City Connect Hint Drops

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Re: City Connect Hint Drops

Post by Johnny Lunchbucket » Sun May 26, 2024 12:11 pm

I don't think they've won in Friday black, either. Maybe they did on Tuesday Night Mets? I forget already
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Post by Edgy MD » Sun May 26, 2024 12:41 pm

Yeah, blaming the togs would be too easy.
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Post by bmfc1 » Sun May 26, 2024 12:48 pm

To be fair to the City Connects, it's not like they are winning a lot in any of the uniforms.
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Post by Benjamin Grimm » Sun May 26, 2024 7:01 pm

Edgy MD wrote: Sun May 26, 2024 10:29 am I invite any and all to visit The Ultimate Mets Database, which has been tricked out with a concrete-gray-and-lavender skin to better deepen its city connection.
Thanks for noticing!

The color scheme will be toggling back and forth throughout the season.
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Post by batmagadanleadoff » Sun May 26, 2024 7:11 pm


• The purple on the hat’s button, the jersey and the piping of the white pants is a reference to the 7 Line.
Now that I know what the purple is for, I mean symbolizes, the City Connect uniforms are so much more nicer to look at. /rollseyes
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Post by Frayed Knot » Sun May 26, 2024 7:29 pm

Gary mentioned during the game how little they have been winning this season in any of the home alternates (blue, black, or C.C.)
... but they did today in the blues.
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Post by DocTee » Sun May 26, 2024 8:51 pm

0/9 until today I think
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Post by batmagadanleadoff » Mon Jun 17, 2024 8:24 am

The Athletic ranks all 28 City Connect uniforms. The Mets unis are ranked 19th out of 28th. I think this ranking is even worse than is sounds given how vomit-inducing ugly the CC unis that are actually ranked below the Mets are.

The Rockies CC's are ranked the best at #1.



https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/556034 ... -rankings/
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Post by Edgy MD » Mon Jun 17, 2024 8:55 am

They're all a challenge and a jolt. I think a lot of the ones ranked high can go low, and the ones ranked low can go high.

In the field of publicly proclaimed rankings, rarely do rankers stick with to a single standard. We have been American Idol-ized. Generating passionate dissent becomes the point, rather than building consensus.
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Post by Johnny Lunchbucket » Mon Jun 17, 2024 10:53 am

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Mon Jun 17, 2024 8:24 am The Athletic ranks all 28 City Connect uniforms. The Mets unis are ranked 19th out of 28th. I think this ranking is even worse than is sounds given how vomit-inducing ugly the CC unis that are actually ranked below the Mets are.

The Rockies CC's are ranked the best at #1.



https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/556034 ... -rankings/
What do they hate about them? I'd say the Mets are in the middle of stupid ugly City Connects, I'd put em in 3rd place among teams represented by three gigantic initials (WSH, CLE, NYC, PGH)
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Post by metirish » Mon Jun 17, 2024 10:57 am

Why don't the MFY have a CC ? Too proud ,or is this a MLB rollout?
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Post by batmagadanleadoff » Mon Jun 17, 2024 11:05 am

metirish wrote: Mon Jun 17, 2024 10:57 am Why don't the MFY have a CC ? Too proud ,or is this a MLB rollout?
I think they're opting out. They're above it all. I don't mind that they're not participating in this CC thing (if that's what's happening) but what bothers me is that in my mind, I'm 100% certain that if the Yankees didn't exist, MLB would've made the CC unis mandatory for every single team.
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Post by Benjamin Grimm » Mon Jun 17, 2024 11:16 am

The Yankees are very uptight about their "traditions" and the uniform is part of that. The refusal to participate in City Connect is, I'm sure, related to their ongoing refusal to put names on the backs of their uniforms.

It's a bit ironic when you consider that they were the team to introduce uniform numbers about a century ago.
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Post by Edgy MD » Mon Jun 17, 2024 11:17 am

If I had no team I was partial to, and I had to pick any of these looks as my everyday uniform (and I guess that's a standard), I'd pick the Mets City Connect look over the Roxxx 94 times out of a 100.
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Post by Benjamin Grimm » Mon Jun 17, 2024 11:29 am

I don't think the Mets version is bad at all. I like the shade of grey. Purple is an interesting variation. I think the bridge on the cap is weird, but otherwise I'm okay with it.

But speaking of colors, I remember when there were uniform standards that restricted players to only wearing gear that's a team color. It's why Tsuyoshi Shinjo had to wear an orange protector instead of his trademark red that he wore in Japan. But that obviously changed at some point. Manny Machado was wearing pink sleeves under his Padres jersey this weekend. Harrison Bader wears lavender. I see green shoes and yellow shoes. When did this change?

(P.S.: I don't like the white sleeves that some Mets, including Nimmo and Alvarez, have been wearing. I would prefer if Mets players stuck with wearing blue, and perhaps orange.)
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Post by Marshmallowmilkshake » Mon Jun 17, 2024 11:37 am

I like the Mets City Connect uniforms a lot. I'm not sure I'd put them with the others with the three initials since the city name actually has three initials as opposed PGH, WAS, CLE and the like.

I'd put the Mets in the top tier of these things. I like the bridge on the cap, and that they kept the traditional NY logo on the cap. Glad they stuck with the white pants, since some of the others started with color pants and eased back to white.

Just my opinion, but my top tier would be the Marlins, Mets, Nationals, Cubs, White Sox, and Rockies with the white pants. My bottom tier, with the soon-to-be-replaced Dodgers, Giants, Rays, Cincy and Padres.

The Yankees take themselves a little too seriously. They could have done something that didn't stray too far, like the Cardinals and Angels did.
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Post by Johnny Lunchbucket » Mon Jun 17, 2024 12:17 pm

Mets needed more pops of color than the Nike logo. It looks pretty drab as is. Don't like that bridge hat either.

I like where a team has the balls to step out of their established colors and go for it like Boston did. San Diego really looks like Mexican convenience store.

The "new" Dodgers CCs are launching today I think but leaks all over. Looks pretty good
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Post by batmagadanleadoff » Mon Jun 17, 2024 12:33 pm

Edgy MD wrote: Mon Jun 17, 2024 8:55 am I think a lot of the ones ranked high can go low, and the ones ranked low can go high.
Makes sense to me. There's a fair amount of subjectivity to all of this. One of the big complaints about the Mets CCs is that they went with NYC on the shirt front instead of something more "Queensy".

I'm not sure I agree with that. That'd alienate the other boroughs and "Queens" has a certain connotation that many would find somewhat distasteful. Or if not distasteful, then certainly an aura of LOLMets.
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Post by Marshmallowmilkshake » Mon Jun 17, 2024 12:42 pm

After seeing the new Dodger City Connects, I can say at least they are better than the team's first attempt at it. Lots of funky elements in there, like the number above the team name on the front right, and the name below the number on the back. I don't like the cap logo much.
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Post by metirish » Mon Jun 17, 2024 8:21 pm

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Post by metsmarathon » Tue Jun 18, 2024 11:44 am

i feel like the dodgers shoudl lean HARD into the hollywood motif!

even if you're not gonna throw some dodgers letters on hollywood hill (or whatever its called) have some damned art deco theme, golden age of hollywood, walk of fame, searchlights and gala opening details.

GLAMOUR, FAME, MOVIE STARS!!!! los FUCKING angeles, damnit!

not some swoopy bullshit space-x logo thing.
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Post by batmagadanleadoff » Tue Jun 18, 2024 11:54 am

metsmarathon wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2024 11:44 am i feel like the dodgers shoudl lean HARD into the hollywood motif!

even if you're not gonna throw some dodgers letters on hollywood hill (or whatever its called) have some damned art deco theme, golden age of hollywood, walk of fame, searchlights and gala opening details.

GLAMOUR, FAME, MOVIE STARS!!!! los FUCKING angeles, damnit!

not some swoopy bullshit space-x logo thing.
Yeah. Here's a better pic of the Dodgers CCs. So you could see what those unis actually look like.




I know that this is all supposed to be fun but I think it's contrived and for the most part, ugly. The unis are forced and stupid. I see the league forcing the players to look like fucking clowns all for another money grab in the name of something else. It's always something else even though it's not. It's always about the money. I'll stick to my original comment: It looks like the league got Homer Simpson to design all these CC unis.
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Re: City Connect Hint Drops

Post by Johnny Lunchbucket » Tue Jun 18, 2024 12:06 pm

Is that an "05" on Freddie's jersey?

No reason to put the number up there btw. Uni is too heavy up top.

Also no reason for the Dodgers ever to be wearing a home color other that blinding wedding gown white
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Post by The Hot Corner » Fri Jun 21, 2024 4:44 pm

I don't much care for the concept of city connect uniforms in nor the execution of them. Most of them are ugly as sin. Give me the Mets white w/ blue pinstripes any day.
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Post by Edgy MD » Fri Jun 21, 2024 6:09 pm

It's a little late in the day to ask, but ... canst anybody tell me what the explicit mission of the City Connect jersey movement is?

Is the existence of the program a tacit admission that most MLB uniforms are largely un-connected to the culture their team's city?
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