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Maroon

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  1. Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame. Or the "Indy Shrimp Cocktails." Although the existing Jumbo Shrimp team may have warded that off. But the real question for the Pork Tenderloin Sandwiches is if the cap logo would include mustard or mayo.
  2. Really a big fan of these alternates. And the fact that it actually plays off the city nickname rather than a gimmick is super appealing.
  3. Really like these. The Soldiers and Sailors Monument is a fantastic centerpiece to a great city. I like the solid blue pullover jersey, the recolored logo, and the pinstripe pants to boot. May want to amend the article title to correct the city name's spelling, though.
  4. Thank you! I really like the logo as well but I also thought something was off. It's the eyes. I don't know if they need eyeballs or what would make it better necessarily, but they don't really look like yes to me. Maybe they're slightly misplaced or too small?
  5. Like certain aspects of it, dislike other aspects. Really could have done without the moon and stars on the nose. That's never gonna show up on a cap or any smaller embroidered logo and it really doesn't add anything.
  6. Agreed. I know some college baseball players from Missouri State who were drafted, and their twitter bios rarely (if ever) mention the minor league team they happen to be playing for at the time - and even if it did, they'd have to change it whenever they moved to a new team. Instead, it says something like "Pitcher in the Padres system" or "In the Cardinals minor league system." These players may like their minor league teams, they may even enjoy living in those towns, but they identify with the big league club that picked them in the draft and that is developing them as they aim for the big leagues.
  7. Maybe they're not automatically known for something else because there's nothing there to do, so without something better to do they end up brewing beer in their spare time?
  8. New around here, and just created my signature so I figured I'd go ahead and make my post explaining my mix of Missouri and Indiana fandom. I'm a Missourian, but I was born in Illinois and my very early childhood was in Southern Indiana. St. Louis Cardinals: I was indoctrinated as a Cardinals fan by my uncle from the very beginning. The St. Louis Cardinals are the first thing I remember loving in life - particularly Ozzie Smith and Mark McGwire. So I actually was already a Cardinals fan when I lived in Clarksville, IN, right on the Ohio River north of Louisville. I remember a Louisville Cardinals basketball player visiting my first grade class and, being a kid, assumed they were just the basketball iteration of the St. Louis Cardinals. It wasn't until my family moved to Missouri that my love for Cardinals baseball fit into the rooting preferences of the people around me. Indianapolis Colts: I didn't really become a football fan until about fifth grade, and at this point we already lived in SW Missouri, but my whole extended family really only cared about baseball so I had no natural rooting interests. My dad casually likes the Steelers and Penn State, but he's not really all that passionate about sports in the first place. The first NFL game I can remember watching was when the Rams lost to the Patriots in the Super Bowl. That game piqued my interest in football (and my nascent hate of the Patriots), and by the next season I was a fully fledged Colts fan on account of my lingering fondness for Indiana and the spectacular play of Peyton Manning. Indiana Pacers: I lived in Indiana and Indiana loves basketball and loves the Pacers. This one is self-explanatory for that reason. St. Louis Blues: I'm a late comer to hockey. For most of my life hockey has been the only sport I didn't care about. I didn't like that I couldn't tell where the puck was when watching it on TV, hockey is NOT a good sport for radio, and the movement of players didn't make sense to me like it does in American football or soccer. However, I did live in the St. Louis area for two years while my wife worked on her graduate degree there, and my boss at the time was a rabid Blues fan and season ticket holder. He was generous enough to invite us to a couple of games and it was amazing in person, solidifying me as a Blues fan for life. Missouri State Bears: I'm a Missouri State alum, both undergraduate and Masters. I was in Pride Marching Band for four years, attended every football game for six seasons there, nearly every men and women's basketball game, and my fair share of baseball and volleyball games as well. My passion for the Bears comes second only to my deep seated love for the Cardinals. Indiana Hoosiers: My soul belongs to Missouri State as an alumnus, but my heart can't ignore the fact that I'm a lifelong Hoosiers fan from well before my college years. It's an easy dual fandom, as MO State and IU don't really cross paths, and one is FCS while the other is FBS. I'm inevitably heartbroken by IU football, but I watch it every season all the same. Otherwise, I also root for the Indiana Fever and I'm eternally longing for an MLS team to come to St. Louis. I love Drum Corps International, and I'm a supporter of Phantom Regiment. For MiLB I also root for the AA Springfield Cardinals. I've probably been to more Springfield Cardinals games than games for any other team.
  9. Apparently the Evansville Purple Aces just announced a rebranding. I hadn't seen anything leading up to this on MVC twitter, unlike the Saluki logo change. EDIT: Based on twitter and the Evansville website, it appears the purple and white UE is the new university academic logo. The UE with the bevel and orange outline is the new athletics primary logo, with the Ace gambler being the mascot secondary logo and the script Aces serving as a secondary athletics wordmark.
  10. I like that direction. Variation on the Connecticut Cats / Big Cats / Bengals / White Tigers
  11. I also like the modification of the Cardinals brand for their AA and high A affiliates in Springfield and Palm Beach (but let's be honest, I'm posting this for the sake of Luke Voit as a Springfield Cardinal with a huge knife). EDIT: And honestly, Springfield is full of St. Louis Cardinals fans, so it would make no sense to detach from a brand identity that is incredibly popular in the local market.
  12. My brother and I always used to call their historic power blues the "pajamas" of baseball. That's what they look like - baseball players wearing pajamas on the baseball diamond. But I agree that if it looked like the 82 pullover version it'd be better. Instead, they just took their alternate St. Louis threads and made them powder blue. It's not really a throwback at all, and I think it was a relatively ungraceful melding of modern with classic.
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