[Syd Thrift]

ANYWAY, ignoring my horrific agreement with cephasjames on this, one of the things that I like about baseball is all the history, and one of the things that I like about alternate uniforms is that, among other things, it provides teams with an opportunity to let fans remember or discover old uniforms from their own past or their city's past (I bring up the latter because two of my favorite Turn Back the Clock nights in Seattle were when the M's played the A's and they both wore their cities' old PCL unis - the Rainiers and the Oaks respectively - and then the one where both teams wore old Negro League unis - Seattle unfortunately doesn't have a huge history of Black teams but they still wore the outfits of the Steelheads, a club that I think did mostly barnstorming stuff in the mid 40s). Like, come on... why do we have to consign ourselves to where the only place we can see those colorful pullovers from the 70s or those baggy wool jerseys from the 40s and 50s are in old photographs? It's fun and baseball needs more whimsy, not less.

Yeah, the community pride jerseys have mostly been dumb but even there, MLB has introduced those after the great success of similar jerseys in the NBA. There have been a couple of Chicago Bulls unis - the city flag one from a couple years ago and the more recent Art Deco one modeled after the Carbon and Carbide Building - that have been absolutely fantastic and I'd love to see the White Sox (the Cubs have those iconic jerseys but come on the Sox have a long, long history of switching theirs out like every other year) at the very least try to come up with baseball versions of those.