New Marlins Uniforms?

[rmackman]

I'll be honest....based on what I've read here, I'll probably never buy Marlins gear again. I'll just use what I have, and in 2040 when I bring my kids to Marlins games, I'll still be wearing this jersey:

[The_Admiral]

Miami Marlins sounds better and should've been their name from the beginning. The old minor-league team was called the Miami Marlins, there was no "Miami Gardens" in 1993, they shared the building with the Miami Dolphins, and it's highly presumptuous to claim an entire state as large and culturally heterogeneous as Florida.

More or less the same with what ought to have been the "Denver Rockies."

[FiddySicks]

I was with you untill the Denver Rockies part. It works because the section of mountains they're in are called the Colorado Rockies. Denver Rockies isn't a bad name, but Colorado Rockies just works better. I'd even say it'd be out of place, almost like if they called them the Dallas Rangers instead of the Texas Rangers. Dallas Rangers isn't an awful name, but representing the whole state just works better in some cases.

[B-Rich]

I was with you until the Denver Rockies part. It works because the section of mountains they're in are called the Colorado Rockies. Denver Rockies isn't a bad name, but Colorado Rockies just works better. I'd even say it'd be out of place, almost like if they called them the Dallas Rangers instead of the Texas Rangers. Dallas Rangers isn't an awful name, but representing the whole state just works better in some cases.

Agreed. Some names have to be considered "in toto". Colorado Rockies was so appropriate, the baseball team is the second team to use it (NHL was first)

To your list I would add:

- (ironically) the Florida Panthers, as the Florida Panther is a specific genus or species of animal. "Miami Panthers" just doesn't work.

- Also, Buffalo Bills. "New York Bills" wouldn't do.

- Finally, in a classic example of it all going wrong, the failure to rename the Jazz franchise once it moved to Utah. As an expansion franchise, "New Orleans Jazz" was not only site appropriate; it described a specific thing. While the team could have conceivable worked as "Dixieland Jazz", it would never have worked as the "Louisiana Jazz", and it's ridiculous to think we've had over 30 years of "Utah Jazz".

[The_Admiral]

I think I like "Dallas Rangers" over "Texas Rangers" because it obviates stupid Walker Texas Ranger references. Perhaps "Texas Rangers" should've been shot down the way "Vancouver Mounties" was.

[kevinmets]

My guess:

New set of logos with orange and "sky blue" (somewhere between royal and powder) as the primary colors, but with black outlines and black caps.

No gradients, but random splashes/highlights of other colors (red, green, yellow?)

Am I close?

Hello? Anyone?

[Showtime029]

Sorry if this has already been established but this thread is simply too long to go through all of it.

Has there been any confirmation that the Marlins will be using the Stadium Colours or a Gradient or is this all speculation?

Thanks in advance.

Mostly specualtion. Some people claim to have seen the set, if you choose to believe them.

They HAVE seen it.

Yes and still recovering. Best analogy I heard was that the logo looked like a "fictional coastal hotel" logo.

[njmeadowlanders]

I think you need to evaluate on a case-by-case basis. For example, there's nothing inherent that makes a Minnesota team use the state name, but calling them the "Minneapolis Vikings" or "St. Paul Wild" just doesn't sound right.

Carolina Hurricanes/Panthers. Again, nothing inherent would call for Charlotte or Raleigh, it just sounds better.

New Jersey Devils works because of the origin of the name. But New Jersey Nets (while they're still here anyway) works because what major league team would go with "East Rutherford"? (Insert joke there).

What about the Golden State Warriors? I don't have a problem with that but it's probably just because I'm used to it. Of course I hate that we have the Arizona Cardinals when Phoenix would still have sufficed. Again, there's no real right or wrong, especially for one-city states.

[BBTV]

I think you need to evaluate on a case-by-case basis. For example, there's nothing inherent that makes a Minnesota team use the state name, but calling them the "Minneapolis Vikings" or "St. Paul Wild" just doesn't sound right.

Carolina Hurricanes/Panthers. Again, nothing inherent would call for Charlotte or Raleigh, it just sounds better.

New Jersey Devils works because of the origin of the name. But New Jersey Nets (while they're still here anyway) works because what major league team would go with "East Rutherford"? (Insert joke there).

What about the Golden State Warriors? I don't have a problem with that but it's probably just because I'm used to it. Of course I hate that we have the Arizona Cardinals when Phoenix would still have sufficed. Again, there's no real right or wrong, especially for one-city states.

That goes for pretty much everything. Had you heard Arizona Cardinals first, you'd probably think that Phoenix sounds weird.

Golden State is the worst offender of the bunch, by far IMO. For one it sounds like a college, and second it's not even a state - it's a state's nickname. So their team name is nickname nickname.

[FiddySicks]

Ok so is the Marlins new logo akin to the NBA changes as of late where a big portion of their new set is just an insane recolor of stuff that they already have, or are all of the logos and wordmarks completely new?

BTW, from what I've heard (nothing anyone else hasn't heard) and what I can put together, I'm really thinking the new colors will be somewhere along the lines of White, Black, Blue-Gray, & Burnt Orange(Dark Orange).

[Showtime029]

New identity.

[DarkJourney]

Oakland Warriors has a nice ring to it. If Joe Lacob has his way they will eventually become the San Francisco Warriors again. A big maybe on that one.

[The_Admiral]

I think you need to evaluate on a case-by-case basis. For example, there's nothing inherent that makes a Minnesota team use the state name, but calling them the "Minneapolis Vikings" or "St. Paul Wild" just doesn't sound right.

Carolina Hurricanes/Panthers. Again, nothing inherent would call for Charlotte or Raleigh, it just sounds better.

New Jersey Devils works because of the origin of the name. But New Jersey Nets (while they're still here anyway) works because what major league team would go with "East Rutherford"? (Insert joke there).

What about the Golden State Warriors? I don't have a problem with that but it's probably just because I'm used to it. Of course I hate that we have the Arizona Cardinals when Phoenix would still have sufficed. Again, there's no real right or wrong, especially for one-city states.

Minnesota teams go by state name so as not to alienate one twin city or the other. Fair enough exception. "Charlotte Panthers" sounds wonderful to me; Charlotte is a rather sonorous city name. I don't care about what the Imaginary Red Wings do, but naming them for Greensboro and then Raleigh would've been a nice way to humiliate the league. Yeah, Montreal's playing Greensboro tonight. *jerkoff motion*

I guess "New Jersey Devils" is tolerable. "Golden State Warriors" is terrible especially when "San Francisco Warriors" sounded terrific. Phoenix is preferable to Arizona at least as far as nomenclature goes; the whole state can take a hike in other respects.

I think state names look the dumbest when there's already a team named for the city in your building or down the street from your building, as in Denver or Dallas.

[McCall]

I think you need to evaluate on a case-by-case basis. For example, there's nothing inherent that makes a Minnesota team use the state name, but calling them the "Minneapolis Vikings" or "St. Paul Wild" just doesn't sound right.

Carolina Hurricanes/Panthers. Again, nothing inherent would call for Charlotte or Raleigh, it just sounds better.

New Jersey Devils works because of the origin of the name. But New Jersey Nets (while they're still here anyway) works because what major league team would go with "East Rutherford"? (Insert joke there).

What about the Golden State Warriors? I don't have a problem with that but it's probably just because I'm used to it. Of course I hate that we have the Arizona Cardinals when Phoenix would still have sufficed. Again, there's no real right or wrong, especially for one-city states.

Minnesota teams go by state name so as not to alienate one twin city or the other. Fair enough exception. "Charlotte Panthers" sounds wonderful to me; Charlotte is a rather sonorous city name. I don't care about what the Imaginary Red Wings do, but naming them for Greensboro and then Raleigh would've been a nice way to humiliate the league. Yeah, Montreal's playing Greensboro tonight. *jerkoff motion*

I guess "New Jersey Devils" is tolerable. "Golden State Warriors" is terrible especially when "San Francisco Warriors" sounded terrific. Phoenix is preferable to Arizona at least as far as nomenclature goes; the whole state can take a hike in other respects.

I think state names look the dumbest when there's already a team named for the city in your building or down the street from your building, as in Denver or Dallas.

But when you're named for the actual law enforcement agency, the Texas Rangers, it just makes sense. I'm pretty sure the owners at the time could not fathom the plague of Walker 20 something years later, so how would that come into play?

[The_Admiral]

Pick a better name. I think it's gauche to name yourself for law enforcement, anyway.

[Old School Fool]

Oakland Warriors has a nice ring to it. If Joe Lacob has his way they will eventually become the San Francisco Warriors again. A big maybe on that one.

Oakland Warriors?! The Raiders would probably complain about it being "too close".

[Audiodrama]

Sorry if this has already been established but this thread is simply too long to go through all of it.

Has there been any confirmation that the Marlins will be using the Stadium Colours or a Gradient or is this all speculation?

Thanks in advance.

Mostly specualtion. Some people claim to have seen the set, if you choose to believe them.

They HAVE seen it.

Yes and still recovering. Best analogy I heard was that the logo looked like a "fictional coastal hotel" logo.

If it helps, my first thought was, "Wow. That's a perfect logo for Miami Int'l Airport."

[McCall]

Pick a better name. I think it's gauche to name yourself for law enforcement, anyway.

Because a couple people 40 years later might find the name "gauche"? Naw. The name works.

[Still MIGHTY]

Yes and still recovering. Best analogy I heard was that the logo looked like a "fictional coastal hotel" logo.

See, I thought about it like this, and I haven't seen it really put out there, when one of whoever saw it already mentioned the font had no serifs. I've been thinking a lot about it resembling the hotels and the Art Deco style of South Beach and Ocean Avenue.

Like a font like: MIAMI MARLINS

With the multicolored gradient of the colors and whatnot as a backdrop or outline.

[Dexter Morgan]

Green Bay packers is so odd to me, it's a city of 100k people, it's like if the Jets built a stadium in Edison, NJ and called themselves the Edison Jets. With that said, I kinda like it....