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8 minutes ago, Morgan33 said:

 

Isn't that Navy?  At any rate some Copper would have gone a long way.

@TruColor a little help?

1 hour ago, Dynasty said:

 

I'm guessing he meant the inner blue circle and the outer blue circular outline.

 

It definitely could've been any other shape besides a circle/roundel, but does it really matter? It's a placeholder.

I wasn't sure that was a dark blue as opposed to black. Or am I missing something?

11 minutes ago, Morgan33 said:

A late-aughts, double-blue roundel...  Why am I not surprised.

Blue and black?

23 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

Nah, these also suck. 

OK - disagree with you.

PS -as you know, they aren't new. I'm doing this to help @Silent Wind of Doom verify when the uniforms are used, especially since they were slow to appear, because Fanatics.

44 minutes ago, Ark said:

If anyone's flooding here, it's you with the pointless complaining (and now me complaining about you lol)

Insert Dolphin on a helmet wearing a helmet gif

They're here.

1 hour ago, MCM0313 said:

“Pitch blue” is about the stupidest name for a color I’ve ever seen. 
 

However, it’s slightly less dumb for a baseball team. 

I have a hunch this is a future Mountain Dew flavor.

2 hours ago, TrueYankee26 said:

Did he become a Milwaukee Brewers fan? Guess he could not take the Mets anymore lol

 

Barstool arranged for him to be here. I know he was on Steve Czaban's morning show today. (Czabe is in Milwaukee, albeit virtually, these days)

On 5/23/2024 at 2:39 AM, Silent Wind of Doom said:

So... as I mentioned, we've got three uniforms left missing.  I was able to find on Twitter mentions of the St. Louis blues being delayed until June.  I knew I'd read that on here somewhere.  I also found mention by fans that the Brewers are awaiting their City Connects.

 

Then there's the Cubs.  I've had the Wikipedia page for the City Connect program up because it has the dates and days for each so I don't have to keep reopening other pages.  Looking at it a second ago, I just realized that it says the Cubs wear their City Connects on Friday home games "June-September".  That... seemed... odd.  So I went back through the Getty galleries for their games.  In June 2021, the uniforms were revealed.  Since then, it appears (unless a couple slipped through out of the 486-ish games) that they have every year started wearing them at the start of June and then gone back to home pinstripes the last few Friday home games.  I can see wanting your fans to see the traditional look at Wrigley at the start and end of the season.  It's just odd to see that it seems a concerted effort to hold them off until two months in.  I've never heard this mentioned before.

Post game today (per Brewer beat writer on Twitter), the scoreboard graphics were showing a player in the City Connect uniform, possibly an indication that they're coming soon.

9 hours ago, BBTV said:

Gonna get blasted for this one, but there is nothing less interesting and more space consuming than full-season uniform predictions that serve nothing but to exercise the poster's fingers and make the thread pages and pages away from any legitimate discussion.  I suppose this post is somewhat the same thing, but i'm sticking to it.

 

Since this is about reality, maybe there could be the "pointless full-season uniform-prediction outpost."

Last year's thread said (paraphrasing) 'don't use this to make your predictions' in the opening post. This year says 'go ahead'.  I'll sit out this year's thread, because I'm in agreement with you on the pointlessness of those predictions at any point in the year.

43 minutes ago, Sport said:

There's this umpire grades twitter account that I like, but I haven't tried to commit any umpires' names to memory. 

 

 

There was a guy who had a near perfect game behind the plate in the NLCS last year. Was wrong on two pitches in the whole game. Don't remember his name, don't care to look because he did a good job and not knowing umpires is how it should be. 

Yup - Umpscorecards is a great follow. I like looking back on how I think the game was called, and then also comparing this picture to the at bat in MLB.com's Gameday.

Mongo McMichael calling out Angel will never NOT bring a smile to my face
 

55 minutes ago, leopard88 said:

 

I know I'm late on this, but I'm playing catch up.

 

I can't speak for DC or Virginia, but the Maryland agency is the Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA), so Marylanders don't always think Department of Motor Vehicles when they see DMV.

It actually seems like the ultimate 'city connect', in that one area uses that acronym for something that is seemingly totally different from everyone else

2 hours ago, SFGiants58 said:

What about the Sharts? Is that too juvenile?

I mean, aren't they all?

Angel Hernandez is retiring. This is not a drill!

Cubs and Cards agree to a 2:30 rain delay on Sunday night, starting at 8:45PM Central, to avoid a 5-game 3-day series in the only other meeting in St. Louis this year.

That schedule is a problem for two teams in the same division.

4 hours ago, Lights Out said:

 

At very least, they could presumably show some 2D renderings.

Depending on the design process, they literally might not exist. I think what @MCM0313 is getting at is that they may have developed helmet concepts but not uniforms to go with them.

Maybe someone more connected to the process could chime in.

1 hour ago, DCarp1231 said:

Jeez, you’re super hypercritical of a team based in Detr— oh wait.

No. I'm supercritical of an idiotic idea.

I didn't really expect you to answer the question I asked, but I'll try again. If people in Detroit aren't attending games now, what makes you think moving  them 2.5 hours away will make more of them attend? Remember - that's what you said here:
Would there actually be enough fans willing to make the 2.5-3 hr trek outside of Detroit to see a spring league football game? Enough to fill 1/3 of the stadium?

14 minutes ago, DCarp1231 said:

Just throwing out ideas for the UFL to mask the horrendous attendance numbers of Ford Field

How about finding a place that wants to attend? Moving them Western Michigan in hopes that people would make a 2.5 hour drive is stupid. They aren't making that long of a drive now - why would they do it to go someplace else to see them????

Seriously - WTF?

On 5/21/2024 at 5:52 PM, mafiaman said:

I’d prefer Black Diamond’s but maybe that’s just me.  

Why possessive rather than plural?

9 minutes ago, Dilbert said:

Pretending to be shocked, the now defunct Louisiana VooDoo owe UL Lafayette more than $30,000 for use of Blackham Coliseum. The insurance certificate provided to the university listed the  also now defunct Minnesota Myth as the insured party. Im pretty sure this is the same reason they got kicked out of Lake Charles.

 

https://lailluminator.com/2024/05/20/lafayette-arena-football/

Good luck getting blood from THAT turnip.

2 hours ago, WBeltz said:

That would be the perfect way to do it. The White Sox did it with theirs, I think it would be a great way to keep a traditional look (I.e. pinstripes) with a more modern outlook, and keep it in the Yankee's ballpark. Even do a hat with a Navy "NY" logo outlined in white and boom. There it is.

Because some other team did something is not a good reason for another team to do it, especially one with a storied history and infrequently changing uniform. This same suggestion was made in the NFL thread that because the Carolina Panthers had done something, the Green Bay Packers should as well. Nope.

1 hour ago, burgundy said:

 

So what is "enough", and why is minor league football expected to draw so many more people than other minor league sports? The league-wide attendance average for the AHL this past season was 5,920, and that was a record high. The top team, Cleveland, averaged 10,347. For baseball, the IL averaged 6,061 and the PCL averaged 5,762, with their top teams averaging 7,990 and 7,048 respectively.

 

So while Michigan's numbers could certainly be better, it seems pretty in line with minor league attendance numbers.

 

I guess 'not enough' in terms of being financially viable.

Too many people seem to will this into being bigger than it is. I agree with you that it is minor league football. But minor league football doesn't play in major league venues on broadcast TV - so there's a disconnect. I try to point that out when people don't seem to (want to) see it.

1 hour ago, Sykotyk said:

You don't think more people would even be aware such a team even exists?  And a few of them might go to a game? You think there was no reason The Rock was the face of the XFL last year and not Gerry Cardinale?

The Rock was the face of it because he invested in it. Do I think his presence made a difference in attendance? Only slightly.  I mean, look at the numbers. What did it matter? He's likely a bigger star given Hollywood than Brady is. So what sort of attendance bump do you get from Brady as owner.

You said it yourself - maybe a few more would attend. That's not enough.

12 minutes ago, Sykotyk said:

"Legitimacy". People are lemmings who follow the crowd. There's a reason 'celebrities' and 'influencers' are a thing.

 

There's a reason 3 million people follow Tom Brady on Twitter and 14.9 million on Instagram.

 

And it's not because he posts a lot of insightful things for his followers.

How many of those people would go to a football game because he's the owner? How many of them are near enough to do so?