intention was right
but the execution was …
wrong — and they know that
Adapted from the article, in the Athletic, Nike, MLB announce uniform adjustments after player, fan criticism By Stephen J. Nesbitt May 3, 2024.
All the all important topic of the new uniforms in Major League Baseball, Mr. Nesbitt writes, “The intention was right,” Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson, a Nike-sponsored player who was critical of the new uniforms in spring training, said this week. “At the end of the day, the execution was wrong — and they know that. They’re obviously doing what they can to correct what they feel like needs to be corrected.”
Baseball is a game with a lot of traditions, some good, some bad, some very bad but there it is.
Of late, uniforms and how to modernize them for today’s players and fans have been in the news.
Seems that the latest batch of uniforms don’t measure up.
I am not saying we should go back to the all wool uniforms of the 1934 Gas House Gang but I just have to ask, wasn’t the look, most likely known as classic … well, classic?
Was because they pictures we have of that era are black and white that those uniforms look … well to me … perfect.
Remember when Bill Veeck came up with the un-tucked look for the Chicago White Sox?
I remember reading how Chet Lemon was traded from the Sox to the Tigers and walked into the clubhouse and said something like, HEY REAL UNIFORMS!
All this talk and the answer seems to be staring Major League Baseball right in the face.
As Mr. Swanson of the Chicago Cubs said:
At the end of the day, the execution was wrong — and they know that.
They’re obviously doing what they can to correct what they feel like needs to be corrected.
Why am I not confident they are doing what they can?
Or that I am confident in what they feel like needs needs to be corrected?
As the great Ted Williams said, “If you don’t think so good … don’t think so much.”
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