Vicks BatteRub. This is beyond awful.

Meh, its a logo.

Any word on who the on-air talent will be?

Edit: To answer my own question, Harold Reynolds and Hazel Mae have supposedly signed on.

This is beyond awful.

Really? Seems fine to me.

I'm not a fan of the red triangle with the blue border at the bottom -- I'd rather just extend the red half of the background underneath the silhouette -- but all in all, pretty innocuous. I expected much worse.

Not terrible, but I don't understand the red triangle at the bottom. It doesn't add balance, and also doesn't add a charming imbalance. It's placed too close to the silhouette, for one thing.

It's neither bad nor good. If somebody said to me, "Design a 'MLB Network' logo. You have ten minutes," this is probably pretty close to what I would have come up with.

huh, the silhouette in the MLB logo is Killebrew? Didn't know that. The NBA logo is Jerry West, right?

The red triangle is pretty bad. Not sure what that does.

I hope this channel is included on my sports package with the NBA TV, NHL TV and the NFL Network.

yawn.

That is a hideous logo, imo. Much too busy. Check out NBA TV's logo to see how a league logo can be more tastefully incorporated into a network logo. The NFL Network logo is also a much cleaner look, which shows you can use the shape of sports equipment in the logo and not have it look horrendous. Poor effort by whoever was in charge of the MLB Network's design, just a total failure.

Really? Seems fine to me.

It just isn’t. Not only did they force an essentially rectangular design—the “classic silhouetted batter”—into a triangle, they also literally dropped the ball. MLB.com and .tv at least have the dot representing a baseball. What does this have? The only thing the red triangle at the bottom invokes is the old Vicks logo. It’s not home, it’s not a diamond, it’s not even the shape of a baseball field.

The biggest problem is the typeface. I’m not entirely sure if they deliberately chose an unattractive one, or if they actively defaced somthing (by that I mean that it almost looks like they stretched the letters). That doesn’t look like athleticism. It looks like heavy industry. I’m not a TV person, so I have no idea how this design would work on air, especially as the network logo. I think they’d have been much better served with the classic logo and the words MLB Network underneath.

Blech. Don't like it.

Though, frankly, I'm more concerned with whether I'll receive the network than what the logo looks like.

I always thought the silhouette was Clemente, no?

the logo, whatever. The talent and programming is all that matters.

The red triangle is pretty bad. Not sure what that does.

It's a modesty panel for Killebrew.

I always thought the silhouette was Clemente, no?

Officially, the logo is nobody in particular (unlike the NBA, where it is specifically said that Jerry West is the player). But it's generally agreed upon that it's Killebrew (although others say it's Rose or Mickey Mantle).

Is anyone surprised? Let's face it, if there's one thing everybody can agree on, it's that MLB's graphic design blows.

unlike the NBA, where it is specifically said that Jerry West is the player

That's not true. The NBA also denies that their logo is based on any one player.

Makes sense to deny the logo is anyone in particular, that would give the player/person some usage rights.

I think the contention that the logo features a silhouette of Killebrew is a longstanding myth, an urban legend of sorts. I've posed the question to researchers in the Hall of Fame Library and people within MLB and they all say that it's not Killebrew. They're not sure where the myth started.

One of the cool things about the MLB logo is that you can see it optically as either a left-handed or right-handed batter.

One of the cool things about the MLB logo is that you can see it optically as either a left-handed or right-handed batter.

Wouldn't that be the case for any silhouette?

I think the more interesting question is who the head-hunting pitcher is.

One of the cool things about the MLB logo is that you can see it optically as either a left-handed or right-handed batter.

Wouldn't that be the case for any silhouette?

Have you ever looked at the MLB logo... on weed?

Can't be any worse than the Lisa Simpson Blowjob Logo 2012 London Olympics Logo.

you can see it optically

Wouldn't that be the case for anything you can see?

btw, if you're system carries MLBEI than you most likely will get the MLB Network on your basic cable/satellite.

I was hoping for something that better represented MLB... perhaps a clown face, or a dildo. Maybe a middle finger, rampant, per chevron argent and gules.

Its less ugly than thar New Yankee Stadium (brrrr!). So its got that, at least.