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Post Season helmets
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 6:10 pm
by Frayed Knot
NY Post:
Major League Baseball teams will have advertising on their helmets during the postseason.
MLB announced Friday it reached a deal for the postseason ads through 2027 with Strauss, a German apparel company that entered the U.S. market last year.
Ads of 5-by-0.92 inches (12.7-by-2.3 centimeters) will be on each side of every helmet featuring “STRAUSS” in capital letters in white alongside the company’s ostrich logo silhouetted by a red square, with an alternate color for red helmets.
Linky Link:
https://nypost.com/2024/09/13/sports/os ... -playoffs/
We've had an ostrich or two on this site before, I bet they're happy about this news.
The rest of us ...
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 6:38 pm
by MFS62
The words "fucking abomination" come to mind.
And if the games are on ESPN, I guarantee they will interview the person who designed them while the action is going on.
Later
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:01 pm
by batmagadanleadoff
MFS62 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 6:38 pm
The words "fucking abomination" come to mind.
And if the games are on ESPN, I guarantee they will interview the person who designed them while the action is going on.
Totally disgusting. And unsurprising. What did anyone think was gonna happen as soon as MLB approved Nike logos on the unis? The slippery slope slipped to a sleeve patch. And now this. Expect a second sleeve patch next.
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:11 pm
by batmagadanleadoff
batmagadanleadoff wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:01 pm
MFS62 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 6:38 pm
The words "fucking abomination" come to mind.
And if the games are on ESPN, I guarantee they will interview the person who designed them while the action is going on.
Totally disgusting. And unsurprising. What did anyone think was gonna happen as soon as MLB approved Nike logos on the unis? The slippery slope slipped to a sleeve patch. And now this. Expect a second sleeve patch next.
Or if not a second sleeve patch, then permanent year-round helmet advertising, instead of just for the post-season.
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:16 pm
by Johnny Lunchbucket
regular season caps and helmets aren't sellable yet but likely up for sale once the sleeves sell out -- 7 teams have yet to add them.
Mlb gets postseason helmets, plus any games in Europe. The slogan is gigantic.
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:27 pm
by Frayed Knot
And you can currently (bottom 3rd) see the STRAUSS logo behind the plate in Philly
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:28 pm
by Benjamin Grimm
Just plain awful. And there's no reason to think it's going to stop here. I'm sure there's more, and worse, to come.
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:34 pm
by metirish
Won't be long now they'll be taking the field like F1 and Nascar drivers
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:40 pm
by Frayed Knot
MLB is so proud of this move that they've kept word of it off their own website.
Not a peep on mlb.com
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:51 pm
by Johnny Lunchbucket
It was announced this morning and proudly so. They asked me to cover it but I had way too much other work
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 8:01 pm
by Fman99
Gross. They should seek out a sponsorship from Ipecac because these make me want to retch
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 8:25 pm
by Edgy MD
What recourse is there?
I don't see an effective MLB boycott about to happen, but it'll be a piece of cake to boycott Strauss.
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 8:31 pm
by Frayed Knot
I'm real good at boycotting companies I've never heard of.
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 8:57 pm
by Johnny Lunchbucket
I guess you can combat Strauss by buying a lot of Dickies and Carhartt wear.
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 8:58 pm
by MFS62
Fman99 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 8:01 pm
Gross. They should seek out a sponsorship from Ipecac because these make me want to retch
Bring back the BOC, if just for that post.
Later
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 9:51 pm
by batmagadanleadoff
The helmet advertising will also appear on all minor league helmets for the entire 2025 season.
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 9:58 pm
by Frayed Knot
Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:51 pm
It was announced this morning and proudly so. They asked me to cover it but I had way too much other work
Sure, but that seems to imply that they're anxious to introduce this to their corporate sponsors but less so to involve their individual fans.
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 10:48 pm
by G-Fafif
I look forward to being thoroughly disgusted by these when the Mets are wearing them this October.
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 11:13 pm
by batmagadanleadoff
batmagadanleadoff wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:11 pm
batmagadanleadoff wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:01 pm
MFS62 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 6:38 pm
The words "fucking abomination" come to mind.
And if the games are on ESPN, I guarantee they will interview the person who designed them while the action is going on.
Totally disgusting. And unsurprising. What did anyone think was gonna happen as soon as MLB approved Nike logos on the unis? The slippery slope slipped to a sleeve patch. And now this. Expect a second sleeve patch next.
Or if not a second sleeve patch, then permanent year-round helmet advertising, instead of just for the post-season.
I could see it already. The minors are gonna wear the helmet ads. Then there'll be a bullshit made up "poll" claiming that the fans love it. And then, voila, permanent year-round helmet advertising in the majors.
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2024 7:28 am
by Johnny Lunchbucket
I think that stuff needs to be collectively bargained. The last deal gave MLB the opportunity to sell postseason helmets.
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2024 7:29 am
by ashie62
Fman99 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 8:01 pm
Gross. They should seek out a sponsorship from Ipecac because these make me want to retch
Well said
I have to go barf now
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2024 8:30 am
by MFS62
G-Fafif wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 10:48 pm
I look forward to being thoroughly disgusted by these when the Mets are wearing them this October.
That is a great example of making chicken salad out of chicken feathers..
Later
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2024 9:12 am
by kcmets
G-Fafif wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 10:48 pm
I look forward to being thoroughly disgusted by these when the Mets are wearing them this October.
Laughing here.
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2024 11:04 am
by The Hot Corner
metirish wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:34 pm
Won't be long now they'll be taking the field like F1 and Nascar drivers
The exact same thought I had when I saw the initial post. I figue in five years the players will be wearing uniforms that are walking billboards that will make us long for the hideous City connect unis.
Re: Post Season helmets
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2024 11:59 am
by Benjamin Grimm
Do any of the other major sports in the United States include uniform advertisements?