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I mean they did reach the World Series in 2002 (before horrendously choking) with the biggest "big-name bat" ever. That aside, they don't exactly have Bruce Bochy in the dugout anymore. I don't have much faith in us milking 107 wins out of a bunch of AAAA players again. Our upside is 80-something wins, wild card team. We could do that, get into the playoffs, and get hot, but the odds of that are probably pretty low.

Still think a salary floor is more important than a salary cap: Something that'll force all teams to at least field a competitive roster.

Don't disagree there, it's more about the Giants never being able to sign the big players available and the Dodgers getting everything. It's just sad.

The Pirates with an 84 win season lmao

Between this, Arson Judge, and Correa's physical, it's been a rough couple years of free agency for my Giants. I might have to take a year off from baseball this season.

Yeah I'd predict the NL West as: Dodgers 110+ wins Dbacks 80-90 wins Padres 70-80 wins Giants 70-80 wins Rockies <65 wins They're gonna run away with this sorry division. I still think Arizona will sneak into the playoffs and win a round or two, but this isn't even a contest in the regular season.

I don't think I can physically comprehend someone getting this amount of money to throw a ball and hit it with a bat. This is absolutely insane.

How was dazzle fabric on NFL uniforms possible in 2011 but not in 2023

Navy blue? Are they planning on bringing these back or something?

Doesn't look like it to me. The only times this season they've worn black over white were at Tampa and at Tennessee. All the home games, besides the two throwback games, have been all black. According to GUD, they're slated to go all black at home again this week. To say I disagree with this would be an understatement.

I'm of the belief that bad officiating is just something that you can't control, and blaming the refs for a loss is pointless. The refs simply suck, they're not trying to specifically screw your team over. That being said, I'm not trying to defend the refs here, but a lot of rules in football are extremely subjective and open to interpretation, and a (possibly bad) argument could be made that every horrible call in a game was by rule the correct call. But in games that are close enough that you can argue a ref call swung the game in a certain direction, there are probably several different plays that you can point to where mistakes were made by the players or coaches that would have led to a different outcome for the game. TL;DR refs don't favor either team, they simply suck, complaining about them is pointless.

The sad thing about the other team in that photo is that they were technically permitted to move on from those "uniforms" in the past offseason, and decided to keep them. Why? I don't know.

The Canucks finally figured out their primary uniforms in 2019-20 when they removed the "Vancouver" text above the orca logo. Then they removed the pants stripes. Then they decide to wear chrome helmets with them. I don't even know what to say. What a mess.

Yeah colored helmets on the road are bad, this is 1000x worse. At least metallic gold is part of Vegas' color scheme and metallic silver is part of the Kings' color scheme. I'd have to think these are going to be paired with the Skate alt.

Please this (probably not, but could you imagine)

Color-wise that's a great matchup. Especially considering that we'd likely get this with 2023 NFL uniform decisions:

I know they did a couple times in 2018 at the least

It's bad but it's (marginally) better than many uniform matchups these days because these teams are wearing proper pants/socks combos in their primary colors. I'll take this any day of the week over these disasters: Blue team vs gold team Teal team vs orange team

I still unfortunately think that there's a good chance that the Panthers ruin this one with black leggings. As the Ravens last year and Jaguars this year showed, teams are willing to wear black pants in New Orleans for some reason. It would be black overload, but these teams don't care.

This should be their primary road combo.

Just had to come to this thread to post the greatest failure in color contrast in NFL history Whether you like the Lions' grey uniforms or not, you have to admit that they shouldn't have worn them against the Raiders of all opponents.

Out of the four major US sports, I didn't include the NBA and MLB here because they allow any uniform in a team's line up to be worn at any time. However, the NHL and NFL are typically more strict. How many examples are out there of teams wearing their alternates in the playoffs for the latter two leagues? I'll start with a couple examples: The Hurricanes in the playoffs every year The Rams in Super Bowl LVI

I'll add on that I'd remove the chest patch and the gradient. I'm not in love with that number font but I can live with it if it's not in gradient.

The San. Jose. Sharks. A 4-1 comeback and 4-0 comeback in back to back games. What is going on???