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A cremesicle orange makeover and fog flow are supposed to make fans want the new Giants uniforms that no one asked for, but critics say Nike is “fogging up” the point with these new alternative home game outfits.
Let’s get it out of the way first everyone Pro Sports Team has about a million different uniforms these days as the latest trend is for clothing companies to offer team owners an endless stream of “alternative” uniforms that are almost never popular with fans. But your San Francisco Giants’ newest uniforms – which will be worn against the Washington Nationals this weekend and at home every Tuesday for the remainder of the season – came out with particularly scathing reviews on Monday. Mercury News said they “look like a bottle of Glacier Freeze Gatorade,” a lifelong season ticket holder at SFGate writes that they were “unfortunately hideous” and “uninteresting, uninspiring and disappointing all at once”. The Chronicle rages that the new uniforms “violate the sanctity of baseball itself”.
See for yourself. The Giants introduced these new “City Connect” uniforms in the video above posted on Monday and by. was told Last black man in San Francisco Star Jimmie fails and full of meaningless sports marketing “storytelling” pills like “We’re seven by seven miles of opportunity”. The jerseys themselves feature a more disco cream orange, which differs from the usual color tone of the team, golden gate bridges on sleeves and caps, a fog gradient from the middle of the chest and a ‘G’ logo in an unprecedented font in used in the club’s history.
These are awful! The Nike video talks about all the bright colors of my hometown, but they throw away that colorless uniform. Gosh, the seagull design for the scenic drive would have looked better. Or how about a cable car theme? Anything but that.
– John (@ Klobie_64) July 5, 2021
All of this a Nike deal, of course, as these Nike City Connect alternative jerseys were designed as a very obvious game to simply sell more hats and jerseys on top of those already sold. And some people like the jersey and want to buy one, that is, until they see the damn things sell for $ 434.99 a piece. The crew socks to match, however, only cost $ 19.99 per pair and repeat well with intent to be “sticky / fabulous”, though it’s unclear whether the Giants will wear these socks.
Seven Major League Baseball teams are being forced to wear these alternate jerseys this year, and not all of these new threads are terrible. The White Sox ‘Southside’ jerseys are honestly great and the Cubs’ Wrigleyville outfits are a nice historical nod. But the Red Sox alternatives are even more curiously ugly than the Giants, and the Diamondbacks are clearly just trying to look like the Dodgers.
Alternating uniforms are now apparently just a necessary evil in all US professional sports, so this is shit that fans of all teams just have to put up with every year. But Giants pitcher Kevin Gausman, fresh from an almost no hitter Monday, had a suggestion. “I think they should have dressed us up like prisoners from Alcatraz,” Gausman told reporters after the game. “That would have been great, but I’m not making those decisions.”
Meanwhile, the mid-season Giants still have the best record in baseball, and the Dodgers’ star pitcher is suspended on sexual assault allegations.
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Image: @SFGiants via Twitter
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