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Because even more than artists, Brandiose are excellent salesmen. Hucksters, if you will. They do such a good job at selling their hackneyed designs that I don't think the teams know what hit them afterwards.

It's like showing up to buy a pre-owned, grey 2007 Corolla and leaving the lot with a hot pink 2016 Hummer H2. Somewhere along the line, someone with a gift for gab convinced you that what you wanted wasn't really what you wanted, and that you needed something else. That's where they truly excel.

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If you want to call huckster, Brandiose is like the guy who started Cave of The Winds in Colorado. The caves themselves are nifty but this guy brought in embellished guided tours, opera singers and even a mummified body. It's a lot of flashy hokum that brings in a lot of business. Is the place good enough on it's own? No doubt. Does it make way more money by embracing silliness. absolutely. I mean, the gift shop actually sells ManBearPig shirts!

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The Tacoma Rainiers, Seattle Mariners triple-A affiliate, have made an (unexpected?) uniform change.

The full rundown here: http://www.milb.com/content/page.jsp?ymd=20150306&content_id=111556470&fext=.jsp&sid=t529&vkey=

Solid choice to go with the "R," it's been an iconic mark for quite sometime, despite it being pretty much limited to the "Rainiers" wordmark for most of the past.

The red alternate top is gorgeous, the road jersey is meh, and the BP hat is a head-scratcher. I like the idea there, but hate how big and awkward it looks in the picture of the hat itself in the team store online.

Edit: And what's this with two different number fonts? :therock:

From San Berdoo to Kalamazoo.

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I liked the teal and navy better for them, but I LOVE that they paid homage to those classic rainouts (woah, it autocorrected Rainiers to that. I'm gonna keep it because it's fitting for that area) team with the red set. Definitely better than the boring set they used to use.

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The Tacoma Rainiers, Seattle Mariners triple-A affiliate, have made an (unexpected?) uniform change.

The full rundown here: http://www.milb.com/content/page.jsp?ymd=20150306&content_id=111556470&fext=.jsp&sid=t529&vkey=

Solid choice to go with the "R," it's been an iconic mark for quite sometime, despite it being pretty much limited to the "Rainiers" wordmark for most of the past.

The red alternate top is gorgeous, the road jersey is meh, and the BP hat is a head-scratcher. I like the idea there, but hate how big and awkward it looks in the picture of the hat itself in the team store online.

Edit: And what's this with two different number fonts? :therock:

With the whole blue/red regular/alt unis they seem more like a Rangers minor league team than a Mariners team.

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The Tacoma Rainiers, Seattle Mariners triple-A affiliate, have made an (unexpected?) uniform change.

The full rundown here: http://www.milb.com/content/page.jsp?ymd=20150306&content_id=111556470&fext=.jsp&sid=t529&vkey=

Solid choice to go with the "R," it's been an iconic mark for quite sometime, despite it being pretty much limited to the "Rainiers" wordmark for most of the past.

The red alternate top is gorgeous, the road jersey is meh, and the BP hat is a head-scratcher. I like the idea there, but hate how big and awkward it looks in the picture of the hat itself in the team store online.

Edit: And what's this with two different number fonts? :therock:

With the whole blue/red regular/alt unis they seem more like a Rangers minor league team than a Mariners team.

Best thing for them to do is look like a Rainiers team, rather than anything else.

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Looking like a Rangers team? It's red and navy, not red and royal.

And as much as I loved the navy and teal Rainiers (beautiful), not every minor league team has to look like its parent club. Having been to Cheney Stadium multiple times, the Rainiers are a club very much in tune with their past, and the red is a great symbol of that. The move to the "R" as the primary cap logo was the icing on the cake because, as the club confirmed, it was much more popular among the fans than the TR-compass logo or the T-mountain logo.

Side note: if anything made this team look like a Rangers affiliate, it was the previous road cap:

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Yes, it's navy and not royal, but whenever I saw that red-outlined white "T," the Rangers always came to mind, without fail.

From San Berdoo to Kalamazoo.

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Edit: And what's this with two different number fonts? :therock:

That's a real head scratcher. Or could it be that they are just representing it wrong on the pic of the grey road uni?

It's a mock-up. I'd expect everything to match once these actually hit the field.

 

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The summer-collegiate Great West League, which is set to launch in 2016, has announced the addition of a team in Portland, Oregon. The team, to be based at an upgraded Walker Stadium in Lents Park on the city's east side, has launched a website featuring the obligatory "Name Your Team" contest. The candidate identities are...

Portland Pickles

Portland Red Dogs

Portland Pliers

Portland Mud Hounds

Portland Pixels

Portland Posse

The contest runs through April 10, 2015.

http://portlandbaseballteam.pointstreaksites.com/view/portlandbaseballteam/home-page-822

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"I never saw any place before where morality and huckleberries flourished as they do here. The huckleberries are in season, now. They are a new beverage to me. This is my first acquaintance with them, and certainly it is a pleasant one. They are excellent. I had always thought a huckleberry was something like a turnip. On the contrary, they are no larger than buckshot. They are better than buckshot, though, and more digestible."

- Mark Twain, on the occasion of his first visit to Hartford, Connecticut

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The summer-collegiate Great West League, which is set to launch in 2016, has announced the addition of a team in Portland, Oregon. The team, to be based at an upgraded Walker Stadium in Lents Park on the city's east side, has launched a website featuring the obligatory "Name Your Team" contest. The candidate identities are...

Portland Pickles

Portland Red Dogs

Portland Pliers

Portland Mud Hounds

Portland Pixels

Portland Posse

The contest runs through April 10, 2015.

http://portlandbaseballteam.pointstreaksites.com/view/portlandbaseballteam/home-page-822

Saw this moments ago. I eagerly clicked on the name-the-team and got ready to submit my own answer, but was quite angry to find several terrible predetermined options.

I mean really...the Pliers? The Pickles? Pretty sure Portland is nothing close to Wild West either, so how does Posse make any sense? Someone is seriously going ga-ga over mindless alliteration.

From San Berdoo to Kalamazoo.

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Called the team...apparently, they did a pre-contest among some local folks, and these six names were the top entered, apparently (Also they didn't feel like paying however much Merritt Paulson would charge for them to be the Beavers).

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The list of possible names for Hartford's Double-A baseball team - currently playing as the New Britain Rock Cats - has been narrowed from 10 candidates to 5.

Hartford Hedgehogs

Hartford Praying Mantis

Hartford River Hogs

Hartford Whirlybirds

Hartford Yard Goats

http://www.courant.com/sports/baseball/hc-hartford-minor-league-team-names-0312-20150311-story.html

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