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1000% agree with this post!

Nothing quite like being kitted out in a uniform that says "ah, the urine sample is here"!

SOME TEAMS on-field jerseys have had velcro closures for many years. I'm an Orioles fan, and they stopped having the Velcro closures (as a standard issue, on every jersey item) when they stopped using Russell Athletic at the end of the 1990s.

Despite the fact that I've been watching little to no baseball this year, I did catch a bit of the Orioles-Twins game tonight. The Twins' jerseys definitely seemed more blue than their pants did. In close-up, during his postgame interview, Cedric Mullins' Orioles jersey looked like waffle weave (?) or circa 2003 OG Cool Base. Very textured looking. Looked like it might have had a velcro closure between the 2nd and 3rd buttons as well.

IDK why people can't confine themselves to edibles in public, but maybe that's just me. The gambling ads have been wonderful for me: they gave me the final push to stop burning time watching baseball on TV. I just pretend the games aren't available, and catch the highlights on orioles.com. Saves tons of time!

No "sun collar", and the placket doesn't seem to be insanely narrow. If this is real, it would appear to be retail. Either way, it's fugly. Also, I'm reading the base color as gray. Better hope the opposing team has an alternate jersey. If not will we have gray vs gray games? Should be super...drab.

If all the trucks containing all the teams Cash Grab Connect uniforms were to crash and burn (and none of the drivers were hurt) the world would be a better place!

I would say Artificial Stupidity would be more likely responsible than Artificial Intelligence!

First impression: holy :censored:, these are terrible. I had to look up Trey Turner’s number to figure out exactly what that digit was on the back of his jersey. Second impression: is Nike starting to walk back miniscule NOBs? Third impression: what’s the deal with spiking either texture or clarity in Photoshop for the images of the player’s wearing the kit? It’s NOT a wise choice.

I'm aware of previous button spacing. It looks like the gap between buttons one and two has been narrowed and the gap between buttons two and three widened...by a lot.

In addition to the fact that this jersey appears to have been pulled out of the washer and put on without being dried, check out the spacing between the second and third buttons. You could drive a truck through that hole. Noticed the same thing on the Orioles' jerseys during Gunnar Henderson's postgame interview today.

The problem here is that with the new belt tunnel placement, the piping doesn't line up and it just looks weird. More unintended consequences, one supposes.

My "watched the Orioles opener on TV" observations... The changes look bad on the Orioles, but ghastly on the angels. WTF is up with white trim on the front but not the back? Does that somehow make the Angels 0.00025% faster? The smaller NOB and front numbers were particularly evident on the Angels' kit, as they used the larger NOB and front number fonts last year...and it was not a good look. There was no reason whatsoever to change the Orioles' front numbers, so eff you very much Nike for that change. It also appears to me that the Orioles script is smaller this year. The NOB change is marginally less jarring, as the Orioles used smaller NOB letters anyway, but it still sucks. Let's hope against hope that this massive downgrade of a uniform "system" is quietly shelved before 2025. Members of the new Orioles ownership group were roaming Camden Yards wearing jerseys in last season's template. The comparison between those jerseys and the ones their players donned for on-field use was, shall we say, not flattering. SMDH.

It says a lot about the current state of MLB uniforms that the minor leaguers have better gear than the major leaguers...well, except for the teams that have already succumbed to sublimation.

I'd love for the Orioles to be able to do something similar in the near future!

And...the Nikepocalypse has made it to Slate! https://slate.com/culture/2024/03/fanatics-mlb-jerseys-baseball-pants-uniforms-monopoly-regulation.html

It seems that since fans don't much need to get anywhere fast, the "limited" jerseys don't have the micro plackets. Go figure.

This will surely be an unpopular opinion on this forum, but I wouldn't be super upset to see the end of gray jerseys. Grey pants? That would irritate me a bit. But the jerseys wouldn't upset me that much. I wouldn't mind at all if the Orioles had two orange and two black jerseys (one each with "Orioles" and one each with "Baltimore" script on the front), scrapped the white, grey and Cash Grab Connect jerseys. And, given the current state of MLB plackets, go ahead and make them two-button henley pullovers. But that's just me. I'd also send the O's cap straight back to hell. Again, that's just me.

Cardinals have also swapped their distinctive front number font for a miniature version of the back numbers (just like the knockoff jerseys always did)...and they're having a mismatched road colors issue. https://uni-watch.com/2024/02/29/mlb-nike-fiasco-now-features-mismatched-road-greys/#comment-1049826

The road is IMO clearly the best of a bad lot here. I'd literally completely forgotten this Nationals uniform set.

Other than their first kit, The Nationals have never truly had a uniform uniform set. (And the original alternate didn't really synch up with the original home and road.) The more they piecemeal their changes, the more confused their kit gets.

Other than MLB / Nike's screwups with the 2024 jerseys, the Orioles haven't changed...anything...since 2010 (unless you count anniversary and memorial patches). Other than the unfortunate change from "low i" to "high i", the black jersey hasn't really changed (except for the sleeve patch) since 2001. Compared to that degree of stasis, the Nats' level of churn looks even crazier that it actually is.

Like the blue jersey/red cap combo. Less enamored of the front number being gone...no matter how much I dislike that font. But hey, the jersey is now 0.75% lighter, so the players are now faster!

Another Athletic piece on the Nikepocalypse... https://theathletic.com/5298710/2024/02/26/explainer-mlb-nike-uniform-issues/?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20240227&instance_id=116206&nl=from-the-times&regi_id=78561931&segment_id=159293&te=1&user_id=237efb3d4cff04733b30fffff0fca801&access_token=15126801

When the Orioles were still doing 3-color script, numbers and NOB on the black jerseys, they used this size NOB, but maintained the smaller size on their home and road (2-color) jerseys, IIRC, it gets difficult to do 3-color NOB in the smaller size.