![]() Hockey News: Kyle Konin, the emergency backup goalie for last night’s Blues/Bolts game, was assigned to the Blues but wore Lightning pads and pants (from Wade Heidt). … Here’s this weekend’s uni combo for Appalachian State (thanks to all who shared). … New front helmet bumper for Virginia Tech (from Andrew Cosentino). … I know we’ve covered this before, but it’s always weird to see Ricky Williams’s FNOB during his stint in New Orleans (from Kristian Nicosia).Ĭollege/High School Football News: Michigan will wear a patch memorializing the victims of this week’s Oxford High School mass shooting for the Big 10 Championship (from multiple readers). Tyler VanDenRostyne spotted that at Ross. NFL News: If the Broncos and Bears had a baby, it might turn out like this hat. … Speaking of team renamings, the Highline Bears, a Seattle-area summer collegiate team, will now be known as the DubSea Fish Sticks. Here are the sizes and quantities remaining:īaseball News: The new owners of the Springfield Sliders of the United States Prospect League are rebranding the team to a yet-to-be announced identity (from David Dahl). The bonus pins will ship out early next year.Īnd speaking of things that will likely sell out, we’re down to the last few Uni Watch Alternate Caps. The proof can include photos of the pins themselves and/or order-confirmation emails from Teespring. So if you’ve collected ’em all, please email me with (a) your name and address, and (b) proof that you’ve collected all of this year’s pins. We’ll be doing a “collect ’em all” bonus pin this year as well, but we need to know how many of them to make. Move fast if you want one!Īlso: As you may recall, everyone who collected all 12 of last year’s pins received a bonus “2020 All-Star” pin. As of this morning, there were only eight remaining, so this one will likely sell out today. This pin was produced in a numbered edition of 150. It was difficult to photograph the silver highlights while also showing Santa’s proper skin tone. As you can see above, it’s a swingin’ Santa with a candy cane-striped bat! (My thanks to Marcus Hall for that last embedded tweet and our own Anthony Emerson for the T-shirt link.)ĭecember pin almost gone: In case you missed it on Wednesday, the Uni Watch Pin Club’s December design is now available. New Lockout Edition of 22 leaked /f02jP3Dgbg Speaking of merchandising: You can buy a plain player silhouette T-shirt, wheee!Īnd then there’s this, which I’ll leave as the last word on this topic (for now): According to Cardinals beat writer Derrick Goold, that’s because merchandising is covered by licensing agreements, not by the now-expired collective bargaining agreement. Interestingly, however, the official MLB retail channels are still selling jerseys with players’ NOBs. Stuff like this never came up before because there was no MLB.com back in 1994, which was the last time baseball had a labor impasse. This is all part of the brave new world of labor strife in the internet era. ![]() In addition, MLB.com has stopped publishing new articles about current players and is instead leaning heavily on content about team history. Lots of players responded yesterday by using the silhouettes as their new social media avatars, which is pretty funny. The shadow knows: As noted in yesterday’s Ticker, all the player headshots on MLB.com roster pages were scrubbed and replaced with plain silhouettes when the MLB lockout began two nights ago (a move that the owners say was done out of legal necessity, not as a form of trolling). I do think the Lightning jersey might look better in the context of the full uniform, but there’s no way to know for sure because they didn’t bother to show us the full uniform. On the plus side, Tampa’s shoulder patch looks really good: Not a fan of the nickname insignia or the font, the latter of which is also used for the numerals: The Tampa design isn’t as bad, but that doesn’t mean it’s good. I mean, jeez, look at the two “S”es! Look at the center stroke of the “E”! And hey, let’s throw a guitar-pick logo in the center just to make sure everyone knows which team this is for, even if it disrupts the lettering! The whole thing diminishes the sport, the uni-verse, and all of us who are exposed to it. The Preds design is particularly embarrassing - not just the idea of putting “Smashville” on a jersey (which is bad enough) but also the specific execution of that word. I understand that Stadium Series uniforms (a) are designed to be seen from a greater distance than a usual hockey uni and (b) have a history of pushing boundaries, but these are pretty bad. ![]() 26, both released their uniforms for that game yesterday. The Predators and Lightning, who’ll be facing each other in an NHL Stadium Series game on Feb. ![]()
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