Brian in Boston Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 The Arkansas Travelers of the Double-A Texas League have unveiled a new road uniform and a new alternate cap.The new traditional Gray road uniform's jersey features "Little Rock" in Red script across the chest. The new alternate caps are Gray with Black visors, and feature a reworked Travelers logo: As opposed to a baseball player, General Robert E. Lee is pictured riding his horse, Traveler, and jumping him through the letter "A".http://www.travs.com/newsite/www/news/?id=2941http://travs.com/newsite/www/team/photogal...&limit=6&id=254Brian in Boston Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_cynic Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 That's awful! Utah Jazz Retired Number's#1 - Frank Layden - #7 Pete Maravich - #12 John Stockton - #14 Jeff Hornacek - #35 Darrell Griffith - #53 Mark EatonRetired Number's To Come#00 The Bear (Best Mascot In NBA) - #4 Adrian Dantley - #32 Karl "The Mailman" Malone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee. Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 I am awash in a pool of meh. It looks like change for the sake of change, and they still haven't done anything about that piss-poor hat logo.Thank god the team I always confuse them with, the Asheville Tourists, haven't touched their hat logo...I love that bear. Welcome to DrunjFlix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruColor Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 Here's a good look at that new alt logo...It's even worse close-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronChefShark Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 US state flag concepts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJTank Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 Wow that coud not be any cheesier www.sportsecyclopedia.com For the best in sports history go to the Sports E-Cyclopedia at http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee. Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 well thanks for ruining my eyesight with that POS, Pantone. Makes you remember that these are the BUSH leagues... Welcome to DrunjFlix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Discrim Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 that logo is bad...ruins an otherwise great-lookin hat. and the new road, the intentions are good but you don't see the Warriors wearing "Oakland" roads, for instance. A strong mind gets high off success, a weak mind gets high off bull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapshot Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 Is Gen. Lee about to swing the bat as the baseball in Traveler's mouth? Do'nt let PETA see this one. Back-to-Back Fatal Forty Champion 2015 & 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbasalmon Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 Maybe it's just my shoddy remembering of history right now (spring break will do that to you) but wasn't Traveler white? IMHO, that would make this logo at least a fraction more bearable - well that, and rendering the logo in a style that isn't reminiscent of a bad public access cartoon or something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruColor Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 Here's the primary cap logo:Really, really bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waffles Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 Wow. That looks like it was drawn by a five year old.I've always had a secret little thing for their other logo: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee. Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 Wow. That looks like it was drawn by a five year old.I've always had a secret little thing for their other logo: That logo always reminded me of a gas station logo, I have no idea why... Welcome to DrunjFlix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Rich Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 This is getting so wrong on so many levels....(1) The whole point of the use of "Arkansas Travelers" comes from the traditional country song "Arkansas Traveler", a staple of fiddlers and banjoists everywhere. That song goes back to the mid 1800s, and was a perfect inspiration for the baseball team name, even if the team was first named "Little Rock". The move of the team name to "Arkansas" just made it more appropriate.By the way the Arkansas Traveler is also the name of the school newspapaer at the Univ. of Arkansas....(2)To use General Robert E. Lee's horse-- who also just happened to be named "Traveler" -- as a mascot, and to put General Lee on top swinging a bat is just ridiculous. Lee was from Arlington, Virginia, and from what I remember from my history classes had nothing to do with Arkansas in terms of battles or anything else.To me, it's as if the Nashville Sounds baseball team started using a view of Puget Sound in their logo. Or if the Buffalo Bills put a picture of Bill Clinton or Bill O'Reilly on their helmets.... (3) The idea of putting "Little Rock" on the jersey is also rather dumb. Like Discrimihater said, it'd be like Golden State putting "Oakland" on their jerseys, or staying in the same sport, like the Tampa Bay Devil Rays putting "St. Petersburg" on their jerseys. But at the same time, we do have the Minnesota Twins wearing "TC" caps for "Twin Cities", though they never played under their orignal planned named of "Twin Cities Twins"(4)The logo is cheesy, and horribly drawn. It is what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yh Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 Wow. That looks like it was drawn by a five year old.I've always had a secret little thing for their other logo:That logo always reminded me of a gas station logo, I have no idea why... Probably because it looks like a gas station logo. I've always thought that, too.And B-Rich, thanks for that history lesson. I never knew that about the Twins. Good thing someone stepped in and put the kibosh on that. Nonetheless, I do like the TC caps and welcome the return of the red one this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruColor Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 Yeah, I second the "thanks" to B-Rich for the info.Something I heard a while back, but hadn't shared: apparently the Florida Marlins were considering calling themselves the "South Florida Marlins" originally. The person who told me this even has an official graphic file of it.Nice collector's item.(no, I don't have it!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJTank Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 Make taht 3 I thought it looked like a gas station or transmition repair logo too. www.sportsecyclopedia.com For the best in sports history go to the Sports E-Cyclopedia at http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winters in buffalo Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 Bah!, this is ghastly! Robert E. Lee was an enemy combatant!Maybe the Bengals will follow the trend and put Osama on thier new helmets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDunn Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 Those logos are so poorly drawn. Disgraceful. I'm 99% sure B-Rich is right about Lee in Arkansas. I'm pretty sure he was in the Virginia and Pennslyvania battles(Gettysburg--made an offensive push up north, keeping a Union Army on his right flank between him and the capitol and therefore keeping that Union Army out of the South), seeing as he was the head of the Army of Virginia.Traveler was white(maybe gray). They should fix that on the alt cap and make the hat blue or red. Gray or white caps look terrible, IMO. And if you wanted to completely follow history, his collar, buttons, and leg stripe would be yellow. But they shouldn't use Lee at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee. Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 They should fix that on the alt cap and make the hat blue or red. Gray or white caps look terrible, IMO. And if you wanted to completely follow history, his collar, buttons, and leg stripe would be yellow. But they shouldn't use Lee at all. I'm thinking they should redesign their logos and team identity so they don't suck so hard. Welcome to DrunjFlix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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