Baseball ruined the All-Star Game with those ugly and confusing uniforms
These uniforms were hideous.
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Rob Manfred has done a lot of embarrassing things during his reign as commissioner of Major League Baseball.
He didn’t suspend any of the Astros players who cheated their way to a World Series title.
He called the World Series trophy as just a “piece of metal.”
And recently he had the umps shake down the pitchers as they left the field in a move that could easily be done a little more discreetly in the dugout.
Now we can add another embarrassing moment to his resume – he allowed the worst uniforms ever to be worn at the All-Star Game last night. I mean, did you see those things?
Fans were instantly outraged over the uniforms. The weird blue and white ones with the logo over three letters took away the tradition of having the players wearing their regular team uniforms. There’s just something nice about seeing the different uniforms as the players line up along the basepaths during introductions.
These new uniforms didn’t look great at all and they made it confusing for many people watching to pick out who was who.
That’s not great, baseball.
But that was such a baseball move.
It’s really hard to screw up something that is so easy as uniforms at an All-Star Game but Manfred and Co. are really good at doing just that.
Big All-Star Game being the only game on national TV on a nice summer night in July? Let’s confuse and anger the fans!
I’ve long wondered how Manfred continues to have the job of being the boss of baseball. It has made no sense to me over the past year and a half and it makes even less sense to me this morning. He didn’t design the uniforms, of course, but he should have at least seen them before they were used and he should have been like “No, we are absolutely not using those!”
That would have been too easy, though. And that would have been too good of a thing to do to the fans who enjoy watching the All-Star Game.
And that’s just now how baseball works!
It’s a shame, really. But it wasn’t surprising.
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