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  1. On 5/9/2022 at 1:53 PM, FiddySicks said:


    Arizona works for people from Chicago and other areas around the Midwest. They’re already used to spending half of their time indoors because it’s too miserable to be outside. They just change the time of year they do that when they move south. 

     

    It's only a certain breed of Midwesterner who finds Arizona appealing. I get Vegas. I even get Florida. But living somewhere that unbearably hot which lacks both Vegas' quality of nightlife and amenities, and Florida's access to big bodies of water would never be on my radar.

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  2. 12 hours ago, tBBP said:

    Not that we need any more double-blue teams in pro sports, but...is there a good reason why the Brewers couldn't make that their primary colorway??

     

    As long as it included gold, I don't see why not. They existed for a whole decade and a half before they even wore gray. 

     

    I've said it several times before. The Brewers and Royals are the teams that belong in powder blue. 

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  3. On 5/6/2022 at 3:53 PM, Discrim said:

    Man... I'm just old enough to remember when my home phone was a 414 number rather than 262.  Had no idea Green Bay used to be 414 too.

     

    Even the 608 (Madison, La Crosse) was 414 at one time. Essentially, 414 and 715 were the two original Wisconsin codes and "the line" was run through the state diagonally. So southern and eastern Wisconsin got 414, while northern and western Wisconsin got 715.

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  4. 1 hour ago, sconbon said:


    Yeah but what do you know about my 920 area code... moved to Texas 8 years ago and I refuse to give it up haha.

     

    My mom grew up in Manitowoc County. I remember her being annoyed at having to dial 10 digits rather than 7 to talk to her siblings haha.

     

    But 920 and 865 (Knoxville) are probably my favorite non-traditional area codes (the middle digit is always 1 or 0 in traditional codes). 920 because it was chosen in honor of my favorite football player of all time, and 865 because it actually spells VOL on the keypad. Which also happens to be where Reggie White played college ball.

     

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  5. As the literal target audience for this, I'm giving it a thumbs up so far.

     

    Yes, all cities have area codes, but it actually means something to have a 414 number in Milwaukee. To where the last time I had to switch numbers well over a decade ago, I demanded another 414 number. 

     

    In fact, the culture of SE Wisconsin can pretty much be defined in terms of 414 vs 262. Which makes me a little surprised they went that route. Since most of their season ticket holders are from the 262.

     

    Also, I think the Brewers kinda have a history of hiding things in their cap logo. 

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  6. 17 hours ago, the admiral said:

    The Mets don't look great in colored jerseys for whatever reason. They need to stick to white (pinstripes) or grey. Maybe it's a Serious New York Team thing.

     

    Colored tops with pinstripes have always been a major pet peeve of mine.

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  7. On 5/1/2022 at 8:29 PM, Marlins93 said:

    I never liked the Mets BFBS look and I am annoyed that they brought it back. Having said that, their black jerseys look much better with the blue piping.

     

    I'm not a huge fan myself. I prefer them in blue and orange. But at least the Mets have a tenuous claim to not being BFBS, since their uniforms are supposed to be made from elements of the Giants, Dodgers, and Yankees.

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  8. On 4/26/2022 at 3:39 PM, coco1997 said:


    Not a bad idea, but I feel that looks too "modern" for a hypothetical 1974 uniform. I was trying to find photos of the Boston Marathon finish line from that year (or even any year before then) but no such luck.

     

    Saw the Boston Marathon for the first time in 1991. They were using the stencil mark at least that far back. Its pretty iconic locally, as are the blue and yellow colors. Which is why it was chosen for the City Connect. 

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  9. 7 hours ago, VikWings said:

     

    the forcing of black into because of a championship won in tshirts that should have never existed makes it worse.

     

    It peeves me for the same reason that the Bucks won their chip in those terrible black jerseys when they had so many other timeless options. 

     

    Granted, compared to Cleveland we got off pretty easy.

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  10. 4 minutes ago, SCL said:

    The highlighter decision just scream Hawks of the prior rebrand, as know as a look destined for a short shelf life. I can't believe they didn't learn from the baby blue and navy era trainwreck. If you misjudge your brand that drastically you might as well move on from Jazz entirely.

     

    Not to mention their last color pallette was a perfect blend of their past and present. They still looked like the same team Stockton and Malone played for. 

     

    These say neither "Utah" nor "Jazz" to me. 

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  11. 12 hours ago, Sec19Row53 said:

    Back to my examples-- do enough people know Milwaukee as Cream City? It seems too local to me

     

    12 hours ago, mjd77 said:

     

    When the Bucks introduced their new logos and Cream City Cream as one of their colors...that was honestly the first time in my life I had ever heard  the Cream City reference, and I've lived within an hour or so from Milwaukee pretty much my entire life.

     

    19th century baseball clubs in Milwaukee were known as the Cream Citys before they were known as the Brewers, so its always been a thing.

    But a lot of the hip trendy businesses that started to spring up around Milwaukee in the early 2000s or so started pushing Cream City, since Brew City still sorta had the stigma of marking us as the lame city from Laverne & Shirley.

  12. 6 hours ago, itsmb8 said:

     

    Sorry for the double post, but you can count me as a +1 to this.  The Brewers will always be my #1 team in all of sports, but living in Chicago my entire life has 100% led to me adopting the Sox as my AL team.  And I know a lot of Sox fans here as well that think highly of the Brewers.  Its a real mix of the Sox playing in Milwaukee before Selig moved the Pilots, the tailgating common interest, and the mutual hatred for the Cubs.

     

    It really is wild to think how close we were to having the Mil Sox. Or that the Sox are literally the reason why the Brewers exist. Hell, add Bill Veeck to the list of things that connects the Sox to Milwaukee.

    Can I ask how you became a Brewers fan in Chicago?  

     

    2 hours ago, CaliforniaGlowin said:

    Please don't give us a series of "_____ City" jerseys.

     

    I'm not a Brewers fan but I liked their beer colored jersey.  Unique color and unique to them.

     

    For me, the litmus test is how closely the "_____ City" name ties into the team's identity.

    In the case of the Astros and possibly the Brewers... pretty much on the nose.

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  13. 5 hours ago, Brian E said:

    what i don't get is why baseball decided to go this big. all uni ads look like garbage, but comparative to the NBA (the size of which really doesn't bother me that much) it really does looks terrible..

     

    Probably because baseball owners somehow manage to give even less of a s--t about their fans than all other sports owners. 

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  14. 5 hours ago, Toodles1980 said:

    The Bucks have sorta taken the mantle of "Milwaukee's team" IMO, and really leaned hard into being a Milwaukee specific team. The Brewers have sorta trended the other way, trying to reach out to the state. I'm hoping the Brewers reverse this trend with a city specific concept, but I'm not holding my breath. 

     

    You're not wrong. I've always found it odd that Wisconsin acts like the whole state has a mutually supportive fanbase. Reality is that such a thing only exists for the Packers. Or the Badgers when they're in a B1G Championship, or something like the Rose Bowl or the Final/Frozen Four.

     

    Out of the Milwaukee teams, the Brewers were always the one that's more acceptable to the rest of the state. Especially since they affiliated with the MiLB club in the Fox Cities.

     

    The Bucks tried to replicate that by putting the Wisconsin Herd down the road, but in hindsight, they'd have been mich better off taking the Racine bid.

     

    That said, I can only only hope the Brewers have learned from the Bucks. And the people's flag being the Brewers plus powder blue makes them understand the direction they need to go in. 

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  15. 1 hour ago, Carolingian Steamroller said:

    @NicDB I didn't want to say that but I've personally found that to be quite correct.

     

    When I first started visiting Milwaukee I found it to be a smaller version of Chicago. There's definitely a lot of cultural exchange with Milwaukee residents coming South and Chicagoans going North. Lots of similar neighborhoods, sights, restaurants, etc. (I made my coffee this morning with beans from Collectivo.)

     

    As I'm sure you know, at least half the population of Chicago isn't fond of the Cubs either. There's also the commonality that Brewers and White Sox fans both tailgate before games. Though last time I tailgated we brought fried shrimp from Lawrence Fishery rather than grill.

     

    100 percent. In fact since moving down here, I've been pleasantly amused at the amount of Sox fans I've met who made the Brewers their NL rooting interest because I started following the Sox a lot more closely since I decided to move here. Frank Thomas was my favorite non Brewer back in the day and my grandpa was a southsider who lived near one of their farm clubs when I was growing up. So I saw a lot of their prospects in the 80s.

     

    Either way... I want a Hiawatha Series!

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  16. 29 minutes ago, Carolingian Steamroller said:

     

    I'm sure enough stacks would blow that it would be visible from space. 

     

     

    This is something that I find legitimately fascinating. Milwaukee is very different civically and culturally from other parts of Wisconsin, even other urban areas. It's closest to Madison, but the capital has its own thing going between the seat of governance and U of W. Milwaukee is very, very different from Green Bay.

     

    It's not quite as distinct from the rest of its home state as Chicago is (once you're past the outer suburbs Illinois turns into Kentucky), but it would be very cool if the Brewers leaned into Milwaukee's specific character.

     

    A lot of people might not like hearing this, but as someone from Milwaukee and lived in Green Bay for a couple years before moving to Chicago, Chicago and Milwaukee have waaay more in common with each other than they do with anywhere else in their own states. If not for an arbitrarily placed state border where Chicago's suburbs overlap Milwaukee's, we'd be thinking of them the way we think of Dallas-Fort Worth or San Francisco-Oakland.

     

    I think it's more than the usual urban/rural divide because if I had to choose somewhere in Wisconsin that I thought was the most like Milwaukee, I wouldn't go with Madison or Green Bay. I'd go with Kenosha or Racine, one of the smaller cities on the way to Chicago. Even comparing Kenosha to Green Bay, even though they're the same size and both industrial cities on the Wisconsin lakeshore, it becomes obvious which one is 45 minutes in either direction from a bigger city and a global mega city, and which one is surrounded by a bunch of cows and deer, but they have football.

     

    Either way, I think the Amtrak's popularity is proof enough that Milwaukee doesn't share the same attitudes towards Chicago as most of Wisconsin. I can't say I've even known too many people from Milwaukee who hated Chicago..... we just don't like those f-ing Cubbies!

    Anyway, thank you for listening to my TED Talk.

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  17. I almost hesitate to mention this since I REALLY love both of your Padres uniforms. But your Rockies uniforms made me realize all of these markets were in the Pacific Coast League at one point, and I'll bet you could come up with some phenomenal designs such as the Dodgers as the Hollywood Stars or the Giants as the San Francisco Seals. Or taking a classic PCL Padres uniform and slapping on the flamboyant colors the MLB Padres are known for. 

     

    Also, long live the Phoenix Firebirds. That was one of the coolest MiLB names ever.I'll bet they'd look awesome in purple & teal. Or, since the Diamondbacks represent all of Arizona, you could look into some of the Tucson teams. You could go with an old Sidewinders uniform if you wanted to keep the snake theme. Or... you could put your spin on these notorious doozys....

     

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  18. 4 hours ago, Carolingian Steamroller said:

    There's a lot of interesting stuff for the Brewers to go with:

     

    Destination for German Immigrants.

     

    Hot bed of Socialist governance in America.

     

    Industrial center for not just beer but also tools and motorcycles.

     

    Beautiful river and lakefronts.

     

    Magnificent, winged art museum.

     

    America's largest consumer of brandy.

     

    Not only macro breweries but widespread microbrew culture.

     

    Good times.

     

    As much as I'd love to see a socialist themed uniform set since it's legitimately one of the most interesting aspects of Milwaukee, no way are the Brewers gonna risk the tantrums from the season ticket holders from the WOW Counties.

     

     

     

    2 hours ago, Sec19Row53 said:

    You forgot the Bronze Fonz.

    I'm kidding - they better not do it. I'd love a Harley tie-in, but that is unlikely. Calatrava would be a cool base. I'll be that @NicDB has it right and it's the People's Flag.

     

    UGH... the only thing worse than the Bronz Fonz would be a Laverne & Shirley themed set. 

     

    In all seriousness, I think if they didn't go with the people's flag, they'd go with the Calatrava since it also ticks a lot of boxes that @Carolingian Steamroller pointed out. Only problem is now that I see the Royals' leaks, I don't know how the Brewers would pull off such a thing without looking too similar.

     

    2 hours ago, McCall said:

    And cheese.

     

    The dairy industry really doesn't have much of a presence in Milwaukee. The fancy cheese shops in places like Public Market and the Deer District are about it. 

     

    There's a reason why even though Brewers fans invented cheeseheads as an inside joke, it was Packers fans who took off and ran with them.

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