marlinfan Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Worst execution in MLB so far? 1997 | 2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charger77 Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 If you're gonna pander at least do it with more than a patch half ass slapped on your jersey.-Dan PotD May 11th, 2011looooooogodud: June 7th 2010 - July 5th 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zmspartans Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 If you're gonna pander at least do it with more than a patch half ass slapped on your jersey.-Dancouldnt've said it any better . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigga Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Worst execution in MLB so far?By a landslide. On January 16, 2013 at 3:49 PM, NJTank said: Btw this is old hat for Notre Dame. Knits Rockne made up George Tip's death bed speech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouj Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Worst execution in MLB so far?By a landslide.They might as well have put "Los Half-Assed Effort" on the front. Either go all the way or don't bother. The Giants & Brewers are the standard on Hispanic Heritage Night jerseys. The Mets, Diamondbacks, and Marlins need to get their collective :censored: together and either go all the way or drop the promotion. Go Astros!Go Texans!Go Rockets!Go Javelinas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DG_ThenNowForever Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Talked about tacked on. I'm on board with the idea of the promotion, but like others have said, if this is what Hispanic jerseys are coming to, time to call it quits. 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallWonk Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Dear Marlins:No mas.¡Gracias! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charger77 Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Worst execution in MLB so far?By a landslide.They might as well have put "Los Half-Assed Effort" on the front. Either go all the way or don't bother. The Giants & Brewers are the standard on Hispanic Heritage Night jerseys. The Mets, Diamondbacks, and Marlins need to get their collective :censored: together and either go all the way or drop the promotion.Wouldn't it be el half-assed effort since the effort was singular?Cultural nights are ok. However they should go about it a different way. I don't like changing team names. As dorky as it sounds the team names are sacred and shouldn't be touched (Should the Montreal Canadiens be Los Canadians? I can't even imagine what an Asianized version of the Canucks would be) I don't like slapping on el/la los/las or a flag on a jersey either. Instead, why not play only hispanic music (or whatever culture is being honored). Change the concessions to traditional foods of the culture being honored. Honor current and past players of the culture in question. Offer discounted tickets to social clubs of that group (in my area there are a ton of Italian-American, Polish-American clubs, etc...) In the NBA they do a good job on MLK day and they manage to do it without changing team names or jerseys, maybe the other leagues can borrow a few ideas from the NBA on this one.-Dan PotD May 11th, 2011looooooogodud: June 7th 2010 - July 5th 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marlinfan Posted September 13, 2009 Author Share Posted September 13, 2009 Marlins did a lot of that last night. Music, spanish PA announcer, post game concert. To add insult to injury they scheduled UM Family Night and Hispanic Night at once. So imagine everything I've mentioned + stadium decked out in UM banners (and ring of honor) + Hurricanes graphics on the LED boards and videoboards + Ibis coming out every two innings getting 38,000 people to do the 'ooooooooooooooooohhhhhhh ::ground rumble:: C-A-N-E-S CANES!' chant. 1997 | 2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rentz Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 What's so irritating about this is that the uniforms don't say 'The Marlins' to begin with, so they have to add 'Los' to validate the placement on the uniform in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarperK Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Worst execution in MLB so far?By a landslide.They might as well have put "Los Half-Assed Effort" on the front. Either go all the way or don't bother. The Giants & Brewers are the standard on Hispanic Heritage Night jerseys. The Mets, Diamondbacks, and Marlins need to get their collective :censored: together and either go all the way or drop the promotion.that would have taken actual effort ʎɐqǝ uo pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ɐ ʎnq ı ǝɯıʇ ʇsɐן ǝɥʇ sı sıɥʇ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefly Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 The gesture is as empty as the seats at a Marlin's home game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axis_of_Weasel Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 hurry up and switch to the miami marlins so i can buy a hat with the M+fish instead of the standard F+fishi like that alt logo sooo much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMU Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Apparently the Marlins are too cheap to even have an intern look up the translation of "Marlins" in babelfish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Clemente Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 The awkward placemente of it makes it look like it has nothing to do with the team name; as if it's a memorial patch for someone in the Marlins organization named LOS. Follow me on Twitter if you care: @Animal_Clans.My opinion may or may not be the same as yours. The choice is up to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marlinfan Posted September 14, 2009 Author Share Posted September 14, 2009 Apparently the Marlins are too cheap to even have an intern look up the translation of "Marlins" in babelfish.Marlins is one of those team names that isn't translated by the Spanish-language media so the lack of translation is actually correct. 1997 | 2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee. Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Ordinarily, I'd be posting a picture of the Simpsons episode with the seniors' gang "Los Souvenirs Jacquitos," but I can't find a picture in GIS. So I'll just say I don't like this. Welcome to DrunjFlix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColeJ Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 i'd like to see the red sox just slap the word THE on their home jersey for a game, just to show everyone how retarded this crap is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallWonk Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Apparently the Marlins are too cheap to even have an intern look up the translation of "Marlins" in babelfish.Marlins is one of those team names that isn't translated by the Spanish-language media so the lack of translation is actually correct.But team names usually aren't translated by any media. For example, you would not expect ESPN to report a story on the Munich Bavarians. It's a German team, and its name in German is Bayern Munich, so in English we call it Bayern Munich rather than translating the name into English. That would not make it "correct" if Bayern Munich decided to have an American appreciation night and they slapped the word "The" on their jersey. The only sensible way to change up your jersey for this kind of a promotion is to translate the name, as the Brewers and Giants do (and as the Nationals did for a t-shirt giveaway once, though without either translating their actual on-field jersey script or slapping on a "los" patch). That, or don't change up your jersey at all. My Caribbean fishing guidebook says that common Spanish names for the blue marlin are abanico, aguja, castero, prieta, and voladora. That last one has a nice ring and good jersey-script letter shapes, especially a first letter that it a Marlin could wrap around attractively. A Voladoras jersey would be pretty sweet. And by any reasonable measure more "correct" than what the Marlins actually did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtthasportfreak Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 That is as ill-placed as this if the Anaheim Arsenal decided to do a Histhpandex (Butt-head said that) Heritage night. Seeing as how the Clippers were their affiliate, this would have made corporate sense. However this jersey would've been so cluttered the fans would need eye bleach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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