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When you try to blend eras, you usually end up representing neither. I'm totally fine with just a word, be it JETS, NY, or even NEW YORK. But the ball ruins it.
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It's a lousy helmet because it almost never matches the color of the uniform, and the logo (specifically the football) is bad. It would look better if it just said JETS without the ball (or just NY.)
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The unnecessary navy trim removes it from the "perfect" discussion. Too many outlines on the stripes and numbers - they forced the color in where it clearly didn't belong.
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Is that so? I don't recall hearing that before.
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Is it really an "MLB-endowed" right when the A's ceded it 30 years ago?
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With Oakland, isn't it as much about all the East Bay communities forming the market, with Oakland simply as the hub? It's all technically the SF Bay metro area, but having a team on that side of the bridge makes it easier for people from Berkeley, Fremont, and elsewhere to attend, no?
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That's fine for one game every other Sunday - not for 81 games on every day of the week. Pro basketball is probably the easiest sport to start up from the ground up - small roster, relatively-modest arena needs, great TV deal reduces the need for gate revenues, and overall, there's just less required. Pro football is next. You have much larger stadium/infrastructure worries, larger front office, larger... everything. But you are almost guaranteed to sell out (even if visiting fans), and you're making money without even selling tickets due to TV. Expenses are kindasorta capped. Then maybe hockey. Way more niche than basketball, and more gate is needed. Then baseball. Unless you're in a hotbed market - and any of those markets already have teams.
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Baseball is by far the hardest sport to start up in a new place. Besides the stadium cost, you need to try and fill it 81 times, and it's a non-capped league. It's not like football where every weekend is an event in most places and you can sell out in spite of yourself (even if just because of visiting team fans). I just don't see how MLB succeeds in Las Vegas or anywhere else. Nashville has a chance, if they build a small stadium like Pittsburgh's and put it somewhere accessible, but places like there that lack the public transportation are at a (self-inflicted) disadvantage. The Montreal A's is just a silly idea, though jerseys that read "Athlétiques" (or whatever the actual translation is) could be neat.
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There's a link to a story about the A's "exploring relocation" or getting a new stadium in every season-long mega thread since... well, since the forum started. There's nowhere for them to move to. There's not 26 MLB markets - let alone 27.
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Not sure rumors like that are even worth thinking about as long as the 1-helmet rule is in effect, and given that they've already voted on this year's changes (including one to the uniform code), there's no reason to think it's going away in 2021.
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After COVID-19, Should Reporters Remain Barred from Locker Rooms? Making the Case for ‘Yes’ https://www.crossingbroad.com/2021/05/after-covid-19-should-reporters-remain-barred-from-locker-rooms-making-the-case-for-yes.html I clicked on the headline expecting to vehemently disagree with the author, but I actually think he may be on to something. It's kinda weird that reporters are in a locker room and talking to dudes who just wrapped a towel around their balls or are seconds removed from some major-emotional moment. I'm not sure I'm down with a full-Zoom world (and that's not what he's suggesting) but I think it's fair to ask if locker-room access is really needed.
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Yeah, but at least the players have the choice as to what kind of base layer they wear, as opposed to either thick-ass old-school pants or something that's built-in but not necessarily what they want. They've basically took the old-school football pant and made it a series of customizable parts underneath a top shell. Too bad it looks like crap. I remember back in my day when I got my first "girdle" with the oversized hip pads and butt pad, and the super thick pants with the slots for the thigh and knee pad. I hated those so much, and would really have preferred if they had the biker-shorts with the pads in them like they do now. So I can appreciate the ability to tailor to your preferences... but it still looks like crap.
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I'm sure I'll be shown some example that shows me wrong, but there's no way any women's team would wear those pants.
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And the Phillies just-completed 4-game sweep of the Brewers, which netted them +5, is exactly why. Win by one... lose by a hundred.
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The only team in the NL East that has a positive run differential is the last place team.
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What sticks out like a sore thumb is the silly number outlines which are inconsistent with every other part of the uniform. They should have only one outline, and it should be thick enough to at least sorta match the sleeve and pants stripes.
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Wearing a hat on a hat is weird. Pat is far from perfect, and I guess technically he's a guy wearing a hat on a hat, but he's better than the tricorn. The best they looked in blue was year 2 after they switched to the white numbers and synced the main numbers with the sleeves and get more traditional pants stripes. I give them credit for trying something different with their pants, but it just didn't do it for me.
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Do we still make separate draft/FA threads? If not, Davonta Smith will be the first single-digit receiver in Eagles modern history. Dislike.
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I've never seen Keith Jones on a national broadcast but if his tv personality is anything like his sports radio one then he'd be a good one to start with.
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I'm assuming the ESPN TV deal is why they started including it again on the header bar of their site like a real league and not in the ... menu next to darts and topless bullriding.
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If the White Sox put the old sock logo on the sleeve and dropped the white trim, it might be in my top tier of road jerseys.
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So this is the new "safest" helmet for linemen - the Vicus Zero 2 Trench. I wonder if anyone's going to wear it - and how the hell they're going to get decals on it.
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This thread is going to end up being for surprise pants unveilings, people freaking out if a jersey tears, and me moaning about how dumb the dumb-ass dummy players look when they wear oversized-loose t-shirts under their skin-tight jerseys like a bunch of dumb-ass clowns.
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Isn't it premature to be talking about a merger? Isn't the XFL just some IP right now? As of this minute, there's no TV exposure for the CFL to benefit from, no other technology for them to benefit from, and nothing to be gained through it. Unless the CFL really wants to merge just so it can acquire the Battle Hawks IP, I'm not sure why it's even worth having that discussion now.
