In the quest to increase revenue, sports uniforms have gotten stupid. There are alternate uniforms, alternate road uniforms, practice jerseys, batting practice jerseys, warmup uniforms, throwback caps, commemorative caps, World Series caps, and more. Hell, the NBA recently had special edition Christmas uniforms for the teams that played on Christmas 2012. The latest batch of tasteless greed comes from Major League Baseball in the form of “interview caps.” According to Uni Watch, MLB will have interview caps for all of its teams. While not mandatory, players will be “encouraged” to wear them during interviews and off-the-field functions like charity events.
Clearly, tradition isn’t sacred to sports commissions.
A lot of people hate on the New York Yankees (somewhat understandably), but one of the reasons I love the team is that is has maintained the traditional variety of uniforms: home and away. It makes the organization seem classier and less desperate than other ball clubs. (To my good friend Justin Killian: your Mets sold out bro!)
I hate the look of most alternate uniforms (thought admit the NBA variants are better than most MLB alternates). I hate that they’re pure money-grabs. The MLB interview cap is just more of the same. I wish commissioner Bud Selig would settle down with the greed and add things like, oh I don’t know, effective instant replay.
Ugh. I hate these things.
Home, away,… and these 2:
That’s spring training. Doesn’t count.
@ Iceman
See… If it happens in Florida, it doesn’t count.
How else can you explain Casey Anthony, Trayvon Martin, and both the 2000 and 2004 Presidential Elections?
Or Arizona, where other spring training games are played. I don’t know of any team that uses their full uniforms for spring training.
Does that mean that you Gringos are actually contemplating giving Florida back to Spain? Because if so, I’d vote for giving California, Texas, Wyoming, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, and Utah back to Mexico… or at the very least, California and Texas.
-M
I’m a little concerned about the Blue Jays this season I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the Jays won that division. I’ll be telling my grandchildren about the magical season of 2012, where the orioles actually managed a 500 record and actually played a competitive post season series.
Also, while we are talking about baseball…How the hell does Craig Biggio not get in on the first ballot? Why is Mike Piazza not in the hall yet? Baseball writers seem like sanctimonious pricks sometimes.
The BBWA failed this year. Awful, awful stuff.
I agree. How can Bonds not go in? Top 5 all time.
Part of it was cheating and part of it was reporters getting their payback. Kevin Brown was dominant for years, but probably won’t get in because he was a dick to reporters. The steroids stuff is going to cloud voting for a long time.
It’s just stupid. It was the era they played in. If being a dick can hurt your spot in Cooperstown then someone should let these reporters know that Ty Cobb is in there
By several accounts, Cobb had a charming side too.
Hitler smiled pictures with kids.
Ty Cobb is deserving of enshrinement in my opinion.
Sure, but as evil as he was, Hitler was able to charm a nation. I’m not even sure Kevin Brown’s family likes him. I don’t disagree with you about Cobb. In the context of modern athletes and sports writers, it’s clear that some writers use their BBWA Hall of Fame ballots to extract revenge. It’s petty, but true.
It just devalues the HoF. Sports journalists I guess are too smitten with themselves to realize that. Almost as if the Hall is for them exclusively.
Kinda feel that way about game journalists in a way.
I agree on all counts.