… Hmmm, this is concerning: Hosiery hero Chris Paddack always wore stirrups for the Padres and also wore them last week for his first start with the Twins, but last night he just wore socks, not stirrups.įootball News: The NFL is keeping an eye on the USFL’s use of technology for things like ball spotting and first down measurements. … I love to see a manager going high-cuffed and a pitcher wearing stirrups, but I’d love them both a lot more if their stripes matched. … I’m not 100% sure, but I’m guessing that a pitcher tackling a guy who’s circling the bases after hitting a home run probably violates one of those “unwritten rules” we’re always hearing about. … Oops: A pregame parachute promotion at Nats Park prompted an evacuation of the U.S. … Among all his other distinctions, Angels P Shohei Ohtani is the rare pitcher with a dirty uniform. … Former Twins 1B Kent Hrbek’s autobio has some fun uni-related anecdotes (from Trevor Williams). … After two high schools in West Hartford, Conn., voted to drop their Native American team names earlier this year, some parents in the school district have filed a petition to reconsider that move, citing support for the names from the chief of the local Schaghticoke Tribal Nation.īaseball News: New tequila sunrise-style jerseys for the Single-A Fayetteville Woodpeckers (from Ignacio Salazar). … Sandusky High School in Michigan will no longer call its teams the Redskins (also from Scott Crocker).
… A Colorado state commission has added “Thunderbirds” to the list of team names that schools can no longer use because of its ties to Native American culture. Indigenous Appropriation News: All of these are from Kary Klismet: The American Indian Community Center, an indigenous advocacy organization in Spokane, Wash., has donated $35,000 to the city’s North Central High School for new sports team uniforms after the school dropped its Native-themed team name. Excited for what’s sure to be the best Purp Walk ever! Yesterday I booked my flight for this trip. We will not be mailing them or holding them for later pickup. Again, don’t do that unless you plan to attend the party, because that’s where you’ll receive the shirt. (Sorry, no more than two.) Please do not enter this raffle unless you will be attending the party! I’ll notify the winners this weekend, and I’ll also notify the non-winners so they can buy tickets if they want.Īlso, if you’ll be attending the party and want to pre-order the shirt with the bonus logo on the back, you can do that here. One email per person, and indicate in your email if you want one ticket or two tickets.
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Remember, if you’ll be attending the party at Blake Street Tavern and want to enter the raffle for the free Rockies/Giants tickets, send an email to the raffle in-box by 8pm Eastern tomorrow. I’ve consolidated all of the info onto this page, so start there if you need to get up to speed. Purp Walk update: In case you missed Wednesday’s and/or Tuesday’s posts, big plans are afoot for this year’s Purple Amnesty Day. One final note: It’s ironic, and also pathetic, that the Astros celebrated Houston’s heritage of space travel while plastering the mound with an ad for a much more Earthbound mode of transportation: But I noticed only two players went high-cuffed - outfielder Jose Siri and reliever Cristian Javier:Īs an aside, I noticed that first base coach Omar Lopez also went high-cuffed - a rarity for a coach! He doesn’t normally do that, but maybe he likes the Space City socks:Īnyway: Not a good uniform overall, although I still love the cap. Players who went high-cuffed looked better, because the contrasting socks broke up mono-navy tedium. The mono-navy design looked super-pajama-y, and the straight-line chest lettering looked plain and isolated instead of space-age and snazzy: But on the field last night, in good lighting and with lighter, contrasting backgrounds, the uniform looked really bad, at least to me. The unveiling photos for this uniform mostly featured dark backgrounds.
And that turns out to be the case with the Astros’ “Space City” uniforms, which made their on-field debut last night.
For most photos, you can click to enlargeĪfter an uniform unveiling, I often qualify my reaction to the new design by saying, “But let’s see how they look on the field,” because sometimes a uniform looks different in a game than it does in the carefully controlled environment of a photo shoot.
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