Instead, the letters across the black plastic wristband underscore the team’s philosophy in this year’s Tour: “Harden the Fuck Up.”

“Stuart (O’Grady) brought them for the team in London and asked everyone to wear them,” said Team CSC rider Frank Schleck. “If it’s tough, we look at the wristband and we do what it says. When it gets hard, you harden up. So far it’s worked pretty good.”

Well, we know now that those bands didn’t help Stuart O’Grady.

Looks like the ’Dome’s bases may originally have been trimmed in orange, too.

Sorry if this has already been addressed, but I respectfully disagree about the bases trimmed in orange. That photo appears to have been taken at an All-Star game, with the bases and the field being decorated, probably in red , white and blue. That looks like Joe Morgan in a Reds uni facing the camera. Astros player is sansabelt, evoking the ’70’s. The field is grass. Judging by the chain link fence, my guess is Atlanta, 1972.

The play is from the top of the third in the ‘72 All-Star Game. It’s Bobby Murcer’s lineout. You can see Rod Carew off of first, getting doubled off as May makes the catch and touches first with his hand to end the inning. (As he runs off, you can see the scoreboard with “American” and “National” on it. From retrosheet:

“Carew singled to center [Freehan scored]; Murcer lined into a double play (first unassisted) [Carew out at first];”

am i the only one who kinda-sorta likes the fisherman logo?

Nope, I like it too. And I like the wave jersey. Very cool and distinctive.

Kris McInnis said:

Jennifer said:

I think I like that Vancouver logo the best with the orange…..The Wild looks good, but the Blue Jackets’ is horrible…….and as much as I hate New York (sorry, Paul), the Rangers’ logo doesn’t look too bad either….Good job with the logos….you should try it with the other leagues!

Hmm….maybe I really did go about this wrong. People are still actually finding some merit in my sarcasm. Oh well, at least one of them is in the ‘horrible’ column now. As for the other leagues, that’d probably be a little harder than making fun of the NHL. I’m not too big on the NBA trends. Also, despite a good few stumbles in execution, I’m of the opinion that the NFL does a decent job of keeping the team identities separate, for the most part.

Then someone mentioned red in the MLB. So…yeah, umm… Sorry about this.

I agree with the comments above. The A’s logo kills my eyes like dead, and so do the Tigers and Padres, and I don’t care for what happens to the Dodgers and Royals logos, but it’s a tremendous upgrade, IMO, for the Giants, Rockies, and (this might get some angry replies) Mets, and a really nice nod to the past for the White Sox. For everyone other than the above mentioned, it neither improves nor detracts.

‘Didn’t detract because half of the teams use red and blue, so the changes were minimal. But hell, just the overload of red and blue alone is as bad as making everything black and red. But, with this and the NHL thing too, it’s not really my goal to improve anything; just satirically show what can happen when a fad or a trend get taken to the extreme. So in some respects, I’d rather the logos look worse, yet it seems that some people actually like the changes I make…

Looks like the ’Dome’s bases may originally have been trimmed in orange, too.

Sorry if this has already been addressed, but I respectfully disagree about the bases trimmed in orange. That photo appears to have been taken at an All-Star game, with the bases and the field being decorated, probably in red , white and blue. That looks like Joe Morgan in a Reds uni facing the camera. Astros player is sansabelt, evoking the ’70’s. The field is grass. Judging by the chain link fence, my guess is Atlanta, 1972.

Post #112.

That being Lee May at 1st base. The only year hee was an All-Star with Morgan at 2nd base.

And the (nearly baseless) rumor is that Google or Yahoo will be their jersey sponsors.

Ian K said:

Kenny said:

I don’t get why they are calling Rich Harden a fuck up

You’d feel differently if he was supposed to be anchoring the pitching staff on your fantasy baseball team. I think I’ll change my team name to “Harden the Fuck Up” now.

You too, huh? At one point I had five players on the DL, including Harden, Roy Halladay and Brett Myers.

At least he’s not supposed to be anchoring your REAL baseball team. I know that Haren has more than compensated for that, but come on.

Jennifer said:

I think I like that Vancouver logo the best with the orange…..The Wild looks good, but the Blue Jackets’ is horrible…….and as much as I hate New York (sorry, Paul), the Rangers’ logo doesn’t look too bad either….Good job with the logos….you should try it with the other leagues!

Hmm….maybe I really did go about this wrong. People are still actually finding some merit in my sarcasm. Oh well, at least one of them is in the ‘horrible’ column now. As for the other leagues, that’d probably be a little harder than making fun of the NHL. I’m not too big on the NBA trends. Also, despite a good few stumbles in execution, I’m of the opinion that the NFL does a decent job of keeping the team identities separate, for the most part.

Then someone mentioned red in the MLB. So…yeah, umm… Sorry about this.

I agree with the comments above. The A’s logo kills my eyes like dead, and so do the Tigers and Padres, and I don’t care for what happens to the Dodgers and Royals logos, but it’s a tremendous upgrade, IMO, for the Giants, Rockies, and (this might get some angry replies) Mets, and a really nice nod to the past for the White Sox. For everyone other than the above mentioned, it neither improves nor detracts.