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MilSox

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  1. .........but they wonder why they're consistently ranked the most intolerable fanbase in baseball. #TheCardinalWay
  2. This feels sacrilegious... I can't seem to muster up any reaction other than KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!! Would've served St. Louis right though, to be stuck with the Browns after they stole the original Brewers. ? Still, crazy to think how close this was to actually happening. Quality work, as usual!
  3. That Beacons concept is everything the Rays should be doing with those colors. Nice work!
  4. Damn, you weren't lying... there's a LOT of Milwaukee here! And is that a Milwaukee White Sox concept I see in the wings? Apart from the St. Louis Browns actually moving back to Milwaukee as Bill Veeck wanted, that's one alt history scenario I really wish could have happened.
  5. I could tolerate those colors for the Wizards. It was the name I didn't care for. The Caps always felt like change for the sake of change, though. I prefer what they wear now.
  6. Found this at my local Five Below. Couldn't resist picking it up. There's better quality pinball-style baseball games if you're willing to spend some money on one, but this is incredibly good for $5. The swing mechanic is even better than some of the more expensive versions I've played.
  7. Fun fact. This is based on an arcade game manufactured by Service Games (Sega) in the 1960s.
  8. I've said for awhile, this uniform on a modern (traditional?) template would not be a bad look. Though they could probably use some piping.
  9. I don't blame you. On its own, it's a good looking hat. Not its fault that the uniforms its worn with are a well polished turd. ?
  10. I like the Rangers entire identity. I wouldn't be upset if they changed the cap logo to be more consistent with the scripts, but it's a good look overall. I can even deal with the colors since they're the colors of the Texas flag and the Rangers have incorporated it into their uniforms.
  11. Just Miller Park. The Selig family was the team's only owner until 2004 when Mark Attanasio bought it.
  12. Yeah, if it were to be brought back, I'd prefer to see it with the current "SOX" monogram.
  13. Take away the disco collar and this isn't a bad uniform. I wouldn't mind seeing a fauxback version of this on a modern template.
  14. We are. I'm just using your point as a jumpoff point to make mine to the BiG detractors... that there was no reason for the Brewers to rebrand so close to the club's first major overhaul which yielded some pretty nice uniforms in their own right. It was just a cynical cash grab to tie in with the move to Miller Park. Now, with the success of the Blue Jays and Astros rebrands, on top of the Brewers fauxbacks, most fans have it set in stone what they want.
  15. They had a potentially timeless rebrand. But they didn't give it enough of a chance to establish itself, and now it's associated only with the worst era of Brewers baseball. You can't blame fans for wanting to return to the BiG when their retro fauxback easily outclasses every other uniform that's currently at their disposal. Which also happens to be their best option at this point. Because you can only rebrand so many times before you become a team with no discernible identity... for which that "other" Milwaukee team is a perfect example.
  16. Not in the Texas League. The Burlington Bees and Salt Lake Bees don't seem to have any problems co-existing. And they have the same parent club.
  17. Long Haulers... I guess. But wouldn't a better name for a Route 66-based identity be, I dunno... 66ers? I miss when MiLB clubs had dignified identities.
  18. I dig all of the Germanic looks. Perhaps if the BiG hadn't been immortalized by the greatest moments in franchise history, I'd be advocating for a return to those. But SFGiants58 hit the nail on the head, and I don't think that's something people understand unless you've spent some time here. When you're more over than Bucky Badger in Wisconsin's biggest city, it's just plain foolish to not embrace it and run with it. I would put the Brewers fauxbacks in that category. They may not be as historically significant as the NYC-rooted clubs, but you can put them in any era and they wouldn't look out of place.
  19. Another reason I hate the current Brewers identity.... it was literally change for the sake of change and got rid of this potentially timeless look way too quickly. Instead, it has only the painful post-Robin Yount years to be associated with. I play a lot of Ken Griffey Jr. on the SNES though too, so I have a soft spot for this one.
  20. I would argue they can get away with it precisely because the name is so relevant to the region. Plus, the BiG has the added advantage of steering clear from any imagery that could be construed as marketing alcohol to kids... not that I see that happening anytime soon in a place like Wisconsin. We think nothing of getting hammered at a toddler's birthday party, FFS!
  21. My point about the W is that the scripts would be a lot more legible without the drop shadows. But because of the cap logo, it needs them in order to match. I just wonder how many tweaks you have to make before you end up with something different enough to justify scrapping the entire thing. I get the feeling that a lot of Brewers fans are sick of the current identity simply because of the perception that it keeps getting forced on us when its obvious what the fans prefer. But I'm gonna go off on a tangent now because this is the unpopular opinions thread... I don't actually mind when baseball teams combine their city and nickname for a cap monogram. I'll admit my biases as a BiG loyalist are at play here. But I also logged in a lot of hours playing Super Baseball Simulator 1.000 as a tween and teen, which made me curious about Japanese baseball where this is a much more common practice. Yomiuri Giants: Chunichi Dragons: Yakult Swallows: Hanshin Tigers: In some cases, the "city" is actually the corporation that sponsors the team. The Yomiuri Giants for example, play at the Tokyo Dome and wear scripts that actually say "TOKYO" on their road greys.
  22. If that were true, it would only be popular with the over 30 crowd. Not people who don't remember or weren't even around for the BiG's original run. It's the cleverness of the hidden "mb" that's allowed it to endure. I would also have to disagree that only a "few" tweaks would be needed to make the current identity work. You'd have to start by getting rid of that goofy MS Word number font. The current gold doesn't contrast well enough with gray, making it a muddled mess on the road unis. The scripts are unbalanced to accommodate numbers, which is a flaw in their design. Those half-assed droptails look goofy, yet don't actually work when extended all the way (several attempts at this have been made in the concepts forum). Even the blue Milwaukee jerseys exposed another design flaw... that weird blob behind the W that's needed to accommodate the drop shadow. I also feel the current M really only works when you pair it with that heavily flawed identity package. You can't really pair it with other scripts the way you can with the BiG. Wheat can come in all different shades of gold, depending on age, texture, and lighting.
  23. If that logo looked a bit more like this I might agree with you. But as it is, no one can say the BiG is somehow more outdated than the "current" early 00s drop-shadowed mess of a logo. I know that's not necessarily what you're saying here, but it's the most common reason I hear for why people should prefer the newer stuff.
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