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Nike Launches New MLB City Connect Uniform Series


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37 minutes ago, coco1997 said:

 

Cubs wore monochrome blue uniforms from 1911-13:

 

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32 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

These remind me of the “City” kits I worked on for Republic two years ago. 

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Sorry, off topic but dang, I'm struck by the difference of the look of the rough edged athlete of the past compared to the athlete of today. Its like sports was war back then but showtime today.

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3 minutes ago, ltravisjr said:

 

 

Sorry, off topic but dang, I'm struck by the difference of the look of the rough edged athlete of the past compared to the athlete of today. Its like sports was war back then but showtime today.

 

Yep, every baseball player in the early 1900s looked like they were at least in their fifties. 

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FWIW, the guy modeling the Republic kit is probably a half foot shorter than that old timey baseball guy.

 

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On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said:
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Cubs uniforms grew on me. Look so much better with blue pants and the caps are nice. I'm a sucker for the 77 neighborhoods marketing tactic they're using. 

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6 hours ago, coco1997 said:


Nice caps, though the squatchee should be light blue. 

 

I think the squatchee is navy so it doesn't look like an exact copy of the Blue Jays' alt hat, and it doesn't have a red squatchee so it doesn't look like a copy of the Anaheim Angels' 1997-2001 alt hat (with that said, I wouldn't mind seeing the Angels reverse-retroing it and using a modified-color version of the current logo on navy/light blue hat for an alt).  

 

 

Smart is believing half of what you hear. Genius is knowing which half.

 

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Just now, Popmart said:

Yeah, smoking 5 packs a day will do that to a person.

 

I'm currently re-reading the original Ian Fleming James Bond novels and one of them mentions 007 smokes sixty cigarettes a day. I can only imagine how old he would've looked! 

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14 hours ago, the admiral said:

And I've said it before and I'll say it again, flags of major cities are just tattoos for fortysomething bartenders who used to be in punk bands

 

I may or may not have a tattoo of my hometown city seal and I may or may not have played in a punk-adjacent band in my late teens/early 20s.

 

Not a bartender though. Whew.

1 hour ago, ShutUpLutz! said:

and the drunken doodoobags jumping off the tops of SUV's/vans/RV's onto tables because, oh yeah, they are drunken drug abusing doodoobags

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I wonder how Nike is gonna do teams not named after cities. Like for Texas it might be easy to just do something for the Dallas metro because of Houston, but for Arizona, Colorado, and Minnesota what do you do? Arizona and Colorado have their state flags to work with, but those aren't cities. Sure Denver and Phoenix are the obvious cities, but it would feel weird to have a Denver or Phoenix based uniform for a team with a state moniker. Minnesota doesn't have that iconic flag or single major city luxury. Do you slap Twin Cities on the front and alienate the outstaters? Do you try to pander to the whole state? It just feels like the city connect thing is half baked.

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16 minutes ago, NormMacdonald said:

I wonder how Nike is gonna do teams not named after cities. Like for Texas it might be easy to just do something for the Dallas metro because of Houston, but for Arizona, Colorado, and Minnesota what do you do? Arizona and Colorado have their state flags to work with, but those aren't cities. Sure Denver and Phoenix are the obvious cities, but it would feel weird to have a Denver or Phoenix based uniform for a team with a state moniker. Minnesota doesn't have that iconic flag or single major city luxury. Do you slap Twin Cities on the front and alienate the outstaters? Do you try to pander to the whole state? It just feels like the city connect thing is half baked.

 

I don't think the "city" part is meant to be taken literally. For example, Miami's uniform is based on a Cuban baseball team. Like the NBA's city uniforms, the design just needs to be tied to the area and it's population.

 

The Rockies could play off the mountains or "Mile High", Arizona can work in a kachina pattern or something desert related. The Minnesota Timberwolves have had jerseys that said "MSP" or just "Minn" with a north star theme. There's a lot of possibilities.

 

Sure, some will seem half-assed or confusing to outsiders. But most of this stuff generates buzz and makes money. 

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Putting "Wrigleyville" on the chest and then doing a whole campaign around the 77 neighborhoods is pretty odd, and I'm not sure this is a great fit for the Cubs, but I actually think the aesthetic of this is really strong in a vacuum. Especially with high socks, there's a good color balance, the navy pants work.

 

TBH, I think this could have been really strong as a bit of a faux-back with the "C-star" logo on the chest.

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One thing about these monochrome uniforms as they absolutely have to be worn with low-cuffed pants. They look so sloppy without them. Case in point, look how much sharper the three Cubs on the right look compared to Rizzo on the left:

 

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48 minutes ago, coco1997 said:

 

I'm currently re-reading the original Ian Fleming James Bond novels and one of them mentions 007 smokes sixty cigarettes a day. I can only imagine how old he would've looked! 

As Jerry once told Kramer, he'd probably "look like an old catcher's mitt."

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39 minutes ago, coco1997 said:

One thing about these monochrome uniforms as they absolutely have to be worn with low-cuffed pants. They look so sloppy without them. Case in point, look how much sharper the three Cubs on the right look compared to Rizzo on the left:

 

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Reason #1854061 to require players to show socks when playing. The three on the right look amazing, Rizzo looks ridiculous. Button your jerseys, pull up your pants, and then you're wearing a baseball jersey.

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2 hours ago, ltravisjr said:

Well,  just because they aren't the Griswalds doesn't mean they can't put up some stately white lights and ivy, no pun intended.

If only the actual uniforms were that interesting. 

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