OT: Marlins seek to define 'eyesore' with new unis

Well, that's MY theory, anyway. The hats are especially bad.

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Not half as bad

as I expected them to be.

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by leothelip on Nov 11, 2011 1:57 PM CST reply actions

They are bad.

But not AS bad as I expected.

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by cubswynn on Nov 11, 2011 2:28 PM CST up reply actions

They're bad. About as bad as THIS.

by jeffmills1972 on Nov 11, 2011 6:22 PM CST up reply actions

Wow.

I had never seen those before. Those are… worse.

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by Al Yellon on Nov 12, 2011 7:04 AM CST up reply actions

...

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by bluemagic9 on Nov 11, 2011 2:09 PM CST reply actions

Can you imagine Pujols or Fielder in that orange thing?

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by Al Yellon on Nov 11, 2011 2:57 PM CST reply actions

Here's the million dollar question

What if Pujols tells the Marlins he’ll sign for them at whatever their best offer is, but only on the condition that they change their uniforms to something more becoming of the greatest baseball player of his era. Do the Marlins scrap everything just to get him to sign? Things we may never know.

by Bradsbeard on Nov 11, 2011 3:24 PM CST up reply actions

BLECH!

I enjoy this website because it's so interesting to see folks pole vaulting over mouse turds.

by BAMACOLONEL on Nov 11, 2011 2:59 PM CST reply actions

Those look awesome! - H. Keller

I don’t mind the orange really, but can they find a bigger M for the cap?

I do like Ozzie’s outfit on the header. He should manage in that. In would settle the whole “managers in uniforms” debate.

by Tat14 on Nov 11, 2011 3:13 PM CST reply actions

Making fun of Helen Keller.

Classy. Very classy.

by jeffmills1972 on Nov 11, 2011 6:20 PM CST up reply actions

Really??

I used a name for the context of humor. Lighten up Francis.

BTW, I was talking about Hank Keller, my neighbor. Ha.

by Tat14 on Nov 11, 2011 9:41 PM CST up reply actions

No, you weren't.

You were making fun of Helen Keller. Classless.

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by Al Yellon on Nov 12, 2011 7:05 AM CST up reply actions

And here comes the judge...

Frankly, my lame joke is not worth the argument. Enjoy your weekend.

by Tat14 on Nov 12, 2011 1:54 PM CST up reply actions

No worries.

Just didn’t find the joke tasteful.

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by Al Yellon on Nov 12, 2011 2:11 PM CST up reply actions

too soon?

by daily2b on Nov 12, 2011 2:12 PM CST up reply actions

Now that my friend

is funny.

by Tat14 on Nov 12, 2011 2:42 PM CST up reply actions

i can't begin to describe how horrible those uniforms are

THEOOOOOOOOO (and Hoyer)

by jesus christos on Nov 11, 2011 4:19 PM CST reply actions 1 recs

rec'd

by cubsluver22 on Nov 11, 2011 5:06 PM CST up reply actions

Pretty bad. I hate the bright colored jersey softball team look including the Cubs' blue ones.

by the nth on Nov 11, 2011 4:39 PM CST reply actions

Does anyone think the Cubs should have new uniforms for 2012?

I don’t mean “retro” uniforms, but a brand new home and road uniform to represent the new era for the Cubs under Theo, Jed and the new management?

by jeffmills1972 on Nov 11, 2011 6:34 PM CST reply actions

No

but I wouldn’t be surprised to see another alternate jersey. Alot of teams are going that way, with 1 road alt and 1 home alt, along with the regular home & road unis. It will sell and make $$$.

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by imacubman on Nov 11, 2011 6:54 PM CST up reply actions

I would be happy

if the Cubs moved from royal blue to a more navy blue. I am just not a fan of royal blue and bright red, it looks like a kindergartner picked them out. Just my opinion.

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by tomas21 on Nov 11, 2011 7:51 PM CST up reply actions

BOOOOOOOOO

Why must every team constantly darken their uniforms?

Last year’s “retro” Eagles unis looked awesome with the kelly green. Monday night you could barely tell they were supposed to be wearing green.

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by D98 on Nov 11, 2011 8:15 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs

Navy blue?

And look more like the Rays, Mariners, Padres, and everyone else? No! Baseball need more color diversity, not less. Too many teams have the same colors. Navy blue and black are the biggest offenders. In fact, the Astros or D’backs should be forced to change their colors because of color overlap (same league, at least Giants & Orioles are in different leagues). The Cubs stand out, as they should. Don’t reverse it.

by ddoubleheader on Nov 12, 2011 12:21 AM CST up reply actions

I Agree

Too many teams switched to generic red and blue in the last decade or two, e.g. Rays, Mariners, Diamondbacks, Padres (aren’t they supposed to be brown?). Black is a similar problem, but at least the Rockies and Mets accent their black with purple and orange respectively. The Nats uniforms may be the least distinctive of them all, as they seem almost identical to the Phillies to me (the Phillies, to their credit, are willing to break out the powder blues). We need more greens, yellows, oranges, and browns or in ten years every team will be playing with a red, blue, and black uniform.

The Marlins uniform is not progress. Teams switch to a generic color scheme after they prove incapable of dressing themselves based upon good taste ( the modern DBacks and Marlins uniforms look far better than the old ones…because the old ones were hideous. Teal is not your friend.). The new Marlins unis look like the old Devil Ray uniforms…but the polychrome M looks even noisier than the high school art project Tampa was forced to wear…if that is possible. They may grow on me, but I am expecting them to last a season or two before the team decides to change the uniform style to incorporate more red, blue, or black. Boo.

by Kyle From Chicago on Nov 12, 2011 3:10 AM CST up reply actions

Yeah, just go through MLB.com

Every team prominently uses either blue, red, or black. Every team! The AL Central is 4/5ths blue!

by Bradsbeard on Nov 12, 2011 9:18 AM CST up reply actions

I don't see what you want.

First you say we need more greens, yellows, oranges, and browns. (The Marlins added two of those as well as a not-navy blue.)

Then you say the Marlins uniform is not “progress.” And let’s not forget good taste is an opinion. I, for one, think the Diamondbacks logo and typeface are ugly and their color scheme to be boring. I actually prefer their old uniforms—at least they were bold. I also appear to be one of the select few who likes the Marlins new unis. Not in love with the design, but I like the color scheme.

by mic on Nov 12, 2011 11:24 AM CST up reply actions

I would be in favor of having more greens, yellows, oranges, and browns…but not all in the same uniform.

The Marlins “M” just looks too busy to me, but I do like the rest of their uniform. If they toned down the Miami Vice, I might get into it. Like you say, tho, taste is personal. Maybe it will be a hit. I will give them (and the original Dbacks) credit for regionalizing their color scheme.

I am sure more pics will be forthcoming:

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp passan_marlins_new_stadium_free_agents_111111

by Kyle From Chicago on Nov 13, 2011 1:18 AM CST up reply actions

not too far off the Dolphins color combo

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by Cubbie-Tim on Nov 13, 2011 8:16 PM CST up reply actions

The current Dbacks

do look better than the original, though the original… it gets style points for doing something interesting and using interesting colors, but wasn’t quite right for the area or identity. Their snake name fits the threatening red and the snake D; the old uniform looked like if the Navajo Nation had a team. The Kayenta Kachinas?

I’d like the Rays if they didn’t go schizo on what kind of ray they were (what next, Ray the Ghostbuster from the Ghostbusters?) and kept the current uni’s subdued styling but replacing generic dark blue with distinctive dark green.

The Marlins, their uniforms looked nice. Teal suited them. Their uniform shift is like going from The Old Man and the Sea to one of those fake talking fish on the wall. Their current uniforms should be called the Marlin Mashup or the Marlin Mishmash. It just looks like it was thrown together in a feverish daze produced by eating whatever spoiled seafood gave them the same vision as that outfield display.

by ddoubleheader on Nov 12, 2011 3:24 PM CST up reply actions

really bad idea

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by lookingdeadred on Nov 12, 2011 9:15 AM CST up reply actions

The Cubs don't need to change their colors or basic uniform design.

Ever.

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by Julio Zuleta's Voodoo on Nov 12, 2011 9:08 AM CST via mobile up reply actions

Why? The problem is not the uniform.

The only change I would like to see would be banishing the blueberry jerseys.

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by lookingdeadred on Nov 12, 2011 9:14 AM CST up reply actions

Agree.

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by Al Yellon on Nov 12, 2011 9:15 AM CST up reply actions

I prefer them to the road greys.

I’d like the blues to be used on the road and pinstripe only at home.

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by elgato on Nov 12, 2011 10:41 AM CST up reply actions

I still think

If Epstein & Ricketts assemble a strong team and no matter what they do, they can’t seem to get to or win a world series, I think it’s time for plan B:
The Chicago Whales
Exorcise the demons of the Federal League by taking on the identity of the original Wrigley Field (Weeghman Park) team. Cubbie blue becomes Whaley gray. Go Whales Go!

by ddoubleheader on Nov 12, 2011 3:29 PM CST up reply actions

No way.

Greys are ugly and look like dingy laundry.

I like the blues and pinstripes.

by Arbusto on Nov 13, 2011 7:59 AM CST up reply actions

the blues look like beer league unis

burn ’em

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by lookingdeadred on Nov 13, 2011 9:45 AM CST up reply actions

agreed

by Cubbie-Tim on Nov 13, 2011 8:16 PM CST up reply actions

Yuck

Those uniforms put the butt in butt-ugly.

by toppsmike on Nov 11, 2011 7:49 PM CST reply actions

OK

They aren’t that bad. Aside from the rainbow lettering, they are quite alright. The white home unis look pretty solid IMO. The logo is still awful.

by Bradsbeard on Nov 11, 2011 8:36 PM CST reply actions

The home white uni isn't as bad. Agreed there.

But the orange is terrible.

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by elgato on Nov 12, 2011 10:41 AM CST up reply actions

I find it odd

that the home uniform says “MIAMI”, not “MARLINS”. What other team has done this? The only uniform that says “MARLINS” is the orange alt.

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by Al Yellon on Nov 12, 2011 12:08 PM CST up reply actions

One comes to mind

The Rangers’ home unis say “TEXAS”. It appears that 2011 was the first year they did this, though I’m not sure why. It’s not like “Rangers” is too long to fit on the jersey. (Maybe it’s a Dallas thing: the NBA’s Mavericks also put “Dallas” on their home jerseys, but a nine-letter word is more difficult to fit on a basketball jersey; the Knicks have “New York” on their home jerseys too, FWIW.)

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by gauchodirk on Nov 12, 2011 1:19 PM CST up reply actions

Yankees have their NY logo, no Yankees

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by lookingdeadred on Nov 13, 2011 9:45 AM CST up reply actions

Some things

that are seen can never be unseen. The most horrid things I’ve seen since the “rainbow” Astro’s uniforms or the 70s Padres unis. These may be some of the most horrible unis in baseball and they’re not even official.

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by snowyman28 on Nov 11, 2011 11:05 PM CST reply actions

There were several unis

From the 70s that were pretty bad. The Astros unis were awful. The new Marlins uniforms have topped that. I don’t understand why they thought they had to change their entire color scheme. The original was actually nice.

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by cub in louies nest on Nov 11, 2011 11:40 PM CST via mobile up reply actions

I can't defend teal

It was a trendy color of the 1990s that needed to die.

by Josh Timmers on Nov 12, 2011 11:51 AM CST up reply actions

It has its place

And the Marlins being in Miami is one of those places. It did get overused, but the ’00s sucked for color. Car color selection became so conformist it looked like the Soviet Union and baseball uniforms trended away from distinctiveness and towards looking the same.

On the topic, Big League Stew, the Yahoo blog, had an article on what they thought was the 5 best uniform changes of ‘recent’ memory. Dbacks was one of the ones they noted.

by ddoubleheader on Nov 12, 2011 3:32 PM CST up reply actions

I wonder if

they were going after the University of Miami look? Either way, still ugly.

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by imacubman on Nov 12, 2011 7:28 AM CST reply actions

Good call.

Where have you gone, Kiko Calero. A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

by elgato on Nov 12, 2011 10:42 AM CST up reply actions

No, U of Miami would be this look:

Home:

Road:

by ClarkFan on Nov 12, 2011 1:18 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs

same can apply to

some of the Penn State coaches or any other number of college sports teams. The corruption across the board is sickening.

Of course, Marlins fans probably wish Loria wore those uniforms, Expos fans too.

by ddoubleheader on Nov 12, 2011 3:33 PM CST up reply actions

this cannot be rec'd enough

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~Earl Warren

by lookingdeadred on Nov 13, 2011 9:46 AM CST up reply actions

Two words describe these unis: ug ly

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by lookingdeadred on Nov 12, 2011 9:13 AM CST reply actions

I'm going to defend these uniforms

They’re tacky and I’d never want to see the Cubs wear anything close to this. But uniforms in recent years have gotten pretty dull and “uniform.” They’re all alike. These uniforms are going to stand out in a crowd. In a bad way, for sure, but better to be tacky than dull.

Back in the 80s, you had teams with classy and traditional uniforms like the Yankees, Tigers and Red Sox. You had teams that looked like they were going to a drag queen party like the Astros or Athletics. Then you had teams that were traditional at home and heading to a disco on the road like the Giants and the Cubs.

Essentially, I’m defending bad taste as necessary for variety. And I’m glad the Marlins are biting the bullet on this rather than the Cubs.

by Josh Timmers on Nov 12, 2011 11:48 AM CST reply actions

I actually

dont have a problem with the colors or even the logo a little, but kill the rainbow colors. The “M” on the hat is a bit bold, but not terrible, but the rainbow colors ruin it.

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by imacubman on Nov 12, 2011 5:11 PM CST up reply actions

...

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by eths on Nov 12, 2011 3:08 PM CST reply actions