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  1. MilSox
    Most of the uniforms look great on the field. I might even say they have a better good to bad ratio than the NFL. But I can't help but think some of a lot of these colors wound up on the wrong team. LA's colors belong on Tampa, Dallas' colors belong on Houston, and New York's colors belong on LA. My biggest gripe is that some of the helmet colors really clash with the road uniforms. Looking at you LA and Tampa. But in Tampa's case I love the colors so much that I'll overlook it. I'd like to imagine that's what the Minnesota North Stars would be wearing if they were still around.
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    Yeah. Can't say I'm a fan of the last couple identities they unveiled. I hope it doesn't become a trend because, at this point, being a league full of teams with (mostly) "normal" names really makes them stand out amongst the lower levels of baseball. Especially when a surprisingly large amount of them (Mallards, Honkers, Woodchucks, Loggers, etc.) actually carry on a "Northwoods" theme.
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    Maybe we're just spoiled in this part of the country where the Northwoods League has avoided the fly by night reputation of a lot of college summer leagues and has actually proven to be more stable than many affiliated minor leagues. Something they've done with a league full of teams with dignified identities..... and the Green Bay Booyah.
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    That would make it the perfect name if they actually were an indoor soccer team.
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    I may or may not take advantage of this. I don't particularly want to use my actual name, but couldn't think of a username I thought would stand out and not be lame.
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    Any chance we can get the spot marked where Jerry Rice totally didn't fumble and forced the NFL to bring back instant replay?
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    The WS could just as easily stand for White Sox, or at least some variation (WinSox? Wind Sox?). Dash sounds like a 1980s indoor soccer team.
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    It's also what they currently wear, and regardless of what happened this weekend, the Bills are on the rise.
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    It's really best to think of the Bills as a blue and white team with red trim. I don't mind them switching it up with a red jersey every now and then, but the red pants have got to go. As does the unnecessary navy muddling up a look that would otherwise be one of the best in the league.
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    The Bills helmet is perfect as is. It's not associated with losing Super Bowls, and the just subtle enough tapered helmet stripe stops it from being a revival of the helmet worn by one of America's most notorious (alleged) murderers. (Who wore the red standing buffalo in his signature season, anyway.)
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    The Packers managed to post a 2-0 record over the Lions for the 2019 season. This, despite holding a lead over the Lions for exactly two plays over both games... the final play of each one.
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    Not as much as I loved using them in RBI Baseball. SN: Angels In The Outfield is the last time the Ball-in-Glove appeared in a major motion picture. One of the kids is wearing their hat in the scene where Glover is playing baseball with the boys and their friends. Unless there's an obscure scene in Mr. 3000 where it appeared that I'm forgetting.
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    There is the matter of two hockey teams that played a grand total of six seasons in Richfield. I'm not sure I've ever read anything in-depth on either one that didn't cite the Coliseum's location as a major reason for their failure.
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    The interstate system led to a lot of terrible ideas with infrastructure in low density areas, and the Richfield Coliiseum is one of my go-tos when making this point. The idea was that if they put a venue equidistant from Cleveland and Akron, it could draw crowds from two cities rather than one. So, naturally, the exact opposite happened. Because no one considered that people don't want to commute such a distance to see a game on a weeknight.
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    I think the fact that we're even having this debate at all is proof that it has. Even outside of Disney, The OC was a big enough phenomenon that it made "OC" part for the American lexicon. Even if you weren't a fan of that show (which I wasn't), you still knew what it was referring to.
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    None of those places have Disney. I think a lot of people making this argument are sleeping on what a game changer that is. It makes Anaheim more comparable to Orlando than Pontiac. I'm not saying Anaheim is necessarily what the Angels should call themselves (I'm Team California, FWIW), and I know they'll probably never be anything but Los Angeles because there's too much of a financial incentive. It doesn't change the fact that they have almost no fans in LA proper.
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    Chicago and Green Bay, maybe? It's frequently turned into a proxy war for urban America vs rural America.
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    Gee, that's original and clever and totally not applicable to Vikings fans living literally anywhere but the Twin Cities. Why don't you twist the knife all the way and call them the Fudge Packers? Besides, John Deeres come from hated Illinois. So there's also that.
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    The Packers don't need to look like they're John Deere's football team.
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    I was hoping for Ruby Legs, but I'm actually okay with this. Though I wonder if that's not because Brandiose has set the bar so low that simply borrowing the parent club's brand feels sensible and dignified. EDIT: I don't mean for that to take away from the phenomenal job they did here, which might actually be the new gold standard by which I judge how a parent club's identity becomes localized. The local Woo Sox tie-ins don't feel forced and are charmingly appropriate for minor league ball.
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    I may need to obtain one of these.
  22. MilSox
    Love it! Although, the Admirals have a bit of the same identity crisis that the Brewers just corrected. These would actually be some cool colors on the current brand.
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    What if the team was named the Los Angeles Stars from the get go and treated as a merger of the old PCL clubs? California Stars and Anaheim Stars would sound a lot better than a name that only makes sense when it's attached to LA.
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    Frankly, the surprise is that we'll make it to 2020 with 2 teams in the SF Bay Area. Las Vegas is far from a sure thing, but I have to say I was impressed at how much Knights paraphernalia I saw last time I was out there. I'm sure their insane first year helped, but I was impressed with how much they've embraced that team. It'd be interesting to see if they could support 3 team who moved there pretty much back to back to back.
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    ^That's just about every "trendy" MiLB brand. I still say this is an incredibly rare instance of one actually working. Whether or not it has the staying power to crawl into Toldeo Mud Hens or Albuquerque Isotopes territory remains to be seen. But I'd still bet on Rocket City Trash Pandas before anything else we've seen of this nature.
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