The Swinging Friar never really left as one of the logos. Some years he’s on the shoulder patch, some years he’s not, but he’s on there now.
I don’t think he was ever on a regular season cap before, though, if that’s what you mean. The team put him on a cap along with the regular interlocking “SD” logo during spring training a few seasons ago, but that blew up in their faces because the 2 logos intertwined kind of made it look like a swastika.
Specifically several major Navy and Marine bases/stations and command HQs for the West Coast are in San Diego County or that’s their nearest major urban center – so the patterns seen in those uniforms are based on those used by the Marines and Navy, including the briefly used but now abandoned blue digicams.
I kinda like Boston’s City Connect uniforms. They’re blue and yellow, the colors (and font) of the Boston Athletic Association, the organizers of the Boston Marathon. Cool to see the Bosox acknowledge the oldest track club in the country (I believe).
I went to some Padre games back in 1979 when I was in the Navy. I still have scars in my eyes from those ugly orange, yellow and brown uniforms. At one game I called out to Dave Winfield “Neat threads you got on”. He flipped me off.
He probably thought, “Hey man, at least you don’t have to wear this crap.”
The Red Sox city connect uniforms look like UCLA, which is not a good thing for the Boston Red Sox imho.
Here’s a link to the jerseys. I like a few; most are atrocious.
I sympathize, but that ship grounded on the shoals and broke up long ago.
I’m only 67 years old. I wonder if there’s still time for me to learn the Laws of Cricket.
You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket.
Yup. Any actual distinctions between the AL and NL are gone now; the DH was really the sole remaining meaningful difference.
It’s now more akin to the division between the AFC and the NFC in the NFL: a team plays against other teams in its own league/conference more than those in the other league/conference, and the championship game/series pits the winners of the two leagues/conferences.
I wish we could get rid of the DH from BOTH leagues.
I just like seeing baseball becoming a better product and more enjoyable to watch, regardless of grognards who want things “the way they used to be” (crappy).
Experimenting with uniforms is a nice touch too.
Before this season started the purists were bemoaning the advent of the pitch clock. That crying stopped a week into the season. Anyone who watched a game saw how much better it was without all of the tics everyone had developed because they had all the time in the world. I never thought I’d see the DH in the National League but it was also clear very quickly to all but the most stalwart that it’s a better game with a DH. The larger bases still strike me as silly but I can concede that it’s a valid reaction to the current state of things where strikeouts and home runs are so prevalent. We want to see baserunning and the larger bases encourage more of it. I love baseball and all of these changes make it better to watch. If they can somehow make the Red Sox not suck it will be even better.
Fuck It. kaylasdad99 logs in to Wikipedia, looks up difference between “pitch” and “crease.”
See, in my way of looking at things “interleague play” began on May 6, 1969 (only a few months after I started following baseball as a kid).
No, the AL teams and NL teams didn’t start playing each other then, obviously, but that date marks the time when interdivisional play began.
It was the first time that teams played regular-season games against teams whose records did not matter to their placement in the standings. For example, the Dodgers and the Cubs faced off in Chicago that day. For the previous however-many years that game would’ve essentially counted twice for each team–a win would move them up and move the opponent down, doubly benefitting the victor.
Beginning in ‘69, though, the winning team (that day it was the Cubs) moved up in the standings relative to the other NL East teams, but the Dodgers’ loss did not affect the Cubs’ chances of reaching the playoffs one iota. Yes, they were both in the NL, but they were no longer competing against one another for a place in the postseason. In effect, they were gathered into different and separate leagues.
I recognize this is not a popular argument. But it’s why, despite my being something of a traditionalist, interleague play has never bothered me.
Interesting take.
