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We were not prepared for yellow.
Also, the general asymmetry.
I guess I can pretend these are some sort of alternate universe 1979 throwback unis...that they'll wear all year.
That's just laughably bad.
2007 Renault F1 car
Maybe a little music will help wash it out?
I was thinking it was either like a campground that had a hokey Native American theme, or an amusement park logo. MARLINWORLD!
I liked the teal ...
The same reason any team changes jerseys: to sell more of them. In the Marlins case, 75 more.
I don't see the state of Florida. Oh god, its like the Expos logo all over again. Why must logos be magic eye posters?
If his name's attached to that, then maybe it should be hemlock instead.
Are you suggesting that Jeffrey Loria might be difficult to work for? Come on now, don't be silly.
No, I think it's still the Padres' camo alternate jerseys. A nice sentiment, but a terrible look.
When I was a kid, I always wondered why the Expos' logo said "elb".
And, per a local affiliate, the name is changing to the Miami Marlins.
I still want an upside-down Whataburger when I see it.
Yep. When I saw this I thought bastard child of the '70s Expos logo and Astros uni.
You gotta admit if they just do this with their blue white yellow and orange, they will make a permanent impact on baseball history.
Wait...they didn't? (This is an entirely serious post)
Who has the worst current uniforms in MLB? I think it may already be the Marlins.
There aren't many bad ones anymore. We're in a period of blandness. The Blue Jays' lettering that's half blue and half some charcoal/steel-gray color makes most of their jerseys look awful, and their powder blue pullover outfits look pretty cool but also look pretty silly because the shirt and pants are the same color. Keep the throwback top, use white pants.
I think half the teams in the NBA have blue and orange or blue and yellow color schemes right now. Maybe baseball is following their lead. Better than following the lead of the NFL and ending every makeover with a boring combination of red, blue, and gray, like the Angels, Twins and Nationals have been doing.
I've said this before, but the Rangers don't have a uniform. Oh, all the Rangers wear the same thing on a given night, but it could be red, white, blue, grey, or mix-n-match. I believe the starting pitcher gets to choose, and I guess the only constraint is that they can't wear "home whites" on the road. This makes it difficult to even have an opinion about their uniform. Their typography is meh, if unoffensive, the cap has a "T" (interesting choice), the tailoring looks like anyone else's, and the only real touches of interest are the high socks on David Murphy and Ian Kinsler.
Or, possibly, second or third bottle of Danimals.
I like the new Jays logo as well. Sticking with what works.
That said, I liked most of the teal & black variations the Marlins have used over their history. Seemed a good counterpart to their expansion partners' purple & black.
The shape is no good. Looks like a stylized mountain range, not so appropriate for Florida. Combined with the colors it reminds me of the NHL's Colorado Rockies.
It seems cosmopolitan to me.
I'm guessing you never played Atari.
The logo is bland and the colors don't go together. There's nothing to like about this.
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This is incorrect. Yellow is always bad. Everywhere and on everything. Yellow cars should be outlawed.
The colors are a problem. The blue fits well enough with either the yellow or orange, but the yellow and orange do not work together.
My guess on the leak is that someone who doesn't like this logo (and is involved in the process) leaked it hoping that it would be trashed publicly and then killed or reworked.
From the excerpt:
"At first it wasn’t clear whether it was legit or just some Photoshopper’s concept, but Uni Watch has confirmed that it is in fact the real deal."
Try this version I made, with orange spliced in, and the thickness of the white M increased a bit.
http://www.dos486.com/misc/marlins.png
With one exception, the VW Beetle. Those look fine in any bright color.
But yellow Mustangs (which are inexplicably common) should be outlawed twice. Why in the world would you pay up for a decently boss car like that and get it in pansy yellow?
Because I'm curious where you're going with this... that's true, I never played Atari.
Well, I might have to eat my words, I'm not sure it doesn't look better without the yellow.
Also, didn't see the bit about the new Blue Jays logo until now - that's also a big improvement, I think their look from 2004-present has also been one of baseball biggest stylistic blunders. I just hope it's not the 2nd logo shown on the page - tired of teams trying to make the animals in their logos look more angular and aggressive, "meaner" animals.
So would a completely random scribble; that doesn't mean it doesn't look like ass.
Ass would be an improvement on prevailing trends in uniform/logo design, that's what I'm saying - homogenization is killing us right now (though not 1/10th as badly as in the NBA). When people take uniform designs like the re-booted Nationals or the new and improved Tampa Bay ______ Rays more seriously than they do this, it's disheartening. This is just a cap logo, and one it's entirely possible to design a nicely composed uniform around - I hope they follow through on it.
The old Brewers logo is an even better example of this--the "m" and "b" are very clear once you see them for the first time (unlike the "M" in the Expos logo, which I still have to strain to see). But it took me a few years of following baseball to notice them.
I had the opposite experience with this logo. I only saw an M and had to strain to see the letters that compose it, even once I knew what it said.
And I never saw the "m b" in the old Brewers glove logo until a year or two ago on BTF.
Marlins!
:D
No?
Probably not, since if they were going to use another language it would likely be French.
I believe you were inspired by this.
The one example of this type of design that I found stunning was/is the arrow in the FedEx logo...
and imo, Toronto's current logo and uniforms are far and away the worst in MLB.
Especially a team that plays in south Florida. Hot, steamy, balmy, sweaty south Florida. With the teal background it pretty much screams Collins Avenue.
I don't suppose this is a "leak" so much as it is what's considered a "trial balloon" inside the Beltway. A way to float ideas anonymously to see how much they get shot down. That David Sampson is one cunning little...guy.
You must have missed the spoon in the logo. With all the emphasis MLB has placed on discouraging the use of performance-enhancing drugs, they wouldn't want surreptitiously to encourage the use of coke now would they?
Oh yeah. I remember that. Something about that always drove my little-kid-mind crazy. I could never figure out what that had to do with anything or what it meant or if I should even be seeing it at all.
I'm almost 40. Tonight was the first time I saw the "M" on that cap in my whole life. Beyond weird.
The Big Ten logo surely deserves some kind of dishonorable mention.
This Marlins jumble of random colors is an objective abomination.
That's in honor of "Doc" Emmett Lathrop Brown.
Exactly, and that's why it's perfect. No desperation by the folks at Rogers to "make it their own", to make a big splash. It's just a clean, smart, modern upgrade of the beloved original logo. It's friggin' wonderful.
Orange is an afterthought. That team's colors are more accurately described as black and blue.
Especially that team in Queens.
There is no spoon.
You must have missed the spoon in the logo.
There is no spoon.
Look between the lower case "e" and the "d".
btw, that interview's from a site called The Sneeze, which features Steve, Don't Eat It!.
...but this... this is not good...
I have looked over the years and I STILL can't find the "M". I don't care what anyone says, that says "elb" and that's all there is too it.
I thought it was "expos le beisbol" which I guess doesn't really make sense since that means "Expos, the baseball", right?
For what it's worth I thought it said "lb" forever until someone told me otherwise. I was like "pounds? But they must use kg in canada! Why is weight on the hat?"
So, yeah, it was stupid.
But I think it's just "M" with bad colors, actually.
Oh no, wait, apparently: "The answer, as I was repeatedly informed, is that it's not "elb", it's that I'm a blind and/or drunk idiot and it's a stylized "M" with an "e" on the left part and a "b" on the right part. They stand for "Expos de Montréal Baseball" and they're also the initials of the team's original owner, Edgar M. Bronfman."
YOU ARE TRYING TO DO TOO MUCH IN A VERY SMALL SPACE.
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