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It's the same story in Major League Baseball. The proliferation of alternate uniforms got so out-of-hand that the league imposed a limit of five different unifo

It's the same story in Major League Baseball. The proliferation of alternate uniforms got so out-of-hand that the league imposed a limit of five different uniforms per team last year. Unfortunately, one of those uniforms is the City Connect uniform which is unrecognizable to the extreme for most teams. I hate it. I want every team to go back to a white home uniform with the team name (or logo like the classic Yankees, Cubs, Tigers), and a gray road uniform with the city name, and maybe one colorful Sunday home alternate worn sparingly. It's bad enough that the rosters have high turnover every year due to free agency. I've said for a long time that it seems silly to have a favorite team, because you're basically cheering for the uniform (i.e. because the people in the uniform are changing constantly) but now that's not even true anymore.

fsckboy 2y ago
>the City Connect uniform which is unrecognizable to the extreme for most teams but it gets even worse in gradations, compare the Milwaukee "Brew Crew" uniform which is kinda cool https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/private/t_16x9/t_w1536/mlb/smzcvffmyhxtam1hitzi https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/private/t_16x9/t_... to the similar color combination Boston "spray painted stencil" font abomination https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/private/t_16x9/t_w1536/mlb/lejilpknk6uqslcdsiza.jpg https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/private/t_16x9/t_...
- warner25 2y ago
  True, I'm OK with an alternate, including the City Connect uniform for a few teams, that's basically a throwback uniform. Milwaukee's is kind of like that, at least with the colors. Also Atlanta's, Pittsburgh's, and Seattle's. The rest of them... no.
- dfxm12 2y ago
  I get that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but why would you describe the font as an abomination? It seems unassuming and easy to read to me.
  - fsckboy 2y ago
    not gonna debate taste, but i was describing the uniform as an abomination. I think the font is perfect for indicating where in Fenway park the MEN and WOMEN's rooms are, but i'm old skool and I miss the group trough urinals
  - bombcar 2y ago
    For one thing they don't space it so that the S isn't overlapping the two sides of the shirt. I hate that no matter what the font.
- fredleblanc 2y ago
  Those Boston stencil jerseys are the Boston Marathon ones. Red Sox play a day game on the same day as the marathon each April. It’s a whole day of things for the city. The stencil approach mimics the days of spray painting down the finish line.
  - warner25 2y ago
    If they only wore it on Patriots' Day, fine, but they wore it 50 times in the last four years.
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Jeremy1026 2y ago
> I've said for a long time that it seems silly to have a favorite team, because you're basically cheering for the uniform You and Jerry Seinfeld have the same take, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we-L7w1K5Zo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we-L7w1K5Zo
- warner25 2y ago
  Thanks for sharing; I haven't heard that clip before, and I love it. I was a Braves fan from the mid-1990s into the 2000s not just because they were winners but because they did it largely with the same core group of guys, whose playing style I liked to watch, over that whole span. I wasn't a Yankees fan during that same era, but I could respect Yankees fans because they also had a core group of players that stuck together (plus they've really held the line on their uniforms).
  - stonesthrowaway 2y ago
    > I wasn't a Yankees fan during that same era, but I could respect Yankees fans because they also had a core group of players that stuck together You are really talking about 4 or 5 players only. The yankees, along with the braves, brought in a lot of help along the way. Also, the players don't determine who your favorite team is. You don't stop being a yankees fan because derek jeter retired. People tend to be fans of the teams in their area. Especially the area you grew up in.
    - warner25 2y ago
      > ...4 or 5 players only... brought in a lot of help along the way. Right, but at least it was that many. One could watch those same few anchors play together year-after-year for a decade or even longer, which is more than you could say about any other team then or since. > ...players don't determine who your favorite team is. You don't stop being a yankees fan because derek jeter retired. That is indeed how most people follow sports, yes. My point above was precisely that it's a bit silly to me. When Glavine and Maddux left Atlanta, I really did care much less about seeing the Braves play and win, because they were the guys that I most enjoyed watching.
Larrikin 2y ago
As someone who used to wear jerseys because I thought they looked cool when I was young, I would have never bought a plain white or gray one. I think the city connect jerseys are only bad because they are basically a collection of random colors with, often times, no association to the team. But if they actually were team colors, they would have definitely been interesting to me.
jgalt212 2y ago
> City Connect uniform which is unrecognizable to the extreme for most teams. Preach. The NY Mets version looks like Colorado Rockies themed children's pajamas.
cratermoon 2y ago
At least with baseball the game is such that it's hard to mix up players on different teams. They aren't generally in a messy mix in a small space under the basket.

fsckboy 2y ago

>the City Connect uniform which is unrecognizable to the extreme for most teams but it gets even worse in gradations, compare the Milwaukee "Brew Crew" uniform which is kinda cool https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/private/t_16x9/t_w1536/mlb/smzcvffmyhxtam1hitzi https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/private/t_16x9/t_... to the similar color combination Boston "spray painted stencil" font abomination https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/private/t_16x9/t_w1536/mlb/lejilpknk6uqslcdsiza.jpg https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/private/t_16x9/t_...

warner25 2y ago
True, I'm OK with an alternate, including the City Connect uniform for a few teams, that's basically a throwback uniform. Milwaukee's is kind of like that, at least with the colors. Also Atlanta's, Pittsburgh's, and Seattle's. The rest of them... no.
dfxm12 2y ago
I get that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but why would you describe the font as an abomination? It seems unassuming and easy to read to me.
- fsckboy 2y ago
  not gonna debate taste, but i was describing the uniform as an abomination. I think the font is perfect for indicating where in Fenway park the MEN and WOMEN's rooms are, but i'm old skool and I miss the group trough urinals
- bombcar 2y ago
  For one thing they don't space it so that the S isn't overlapping the two sides of the shirt. I hate that no matter what the font.
fredleblanc 2y ago
Those Boston stencil jerseys are the Boston Marathon ones. Red Sox play a day game on the same day as the marathon each April. It’s a whole day of things for the city. The stencil approach mimics the days of spray painting down the finish line.
- warner25 2y ago
  If they only wore it on Patriots' Day, fine, but they wore it 50 times in the last four years.
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Jeremy1026 2y ago

> I've said for a long time that it seems silly to have a favorite team, because you're basically cheering for the uniform You and Jerry Seinfeld have the same take, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we-L7w1K5Zo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we-L7w1K5Zo

warner25 2y ago
Thanks for sharing; I haven't heard that clip before, and I love it. I was a Braves fan from the mid-1990s into the 2000s not just because they were winners but because they did it largely with the same core group of guys, whose playing style I liked to watch, over that whole span. I wasn't a Yankees fan during that same era, but I could respect Yankees fans because they also had a core group of players that stuck together (plus they've really held the line on their uniforms).
- stonesthrowaway 2y ago
  > I wasn't a Yankees fan during that same era, but I could respect Yankees fans because they also had a core group of players that stuck together You are really talking about 4 or 5 players only. The yankees, along with the braves, brought in a lot of help along the way. Also, the players don't determine who your favorite team is. You don't stop being a yankees fan because derek jeter retired. People tend to be fans of the teams in their area. Especially the area you grew up in.
  - warner25 2y ago
    > ...4 or 5 players only... brought in a lot of help along the way. Right, but at least it was that many. One could watch those same few anchors play together year-after-year for a decade or even longer, which is more than you could say about any other team then or since. > ...players don't determine who your favorite team is. You don't stop being a yankees fan because derek jeter retired. That is indeed how most people follow sports, yes. My point above was precisely that it's a bit silly to me. When Glavine and Maddux left Atlanta, I really did care much less about seeing the Braves play and win, because they were the guys that I most enjoyed watching.

Larrikin 2y ago

As someone who used to wear jerseys because I thought they looked cool when I was young, I would have never bought a plain white or gray one. I think the city connect jerseys are only bad because they are basically a collection of random colors with, often times, no association to the team. But if they actually were team colors, they would have definitely been interesting to me.

jgalt212 2y ago

> City Connect uniform which is unrecognizable to the extreme for most teams. Preach. The NY Mets version looks like Colorado Rockies themed children's pajamas.

cratermoon 2y ago

At least with baseball the game is such that it's hard to mix up players on different teams. They aren't generally in a messy mix in a small space under the basket.