MLB 2022 Uniform/Logo Changes

[tBBP]

On 4/18/2022 at 1:58 PM, coco1997 said:

Royals City Connect cap has apparently leaked:

 

 

 

Saw that coming from 370 miles away. Given the ubiquitous presence of fountains at Kaufmann, not to mention KC's nickname (well one of them anyway) as "City of Fountains", it was only too easy a given.

 

And in case anyone's curious as to the design inspiration, it comes from KC's city flag--which, again, evokes the fountain thing neatly packaged in the shape of a heart--and in a vexillological faux pas, the flag itself explains the symbol:

 

 

That said, judging from the squatchee, I feel like they're gonna unveil some mashup of the '80s powder blue roads (because again, too easy to do) and obsidian (that's navy blue in Nikespeak) that'll end up looking more like something Sporting Kansas City should wear. I can about guarantee the "fountain font" will carry to the jersey numbers, if not the whole dang shebang.

[Carolingian Steamroller]

There's a lot of interesting stuff for the Brewers to go with:

 

Destination for German Immigrants.

 

Hot bed of Socialist governance in America.

 

Industrial center for not just beer but also tools and motorcycles.

 

Beautiful river and lakefronts.

 

Magnificent, winged art museum.

 

America's largest consumer of brandy.

 

Not only macro breweries but widespread microbrew culture.

 

Good times.

[Sec19Row53]

1 hour ago, Carolingian Steamroller said:

There's a lot of interesting stuff for the Brewers to go with:

 

Destination for German Immigrants.

 

Hot bed of Socialist governance in America.

 

Industrial center for not just beer but also tools and motorcycles.

 

Beautiful river and lakefronts.

 

Magnificent, winged art museum.

 

America's largest consumer of brandy.

 

Not only macro breweries but widespread microbrew culture.

 

Good times.

You forgot the Bronze Fonz.

I'm kidding - they better not do it. I'd love a Harley tie-in, but that is unlikely. Calatrava would be a cool base. I'll be that @NicDB has it right and it's the People's Flag.

[McCall]

1 hour ago, Carolingian Steamroller said:

There's a lot of interesting stuff for the Brewers to go with:

 

Destination for German Immigrants.

 

Hot bed of Socialist governance in America.

 

Industrial center for not just beer but also tools and motorcycles.

 

Beautiful river and lakefronts.

 

Magnificent, winged art museum.

 

America's largest consumer of brandy.

 

Not only macro breweries but widespread microbrew culture.

 

Good times.

And cheese.

[AstroCreep]

Welp. It's here, it's big and it's ugly.

 

This is so huge, there's no room for another patch. Let's say they get to the World Series next season, they won't wear a WS patch. Are we just done with those? This sucks on every level. 

[MJD7]

6 minutes ago, insert name said:

Welp. It's here, it's big and it's ugly.

 

This is so huge, there's no room for another patch. Let's say they get to the World Series next season, they won't wear a WS patch. Are we just done with those? This sucks on every level. 

That’s so annoying that it’s the Padres too, who finally just became one of the best uniforms in baseball.

[adsarebad]

On 4/17/2022 at 4:32 PM, MJWalker45 said:

That's disappointing. Even if they've decided to go with a single uniform for the All Star game, I liked teams wearing a patch when hosting. I know they have several memorial patches on the right sleeve, but just put it under the swoosh like the NCAA teams would do for the College World Series. 

Agree.

 

I wonder if there will be all star unis like last year, or they will do the right thing and make the players wear their regular team jersey , just with added patches and/or stars.

[adsarebad]

39 minutes ago, MJD7 said:

That’s so annoying that it’s the Padres too, who finally just became one of the best uniforms in baseball.

 

48 minutes ago, insert name said:

Welp. It's here, it's big and it's ugly.

 

This is so huge, there's no room for another patch. Let's say they get to the World Series next season, they won't wear a WS patch. Are we just done with those? This sucks on every level. 

this cannot be real life!

i feel really bad, and as you said , where the hell will all the various patches now go??

 

such a great jersey, reduced to in a heartbeat!

Edited April 19, 2022 by adsarebad

[McCall]

1 hour ago, insert name said:

Welp. It's here, it's big and it's ugly.

 

This is so huge, there's no room for another patch. Let's say they get to the World Series next season, they won't wear a WS patch. Are we just done with those? This sucks on every level. 

It would probably be put on the left side of the chest, opposite the swoosh. I could see them customizing future event patches to fit in this space if necessary. Teams like the Cardinals, who don't wear sleeve patches, could probably still wear an event patch on the sleeve. However, if they need two, with an ad on the right and an event on the left, the higher up bird on the bat may pose a real estate issue.

[8BW14]

Damnit!!! Beating a dead horse here, but I makes me flat-out sad and angry to see ads coming to the highest level of American sports. I honestly thought baseball might be the last, lone holdout in the name of tradition/sanctity of the game, blah blah blah… guess not. I’d like to think that if I was an MLB owner I would be above putting an ad for a crypto company on the sleeve of my team’s jersey, but I’m sure a big old check is hard to turn down. 

[MJWalker45]

7 minutes ago, McCall said:

It would probably be put on the left side of the chest, opposite the swoosh. I could see them customizing future event patches to fit in this space if necessary. Teams like the Cardinals, who don't wear sleeve patches, could probably still wear an event patch on the sleeve. However, if they need two, with an ad on the right and an event on the left, the higher up bird on the bat may pose a real estate issue.

It'll go on the left sleeve per previous articles. 

[MilSox]

4 hours ago, Carolingian Steamroller said:

There's a lot of interesting stuff for the Brewers to go with:

 

Destination for German Immigrants.

 

Hot bed of Socialist governance in America.

 

Industrial center for not just beer but also tools and motorcycles.

 

Beautiful river and lakefronts.

 

Magnificent, winged art museum.

 

America's largest consumer of brandy.

 

Not only macro breweries but widespread microbrew culture.

 

Good times.

 

As much as I'd love to see a socialist themed uniform set since it's legitimately one of the most interesting aspects of Milwaukee, no way are the Brewers gonna risk the tantrums from the season ticket holders from the WOW Counties.

 

 

 

2 hours ago, Sec19Row53 said:

You forgot the Bronze Fonz.

I'm kidding - they better not do it. I'd love a Harley tie-in, but that is unlikely. Calatrava would be a cool base. I'll be that @NicDB has it right and it's the People's Flag.

 

UGH... the only thing worse than the Bronz Fonz would be a Laverne & Shirley themed set. 

 

In all seriousness, I think if they didn't go with the people's flag, they'd go with the Calatrava since it also ticks a lot of boxes that @Carolingian Steamroller pointed out. Only problem is now that I see the Royals' leaks, I don't know how the Brewers would pull off such a thing without looking too similar.

 

2 hours ago, McCall said:

And cheese.

 

The dairy industry really doesn't have much of a presence in Milwaukee. The fancy cheese shops in places like Public Market and the Deer District are about it. 

 

There's a reason why even though Brewers fans invented cheeseheads as an inside joke, it was Packers fans who took off and ran with them.

[Carolingian Steamroller]

9 minutes ago, NicDB said:

As much as I'd love to see a socialist themed uniform set since it's legitimately one of the most interesting aspects of Milwaukee, no way are the Brewers gonna risk the tantrums from the season ticket holders from the WOW Counties.

 

I'm sure enough stacks would blow that it would be visible from space. 

 

11 minutes ago, NicDB said:

The dairy industry really doesn't have much of a presence in Milwaukee. The fancy cheese shops in places like Public Market and the Deer District are about it. 

 

There's a reason why even though Brewers fans invented cheeseheads as an inside joke, it was Packers fans who took off and ran with them.

 

This is something that I find legitimately fascinating. Milwaukee is very different civically and culturally from other parts of Wisconsin, even other urban areas. It's closest to Madison, but the capital has its own thing going between the seat of governance and U of W. Milwaukee is very, very different from Green Bay.

 

It's not quite as distinct from the rest of its home state as Chicago is (once you're past the outer suburbs Illinois turns into Kentucky), but it would be very cool if the Brewers leaned into Milwaukee's specific character.

[Carolingian Steamroller]

I think this is a long way of saying that the pandemic has meant that its been years since I've been to Milwaukee and thinking about the city is making me miss it.

[MilSox]

29 minutes ago, Carolingian Steamroller said:

 

I'm sure enough stacks would blow that it would be visible from space. 

 

 

This is something that I find legitimately fascinating. Milwaukee is very different civically and culturally from other parts of Wisconsin, even other urban areas. It's closest to Madison, but the capital has its own thing going between the seat of governance and U of W. Milwaukee is very, very different from Green Bay.

 

It's not quite as distinct from the rest of its home state as Chicago is (once you're past the outer suburbs Illinois turns into Kentucky), but it would be very cool if the Brewers leaned into Milwaukee's specific character.

 

A lot of people might not like hearing this, but as someone from Milwaukee and lived in Green Bay for a couple years before moving to Chicago, Chicago and Milwaukee have waaay more in common with each other than they do with anywhere else in their own states. If not for an arbitrarily placed state border where Chicago's suburbs overlap Milwaukee's, we'd be thinking of them the way we think of Dallas-Fort Worth or San Francisco-Oakland.

 

I think it's more than the usual urban/rural divide because if I had to choose somewhere in Wisconsin that I thought was the most like Milwaukee, I wouldn't go with Madison or Green Bay. I'd go with Kenosha or Racine, one of the smaller cities on the way to Chicago. Even comparing Kenosha to Green Bay, even though they're the same size and both industrial cities on the Wisconsin lakeshore, it becomes obvious which one is 45 minutes in either direction from a bigger city and a global mega city, and which one is surrounded by a bunch of cows and deer, but they have football.

 

Either way, I think the Amtrak's popularity is proof enough that Milwaukee doesn't share the same attitudes towards Chicago as most of Wisconsin. I can't say I've even known too many people from Milwaukee who hated Chicago..... we just don't like those f-ing Cubbies!

Anyway, thank you for listening to my TED Talk.

[Carolingian Steamroller]

@NicDB I didn't want to say that but I've personally found that to be quite correct.

 

When I first started visiting Milwaukee I found it to be a smaller version of Chicago. There's definitely a lot of cultural exchange with Milwaukee residents coming South and Chicagoans going North. Lots of similar neighborhoods, sights, restaurants, etc. (I made my coffee this morning with beans from Collectivo.)

 

As I'm sure you know, at least half the population of Chicago isn't fond of the Cubs either. There's also the commonality that Brewers and White Sox fans both tailgate before games. Though last time I tailgated we brought fried shrimp from Lawrence Fishery rather than grill.

[MrAstrodome]

3 hours ago, insert name said:

Welp. It's here, it's big and it's ugly.

 

This is so huge, there's no room for another patch. Let's say they get to the World Series next season, they won't wear a WS patch. Are we just done with those? This sucks on every level. 

 

When the Yankees have a deal, that's when it all falls down.

 

Now that leaves the NFL.

[BadSeed84]

The news about teams having ad's for 2023 was on April 1st.

 

I was really really hoping it was an April fool's joke.

[Toodles1980]

2 hours ago, Carolingian Steamroller said:

It's not quite as distinct from the rest of its home state as Chicago is (once you're past the outer suburbs Illinois turns into Kentucky), but it would be very cool if the Brewers leaned into Milwaukee's specific character.

The Bucks have sorta taken the mantle of "Milwaukee's team" IMO, and really leaned hard into being a Milwaukee specific team. The Brewers have sorta trended the other way, trying to reach out to the state. I'm hoping the Brewers reverse this trend with a city specific concept, but I'm not holding my breath. 

[AstroCreep]

4 hours ago, MJWalker45 said:

It'll go on the left sleeve per previous articles. 

what about teams who already have a patch on the left sleeve?