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  1. I’m… surprisingly okay with this. Was there an opportunity to use more iconic Baltimore signage that t-shirt stands outside the stadium have been incorporating into O’s/Ravens designs for decades now? Of course. But all in all it could be so, so much worse. The all-black really does allow the cuffs (and the orange names on the back) to pop. And the cursive B is a great alt cap. Nothing should replace the cartoon bird for the foreseeable future but the cursive B is a good complement to the “O’s” cap. Overall, it’s a Nike alternate. It could be so much worse.
  2. The best thing you out can say about these is that they’re better than the previous set. Which is an all-timer in terms of low bars to clear. The definition of “meh.” I am thoroughly whelmed.
  3. Just would like to come on here and complain about NFL+, I'm hoping when the Sunday Ticket contract ends next year NFL+ essentially becomes that, but it's so stupid that the only way to pay a flat fee to watch any NFL game I want is through a satellite dish company. I recently moved out of the MD area and I just want to be able to watch the Ravens. That really shouldn't be that hard in our era of streaming services. I don't even care if I have to pay for another streaming service. As of now you're essentially paying $5 a month to watch games you could watch on TV on your laptop, or out of market radio broadcasts.
  4. I think it might be time to make the switch. The white-paneled home caps carry a lot of good memories for me (and I would wager most O’a fans) as they were initially introduced in 2012, the first time the O’s had been good in 15 years, so that season is definitely special. But I think the black road cap just looks better. Something about the Orioles in a black cap with an orange brim at home just looks right.
  5. That Cubs hat is great but MLB is off their rocker if they think I'm paying $44 for it.
  6. And this is my first time hearing that people strongly dislike the blue alt. It’s not flashy but I think it’s a tasteful alternate for such a classic franchise.
  7. When we said we wanted the one-helmet rule gone, it was so that Washington could wear a blank faux-leather helmet with their throwbacks. Not for any of this crap. At this point teams are just doing it for the social media clicks, confirmed. We heard no rumblings about Bears or Cards alt helmets and then suddenly poof, two iconic helmets are supplanted by a 3D-printed fire emoji. EDIT: “Midnight black facemask signals dark intentions”?? “Galactic black fire sky shell”??????? Oh my goodness for the love of all that is good on this earth please shut up.
  8. Man, beating the Yankees and then seeing their fans go into meltdown mode claiming they immediately need to trade for 4 players or the team is going nowhere just never gets old.
  9. It looks like a ridiculous overpay by Florida at first glance. But Huberdeau and Weegar are both on expiring contracts and Tkachuk just signed an 8-year extension with Florida. So it’s probably still an overpay, but perhaps not as gross of one as you’d think at first glance.
  10. With the quality of play to match!
  11. Not really, but what I meant is that it seemed to have a chokehold on sports aesthetics in the early to mid 2000’s (black Royals, A’s and Jays come to mind), then it sort of faded for a little bit. It never went away but it didn’t seem to be so much in the zeitgeist. Now with the 2nd helmet nonsense we have at least four teams (Commies, Eagles, Panthers, and Jets, can’t remember if I’m forgetting anyone) that have released all-black looks and only one of them (Eagles) has any sort of loose right to be able to use black. It’s back, baby, and this time it seems like it’s taking over the NFL instead of MLB.
  12. Just awful. BFBS returning in full force has been one of the worst parts (among many) of the uniform trends of the last 5 or so years.
  13. I’m torn. These uniforms are objectively better then the bland Eli-era ones. But my first thought when I saw them was “they look like the Bills,” even though the Giants have just as much claim to royal blue with white and red numbers as they do. If it were up to me they’d keep the LT-era template but color match the blue to the navy helmet.
  14. I know we’re kind of piling on TY here, but I just want to say that I for one appreciate his posts. Because sometimes I need a reminder of why I hate the Yankees so much.
  15. Caps probably slightly overpaid for Darcy but they haven’t had an actual solid starting goalie since 2018 Braden Holtby went nuclear in the playoffs and before that he was shaky enough to make Grubauer start Games 1+2 of R1, so not even sure if that counts. Hopefully this stabilizes the net for us. There have been other moves that the Caps community in general seems excited about, like signing Dylan Strome and trading for Connor Brown. I’m not much of an NHL fan these days, I follow the Caps scores but I don’t really know if these middle/bottom six guys are any good, but it seems encouraging that GMBM knows that Ovi has a year or two more of legitimate competing left in him so I’m glad to see him go all out for it. There’s going to be an inevitable rebuild/dry period when Ovi retires/gets too old so might as well go all in now.
  16. This. This is how the Oilers should look. You can make the argument for navy and orange looking better objectively (Tbf I do think their away jersey was beautiful) or navy and copper fitting the name better. It doesn’t matter. None of it matters. These jerseys are the Oilers. When I think of the Oilers, I think of these jerseys. If you want to throw in an orange alt or a navy alt or do whatever with the third jersey, be my frickin’ guest. But for the love of all that is good on this earth please just keep these as the primaries from now on.
  17. If they wear the silver pants regularly, it's instantly a top 10 set in the league.
  18. The Browns begged for a competent QB for 20 years. And when they finally got one, they ran him out of town before his rookie contract expired for a sexual predator. That organization is rotten from the inside out. Shows how much success is dependent on not just players and coaches, but also the infrastructure of a franchise as well.
  19. The auto-intentional walk is one of those things where my first instinct is to say, "the end result is the same, you're not changing that much, it's insignificant to the game in the long run, so why complain?" But conversely, all of those reasons also apply to "why change it in the first place?" It's change for the sake of change.
  20. The volt is easily the worst part of those uniforms. I agree that a straight swap for yellow would make them absolute modern classics. Shame that Nike Nike’d it up
  21. I came around majorly on the Avs' blue equipment this postseason. I was pretty firmly set on Team Black Equipment, but after seeing it for a few years now the blue equipment is easily superior. Honestly what did it was that Twitter post the Avs put out that was linked like 10 pages ago that had a player in blue equipment next to a player in black equipment, and when I saw the black equipment I thought it was an edited photo to make the shorts and helmet look like a locked feature in a video game for some reason. All this to say, though, the absolute weakest part of the Avs' whole identity now is the blue numbers on the away jersey. Maybe it's because of the burgundy outlines, or maybe it's just because I got so used to dark colored numbers on the roads, but those light blue numbers are really tough to look at for me. It ruins the look for me. I feel like I'd almost prefer them to just use burgundy numbers and risk an overabundance of burgundy. Then again, maybe what the road uniform needs is not a silver outline on the numbers but that extra blue stripe to not make the numbers feel so out of place.
  22. The Avs just won a Stanley Cup with an average goalie who didn’t go nuclear in the playoffs. That alone shows how good they are.
  23. And blowing up that logo to 3x the size of a normal sleeve logo and placing it on the shoulders instead of the sleeves only exacerbates the issue. I continue to fail to see what everyone else seems to see in the Bledsoe-era uniforms.
  24. Idk. If I was an Avs fan I’d be terrified. All the Lightning need to do is win one home game to force a Game 7 where experience and grit usually win out over inexperienced talent. They’re obviously still in a good position to take the Cup but tonight was a golden opportunity and they didn’t keep the boot on the throat long enough.
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