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Sorry, but I hate these monochromatic jerseys. I just read the MLB reasoning behind them, which is apparently to allow players to, ironically, express their individuality. Thankfully the game I am watching does not seem to embracing this with few players brinign colprful arm sleeves or crazy bats. What was MLB thinking with these really? I'm glad I'm not in the ballpark tonight trying to keep score (which I love to do, the old-fashioned way) - it's hard even to see the numbers on TV.
MAabe I'm just a grumpy traditionalist but good grief.
MLB is desperate to attract younger fans, their base is aging and will be dying out as the boomers go belly up. They apparently think that this sort of promotion will do the trick. When the powers that be mandate an official day of non-conformity, you know the results will have an artificial feel to them.
Another manifestation is the Sunday Night Game with gimmick announcers (Arod, Jessica Mendoza) and serial distraction from the play on the field throughout the game. In that game played in Williamsport, the gimmicks increased threefold. They had an interview with one of the Little Leaguers that went on for an entire inning and two sentences into it it was clear that they had managed to locate the stiffest, dullest kid on the planet. All of his answers sounded memorized, as if he had been fed the questions and the answers in advance. Meanwhile the action on the field was being largely ignored.
They are hideous. I didn't realize it was planned until I was listening to the game tonight and the announcers were talking about how terrible they looked. At that point I had to switch over to the video feed to see for myself. That was short lived and I went back to the radio feed where I could picture the game in my head instead.
What was the thinking? "Let's defeat the entire point of having letters and numbers on the jersey's by making them white on white so no one can read them."
And then....."We could have the other team get all Johnny Cashed so that when they show the long shot of how the defense is set up, it will be impossible to distinguish players from umpires!"
These uniforms are hideous. Watching MLB Network highlights I can't even tell who is playing. I saw a Twitter comment yesterday which sums up the look best: If you combine the 2 teams uniforms, you can make yourself a black and white cookie.
This the first thread I ever saw on CD in which nobody disagreed.
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