A few words about the new MLB jerseys
Nothing gets people going wild like the little things.
Chill. The. Fuck. Out.
Repeat after me: It’s just a jersey.
That’s the beginning and end takeaway from the collective Major League Baseball fan conscience on Tuesday when the new Fanatics jerseys were shown to teams and talked about by everyone else with an interest in the game for the next 24 hours.
In a classic case of “that doesn’t support my argument” rejection, Facebook commenters rejected the acceptance of one player saying they liked the jerseys. “He must be a company man or something.” Wrong, he just doesn’t care as much about being enraged all the time.
Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post Dispatch reported that more than one player wasn’t a fan of the new threads. Miles Mikolas said they didn’t fit right. Yeah, well Miles, your 2023 performance didn’t fit right. Put it on, and don’t give us that weak shit again. The stitching or the way the letters looked, or something, wasn’t good. Right.
If they don’t burn your skin like lava, who cares? If they feel lighter, which a player commented on as a strength, that’s good for the hot summer days of baseball in St. Louis. How they look is the choice of the league and the people who make and distribute them, such as Fanatics in this case. Write them a letter that they won’t recycle.
When I saw them, the nitpick police didn’t show up in my mind. Anything can be picked apart in some way. It was different by a little around certain margins and didn’t say THE LOU on it; the problem is there are millions of design artists who think they know better. It’s an outrage I have little patience for.
For the players who whined, just focus on baseball. Focus on being good or better, because that’s hard enough.
For the fans, that’s one less jersey purchase on your credit card. That’s $100-150 more dollars in your account. You’ll live. Oh wait! You can’t even wear this jersey. It’s a players only uniform. But still, the outrage!
Out of all the shit I woke up to, dealt with and saw today, this ranks about #5,525 on the need to be mad about list.
It’s another case of sports fans attaching themselves to an argument for the sale of being mad about something that has sits high above their pay grade. The fans do make the game, but they can also act like rage-fueled drama queens. In the end, they’ll like it after complaining for a few weeks.
The only matchstick we need now is for the terms of the jersey being better will require the team to sign Trevor Bauer and Patrick Mahomes’ dad for their rotation/PR team. That doesn’t make any sense, but neither does whining about a jersey’s design as if that decision solely sat around your liking.
Once again, everyone, chill out.
Thanks for reading this short yet sweet rant. I now need to go step outside and get annoyed.