meh for the Pads. I really never liked the brown and mustard, either. The problem I see with the SD home jersey is that they are using a style that evokes (to me) an oceanic, sea-type flourish, which I can see due to the fact that SD is a city on the ocean, but the team is the Padres, a Spanish Mission connotation. I don’t think they mix well.

Personally, I would go to a brownish palette of colors, but use a better font than the one they used on the old brown and mustard, a font a bit more stylish and classic.

Even when the O’s were good, didn’t like the team, loved the bird. The Pads road unis finally get it right. This is a PCL throwback.

The team’s research found a very loud minority wanted a return to brown. The majority wanted their current unis tweaked to be less generic. They came up a winner with the road jersey, the secondary jersey but minimal change on the main jersey, save for some piping.

But the old Swinging Friar from the 60s in back, but in blue.

By the way, wouldn’t you consider my avatar logo a "cartoon’?

worn in a game against the Cubs, and it looked great. Best uni that team has even worn.

The more realistic oriole looked really stupid imo. It just didn’t seem to look right on their hats. The New Old Oriole looks much better.

So happy that my son will get to grow up in a world where the O’s wear the smiling bird on their hats. The realistic Oriole was such a buzzkill.

I have no idea what the padres are doing.

Did they take their team color, and then turn the contrast up to 100 so that it became totally indistinguishable from black? Is that supposed to be blue? Is blue supposed to be a Pads color?

What is the point of every pro sports team wearing exactly the same uni – team name in (essentially) black in script on a white jersey for home – city name in boring serif font in (essentially) black on a gray jersey for road.

Pads should put the friar on their sleeves, and incorporate a brown and yellow scheme. It can be done well, they just really haven’t done it yet.

But I am not totally against the cartoon Oriole. I just wish they would win more. Camden is fun when they are winning, great energy.

I certainly hope the don’t embarrass the likes of Palmer, McNally, Powell & Robinson wearing them. I loved those teams coached by the Earl of Baltimore. The Padre’s still have it wrong. The swinging Friar needs to be an important part of the uniform.

Thus, I’m quite glad it’s back. And yeah bro, this is a cool story.

…Al if you want to edit this profile to embed the second link as a live link, please do. I couldn’t figure out how to.

- The Padres: I’m a fan of these, for the most part. I did not like the Pad’s old road uniforms that were sand colored. While the new road jerseys are simple, I like it. Its a classic font and on all of the jerseys I really like the use of the piping trim. The alternative jersey looks great, too, and, again, its simple. They’re not bringing in a bunch of colors, its just a solid looking jersey. I don’t love the home script jersey, however it makes sense, particularly being a west coast team… certainly gives a pacific feel.

- The Orioles: I like these as well. The cartoon Oriole is great. I also do like the orange jersey. The color combinations of all the jerseys gets solid marks, IMO. My only criticism is the script font, particularly on the away jersey. The gap between the “L” and the “T” looks odd to me.

- The Marlins: I’m surprised that there hasn’t been more comment about their recently unveiled unis. I don’t dislike them nearly as much as I thought I would. I’m not a huge fan, in part, because I think they could be really good. To me, their biggest error was not settling on one key color. I get that they’re going for the south Florida art deco/pastel look, but I think thats the downfall. Had they settled, either on orange or the teal, I think they’d have a great uniform. Someone at the Marlins SB Nation blog did a mock-up of the new logo, but dumped most of the colors and just had teal and black and it looks great. They’re not asking my opinion, but if they were, I’d tell them to dump the colors and settle for either orange or blue.

I’m talking pre-Kroc era. Someone once said that the Padres unis of the early ’80s looked like a taco. LOL

.. but not as bad as the Marlins new uniform.

and laughed at me for reading this. He asked “are you guys this bored in the off season that you’re talking about other teams uniforms?” Gotta admit when he put it like that it did seem silly. I tried to tell him that this was actually a very exciting off season, but he wasn’t buying it.

OK-he’s gone. Now I can say that I hate that cartoon oriole and the Padre’s should have at least some brown in theirs.