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Mitchell and Ness made some sweet new henleys...except they only made them for major market teams.

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I don't really need to post all of them, but it seems they only produce the Dodgers, Cardinals, Cubs, White Sox, Yankees, Mets, Phillies, Red Sox, and Giants (probably b/c they just won the World Series). It really sucks because I think this style shirt looks awesome, but yet they only make a small percentage of the teams. Gee thanks! Small markets shafted again! :cursing:

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be eaten. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you'd better be running." - Unknown | 🌐 Check out my articles on jerseys at Bacon Sports 🔗
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Mitchell and Ness made some sweet new henleys...except they only made them for major market teams.

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I don't really need to post all of them, but it seems they only produce the Dodgers, Cardinals, Cubs, White Sox, Yankees, Mets, Phillies, Red Sox, and Giants (probably b/c they just won the World Series). It really sucks because I think this style shirt looks awesome, but yet they only make a small percentage of the teams. Gee thanks! Small markets shafted again! :cursing:

It's called marketing. People on the west coast wear Yankee gear. Only people in Miami would buy a Marlins shirt. Well, probably not, but y'all see the point.

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Mitchell and Ness made some sweet new henleys...except they only made them for major market teams.

[picture of ugly ass shirt]

I don't really need to post all of them, but it seems they only produce the Dodgers, Cardinals, Cubs, White Sox, Yankees, Mets, Phillies, Red Sox, and Giants (probably b/c they just won the World Series). It really sucks because I think this style shirt looks awesome, but yet they only make a small percentage of the teams. Gee thanks! Small markets shafted again! :cursing:

It's called marketing. People on the west coast wear Yankee gear. Only people in Miami would buy a Marlins shirt. Well, probably not, but y'all see the point.

I'm not sure people in Miami would buy a Marlins shirt even.

On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said:
You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now.
On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said:
Today, we are all otaku.

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i love m&n but damn are they overpriced.

for anyone in philly, go to the store in xmas, they have huge sales then.

They also have an outlet in the scummy mall in the North East (or the mall in the scummy North East). If you're a XXXL, you can get some sweet North Stars and Whalers gear.

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i love m&n but damn are they overpriced.

for anyone in philly, go to the store in xmas, they have huge sales then.

They also have an outlet in the scummy mall in the North East (or the mall in the scummy North East). If you're a XXXL, you can get some sweet North Stars and Whalers gear.

XXXL? So that's what he meant when he said HUGE sales. Hmmm...

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be eaten. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you'd better be running." - Unknown | 🌐 Check out my articles on jerseys at Bacon Sports 🔗
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Meanwhile the Brewers get this ugly thing....c'mon...seriously?

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be eaten. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you'd better be running." - Unknown | 🌐 Check out my articles on jerseys at Bacon Sports 🔗
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i love m&n but damn are they overpriced.

for anyone in philly, go to the store in xmas, they have huge sales then.

They also have an outlet in the scummy mall in the North East (or the mall in the scummy North East). If you're a XXXL, you can get some sweet North Stars and Whalers gear.

Best to hit franklin mills in the daytime during a weekday lol.

God knows its annoying on the weekends.

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Meanwhile the Brewers get this ugly thing....c'mon...seriously?

It's a ball in a glove....but its also an "m" and a "b"

*eyes widen*

BRILLIANT!!!!

On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said:
You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now.
On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said:
Today, we are all otaku.

"The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert

POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010

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Meanwhile the Brewers get this ugly thing....c'mon...seriously?

That's actually a pretty awesome shirt.

I agree, and it's more appropriate for a team from the 70s. It doesn't make sense for the Brewers (at least the current iteration) to have early 20th century fauxback gear when they weren't even around back then.

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Meanwhile the Brewers get this ugly thing....c'mon...seriously?

That's actually a pretty awesome shirt.

I agree, and it's more appropriate for a team from the 70s. It doesn't make sense for the Brewers (at least the current iteration) to have early 20th century fauxback gear when they weren't even around back then.

That's true. But the Milwaukee Brewers best year was with that logo, so it probably factored into them making that choice. Besides, if Rollie Fingers hadn't gotten hurt, they probably would've won the whole thing against the Cardinals. Maybe they'll make a serious run this year, as it was refreshing to see the Giants win it all last year.

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i love m&n but damn are they overpriced.

for anyone in philly, go to the store in xmas, they have huge sales then.

They also have an outlet in the scummy mall in the North East (or the mall in the scummy North East). If you're a XXXL, you can get some sweet North Stars and Whalers gear.

Best to hit franklin mills in the daytime during a weekday lol.

God knows its annoying on the weekends.

I would imagine that weekday day time wouldn't be that much better, since most that shop there probably don't have jobs. It's a shame too, because the Saks there is really good - it's just in a sea of scum.

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Meanwhile the Brewers get this ugly thing....c'mon...seriously?

That's actually a pretty awesome shirt.

Nah...cuz I don't look good in V-necks. <_<

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be eaten. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you'd better be running." - Unknown | 🌐 Check out my articles on jerseys at Bacon Sports 🔗
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It's even worse when you both support a small-market team and live in a country where interest in that sport is marginal at best. As a New Orleans Hornets fan, if I want to buy merchandise I have to buy it online and have it imported.

I imagine it'd be even worse to be an NHL or MLB fan over here, as those sports are even less popular than the NBA...

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Should have been around back before the web. This practice was common with NFL gear. With the Saints such a joke for so long, finding anything Saints anywhere was a miracle. Even in the Sears catalog and such, unless it said "All teams available" you knew you were hosed.

Seems funny now with Saints gear everywhere you look. Even here in metro Atlanta, a sports place in a local mall had a whole 4-sided rack of Saints gear.

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Should have been around back before the web. This practice was common with NFL gear. With the Saints such a joke for so long, finding anything Saints anywhere was a miracle. Even in the Sears catalog and such, unless it said "All teams available" you knew you were hosed.

Seems funny now with Saints gear everywhere you look. Even here in metro Atlanta, a sports place in a local mall had a whole 4-sided rack of Saints gear.

Ironically, it was much, much easier to get Hornets stuff over here 15-20 years ago - t-shirts, hats, jerseys, jackets - pretty much anything you wanted. Virtually every sports store would have a huge range, and some stores (like Footlocker) were practically NBA-themed stores.

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