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No way they'll keep the script from the current set. And Nike never misses a chance to impose yet another custom number font on us. Look for the results to be ghastly, as usual.

I agree with you on the colors (save for the matching pants). The number font? Nope? Not going there.

The most self-important club in MLB feels it can bend numbers to its will. If you're surprised, you haven't been paying attention. Next!

I have not seen a City Connect set yet that didn't make me want to hurl. The number fonts, in particular, have been wretched to the point of embarrassment. (Dodgers CC's excepted.) One of the (many) reasons I don't like the Twins current set is the number font. MLB block numbers are fine for many reasons. Legibility being one of the most important. I can't wait for this "custom number fonts for everybody" era to be over...but sadly, it will probably outlive me. (Or, at least, what's left of my fandom.)

Can't...stand...them. For a multitude of reasons.

Thus far, only the Angels have gotten the "rectangular logo should go on a rectangular patch" thing right. Shame on the Met$ (and the Red $ox) for screwing up such an easy thing.

There aren't enough synonyms for "awful" to describe that...thing.

Re: the Yankee$...let 'em wear triple digit numbers. Serves 'em right.

The white layer was removed from the Orioles' black jerseys for the same reason the headspoon was removed: Peter Angelos found it to be "gaudy". I was around for the botched rollout of the orange/black on black in 2000. ("Wait...we needed to tell the league about this...last MAY?") If you're going to go this route, why bother with the black trim at all? It's not like anybody can see it. And, with the drop-shadow, the Giants didn't TRULY do black/orange on black.

Orange/black on black screams "we don't know what we're doing" to me. At least do orange/white on the black jerseys. Or, if you don't want to do a white trim layer, be bold and do black/orange on black.

1999 was the best year for the "Orioles" script. They should never have dropped the white trim layer from the black jerseys. I'd lose the "O's" cap in a heartbeat, and add an orange cap with black bill for the orange jerseys.

And flipping them from one sleeve to the other based on the "handedness" player is both craven AND stupid.

The Astros uniforms aren't awful. They're just...tedious. I don't like the name font. I don't like the number font. I don't mind the cap logo. I do like orange, though.

By contrast, the Orioles need to do what the Nationals are currently doing on their home jerseys, and tilt the script up to the left. Decades on, they STILL haven't figured out that when you try to run an italicized, "vanishing point" script across a straight placket, bad things will ensue.

The 'Ders ownership is too stupid to take notes. Plus, they know better than you. Just ask 'em.

Quoting myself from when the Guardians' identity / uniform set was revealed: "I have to say that the "Guardians" font reminds me of the Kinston Indians...like, a lot reminds me of the Kinston Indians. I don't like it when teams use script at home and block on the road (or vice versa). And I really, really wish the plague of custom number fonts would end. MLB block is perfectly fine, and the teams using it should continue to. Except for the first point, I'm sure that MLB would say "the youths" who don't care about MLB disagree..." After a year of these uniforms being in use, the block font has grown on me (except for the NOBs). Still hate the numbers. Would probably drop the "Guardians" script and go block on the homes.

Based on your thread title, I was expecting news, not fantasy. No knock on the Tampa area at all, but it seems to me that there's about a zero % this gets built. I definitely knock the idea of blue and gold uniforms, though!