San Diego Padres focus-grouping new uniforms for 2020

[Ray Lankford]

Why would the Marlins want to switch from "Miami," which is sexy and glamorous, back to "Florida," which is where Florida Man lives?

[SFGiants58]

22 minutes ago, Ray Lankford said:

Why would the Marlins want to switch from "Miami," which is sexy and glamorous, back to "Florida," which is where Florida Man lives?

 

@the admiral summed it up best:

 

On 10/11/2015 at 12:40 PM, the admiral said:

The Marlins were named for Florida because Wayne Huizenga is one of those Broward County snobs who thinks Miami is just a cesspool of drugs and ethnics.

 

[Ray Lankford]

The Padres owner was on the radio today and he said that the Padres are moving towards a "dark, rich brown."

[ZapRowsdower8]

3 minutes ago, Ray Lankford said:

The Padres owner was on the radio today and he said that the Padres are moving towards a "dark, rich brown."

Sounds like if they do switch it will be to an almost black shade of brown. That stinks, but still better than navy. 

[MilSox]

My hope is that if even if they go with a dark brown, it'll still look good in the San Diego sunlight.

Gonna be dank and drab as hell when they play indoors though.

[daniel75]

On 7/17/2018 at 5:00 PM, SFGiants58 said:

 

Some people have a fascination with the vintage PCL. It's part of why Ebbets Field Flannels does so much business. However, not all of the PCL teams had particularly memorable looks or names. The PCL Padres had some pretty inventive designs, some of which the NL Padres have emulated over the years (to varying degrees of success):

 

While these imitations aren't exact, they get the basic idea across:

 

Of course, a lot of the PCL color schemes were navy/red, royal/red, and navy/orange permutations. That's why I maintain that the NL Padres should update some PCL aesthetics and put their own spin on it (read: brown/yellow, navy/powder/orange, brown/powder/yellow, etc.). Just imitating the PCL Padres whole-cloth doesn't work in a modern age of branding.

Looking at these reinforces my dislike for pin stripes. Having said that the bottom left are my favorites.

[CS85]

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"We're going to a dark, rich brown"

 

 

 

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"We're thinking of pairing it with dark navy, camo, and black, based on our poll results - we want all of our fans satisfied!"

 

[MCM0313]

9 minutes ago, CS85 said:

 

 

 

Wait, please tell me that's a joke and they'll choose a color that actually contrasts...please.

[larrypep]

22 minutes ago, MCM0313 said:

Wait, please tell me that's a joke and they'll choose a color that actually contrasts...please.

It’s a joke. The ownership group has resigned themselves (I say this because they collectively dislike brown but to their credit are acquiescing to their fans) albeit a darker brown, apparently.  I hope it doesn’t look like the Pirates black/yellow combo.  

 

I do believe they will still keep a camo version for Sunday.  

[CS85]

I was kidding.  I merely have no faith in the Padres to do anything right.

[ChicagoOakland]

Dark brown? More like the San Diego Porters, am I right?

...I'll let myself out now.

[MCM0313]

1 hour ago, larrypep said:

It’s a joke. The ownership group has resigned themselves (I say this because they collectively dislike brown but to their credit are acquiescing to their fans) albeit a darker brown, apparently.  I hope it doesn’t look like the Pirates black/yellow combo.  

 

I do believe they will still keep a camo version for Sunday.  

Ugh, I hope it doesn't look like the Pirates too. Although they said the brown was "rich"...it can't be too rich if it's almost black, because black is the absence of color, right? Please tell me I'm right here...

[Ray Lankford]

It'll probably be something close to the shade the Browns use, right? Isn't that actually "dark brown?"

[MCM0313]

1 hour ago, Ray Lankford said:

It'll probably be something close to the shade the Browns use, right? Isn't that actually "dark brown?"

Ugh. May as well be black.

[MilSox]

2 hours ago, Ray Lankford said:

It'll probably be something close to the shade the Browns use, right? Isn't that actually "dark brown?"

If I were a betting man, that's what my money would be on.  And if so, I'm hoping there's a noticable difference in how it looks between sunny San Diego in the summer and gloomy Cleveland in the fall.

[daveindc]

The brown that the Padres used from '85- '89 was darker and richer than this drab, sludge color they wear now. It'll probably be close to that: https://teamcolorcodes.com/san-diego-padres-color-codes/

[MCM0313]

6 hours ago, daveindc said:

The brown that the Padres used from '85- '89 was darker and richer than this drab, sludge color they wear now. It'll probably be close to that: https://teamcolorcodes.com/san-diego-padres-color-codes/

Those uniforms looked okay. As long as the naked eye can differentiate it from black I'm cool. 

 

Incidentally, was the 1985-89 shade the one Tony Gwynn referred to as "baby poop brown", or was it the one before that? I would think their original shade would look more like baby poop, but I don't have kids, so...

[oldschoolvikings]

2 minutes ago, MCM0313 said:

Those uniforms looked okay. As long as the naked eye can differentiate it from black I'm cool. 

 

Incidentally, was the 1985-89 shade the one Tony Gwynn referred to as "baby poop brown", or was it the one before that? I would think their original shade would look more like baby poop, but I don't have kids, so...

Baby poop is seldom a basic brown, in my experience.  I think I've seen more diapers with Longhorn orange in them  than Padre brown.

[The_Admiral]

#693F23 from that site looks like the perfect brown to me: not too red, not too yellow, not too desaturated or too dark. 

[MrAstrodome]

It's a nice chocolate brown. I think it would go with something in-between athletic gold and orange.