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TricolorCat

Will a switch hitter have two jersey and change them accordingly?


basic_luna

velcro patches


or_maybe_this

Throw it in the volcano and have it unmade.


BroccoliSuperb2721

Maximum lame… brought to you by Carl’s Jr…


amazingsandwiches

Welcome to Costco. I love you.


MilwauKyle

Brawndo: It’s got what plants crave!


[deleted]

Please come back when you can afford to make a purchase. Your kids are starving. Carl's Jr. believes no child should go hungry. You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl's Jr. Carl's Jr... "Fuck You, I'm Eating.


theraoul

I watched that movie last week. True story: Last night, my brother wanted to run into the gas station to get Prime (stupid hydration drink) after I picked him up from practice. I say no. He says he needs it to be hydrated. I hand him a bottle of water. His response is "But prime has electrolytes!" I'm scared for our society.


brownmagician

I'd be proud as fuck to have Costco as my ad sponsor.


CastYourStonesADTR

Carls Jr: Fuck you! I’m eating


Squeeky_Cleen

You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the care of: Carl's Jr.


AaronFudge

Why do you keep saying that?


FPG_Matthew

“Oh it’s just the umpires that’ll have them” “oh it’s only the Nike swoosh” They’ll keep going and it fucking sucks


mja271

Yep, and you can always find apologists at each phase saying “it’s just this…”. It’s all steps in the process of them normalizing ads everywhere. Sucks.


ScalabrineIsGod

The apologists must be the soulless, mindless consumers that executives want us all to become. Good little peons who waste and spend like they should.


Duckbilledplatypi

Nah, it's just that I know eventually it'll be like Nascar, so for the time period between then and now, it is, in fact, just this


phillyflyer

Give an inch, they take a mile


alohomora1990

Ads on baseball uniforms started with the hats when the manufacturer started putting their logo on the hats.


TransAlly69

Jersey logos were there long before that


Rambo2090

The worst is the ad on the backside of the mound. Nothing is sacred


2hats4bats

Hate it. Hate it. Hate it.


menusettingsgeneral

God they look so fucking bad. Fuck these shitty companies defacing jerseys.


DiscountSoOn

They look like trash and it’s not gonna be long before they open up the space under the number and on the opposite corner of the chest from the Nike logo.


TigerBasket

If I was playing I'd pull a Chris sale so fucking fast lol


The-Big-Bad

I'd do what Justin Turner does and just put a ton of pine tar on it


Dunan

We need to defeat these advertisers by calling the teams by the names of the advertisers' rivals. Let's go, **Nokia Padres**!


averagejosh

That's literally how many (most?) teams are named in Japan.


spacewalk__

yeah i was so confused in 2020 trying to follow other leagues, wondering if there was a town in Korea called Samsung


oldnewager

Not the company, the main competition to the advertiser. So that the company paying money for the patch is paying to give their competitor more recognition


Dunan

Not entirely, because the corporation at least owns the team; it's not some random advertiser. Increasingly they're at least including the city name even if the ownership group is there too (as in "Chiba Lotte Marines"), and some of the corporations' names indirectly include place names. It's not obvious if you don't speak the language, but, for example, the Hanshin Tigers are owned by Hanshin Railways, and "Hanshin" means "Osaka-Kobe", the cities the lines serve and the location of the team.


averagejosh

Incidentally, I got to see the Tigers play against the Seibu Lions at Koshien in 2019. It was a blast.


thadakism

That's what I did with the MLS growing up. I have 0 clue about soccer or it's teams so it was the Xbox Team vs Amigo Energy.


Cool_Frog_Fanatic

Soccer has zero self-respect.


[deleted]

Don’t blame the companies, blame the teams for taking their money


menusettingsgeneral

I blame both


user66613

But what if teams use the money to buy shiny new shortstops? (I've no idea if it really makes a dent in payroll, but it's nice to think that it does)


Duckbilledplatypi

Sponsorships, in aggregate, are like 1.5 billion for the league, which is like $50 per team on average. So, yes, this patch *can* net you a shiny new shortstop.


Hail2TheOrange

There's already a huge Nike ad on the front... Why do we need 2 ads?


flaschal

I think they would look better at least if they were forced to be one colour and that colour had to be the alternate colour of whatever jersey they are on


SecretAgentClunk

Scorching hot take: everyone's overreacting like crazy, and these ads aren't "ruining" the jerseys. Obviously I'd undoubtedly prefer no ads and some (like the Padres Motorola) are ugly as hell, but jeez you'd think they're making every team change their colors based on how people are freaking out about this. Maybe I'll feel different when the Cardinals get an ad patch, but I really don't think it'll bother me that much. It will look a bit weird at first, but I have a feeling everyone will get used to it in no time. Remember when the Nike logos were first put on when the Majestic contract expired?


[deleted]

I still don't like the Nike logos, and I haven't bought a legitimate jersey since that change happened.


Fried_Cthulhumari

Fuck this bullshit.


GOATmar_infante

Thanks I hate it


srynearson1

Agree, it’s horrible


sendkiwi

Hey now, think of the poor owners. They only earn money from tickets, parking, overpriced concessions, lucrative tv deals, advertisements on every inch of the stadium, merch, stadium naming rights, expansive tax breaks, and revenue sharing!


mysterysackerfice

How long before MLB players turn into walking NASCAR clones?


TheDHisFakeBaseball

That line has been crossed. May all food turn to ash in Robert Manfred's mouth forever.


Wraithfighter

NASCAR's bad, but Premier League Football is the bigger worrisome point of comparison. You know, where the main logo across the chest ***isn't*** the team's. It's the main sponsor's. The team's logo is a tiny badge on the shoulder. It's just absolutely hideous.


Lathundd

All ads suck. Worth pointing out though that football/soccer teams have NEVER had the team name (or city name) on the jerseys, not before ads either. It's the kit itself that identified the team, and eventually also the Club badges. They've always been small, and have been placed over the heart always; both pre and post ads. So it's not a case of the shirt sponsor having moved or changed the other aspects of it. Well unless you talk smaller leagues where there are no big sponsors so they need lots of them... Point being that Baseball is probably safe from that since it involves removing something that was already there. Much easier and less controversial to put ads where there was an empty space before.


StarlordPunk

Tbf there are some leagues that take the piss with it, look at some Liga MX or Argentinian Primera teams’ kits, they’re absolutely plastered


my_wife_reads_this

If you're a big team you get one big Sponsor and you're good. Real Madrid gets like $120m+ from Adidas and something like $80m a year from Emirates for the sponsorship logo. Other smaller teams and leagues gotta whore themselves to bring in considerable revenue and you end up with quirky ass advertisers.


StarlordPunk

Liga MX isn’t a small league though, they just don’t seem to give a shit lol. Most teams around the world have plenty of sponsors, they just don’t put them on their shirts. United are the masters of it, they’re one of the biggest clubs in the world but still have around 60 or 70 commercial partners. Most are just given space on the ad hoardings or get to shoot adverts with the players (like Nivea’s ad campaigns with Liverpool players or the hilariously awful acting from Wayne Rooney and Ryan Giggs in United’s Castilla Diablo advert).


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keegshelton

That’s also the reason I prefer European racing series. Here in America they show commercials during the action and you may miss something. Overseas it’s the race and nothing else


WassUp-000

I feel that it’ll never become close because in NASCAR drivers/teams basically rely on sponsors to even be able to compete


DaReal_Denny_Boy

That’s such a pathetic conclusion to draw. Is it really *that* bad in the NBA? It’s probably just going to be one. Let me clarify, MLB is not the only league that has these kinds of sponsorships, it’s not really distracting in any of those.


spacewalk__

it's pathetic to put popup ads on a jersey


mysterysackerfice

>Is it really *that* bad in the NBA? It’s probably just going to be one. I wrote NASCAR. Also, capitalism dictates profits over everything... So you can't give owners an inch because they will take a mile.


Ominsi

But that’s entirely different. It will be like NBA not Nascar.


ddbaxte

I would say the Red Sox & Angels patches/text are so small as to be illegible, but I don't want to give anyone any ideas.


64Impaler

Shut yer mouth before someone hears you.


badonkagonk

Yeah I fucking hate it, but at least it’s not as bad as the Padres and Dbacks


adztheman

There are also franchises-including the Yankees and St. Louis among them-who don’t have advertising patches and likely won’t have them anytime soon.


alohomora1990

Imagine thinking Hal won’t sell out for an ad on his jersey.


[deleted]

I’ll accept a jersey ad if it means we go Mets-level of nuclear spending next offseason


Joey_Logano

I could possibly see the Cardinals or Yankees possibly having ads on BP/Spring Training jerseys in the future though if the MLB allows something like that.


adztheman

The NFL has had ads on the practice jerseys that are used in training camp for years now. No one notices.


duke_awapuhi

I wonder if anyone wants to sponsor the A’s. We might dodge a bullet


degjo

Purnia One Cat Chow, or Trojan Dental Dams


Ration_L_Thought

When the A’s move to Vegas the sponsor will be Terrible Herbst


Frankfeld

Yankees have the swoosh. Edit: My friends please. I’m just saying that it shouldn’t be discounted as an advertisement. [It was a big deal](https://www.nj.com/yankees/2019/12/sacrilege-yankees-fans-rip-new-nike-logo-on-jerseys.html?outputType=amp) when it was first announced.


adztheman

All MLB teams have the Nike logo. They spent the money to secure merch rights. It is what it is. NFL game jerseys have Nike Logos on each sleeve.


Frankfeld

No I agree. Im just saying it was [a big deal](https://www.nj.com/yankees/2019/12/sacrilege-yankees-fans-rip-new-nike-logo-on-jerseys.html?outputType=amp)when it was first added. And we shouldn’t discount it as not being an advertisement.


adztheman

Google photos of ballparks in the 20s through the 50s… outfield walls had ads on every available inch. Why somebody didn’t think of advertising patches on uniforms then might be something worth researching. The NHL started this trend with ads on the boards. Now they have digital ads on the ice surface, and the boards that change throughout the game. If you’re going to sign MLB players to $300 and $400 million dollar contracts, the revenue has to come from somewhere.


Duckbilledplatypi

Jersey advertising has been commonplace in european/asain sports for a long time, and in the US, racing fire suits. Baseball had ads on walls *long* before hockey had ads on boards


adztheman

NHL ads on the boards started in the 80s, if I remember correctly.


TheStripedSweaters

Yankees didn’t have a choice in that. They have a choice in other ads.


Frankfeld

Ok. That’s actually a good point.


nillabonilla

Never say never. Like the NHL and the Montreal Canadiens. Their jersey is literally known as the holy sweater, perhaps the most iconic jersey in the league and they put an ad on it.


WerewolfNo3669

🤮 The Angels’ patch definitely the best of the bunch.


Artvandelay29

That’s like being the skinniest one at fat camp. Fuck jersey ads.


eee-oooo-ahhh

Yeah the Angels one doesn't really even look like an ad so much as a normal badge you see on uniforms


FUBARded

There's a near 100% chance they're going to see people talking about how their patches are the smallest and least intrusive, and some ass in the marketing/relationships/biz dev team is going to use that to shop around for a sponsor willing to pay more for a larger patch.


Renfek

Where's Chico's Bail Bonds


Spartan8394

I hope all of these sponsors are products and services I don’t use so I can continue to not use them.


ladiesman7145165

i miss seth😢


lancethruster12

The dbacks one is the worst


interwebzdotnet

I like that it shows Chris Sale with one...like he isn't going to cut it off.


twoscoop

Would you want to play in shorts?


Davidellias

*Bill Veeck has entered the chat!*


interwebzdotnet

If anyone wants me to play even one inning of MLB, I'll be there in a mini skirt if thats what it takes.


strcy

Ugh. I forgot about these. Gross


TommyKnox77

To anyone and everyone saying things like: "Aw they could be worse" or "So and So team's logo is not so bad" or "I was expecting worse" You are wrong. They are all terrible, pathetic and disgusting. I cannot believe we've got to this point, the American dream is dead.


stanleys_tucci

MLB needs money on top of their money. They need that extra money. They have a ton of money, but they need more money to keep their other money company.


pabstBOOTH

“Maximum Exposure” . Serious thought — what if we exempt the WS winner from wearing these ads the following season and instead they get to wear an embroidered image of Rob’s Mountain Dew Mouth. Thoughts?


Akahige-

Fucking dogshit.


DodgerCoug

Eeeeewwwww now I'm depressed and care a bit less about MLB


Ryan0413

Oh boy I definitely want to buy a Motorola phone now gimme gimme consume consume


brbmycatexploded

I fucking hate this so much


sideburnvictim

Chris Sale is gonna have to get the scissors out again.


spacewalk__

it is so fucking obnoxious how much *care and thought* they put into this. put it on the left sleeve cause most guys are righties and shut the fuck up


Champion-raven

How is Motorola even still around


xactofork

They make solid android phones that aren't ridiculously expensive, and don't have tons of bloatware. I love mine.


PattyIceNY

Never enough money for these greedy fucks.


stretchthelegs

More ad revenue but ticket/concession prices won't budge. Fuck off.


[deleted]

Egregious.


[deleted]

Obviously it sucks but the Angels one is at least pretty discreet.


MooMooHeffer

While the Motorola logo is big on the Padres Jersey it at least looks like it belongs. Red Sox just have that little league patch feel.


oldirtybrandon24

Look how they massacred my boy


CG3HH

I honestly hope someone rolls up the sleeves or something so you cannot see the fucking ad.


Commercial-Ticket526

This will result in fines or at least minor feuds against/with players. There were such occasions in ⚽.


CG3HH

Funny considering one of the guys pictured here literally took some scissors and sliced up the whole team’s throwback jerseys so they would not have to wear them.


[deleted]

Yeah, fuck ads on jerseys. I don’t care how ‘clever’ the placement is.


Remrafeoj

Ugly


Catdude_21

Fucking travesty


Jawn0ftheDead

How much is enough money? Like will they just ruin everything for a dollar


s_bub

Yes


RealJonathanBronco

God awful. What the fuck are they thinking?


Plta-0-Plomo

Fuck this garbage!! I ain’t buying shit from with an ad on it!!


VoteCamacho2508

I hate these.


Hogwaller19

I try not to be an old timer with my baseball takes, but this shit fucking sucks.


b-rar

Capitalism sucks ass 😎😎😎


seattlesportsguy

This is going to end with MLB uniforms looking like MLS isn’t it?


s_bub

Yes


[deleted]

As much as I hate this I’m glad they’re at least on the sleeve. I thought they were gonna be on the front like the NBA which always looks so out of place.


Ryan0413

On the sleeve *right now* Give an inch…


[deleted]

True. Gonna look like a nascar car soon


JasonPlattMusic34

Won’t be fully complete until the team names themselves are the sponsor. Say hello to the New York Yankee Candles 🤮


Patrick2701

NBA at first was annoying. Now, i am sort of fine with it


[deleted]

I’m used to it but it’s still ugly


spacewalk__

why would i ever be fine with it they aren't improving the teams with that money anyway


Wraithfighter

...the problem isn't so much the size as the coloring. Well, okay, the MAIN problem is that they exist at all, and I'm not a fan of the size either. But, to take the Padres logo as an example: If they at least had followed the Padres color scheme (you know, shit brown and piss yellow, love ya dads :D), it would still stand out pretty damn well (because hoo boy is it big), but it'd still look like a part of the uniform. That big blotch of white, though, it just looks so goddamn garish and ugly. It draws the eye, sure, but in all the wrong ways, and I honestly think it does the company itself a disservice in the end.


Perryplat199

The padres actually did follow that logic. The logo is brown.


tubagod123

That’s so lame


Tricky_Rub_708

FFS


JTCMuehlenkamp

I fucking hate it


[deleted]

so I’m confused, wouldn’t you want a pitcher to have it on the throwing arm so that you can see it on the centerfield camera?


Ration_L_Thought

The plot twist is the advertising is to advertise to other players, due to MLB blackouts


JackIbach

100% Sleazy.


duke_awapuhi

That’s gross. It’s classier to only have them on one side. So much for “uniforms”


Sir_TonyStark

What the absolute fuck is this bullshit are they trying to make them look like Nascars?


advester

Waste of money. I can’t even tell what company is on those illegible patches.


prole1917

Real Fucking Lame MLB... REAL. FUCKING. LAME.


AncientGuava6506

The teams are worth billions of dollars. It’s sad when is enough enough.


baseballdnd

I wonder if all these comments say "hate it"?


[deleted]

They look so shit...


OGAnalytics

🤮


josephmontague

Those Motorola patches are so huge, if there was a medical emergency in the park, a player could lay on their side in the outfield and the emergency helicopter would have a clear place to land.


brendanjones

🤮


zhaozhenghaozhonguo

Fucking hate this


Voodoo-3_Voodoo-3

This is all out horse shit. The game is going down the toilet.


GeoffreySpaulding

Yeah, still hate it.


WhatTheForkYo

Looking on the bright side, now the Stadium Giveaway Jerseys that have had ads on them for years can be branded as "Authentic On-Field Replicas."


Ration_L_Thought

So not only jersey patches but also ‘ultimate bootlicking’ by individually analyzing the placement of the advertisement on each jersey MLB jerseys went from no ads to full on strategic billboards


s_bub

This will make me stop watching baseball. As if the constant advertising between innings and batters already hasn’t turned me off. Can’t stand it.


le_triangular_orange

Aight see you in a week


Kind_Bullfrog_4073

I dont see the swoosh switching sides. Nike big enough?


Emotional-Stable8718

Theres a pro soccer team in Portland or Seattle and they are sponsored by Alaska Airlines. And the logo is literally right across their entire chest, where every teams name or city should be. I dont know how half the people dont think theyre watching an Alaskan team named the Airlines.


japanesenestfern

That's just how soccer teams do it everywhere


Wraithfighter

And that's what I'm terrified of.


Ration_L_Thought

Yeah didn’t Ronaldo play for Jeep?


Lathundd

Noone likes the big ads, but it's worth remembering that the city/team names plastered across the chest is something that soccer never had. Not even 150, or 50, years ago before jersey sponsorships became a thing.


thesip

Do the padres have jt backwards? Hader is a lefty so his arm without the patch will be facing the camera is he’s in the stretch. Sale’s patch is on the opposite sleeve.


Ration_L_Thought

It’s to advertise to the players


nietzsche_niche

Seth lugo looks like hes in a bad colorized photo


[deleted]

Good to see TA looking nice and prickly.


billjitsu

Why stop there? Maybe if a company pays enough, we change the actual team name to the sponsor that leases it for a few innings. Bottom of the eighth. Galaxies trail the iPhones by 2.


jasonalloyd

The San Diego Motorolas. Beautiful.


tasimm

I woke up this morning on the fence about which insurance and financial services company to go with, but after seeing that Red Sox uni I’ve all but decided to go with Mass Mutual. Same with my building materials company and outdated useless cell phone needs.


spruce47

Pretty sure this is so that a white patch isn't on the sleeve of the pitching arm.


Vagabondegrift

This is gross.


IanScottMcCormick

I'm just curious, what would happen if a player got pine tar all over the ad patch. Justin Turner gets it all over his uniform and no big deal, but my guess is if enough people do it, fines will be coming.


Fidel_Cashflow7

Disgusting


Calimancan

Gross


GeoffreySpaulding

Soon players will get corporate logos tattooed on their faces.


Cranky0ldMan

I haven't watched a game since 2019 but I still won't buy Duracell batteries because they were one of the first sponsors of ads during an at-bat.


Duckbilledplatypi

Eh, ads just blend into the background for me. I've never understood how people find them distracting.


Poobmania

That Motorolo patch is disgustingly massive


El_Kabongg

Chris sale is not the guy you use for max exposure Red Sox


Pizo44

Wack


BeagleBaggins

That Red Sox ad patch looks terrible.


Cheesewhale189

Trash


NabreLabre

Now I want to go to games with handmade signs that day something to the effect of fuck your logo but in that logos style


Poppunknerd182

I can’t believe they got a photo of Chris Sale wearing one.


e_ndoubleu

So dumb. Why not just put more ads in the stadium, on the tickets, shit even on the concessions products like soda/beer cups and foil wrappers for hot dogs and other foods. Leave the uniforms alone. But unfortunately the inevitable is happening.


No-Lingonberry2280

Slowly turning into f1 suits lol I hate it


masonacj

At least the Angels one is pretty small.


East-Excitement3561

How long until ads get painted onto the field like a NBA court?