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06-21-2012, 12:58 PM #1
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Rays to don fantasy TBTC uniforms
The Tampa Bay Rays will be wearing a "fantasy" TBTC uniform on June 30 when they host Detroit. The Tigers will be clad in a previously used style...the Trammell/Whitaker era road pullovers. No such uniform style as the Rays are wearing ever existed in Tampa/St. Petersburg pro baseball lore, but the style's color scheme seems to be fitting for the time being represented. There's lots of similarity to the 1978 Padres uniforms in this style, and other elements are borrowed from other 1970s uniforms. I wonder what the Rays collectors on our site, like David Cope, think of this style. While it does resemble a 1978 Padres uni, it has a much more soothing color combination than the Pads' old brown and yellow threads.
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06-21-2012, 01:35 PM #2
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Very 70s indeed ....Veeck would approve
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06-21-2012, 01:44 PM #3
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Re: Rays to don fantasy TBTC uniforms
Those look pretty smooth to me!
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06-21-2012, 03:18 PM #4
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Looks pretty cool! I don't collect the TBTC stuff, but wouldn't mind owning one of these, if the price is right.
Kind reminds me of the 1970's or early 80's Atlanta Braves jersey colors.
In the early 70's there was a hockey team called the Suncoast Suns that played in St. Pete, seeing the TBTC jersey is giving me some serious devaju. But I cannot quite place it.
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06-21-2012, 03:41 PM #5
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Reminds me of the senior softball league that plays at the community park on Sunday mornings...but maybe that's because Madden is modeling the new duds.
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06-22-2012, 04:20 PM #6
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Re: Rays to don fantasy TBTC uniforms
The Rays have used a Million different styles? They have 2 alternates and a home and road. 4 uniforms is a lot, but not outlandish since the front logo is all the same on all 4 jerseys and they only wear one regular style on field game hat. Three complete uniform designs in 11 years is a lot though, yes I agree with that.
Most teams change their uniforms, not everyone can be outdated like the yankees and coast on their history and reputation and natural revenue stream. The MEts even have to have tons of uniforms to gain market share in dollars.
I am sure if the Rays started in the early 1900's in new York, they wouldn't have to change their uniforms a whole lot either.
I am acutally suprised the yankees even wear helmets and moved on from flannel uniforms. What about Steinbrenner's group pushing that horrible trend that started in the late 1990's with purple Yankee retail jerseys and orange NY hats. oh and gotta love the yankee pinstripe jerseys with "JETER" on the back, since they historically wear their names on their uniforms. That is even worse than the team wearing multiple uniforms. It is like saying "We are too conservative to change our uniforms, but you fnas who are lesser than us, go ahead as long as your check clears."
I am also suprised Steinbrenner didn't have a prerequisite of allowing Yankee fans to purchase and wear Yankee hats and jerseys and while being cleanly shaven.
Put the New York Yankees in Portland, Maine in 1908 and they would have moved 3-4 times with 3-4 uniform/name changes and would be hanging out with the Pirates in the basement of the standing and revenues. The success of the Yankees is largely based on the city, not the team. Not that ownership didn't do some great things, but it roots back to the always potentially high cash flow of that team via the market they are in, even when they were in rough economic times in the late 1960's.
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06-21-2012, 03:44 PM #7
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Per the link posted on Jersey Central:
The Rays have found a solution, designing a hypothetical uniform from 1979. They'll debut the Disco Demolition-era jerseys against the Tigers on June 30, then auction them off for charity.
http://mlb.mlb.com/cutfour/article.j...652846&c_id=tb
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06-21-2012, 03:55 PM #8
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Re: Rays to don fantasy TBTC uniforms
Too early to call these the "Tampa Bay Rays presented by Pepsi Light" jerseys? (or just Pepsi Lights for short)
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06-21-2012, 03:56 PM #9
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06-21-2012, 05:47 PM #10
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Those Rays uni's are HORRIBLE!!!