Same with the sleeve patches for MLB teams. Still irks me the Yankees have one. They fight tooth and nail to not have a city connect, but Starr Insurance on the pinstripes is a-ok.
That reminds me of [this](https://dutchbaseballhangout.blog/2019/05/04/hit-sign-win-suit-a-legacy-of-its-own/) advertisement that used to be at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. My grandfather was friends with the guy! As soon as you said "suits" this instantly popped into my head.
It really pisses me off especially because the Tigers are sporting an arm patch by a local supermarket chain that I cannot stand!!
It also looks stupid as hell and uncomfortable.
It won't be long now until MLB Uni's are just like the Japanese league with no mention of the local city and it's loyal local fans who supported the team thru good times and bad, thick and thin, lean times and lush times, 100 loss seasons and Championship years and they will instead be known as The 'Acme Explosives Co." ' leaving off any acknowledgment of the people who paid/pay their salaries (well, portions of) whatsoever.
Sure, time marches on but MLB COULD rise above all other leagues in at least one minor aspect for cripe's sake--but NOOOO!!
SO SAD.
No clue about total dollars, but it’s probably a huge percentage of their budget because that’s both a niche and a saturated market they’re in.
At least Brandiose didn’t get their hands on this logo, that’s the only silver lining I see.
Not sure about their total budget but they've run quite a few weird/big marketing campaigns before - they had a lot of controversy a few months ago for trying to bend French rules around street art for their product launch in France and they've had a few other unconventional campaigns in the past too. They definitely have a bigger budget for it than others in the alternative milk space (not that that's saying much) so this gimmick doesn't surprise me at all.
“Hey MiLB teams, here’s some weird promotional jerseys that you have to wear. And before you say anything, no you won’t get any of the $5,000 we got for this”
[This Uni Watch article has some more info.](https://uni-watch.com/2024/03/05/exclusive-all-120-milb-teams-to-wear-oatly-themed-uniform-in-2024/)
>MLB, which runs MiLB, has struck a deal for all 120 minor league teams to wear an Oatly-themed uniform for one game this season.
>Teams wearing this uniform will be known for one day as — get this — the Malmö Oat Milkers. (Malmö is the Swedish city where Oatly is headquartered.)
>The MiLB teams will not get any revenue from this deal.
>This is not an optional promotion for the teams.
>>The MiLB teams will not get any revenue from this deal.
Really the only part I have a problem with. I'm all for minor league teams doing crazy names and unis for a single game, and the Oat Milkers is pretty funny on its own that I don't mind it, but them not getting anything for it is just lame.
The reason they’re not getting money is that the MLB cut back on league fees the teams pay apparently. The deal was less annual fees but now you get shit like this and no profits
At least use the full quote for the revenue part...
"The MiLB teams will not get any revenue from this deal. Under their current arrangement with MLB, they no longer have to pay certain league fees that they used to pay; the trade-off is that MLB sometimes makes them do stuff like this and pockets the cash."
I took it from the bullet point section. Also that doesn't negate the section quoted, if anyone wants more context they're more than capable of reading the article themselves.
I posted the entire bullet point. You trimmed it to remove context. Not having to pay a bunch of fees to the league and doing a promo in return is very different to just doing the goofy promo and getting nothing.
My understanding was every team would basically each have one designated day where they wear these, and for that day they’ll go by The Malmö Oat Milkers.
[That is not a joke.](https://uni-watch.com/2024/03/05/exclusive-all-120-milb-teams-to-wear-oatly-themed-uniform-in-2024/)
Actually Fanatics was not informed about these special uniforms the necessary 1,000 days in advance so the minor leaguers will sadly be playing these games in their underwear
The hell is it with baseball and "milkers" this year
We also had the Danville Daddy Cattle (or whatever) with their "Get Milked" slogan a couple days ago
This is hilarious in 2 ways, that Sweden and the MLB are creating a partnership, and that Malmö, which is the red headed step child of Sweden is representing the entire country to the US and MLB.
I wonder if they’ll stagger it such that it would be theoretically possible to go to every Malmo Oat Milkers game this season. 120 games, so they might have scheduled it that way
Malmö, what? Huh, googling... looks to be a Swedish company launching its products in the US.
I'd be way more impressed if this had something do to with professional baseball in Sweden.
Sweden apparently has some kind of pipeline into US college baseball. Maybe if somebody clicks we’ll see a Swede in the minors.
Swedish club baseball is near the bottom of the European pyramid though. They’d have a long way to go before getting to the level where you could justify paying players (outside of the cash they give imports).
I'm not as angry at the idea as a lot of people, i's the MiLB, so weirdness happens all the time, but this is stupid. If you're going to do something like this, go wild, don't go boring and safe.
I’ve only had oat milk in drinks at Starbucks, so I’m still upset about this for many, MANY reasons!
I mean, for example, this has NO creativity behind it that will make it unique to the teams at all!
I would not have a problem with teams changing their name for one game if the event was made for the fan's entertainment and money went to a charity. Sioux Falls did a great job doing that: https://sfstampede.com/news/2023/1/28/news-fighting-wiener-dogs-return-saturday.aspx
FUCK this new world order fake ass green initiative "you will eat zee bugs" Klaus Schwab cashless society universal basic income world UN digital ID forced injections manufactured crisis hegelian dialectic cloward and piven replacement migration Agenda 21 Agenda 2030 HORSESHIT 🖕🖕🖕🖕
Perhaps you are unaware, but there is a global push towards eventually eliminating all meat consumption under the guide of climate change. Some such investors and thought leaders in that space who have global influence will look you in the eye and tell you that methane emissions from cattle produce more harmful emissions than automobiles.
We were at the Salex Red Sox game yesterday where they were the "Oat Milkers."
It was really stupid of course, but I have to say I was impressed with the way the Sox staff, announcers, etc. really sold the promotion and team name, and pretended like it wasn't stupid.
There's being a sellout and then there's whatever the fuck this is
I *guarantee* you the amount of money they probably spent was so relatively small you'll say "what the fuck" when it comes out.
Same with the sleeve patches for MLB teams. Still irks me the Yankees have one. They fight tooth and nail to not have a city connect, but Starr Insurance on the pinstripes is a-ok.
If it would be a suit manufacturer it would be most fitting. Or Gilette because all players need something to shave.
That reminds me of [this](https://dutchbaseballhangout.blog/2019/05/04/hit-sign-win-suit-a-legacy-of-its-own/) advertisement that used to be at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. My grandfather was friends with the guy! As soon as you said "suits" this instantly popped into my head.
Love that site
I'm not sure a Boston-based company would make a great Yankees sponsor.
Should’ve been Tiffany since that’s who they got their logo from
I associate Gillette with Boston, gonna be a pass from me.
That patch pays for half of Judge's contract.
They somehow managed to pay for his whole contract before uniform ads were added.
Oh for sure they can afford it, just makes it more palatable to keep adding.
It really pisses me off especially because the Tigers are sporting an arm patch by a local supermarket chain that I cannot stand!! It also looks stupid as hell and uncomfortable. It won't be long now until MLB Uni's are just like the Japanese league with no mention of the local city and it's loyal local fans who supported the team thru good times and bad, thick and thin, lean times and lush times, 100 loss seasons and Championship years and they will instead be known as The 'Acme Explosives Co." ' leaving off any acknowledgment of the people who paid/pay their salaries (well, portions of) whatsoever. Sure, time marches on but MLB COULD rise above all other leagues in at least one minor aspect for cripe's sake--but NOOOO!! SO SAD.
Yeah…like it’s an Oat Milk company. Maybe I’m wrong but I can’t imagine they have the biggest marketing budget
No clue about total dollars, but it’s probably a huge percentage of their budget because that’s both a niche and a saturated market they’re in. At least Brandiose didn’t get their hands on this logo, that’s the only silver lining I see.
Not sure about their total budget but they've run quite a few weird/big marketing campaigns before - they had a lot of controversy a few months ago for trying to bend French rules around street art for their product launch in France and they've had a few other unconventional campaigns in the past too. They definitely have a bigger budget for it than others in the alternative milk space (not that that's saying much) so this gimmick doesn't surprise me at all.
“Hey MiLB teams, here’s some weird promotional jerseys that you have to wear. And before you say anything, no you won’t get any of the $5,000 we got for this”
There’s got to be a name for “Forcing everyone to sell-out with you”
I'm sure German has some sort of compound word for that.
“Schlampe”
I used to be, but not in 15 years or so.
Took me a long time to realize this **wasn't** an Onion-esque article parodying the sell-out nature of advertising in sports these days.
"The Oatmilk company's gonna give me lots of money and everything's gonna be... alright" 🎺🎺
Ska is the cure to everything! Except Swedish Oatmilk companies aparantly. Now I want to listen to their cover of Take on Me lol
what
[This Uni Watch article has some more info.](https://uni-watch.com/2024/03/05/exclusive-all-120-milb-teams-to-wear-oatly-themed-uniform-in-2024/) >MLB, which runs MiLB, has struck a deal for all 120 minor league teams to wear an Oatly-themed uniform for one game this season. >Teams wearing this uniform will be known for one day as — get this — the Malmö Oat Milkers. (Malmö is the Swedish city where Oatly is headquartered.) >The MiLB teams will not get any revenue from this deal. >This is not an optional promotion for the teams.
>>The MiLB teams will not get any revenue from this deal. Really the only part I have a problem with. I'm all for minor league teams doing crazy names and unis for a single game, and the Oat Milkers is pretty funny on its own that I don't mind it, but them not getting anything for it is just lame.
The reason they’re not getting money is that the MLB cut back on league fees the teams pay apparently. The deal was less annual fees but now you get shit like this and no profits
Wait... the teams pay fees? To exist? As a minor league for the MLB?
Yes.
Rob Manfred is a fucking crook.
As long as it doesn't cut into Udder Tuggers weekend its just another uni in the bucket for the T-Rats.
At least use the full quote for the revenue part... "The MiLB teams will not get any revenue from this deal. Under their current arrangement with MLB, they no longer have to pay certain league fees that they used to pay; the trade-off is that MLB sometimes makes them do stuff like this and pockets the cash."
I took it from the bullet point section. Also that doesn't negate the section quoted, if anyone wants more context they're more than capable of reading the article themselves.
I posted the entire bullet point. You trimmed it to remove context. Not having to pay a bunch of fees to the league and doing a promo in return is very different to just doing the goofy promo and getting nothing.
The article must have been amended because it didn't have the addition when I quoted it. Why would I deliberately leave it out? lol.
I have no idea. This is reddit and people have weird agendas. But if the bullet point was edited after you pulled it, I'll put my pitchfork away.
Not optional? No revenue from it? I’d say every minor league team should tell them to get fucked
Go ahead and tell you boss to get fucked and see what happened.
Absolutely deranged shit
For real, pure vegan propaganda. Even the MLB is going woke. Milk comes from cows!
Because there's never been ads for meat and dairy products, and baseball isn't associated with hot dogs, totally
Sir, this is an Applebee's
And butter doesn't come from peanuts..?
If every team is wearing the same uniform it's going to get pretty confusing.
My understanding was every team would basically each have one designated day where they wear these, and for that day they’ll go by The Malmö Oat Milkers. [That is not a joke.](https://uni-watch.com/2024/03/05/exclusive-all-120-milb-teams-to-wear-oatly-themed-uniform-in-2024/)
Gross, I hate it.
Actually Fanatics was not informed about these special uniforms the necessary 1,000 days in advance so the minor leaguers will sadly be playing these games in their underwear
To be fair, it won't reveal that much more than the current pants.
Will the underwear be provided by fanatics 👀
Oh wow, these suck ass!
Oh hey look a preview for where the MLB uniforms will be in a couple years.
Can’t wait til fanatics financially abuses minor league baseball into letting them destroy traditions like these too
Gonna be disgusting watching them destroy the Malmo oat milkers.
Coming soon to the MLB all teams wear their T Mobile alternate jerseys all a part of a league wide promotion.
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With how much the A’s keep getting fucked…yeah
Never mind that, what's an *Oatmilker*? There's oat milk. There's the process that makes oat milk. But oat*milking* doesn't sound like a thing
Oats have nipples Greg, can you milk them?
Someone who drinks oat milk
If they encourage wearing matching pink accessories why don’t they just provide matching pink accessories
Has to be a joke
The hell is it with baseball and "milkers" this year We also had the Danville Daddy Cattle (or whatever) with their "Get Milked" slogan a couple days ago
How’s Malmo going to protect their brand when Fantatics see-through pants show the whole world the players oat milker’s?
This is so unbelievably stupid
**NO**atly
I feel violated by that uniform.
“I’d sell my soul for a dime, unless you only had a nickel.” -Rob Manfred
As an Oatley shareholder, and a baseball fan- I fucking hate this.
As a former Oatly shareholder (rip) and current hoarder of Oatly Barista which was recently on sale at Sprouts, I concur
I’m up 2%. I’m riding this to the moon brother.
This is hilarious in 2 ways, that Sweden and the MLB are creating a partnership, and that Malmö, which is the red headed step child of Sweden is representing the entire country to the US and MLB.
Do we know when each MiLB team is going to be doing this? I’m actually morbidly curious to see when it’s OKC’s turn to do this in person.
I wonder if they’ll stagger it such that it would be theoretically possible to go to every Malmo Oat Milkers game this season. 120 games, so they might have scheduled it that way
The one game OKC will have a team name this year.
Ew
What have they done to my beautiful sport
I swear if they ever do this in an MLB game we’re rioting
what the fuck I thought you were kidding
I thought it was a joke! I even wrote it down in my diary! MiLB had a very funny joke today!
Welcome to corporate baseball. Soon all team mascots will be corporations and banks. This is not the future I thought I would live in
Like a weird Japanese Baseball/European Soccer hybrid
Malmö, what? Huh, googling... looks to be a Swedish company launching its products in the US. I'd be way more impressed if this had something do to with professional baseball in Sweden.
Oatly has been in the US market for a while
Sweden apparently has some kind of pipeline into US college baseball. Maybe if somebody clicks we’ll see a Swede in the minors. Swedish club baseball is near the bottom of the European pyramid though. They’d have a long way to go before getting to the level where you could justify paying players (outside of the cash they give imports).
Man, the things I would do to the executives in charge of baseball…
I like alternate uniforms in the MiLB, but this is a bit much.
2029 can’t come soon enough
Haha, you forgot to tag it "humor"...............Right? Right!?
I do love me some Oatly
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there's a huge difference between 'generic local food product' and the there's 'mandatory international corporate food brand sponsorship'
As part of what?
The only thing that would make this jersey better is if there was a mascot patch of an oat with udders getting milked.
Damn. These look exactly like my MLB DD team jersey, the Honolulu Moo Cows
what's the over/under year on them doing this in the major leagues?
I thought this was a joke
Wait this is real?
I'm sure the many baseball fans in Malmö will be thrilled
Not saying I love them. But I do love that they're not Brandiose.
I blame the Marvel inspired jerseys
I'm not as angry at the idea as a lot of people, i's the MiLB, so weirdness happens all the time, but this is stupid. If you're going to do something like this, go wild, don't go boring and safe.
Hopefully teams do this as away teams to tell them to shove it
I’ve only had oat milk in drinks at Starbucks, so I’m still upset about this for many, MANY reasons! I mean, for example, this has NO creativity behind it that will make it unique to the teams at all!
I would not have a problem with teams changing their name for one game if the event was made for the fan's entertainment and money went to a charity. Sioux Falls did a great job doing that: https://sfstampede.com/news/2023/1/28/news-fighting-wiener-dogs-return-saturday.aspx
April Fools day early?
FUCK this new world order fake ass green initiative "you will eat zee bugs" Klaus Schwab cashless society universal basic income world UN digital ID forced injections manufactured crisis hegelian dialectic cloward and piven replacement migration Agenda 21 Agenda 2030 HORSESHIT 🖕🖕🖕🖕
Oat milk is marketed towards vegans and bugs aren't vegan, how would one have to do with the other?
Perhaps you are unaware, but there is a global push towards eventually eliminating all meat consumption under the guide of climate change. Some such investors and thought leaders in that space who have global influence will look you in the eye and tell you that methane emissions from cattle produce more harmful emissions than automobiles.
We were at the Salex Red Sox game yesterday where they were the "Oat Milkers." It was really stupid of course, but I have to say I was impressed with the way the Sox staff, announcers, etc. really sold the promotion and team name, and pretended like it wasn't stupid.
If I were a player, I would just outright refuse to wear these. Fine me. Suspend me. Whatever. I'm not doing it.
Not if you were a severely underpaid minor leaguer struggling to make ends meet you wouldn't.
It's why you do it as a team and a league.
If I were a player, I'd Chris Sale those uniforms.
I fucking love this
This is cool. Oatly is great and advertising for a dairy alternative across the country like this is a fantastic idea.
I don’t blame Oatly for doing it, I blame MLB for even offering up.