I'm not clear what you're commenting on here? The extra short pants? Or something obvious I'm likely missing
The incredibly poorly tailored above the knee pants. They're basically shorts with an elastic at the end, which is also weird. Typically, high socks stop below the knee for baseball uniforms. Santana has actually done this before, oddly enough. But not always! Sometimes he wears high socks correctly. Most other times long pants. But players do weird things. Years ago there was whatever Prince Fielder was doing here (old dude golfer too big shorts style?):
The real question is "Will there be a second City Connect uniform to replace or go in the rotation with the current CC". Every team is slated to have one, but will they push for more money and do a V2? And I agree there are some standouts in both good and bad directions but most of them are kinda meh.
The Dodgers are set to debut their V2.0 unis sometime in the next month. Of course, their first foray was such a snooze: blue pants and jersey with the "Los Dodgers" on the front, that you almost have to think that the old version was a false start.
I'm with you now
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Hopefully it's better than this thing that the Greenville Drive wore.
I'm not a fan of the Sox CC unis, but I bought this short sleeve hoodie for my wife because I really kind of like the idea of reversing the colors and making baby blue the main jersey color with yellow and white being the complimentary colors. That said there are quite a few teams already with some variation of a light blue employed in either their home, road, alternate or CC unis and not many that feature yellow.
If they aren't green they will lean into the 'history' angle and I'd expect something like the white homes with BOSTON across the front. And I totally forgot about Los Dodgers, so yeah that was a miss.
They mostly stink but a few do sell. Nike stock has been a dumpster fire for a few years and their quality and design has become second or third rate so I'm sure they're going to keep throwing stuff at the wall hoping something sticks. If these stop selling the lesson won't be to stop making City Connect jerseys, it will be that the fans are ready for new designs. They won't bother asking fans.
I've always preferred this and been confused why Nike went with primary yellow and lettering in blue, when the Boston Marathon logo and apparel were what you're showing above, primary blue with yellow lettering/details.
I'm not 100%, but I don't think that the Los Dodgers unis were officially CC unis. I think they were an alternate jerseys (and perhaps a precursor) that were created to recognize/embrace the region and their Latino fan base and if I'm not mistaken San Francisco did similar with Gigantes jerseys.
Thanks for this. I have to say that I prefer the graffiti like Los Angeles to Los Dodgers.No, oddly they were officially CC, and to your point they unofficially sucked (I.e. were just too boring). Although I will say, I was surprised the "Los Dodgers" caps didn't catch on -- those aren't terrible.
To me Mookie looks like he's about to give the oxygen tanks a stir.
This is not a minority opinion. We're at the point where there are almost as many city connect jerseys in the stands at Fenway as there are home whites. This is completely anecdotal, obviously, but I'd estimate that 70% of fans under 40 who wear jerseys to games wear the city connects.
not only that, but in Atlanta last week it was probably 1/3 of the six fans I saw wearing yellow.
I like everything about the Braves City Connects. I think it's the retro 70s feel.
Minor nit pick but the Mariners were never the Pilots. The Mariners were always the Mariners. The Pilots became the Brewers.
I know that, but I looked at both the original Mariners road unis and the Seattle Pilots road unis, and these seemed to be based on the Pilots. But my wording was imprecise, because I was referring to the city's first year in the majors, not the franchise's, so your clarification is welcome and I thank you for it.
I’d forgotten about the Braves one. I agree the throwback 70s styling looks good but like another poster commented, the design these are inspired by is better than the homage, IMO. As for Seattle’s, the jerseys are nice (great font) and the trident logo hat is great. The black pants ruin the whole thing, though, for two reasons; only the Pirates can pull off black pants, and black paired with that shade of blue is a terrible look, especially with the yellow brought into the mix. I dislike the Marlins jerseys because they look like soccer uniforms. Why would a sport with the best-looking uniforms want to co-opt the style of a sport with the ugliest uniforms? I get that Europe is a hugely untapped market for MLB but playing down to an inferior style to appeal is an unfortunate choice.I like everything about the Braves City Connects. I think it's the retro 70s feel.
The Mariners' CCs are a good look too (also kinda retro), except for the pants. Black pants on a baseball uniform just don't work for me.
And I'll take the Marlins unis except for the hat...
I think that they’re going to be gone after this year. Haven’t heard much about it since the All-Star break.
I was in the front row of the pavilion seats at Fenway yesterday, probably no more than 150 feet from the pitcher's mound. The names on the back of the D-backs uniforms were all completely unreadable. AJ Puk looked like "|||" above his number.
