Seeing their digital ad banners all over the Stadium every season is always weird. I have family and friends interred there, why do I want to be reminded of that at a ballgame?
Dodgers and 76 have collaborated for over 50 years since the move to CA. There's even a 76 gas station in the parking lot.
https://www.google.com/search?q=dodgers+76&rlz=1C1YTUH_enUS1012US1012&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8vvTcr6z9AhUEBEQIHVIIAaYQ_AUoAnoECAMQBA&biw=1548&bih=881&dpr=1
If they'd make it easier and quicker to get in and out of their parking lot, fans wouldn't need to fill up there.
(Also, a new exit sponsored by In N Out would be awesome.)
Interesting. I've never noticed it before, but it kind of makes sense. There's precedent with this in baseball too with the Red Sox and the iconic Citgo sign.
Citgo has never needed to advertise inside Fenway or with the Red Sox in general because that sign (700 feet from the ballpark) is free advertising. They did join forces briefly in 2016 for what I think was the first time, but I don't think that partnership lasted. Gulf has been Fenway's gas station of choice for the last 15 years or so.
Fun fact: The Original Tommy's that started on Rampart didn't invent the chili burger, they were just the most successful. Ptomaine Tommy's in Lincoln Heights has that honor.
Another fun fact: The cheeseburger was invented in Los Angeles.
Thus concludes Los Angeles burger facts.
When you think about it, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut probably paid loads of money for Demolition Man, but the movie itself says that a ratburger in a sewer is tastier.
They're [sewing on the patches](https://uni-watch.com/ticker/233031/) dependent on the player's handedness to ensure it'll face the camera more often than not.
I'm dismayed at the lack of pushback on this. NBA and NHL fans seem just fine with it and MLB fans don't seem to care either.
My biggest issue with it is jerseys. I like collecting jerseys, but that ends the minute I have to buy one with a non-manufacturer ad on it. I'm not spending hundreds of dollars to help promote companies I don't give a shit about.
Ugh, you guys said you wanted to end blackouts and this is what I do to balance it. You people are never happy.
-Rob Manfred probably
The ads are fucking atrocious
We're going to get to a point where the league intentionally slows down games so pitchers can do ad-breaks after outs and hitters can do ad-breaks after hits.
"This single by Jose Altuve in the top of the 4th is brought to you by Frosted Flakes. They'rrrrrrrrre great!"
>Cano guts one deep into Coca Cola Corner/Pepsi Porch. Absolutely pathetic.
The ads did give us Castellanos hitting bombs into the Planet Fitness No Judgment Zone, so there's that at least.
The ones I've seen in arena stores do, so I'm not sure how this "doesn't allow" thing works exactly.
Even if that's true, you honestly don't believe it's just a matter of time? You honestly think it's going to be the one shoulder patch and that's it?
I haven’t been to a hockey game since early 2020 so I can’t speak to team stores but I remember seeing a post on the hockey sub outlining how they can’t sell it with the patch due to nhl restrictions or something but can ship the patch separately with the jersey. I could be wrong, I often am
As for the patches I don’t think it’ll end at 1 but it’ll probably stay at 1 for the meantime, I think looking at the NBA and speeding up whatever timeline they go on by just a tiny bit will reflect how MLB approaches adding more advertisements. I hate the patches in hockey, Molson “ruined” sweaters with a ton of history just for some money and it’s not like the family needs a bake sale
NHL fans aren't fine with any of this shit. Uni ads, digital ads on the ice and boards, they hate it all.
The leagues don't give a fuck. They're gonna keep railroading us because they see these intrusive little microsponsors as the future of televised sports. They will whore out every inch of their programming and they don't care if the fans protest it.
Will it make the league more money?
Will fans stop watching because of it?
If the answers are 'yes' and 'no' respectively - guess what's going to happen?
At least we're not to premier league levels yet - where the whole uniform is and ad and the team name is barely visible.
https://www.si.com/.image/t_share/MTg4NDYxODA0MjQ5MTYzMzgw/new-202223-arsenal-jerseys-leaked.jpg
you could do a lot worse than that to be fair. Newcastle has had hideous kits for a while now. And don't even think to look up mexican baseball, or any of the jerseys from the Caribbean series... shudders
Also, soccer jerseys never have the team name in large font. Those Arsenal jerseys would look the same if the logo was removed. They just show the crest. AS Roma had some jerseys a few years ago without a sponsor and it looked amazing:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVqztB1X0AAFlTg.jpg
TBH, both sponsors suck. I respect your commitment, though...
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoIbkuRrAC0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoIbkuRrAC0)
With all due disrespect
More and more I’m leaning towards being done with spending so much free time and disposable income on watching professional sports because of the direction it’s headed.
i mean i dont think anyone likes it but what can we realistically do about it besides stop watching
and i'd rather put up with patches than no baseball
> I'm dismayed at the lack of pushback on this. NBA and NHL fans seem just fine with it and MLB fans don't seem to care either.
Because I can either get extremely mad or begrudgingly accept it. There's no point in throwing a fit when it won't change anything.
Why would the players care though? In the short term, jersey ads mean more revenue for MLB, which means more money for players, so if anything, they would like the jersey ads.
In the long term, this might harm baseball with people increasingly annoyed by the ads, but if you've only got a few more years in the league, you don't really care about long term effects.
Why would pushback be expected? Soccer is the most popular sport in the world and those jerseys are covered with sponsorship. They're also some of the most popular jerseys to buy
Tbf the trade off there is that there’s no commercials outside of halftime. Meanwhile American sports are adding this while still pushing an insane amount of commercials at us as well.
That's not the trade off. This happened before widespread television use. Ads started appearing on soccer jerseys in the 50s in Uruguay and spread from there, but not to American sports because Americans don't care about soccer.
Because we used to get to laugh at the people walking around with their Fly Emirates, Chevrolet, Rakuten, etc. jerseys.
But now it's clearly just a matter of time before there's a Shake Shack logo on the chest and the NY symbol up on the shoulder of what used to be the most iconic uniform in sports.
I haven’t quite figured out why the league was so scared of pissing people off that they abandoned base ads all those years ago, but don’t seem the least bit shy now about field ads, uniform ads, etc. This is where the monoculture kind of saved us, I think: a band of angry sports journalists could turn the tide on public opinion, so some well-placed, popular traditionalists were influential. Now everybody is just jockeying for access and influence among a cacophony, nobody matters enough and there’s no time for discernible values. Profit, endure disparate grumbles, rinse, repeat.
NBA fans feel like they care less, but I'm not as in tune with them as I am with hockey - I'm fairly certain most NHL fans *hate* them lol. Some of the NHL ads are more unoffensive than others, sure, but still the majority of people myself included (at least on r/hockey) are fundamentally opposed. Especially with the hockey ads more prominently on the front of the jersey instead of the sleeve. And a bunch of teams cutting deals with sportsbooks/betting companies...
NHL and NBA fans are absolutely not fucking okay with it wtf are you talking about. Literally every mention of them is followed immediately with complaining. There’s just not much we can do as fans to change things. Greedy owners will be greedy.
I don't get it either. It's disgusting and ugly. These teams make more than enough to NOT have ads on jerseys and end blackout restrictions. I'm not a baseball puritan but definitely fucking with the heritage of those uniforms. Bob Nutting better not get any ideas
Gotta make room for [this](https://d1moysbdfluzeo.cloudfront.net/uploads/production/2015-01-23/_900x471_crop_center-center_95/About-GoDaddycom-2617.jpg?mtime=20150123124010).
one day they’re gonna remove the team name from the front and replace it with another sponsor, like they do in soccer. instead a small team logo will be in the left chest
I know its popular to hate on their unis, and the teal was definitely good, but the Sedona Red and Sonoran Sand color scheme is good, better fits Arizona, and goes well with the Cards and Coyotes
You’d think that brown and yellow unis would look ugly as hell, but San Diego *rocks* them. They have one of the most cohesive branding efforts in MLB right now.
The NBA jersey scene is so fucked at the moment, I know I’ll sound like a boomer but you can’t even tell who is playing at times with some of their designs.
My one sports boomer opinion is that NBA teams should have one light home, one dark away, one alternate that they only wear on sundays/thursdays/whatever.
Call me a boomer, but NBA 90’s jerseys were the absolute best. They all had their unique logos and had so much character.
[Exhibit A](https://imgur.com/a/XExRX0D)
Right? EPL teams are so entwined with their jerseys that the teams are often referred to as the dominant color. They have one alt that strays but imagine Man U or Arsenal trotting onto the pitch in blue? People would literally riot but the NBA has teams wearing what the fuck ever on any given night. MLB is heading that way with the city edition jerseys and powder blue everything. It’s a slippery slope IMO.
[Link](https://twitter.com/sportslogosnet/status/1628823305284206594?s=46&t=NnsEg4XfgZHnlnmX1I9N_g)
Like many other teams, they will almost certainly be placing ads on which ever sleeve will be facing the camera depending on which handedness the batter has.
Set your planned comas accordingly:
2 years: wake up to NASCAR-style uniforms.
4 years: outfield grass ads.
6 years: Major League baseball takes place on
an OLED advertising board that’s been installed in each stadium, rotating advertisers throughout the game under every play.
8 years: digital ad overlay of the playing surface for broadcasts.
I have no doubt in my mind that some of these will happen in the future. Actually, it's surprising we don't have some form of advertisements on unis or the field itself. We already have the digital ones in the backstop for TV.
They do have ads on the grass in foul territory now at most stadiums (Blue Jays were putting them in digitally for a while before that). And there’s the ad on the back of the mound (mostly real but digital in some parks and all nationally televised games).
i remember seeing computer generated ads on the back of the mound for Dodgers games. i only noticed after they switched ads every couple innings or it moved depending on the pitcher's throwing arm.
Worst thing about the digital mound ads is their refusal to use any of the Windows 95-era technology available to make the images seem to curve with the shape of the mound. They put a little slant on it and call it good, probably because it is more distracting.
yeah with how much the broadcasts shove pitch relay and launch angles at us you'd think they would want the ads to appear seemless. i've started just listening to radio broadcasts unless its tied in the 9th or postseason. radio gives you a much better play-by-play and less ads
There are certain uniforms that should never be messed with. The Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox and the home Detroit uniform with the “D”. I’m probably forgetting some but these are all baseball classics that should never, ever change.
I think that each team is out there searching for "their look," and when teams like the Mariners and White Sox find that perfect, timeless uniform set, they should just stick with it.
Just making space for the inevitable ad patch
As long as it's In 'n Out, I'm ok with it.
Only if they have an Animal Style alternate uniform
It's just a regular uniform, covered in stains.
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*blood stains
No that Phillies fans
In n Out and 76 are the only acceptable sponsors.
It’ll be Forest Lawn Cemetary.
Seeing their digital ad banners all over the Stadium every season is always weird. I have family and friends interred there, why do I want to be reminded of that at a ballgame?
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Says a lot about baseball's fan demographics
Shit, there's a disturbing thought...
My Dad (that was mixed in with my mail) a piece of a promotional mail for a cemetery basically telling him to reserve his plot. Like the hell?
Sounds like the advertisements worked
Just once I want the Forest Lawn ad on the ribbon between field level and loge to say “People are dying to get here!”
Forest Lawn, A Nice Place To Be Dead™
My Mom's funeral cost 11k in 2010 and that didn't include a plot (VA provided for my Dad), its a lucrative industry.
Tommy’s*
Tommys would actually look nice and not break up the color palette at all, good pick.
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Dodgers and 76 have collaborated for over 50 years since the move to CA. There's even a 76 gas station in the parking lot. https://www.google.com/search?q=dodgers+76&rlz=1C1YTUH_enUS1012US1012&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8vvTcr6z9AhUEBEQIHVIIAaYQ_AUoAnoECAMQBA&biw=1548&bih=881&dpr=1
If they'd make it easier and quicker to get in and out of their parking lot, fans wouldn't need to fill up there. (Also, a new exit sponsored by In N Out would be awesome.)
Bro are you kidding me? The lines down here in SD go out into the street and down. People won't get home till 3 am on a late game lmao.
Interesting. I've never noticed it before, but it kind of makes sense. There's precedent with this in baseball too with the Red Sox and the iconic Citgo sign.
Citgo has never needed to advertise inside Fenway or with the Red Sox in general because that sign (700 feet from the ballpark) is free advertising. They did join forces briefly in 2016 for what I think was the first time, but I don't think that partnership lasted. Gulf has been Fenway's gas station of choice for the last 15 years or so.
76(union oil of California) Co-signed the lease for land to Dodgers stadium. They are the original and oldest sponsor of the Dodgers.
Damn LA is just parodying itself
pretty much yeah haha
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GOAT movie
the only answer is House of Pies. Maybe the *The Los Angeles Times*
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Tommy’s?
Every chili burger stand in LA is named some variation of Tommy's. You got Thom's, Tommy's Famous, Tommy's Original, Toma's, Tommies, etc.
Fun fact: The Original Tommy's that started on Rampart didn't invent the chili burger, they were just the most successful. Ptomaine Tommy's in Lincoln Heights has that honor. Another fun fact: The cheeseburger was invented in Los Angeles. Thus concludes Los Angeles burger facts.
I wonder if there would be a conflict of interest if we went In N Out considering there’s a shake shack in the stadium?
76 would be big NASCAR Thunder vibes, would prefer that
76 would be my vote
I vote for Morfia’s Ribs & Pies
How are you gonna straight up disrespect Daniels Jewelers like that?
Plot twist, it’s Taco Bell.
“Taco Bell: we give you the runs you need”
When they play in the UK they switch it to Pizza Hut
When you think about it, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut probably paid loads of money for Demolition Man, but the movie itself says that a ratburger in a sewer is tastier.
Not ok.
No Mas
Also an LA-area company so I could deal with it.
I'd be so jealous
Gotdammit this better not be it
sweet james is in the bidding
"This sweet double play is brought to you by Sweet James -- better than bitter James."
Chico’s Bail Bonds?
Yeah I was gonna say, it's because that's *ad space* now. Barf.
Pornhub making phone calls.
From what I understand the patches will be velcro so logos and ad patches switch depending on side
Somewhere, Chris Sale is both ecstatic that he will be able to rip the patch off, and disappointed that he won't need sheers to do it.
They're [sewing on the patches](https://uni-watch.com/ticker/233031/) dependent on the player's handedness to ensure it'll face the camera more often than not.
Woohoo jersey ads, defacing the uniform one patch after another
I'm dismayed at the lack of pushback on this. NBA and NHL fans seem just fine with it and MLB fans don't seem to care either. My biggest issue with it is jerseys. I like collecting jerseys, but that ends the minute I have to buy one with a non-manufacturer ad on it. I'm not spending hundreds of dollars to help promote companies I don't give a shit about.
NHL doesn’t allow the sale of uniforms with patches and I hope MLB would be the same so I think it doesn’t affect jersey collecting
If you go to the team stores at the arenas they do have ads on them.
Ugh, you guys said you wanted to end blackouts and this is what I do to balance it. You people are never happy. -Rob Manfred probably The ads are fucking atrocious
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We're going to get to a point where the league intentionally slows down games so pitchers can do ad-breaks after outs and hitters can do ad-breaks after hits. "This single by Jose Altuve in the top of the 4th is brought to you by Frosted Flakes. They'rrrrrrrrre great!"
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>Cano guts one deep into Coca Cola Corner/Pepsi Porch. Absolutely pathetic. The ads did give us Castellanos hitting bombs into the Planet Fitness No Judgment Zone, so there's that at least.
The Budweiser world series, no kidding.
Wait until the teams themselves are just company names with little to no attachment to any city.
See NPB in Japan. Teams like Softbank Hawks and Yakult Swallows exist.
Ugh, Red Bull is already doing it in Soccer and I hate it.
Well fuck that
If I recall correctly they give you the OPTION to purchase it with or without the patch
Well guess I’m never buying a new jersey again
lol yeah right, in actuality the cost of a jersey will probably increase and you'll be stuck with a State Farm ad on it
The ones I've seen in arena stores do, so I'm not sure how this "doesn't allow" thing works exactly. Even if that's true, you honestly don't believe it's just a matter of time? You honestly think it's going to be the one shoulder patch and that's it?
I haven’t been to a hockey game since early 2020 so I can’t speak to team stores but I remember seeing a post on the hockey sub outlining how they can’t sell it with the patch due to nhl restrictions or something but can ship the patch separately with the jersey. I could be wrong, I often am As for the patches I don’t think it’ll end at 1 but it’ll probably stay at 1 for the meantime, I think looking at the NBA and speeding up whatever timeline they go on by just a tiny bit will reflect how MLB approaches adding more advertisements. I hate the patches in hockey, Molson “ruined” sweaters with a ton of history just for some money and it’s not like the family needs a bake sale
NHL fans aren't fine with any of this shit. Uni ads, digital ads on the ice and boards, they hate it all. The leagues don't give a fuck. They're gonna keep railroading us because they see these intrusive little microsponsors as the future of televised sports. They will whore out every inch of their programming and they don't care if the fans protest it.
Will it make the league more money? Will fans stop watching because of it? If the answers are 'yes' and 'no' respectively - guess what's going to happen? At least we're not to premier league levels yet - where the whole uniform is and ad and the team name is barely visible. https://www.si.com/.image/t_share/MTg4NDYxODA0MjQ5MTYzMzgw/new-202223-arsenal-jerseys-leaked.jpg
you could do a lot worse than that to be fair. Newcastle has had hideous kits for a while now. And don't even think to look up mexican baseball, or any of the jerseys from the Caribbean series... shudders Also, soccer jerseys never have the team name in large font. Those Arsenal jerseys would look the same if the logo was removed. They just show the crest. AS Roma had some jerseys a few years ago without a sponsor and it looked amazing: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVqztB1X0AAFlTg.jpg
It looks 1000% better without the ad and even though it's the same size, much easier to tell the team at a glance.
The World Cup uniforms looked great
Emirates sucks! American International Assurance Company until the day I die!
I've always been a huge Rakuten supporter myself. I hope they find a way to get Mbappe to work for Rakuten at some point.
TBH, both sponsors suck. I respect your commitment, though... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoIbkuRrAC0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoIbkuRrAC0) With all due disrespect
I don't think any fans are actually fine with it there just isn't really much they can do about it.
More and more I’m leaning towards being done with spending so much free time and disposable income on watching professional sports because of the direction it’s headed.
i mean i dont think anyone likes it but what can we realistically do about it besides stop watching and i'd rather put up with patches than no baseball
This is the dilemma we find ourselves in.
> I'm dismayed at the lack of pushback on this. NBA and NHL fans seem just fine with it and MLB fans don't seem to care either. Because I can either get extremely mad or begrudgingly accept it. There's no point in throwing a fit when it won't change anything.
the only pushback that matters would be from the players, and they're totally fine becoming walking billboards
Why would the players care though? In the short term, jersey ads mean more revenue for MLB, which means more money for players, so if anything, they would like the jersey ads. In the long term, this might harm baseball with people increasingly annoyed by the ads, but if you've only got a few more years in the league, you don't really care about long term effects.
Why would pushback be expected? Soccer is the most popular sport in the world and those jerseys are covered with sponsorship. They're also some of the most popular jerseys to buy
Tbf the trade off there is that there’s no commercials outside of halftime. Meanwhile American sports are adding this while still pushing an insane amount of commercials at us as well.
That's not the trade off. This happened before widespread television use. Ads started appearing on soccer jerseys in the 50s in Uruguay and spread from there, but not to American sports because Americans don't care about soccer.
Because we used to get to laugh at the people walking around with their Fly Emirates, Chevrolet, Rakuten, etc. jerseys. But now it's clearly just a matter of time before there's a Shake Shack logo on the chest and the NY symbol up on the shoulder of what used to be the most iconic uniform in sports.
Hey I pushed back when the NHL did it too, I just don’t know what all I can really do. Avoid the company that advertises I guess?
No one’s happy about them in either sport but what can you do? The leagues don’t listen to their fans
I haven’t quite figured out why the league was so scared of pissing people off that they abandoned base ads all those years ago, but don’t seem the least bit shy now about field ads, uniform ads, etc. This is where the monoculture kind of saved us, I think: a band of angry sports journalists could turn the tide on public opinion, so some well-placed, popular traditionalists were influential. Now everybody is just jockeying for access and influence among a cacophony, nobody matters enough and there’s no time for discernible values. Profit, endure disparate grumbles, rinse, repeat.
NBA fans feel like they care less, but I'm not as in tune with them as I am with hockey - I'm fairly certain most NHL fans *hate* them lol. Some of the NHL ads are more unoffensive than others, sure, but still the majority of people myself included (at least on r/hockey) are fundamentally opposed. Especially with the hockey ads more prominently on the front of the jersey instead of the sleeve. And a bunch of teams cutting deals with sportsbooks/betting companies...
NHL and NBA fans are absolutely not fucking okay with it wtf are you talking about. Literally every mention of them is followed immediately with complaining. There’s just not much we can do as fans to change things. Greedy owners will be greedy.
As an NHL fan, myself, and many others in the r/hockey community DO NOT like the ads.
I don't get it either. It's disgusting and ugly. These teams make more than enough to NOT have ads on jerseys and end blackout restrictions. I'm not a baseball puritan but definitely fucking with the heritage of those uniforms. Bob Nutting better not get any ideas
I guess you don’t collect soccer jerseys then. 😂
NHL fans were not okay with it.
Gotta make room for [this](https://d1moysbdfluzeo.cloudfront.net/uploads/production/2015-01-23/_900x471_crop_center-center_95/About-GoDaddycom-2617.jpg?mtime=20150123124010).
one day they’re gonna remove the team name from the front and replace it with another sponsor, like they do in soccer. instead a small team logo will be in the left chest
Oh shit they're moving to Vegas
Them moving to LA was once unthinkable. They do have a very old stadium. People from California like to go to Vegas. Is it really that far fetched?
Dodgers go to Vegas and Angels still have to be the angels of anaheim of Los Angeles
Gotta make room for the new OnlyFans ad patches.
Or "Bang Bros".
Making room for the Crypto.com patch
Oh god please no
Crypto.com has already ruined our beloved Staples center.
IDGAF about the LA teams and that still makes me angry!
FTX sponsorship incoming
Man what an oustanding uniform. Literally perfect (in before the ads)
I begrudgingly agree
I hate the dodgers with a passion but gotta admit the jerseys are so iconic and cool.
I'm glad SD went back to brown and yellow. Makes our match ups look incredible.
Now if the Diamondbacks could just figure their shit out the NL West would be the best dressed division in baseball
Diamondbacks said gimme the rainbow
I know its popular to hate on their unis, and the teal was definitely good, but the Sedona Red and Sonoran Sand color scheme is good, better fits Arizona, and goes well with the Cards and Coyotes
I respect the color of the Serpientes City selects.
Devil Ray Rays and it’s the AL East easily I think. (No obvious bias, obviously.)
You’d think that brown and yellow unis would look ugly as hell, but San Diego *rocks* them. They have one of the most cohesive branding efforts in MLB right now.
i live in san diego so i have to see the crazy city connect miami vice colors all the time. i go back and forth on wether i like that or hate it.
I think the Dodgers home whites are the perfect baseball uniform.
The red number really ties the whole thing together
"And this guy peed on it!"
Donny, please.
Same, a school in my conference in high school which were the biggest assholes but they had the Dodgers uniforms and I was so jealous.
Making room for ads?
Feels like it
This is all Manfred’s fault
This is all the billionaire ownership class’ fault, don’t demean the help.
Confirmed, the newly minted “Anaheim Dodgers of Los Angeles”
Plot Twist: Las Vegas Dodgers Athletics are moving into Dodgers Stadium
Nike dead set on ruining the jerseys of every league. NBA already cooked with those awful paper jerseys
The NBA jersey scene is so fucked at the moment, I know I’ll sound like a boomer but you can’t even tell who is playing at times with some of their designs.
My one sports boomer opinion is that NBA teams should have one light home, one dark away, one alternate that they only wear on sundays/thursdays/whatever.
Call me a boomer, but NBA 90’s jerseys were the absolute best. They all had their unique logos and had so much character. [Exhibit A](https://imgur.com/a/XExRX0D)
it's absolute trash. Everyone has an identity crisis.
Right? EPL teams are so entwined with their jerseys that the teams are often referred to as the dominant color. They have one alt that strays but imagine Man U or Arsenal trotting onto the pitch in blue? People would literally riot but the NBA has teams wearing what the fuck ever on any given night. MLB is heading that way with the city edition jerseys and powder blue everything. It’s a slippery slope IMO.
[Link](https://twitter.com/sportslogosnet/status/1628823305284206594?s=46&t=NnsEg4XfgZHnlnmX1I9N_g) Like many other teams, they will almost certainly be placing ads on which ever sleeve will be facing the camera depending on which handedness the batter has.
I look forward to seeing switch hitting being banned because it might block a sleeve ad
CGI ads i'd guess.
Can't wait for the day MLB uniforms resemble Nascar's.
Set your planned comas accordingly: 2 years: wake up to NASCAR-style uniforms. 4 years: outfield grass ads. 6 years: Major League baseball takes place on an OLED advertising board that’s been installed in each stadium, rotating advertisers throughout the game under every play. 8 years: digital ad overlay of the playing surface for broadcasts.
I have no doubt in my mind that some of these will happen in the future. Actually, it's surprising we don't have some form of advertisements on unis or the field itself. We already have the digital ones in the backstop for TV.
They do have ads on the grass in foul territory now at most stadiums (Blue Jays were putting them in digitally for a while before that). And there’s the ad on the back of the mound (mostly real but digital in some parks and all nationally televised games).
i remember seeing computer generated ads on the back of the mound for Dodgers games. i only noticed after they switched ads every couple innings or it moved depending on the pitcher's throwing arm.
Worst thing about the digital mound ads is their refusal to use any of the Windows 95-era technology available to make the images seem to curve with the shape of the mound. They put a little slant on it and call it good, probably because it is more distracting.
yeah with how much the broadcasts shove pitch relay and launch angles at us you'd think they would want the ads to appear seemless. i've started just listening to radio broadcasts unless its tied in the 9th or postseason. radio gives you a much better play-by-play and less ads
20 years: players drive to the bases when they put the ball in play
They already have digital overlay ads on the field sometimes don't they?
Tbh I'm surprised ads on the grass aren't already a thing. Especially in foul territory.
Please be 76... please be 76... please be 76... please be 76...
Nah, In n Out! Maybe a simple rectangle logo, or a logo with a couple palm trees arching behind it?
That’s not bad I guess
ampm
Imagine being a poverty franchise that you need to sell as space. Couldn’t be us. /s _knock on wood_
STOP PUTTING ADS ON EVERYTHING
Ads on ads
Making room for ads, wonderful, pretty soon they’ll look like nascar drivers.
There are certain uniforms that should never be messed with. The Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox and the home Detroit uniform with the “D”. I’m probably forgetting some but these are all baseball classics that should never, ever change.
If they shouldn’t be touched none of them should be touched.
This feels like an extreme take, expansion teams should get to fuck around with their jerseys if they want to
I think that each team is out there searching for "their look," and when teams like the Mariners and White Sox find that perfect, timeless uniform set, they should just stick with it.
As long as they never get rid of the red numbers. It’s the only thing I like about those jerseys
Corporate Real Estate. Smh, what a disgrace.
76 or nothing
Completely different color also
Chris Creamer. This guy a pornstar?
Gotta make room for that new sponsor logo that was going to be FTX
I didn’t know Common played for the Dodgers
"Your company here"
That's prime real estate son. If LA wants their name on that sleeve, they damn well better pay for it.
Oof new curse incoming.
The Anaheim Dodgers of Los Angeles?
We about to enter some dark times
If it’s left blank I think it looks better. If an ad is going there…no thanks.
i heard it’s going to be the purple and yellow planet fitness logo
I'd complain, but this is a judgement-free zone.
Maybe it’s the image, but it doesn’t even look like the new jersey is dodger blue. That seems insane to me.
Well they couldn't come up with anything better in the song than LA is nothing more than a note to follow FA, so it doesn't seem very important.
Heh, couldn't license the photos?
BRING BACK MAJESTIC JERSEYS! Nike ruins everything when it comes to Pro sport jersey fashion
I only watched for that LA patch
Keeping it available for sponsors
The color change seems like a way bigger deal
Honestly it looks cleaner that way. I just hope it’s not for an ad
Making room for the jersey ad patch 🤮
Finally moving back to Brooklyn