"... quickly became an online sensation.... 'Whenever I’m nervous public speaking I just pretend people in the audience are wearing Fanatics baseball pants,' another person joked. The problems with M.L.B.’s new uniforms extend beyond the lewd pants. The league signed a 10-year, $1 billion deal with Nike and Fanatics for the design and manufacture of its uniforms in 2020, but it was only this year that the uniforms underwent a considerable redesign, with... revamped fabric..... Daniel Bard, a relief pitcher for the Colorado Rockies, said in a telephone interview that when he first joined the league in 2009, the uniform he was given was the nicest one he had ever worn. 'You could literally get it perfectly tailored to your body.... They were pretty damn near perfect. Not anymore. It’s a different material. It’s not as soft.... They look funny — too small and too curved.... None of the players asked for this....'"
From "See-Through Baseball Pants Have Fans, and Brands, Pointing Fingers/A redesign of M.L.B.’s uniforms has put Fanatics and Nike at the center of a debate about performance versus quality in sportswear" (NYT).
March 12, 2024
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Cookie Monster not only one hate shrinkflation.
Costanza is up to his old tricks, I see.
Never let Nike anywhere near your body.
Two balls on Yelich...
The priority of these deals is often out of whack. There are these weird little meetings- a fashion show with lawyers and fashion types from the brands, women who look like WAGs, sometimes they're gay guys that can't throw a ball. The priority of performance of the wears and player comfort are often in the next room...or building.
Golfers it's easier- most of them use veto power. Then again I'm quick to accuse the pros of being in this golf thing just for the fashions...
Maybe they can have John Cena model the new uniforms.
Maybe it’s a “breathable” material best suited for the jerseys, not the pants.
Could it be environmentally friendly because it uses less raw materials to produce?
Holy cow. I bet that’s what this is about.
If none of the players asked for it, I'm curious why it happened, other than money. There's a MLB bean counter somewhere who has been to too many conferences and seen too many displays from vendors. And then made to feel important by the vendors, and who then approved the new deal with the vendor. Tale as old as time.
“It’s not as soft“
It can’t be when there’s less of it holding itself together.
They do go through a lot of uniforms during a season.
Seinfeld has an episode for this: George decides the Yankees need breathable cotton uniforms.
I immediately thought of Kpop mogul JYP’s infamous pants. https://www.allkpop.com/article/2019/02/jy-park-reveals-the-special-reason-why-he-wore-the-infamous-plastic-pants.
They do go through a lot of uniforms during a season
It is…disturbingly apparent by sweat, dirt, grass, pine tar, whathaveyou on the cap there exist players who refuse to change them out. I like to think it is the only bit of kit subject to such superstition…
None of them wanted it. So who did want it? The owners. Because $$$$
My cousin sells jersey's to the Seahawks, and the Mariners.
At the end of the night (game over), the football jerseys are cut-off, and removed. I'm sure baseball jerseys suffer a similar fate.
Imagine the horror of ... Shorts!
(I think Bill Veeck's White Sox tried that one time--to almost universal disapproval).
Also--probably just a matter of time before the pro golfers start wearing shorts. They will sell a lot more shorts than they will long golf pants, especially if they make them snazzy, because 80% percent of golfers wear shorts between May and October.
I find myself increasingly desperate to find competence anywhere. Has it always been this way?
I'm a tech exec, and I've become very conscious recently about trying to model competency as clearly as I can, especially for junior staff, and to consider how to display competence even on risky projects that might fail. I get a sense that too many people in what used to be "grown-up" jobs are much less likely to treat them like grown-up jobs than in years past.
Get off my lawn, you damned kids!
As an aside, I attended a roundtable yesterday that was operating under the Chatham House rule. One of the speakers shared a story about a recent event that nearly became a serious international incident involving the US and two important but uneasy allies. The issue was resolved just as security teams began sprinting toward vehicles containing senior diplomats. The speaker was someone in a serious, senior public role, but they described the incident as if it were just a humorous anecdote, rather than something that could have directly impacted the politics of several nations. I can't share the cause of the incident, but it was a mistake made by people in serious staff roles that I couldn't imagine making if I were a college intern. Terrifying and appalling at once.
This is what happens when you let women and gay men design your sports uniforms.
Not sure what the big deal is unless they're going commando.
The old uniforms were wonderful and what the players wanted. I own one. It makes sense for the contingencies of sliding into bases, etc. These fabrics sound like a recipe for crotch itch, though I am no expert.
Good thoughts for Darryl Strawberry, who overcame addiction, colon cancer, and now a heart attack this week.
My question is, have these MLB see through pants been licensed for sale to the public, and where are they being sold? I, for one, having abjured shorts forever, or at least in winter, think this is a perfect, and equally disgusting, alternative.
John Cena could just have worn the MLB pants and made a statement.
On the plus: a manager won't need to use a bat to make sure you're wearing a cup.
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