Ross Tucker’s jersey will probably read “Ro. Tucker”, while Ryan Tucker’s will read “Ry. Tucker”

The only time I can remember anyone with their full names across the back of a uniform was, well, the Browns, when Andra and Andre Davis played together two years ago.

Witasick and Duchschere play for the Oakland A’s not the Toronto Blue Jays.

Uecker appeared in a series of commercials for the Milwaukee Admirals in the mid-1990s, including one in which he re-designed the team’s uniforms to feature a garish plaid reminiscent of the loud sportcoats synonymous with Uecker in the 1970s and 1980s. In February 2006, the Admirals commemorated those commercials with a special event in which the players wore the plaid jerseys during a game. The jerseys were then auctioned off to benefit charity.
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And also, an explanation from Admirals History:
1993 also saw the beginning of the funniest ad campaign ever to hit the airwaves of Milwaukee. Bob Uecker walked into Lloyd Pettit’s “office” at the Bradley Center and told him he was going to help out an old broadcasting buddy in publicizing the Admirals. (Lloyd’s response was, “Do I know you?”). The whole Uecker ad campaign, including Uecker “helping” to sharpen skates, driving the Zamboni, going with the team on a road trip (via the team’s luggage), and dreaming of playing with the Admirals, was probably one of the most amusing (if not most successful) ad campaigns in the IHL.

The ads played out a little like the Lite beer commercials, but no, Ueck hasn’t been forced to sit in the “front rooow” nosebleed seats of the Bradley Center in these ads. Actually, it went one worse – a few of the ads had him in the catwalks high above the Admirals’ goal (dropping papers on an unsuspecting Admirals goalie). In another ad, he takes control of the Jumbotron scoreboard and the Milwaukee Admirals Victory, the team “blimp” that drops prizes on fans as it flies around the BC during intermissions. The sight of the blimp chasing around a referee makes the whole commercial. Ten years after the commercials began airing, the Admirals auctioned off the “plaid” uniforms that were featured in one of the commercials (playing on Ueck’s trademark plaid sportcoats – which even he no longer wears).

The Milwaukee Admirals must have come close to rebellion over this jersey

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Plaid, like Gramdma’s apron…

Those unis are a one time deal that they wore and then auctioned.

Bob Uecker did a series of commercials for the Admirals in which he tried to show how good he’d be on the team. One of the things he showed them were these unis. Basically, they’re a little bit of nostalgia/a throwback to those commericials.

But saying they’re coming from Uecker should be explanation enough.

On that 1968 program – is that a “Mike Hunt” joke there, on the lower right? The names are right next to each other, but different colors, which would imply that they’re parts of other names – but there aren’t any other names around them that they would be connected to.

How long did it take you to see that? I really need to know if it just jumped out to you, or if you were looking at the names and happened across it.

Anyone else read the recent article in ESPN the Magazine by Jim Caple about Ichiro linking his batting average increase due to his move from pajama style pants to old school showing of the socks? Yes, Ichiro argues that it is easier to move around with the pants pulled high. It is in the July 31, 2006 issue on page 137.

I don’t read ESPN the mag that often, but I had no idea that there were 137(or more) pages, if so, why in the world isn’t UniWatch a regular? or is it? If not, it should!