Holy frack the Mets are wearing there blue caps at night and a week night at that.

Les

The Oregon State football jerseys are not.

As far as pants blousing goes, I always just hiked the elastic to just under my knees and then bloused my pants down. Easy.

Oh, and Hunter Pence is the real deal. Got to see hime play in ‘05 when he was with Lexington and last year when he was in Corpus Christi. The kid can flat out hit and he’s got a hose on him too.

Here’s a pic of Hunter in college. The kid knows what a baseball uniform’s supposed to look like!

I dig the new Steelers throwbacks, although I must add the caveat that all that yellow may get old in a hurry.

As for the Steelers’ regular unis, I don’t like the typography — too froo-froo if you ask me. They need traditional, boxy lettering and numbering to really represent the rough, tough Steel Curtain image that is their golden era.

Beez, actually the typography on the Steelers’ jerseys has always been with them — even 10 years ago when they had boxy numbers, look carefully at the numbers on the helmets!

That font is called Futura, designed in Germany in (I think) the 1920s, and fits well with everything. (Particularly charts of numbers — the Baseball Encyclopedia has used it for years.)

I do like the boxy numbers more for the Steelers, but if they keep the Futura look, they need to dump the italic and make the numbers themselves thicker.

As for the Steelers’ regular unis, I don’t like the typography — too froo-froo if you ask me. They need traditional, boxy lettering and numbering to really represent the rough, tough Steel Curtain image that is their golden era.

Bloody athletes: Didn’t Billy Kilmer inspire thousands of Redskin fans to show up with a bandaid over the nose bridge, when he played through an injury to his schnoz?

(Uni note: He had the single-bar facemask. Who knows if a modern one would have prevented the injury.)

Anthony Verna said:

I don’t think your Yanks (got the rosary working overtime?) would give someone else #6. Torre means too much to the team–even if he gets fired. Same with Jeter. If he ever got traded (I know, I should just shut my mouth now), his number would still be sacred, yes?

If Jeter gets traded, you will also hear news of spontaneous human combustion around Harrisburg, PA. That will be me. I am going to go out now and grab an extinguisher, just in case.

I assume that the decision to retire a number comes from The Boss. If he is livid (providing he is still lucid) enough to fire Torre, it would be a strange move to invite him back for a number-retiring ceremony, don’t you think? Of course, stranger things have happened in the Evil Empire.

tessa, it sounds like you love reluctantly. I don’t presume to know what the Boss will do, but I do think it would be sad not to acknowledge the most winningest manager in Yankee histor. I just made that up. Is it true? I think they should retire his number, regardless. He has done a lot for the team.

Please don’t spontaneously self-combust–I would miss ya on the board! Besides, I think Jeter will retire a Yankee.

I don’t think your Yanks (got the rosary working overtime?) would give someone else #6. Torre means too much to the team–even if he gets fired. Same with Jeter. If he ever got traded (I know, I should just shut my mouth now), his number would still be sacred, yes?

If Jeter gets traded, you will also hear news of spontaneous human combustion around Harrisburg, PA. That will be me. I am going to go out now and grab an extinguisher, just in case.

I assume that the decision to retire a number comes from The Boss. If he is livid (providing he is still lucid) enough to fire Torre, it would be a strange move to invite him back for a number-retiring ceremony, don’t you think? Of course, stranger things have happened in the Evil Empire.