one article to the next, like football and hockey, you tend to see changes in color. This is how you get a white-over-white or grey-over-grey baseball uniform verses a team color-over-white football uniform. It's not a hard and fast rule but as we've seen, it's often hard to match colors when you move from one media (like a durene jersey) to another (like stretch spandex pants). Interesting enough, baseball has seen a bigger shift in the last two decades in changing fabric types from jersey to pants. I know it did cause some issues early on but its gotten much much better.

"Softball" refers more to beer league or rec league softball, where a dark jersey or teeshirt is worn over either generic white/grey pants or jeans/shorts. Besides, monochrome, especially navy blue monochrome, is really old in major league baseball.

That goes back to my first point that having already brought in the matching navy pants, to me it would be a massive downgrade to shift to a softball top set. The monochrome navy looks really great, especially with the powder blue striping. It even works with Cubs history.

A few reasons: 1. Monochrome, especially mono navy, is awesome in my opinion. The Cubs even go the extra mile with matching and contrasting powder blue undersleeves, belts, and striped socks. Contrasting sleeves/socks with matching jerseys and pants is how a baseball uniform is designed to look and its refreshing to see a team roll with it. 2. If the Cubs were to go with their current pinstripes, you'd have a third shade of blue in the mix and that just wouldn't work. If they were to make the pinstripes navy or powder blue or go with white pants with a single powder blue stripe, that would be better, but now you'd be adding a second pair of white pants with no matching white jersey. Other teams have done it but unless you're the San Diego Padres, I don't like it.

Horrible idea.

Given how slim and easy to heat seal or glue on, I'm a little surprised we don't see more sleeveless designs with patches. Probably incredibly fast with today's tech to just run a bunch of base layers or different lengths for players. I don't know how many they go through in a given season but they don't do a new one every game right?

The letter "J" in our alphabet is just a capitalized "I." In the Classical and Medieval periods, there was no distinction. Elongating and curving the bottom of the vertical was just a way to make it more distinctive when writing with a quill nib. In modern Italian, there isn't even a "J" in use except for loan words with the soft "Gi" or "Ge" being used to represent the J sound. It's why you see inscriptions in churches that say INRI over the crucifix (Iesus Nazerenus Rex Iudaeorum). It's also where we get the great gag in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. "Idiot! In Latin Jehovah begins with an "I"."

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Stares in Articles of Confederation.

One thing that's interesting is how different the wordmarks are. You get some teams where the mark is really short and tall so it fills the space well vertically but leaves a lot of horizontal space. You get marks like the old Eagles arched lettering that leaves negative space. I wonder if it might be an interesting idea to kinda do what Madden used to do which was use the teams regular home end zone designs. Maybe just ask them to apply a team color as the base but let the team greenskeepers have a go at it. With two different groups doing the end zones there's a slight chance of a "Who are the Chefs" moment but it would be cool to see the two clubs contrasted more directly.

1. I don't know if it's really 2 BPs but the Spring hats are out and the white/grey split might just be fashion. 2. Looks like trucker hat style on the back. Very vinyl feel. 3. To make it easier on the suppliers, Nike wants teams to limit their "regular" uniforms to 4 jerseys, not including 1 City Connect.

Wear it full time on the road. I like KC's road greys. I like all of their stuff that they brought in last year. But this would be such a bold move.

Not a terrible idea. Could work in the right context. We give a lot of leeway to the Astros Tequila Sunrise.

I think if there's going to a particular reorganizing of incentives with the 4+1 format its going to be in favor of making more substantive changes more frequently. I think recently teams have used the addition of new jerseys as a way to slow drip or beta test new ideas or designs. With adding a new jersey requiring the swapping out of an old one, that would means either a willingness to drop the old jersey or just opting for a full rebrand.

That was a weird year for the Cubs generally.

Remember when the Padres tried to go with only the brown over sand road uniform and MLB said "No you still need a clash kit for the road" so they cobbled together their AWESOME road pinstripes on the fly? Is that policy still in place?

Do you like the idea of the Cubs featuring red on the road but don't want to attract similarities to St. Louis? Well do I have a solution for you:

Do you really want the answer?