Players Weekend Poll

[a700hitter]

Players Weekend ruined baseball for me this weekend. I have MLB TV and flip channels from game to game. I had no idea what game I was watching and couldn't figure out which team was which. Add to that, I couldn't see the numbers on the stupid white monochrome uniforms, so I had no idea who the players were. When I watch games, I want to see the traditional uniforms. I want to see the pinstripes when the Yankees are playing, the green and gold hideousness of the A's unis, the black and orange Oriole bird, the Mets orange and blue, the Giants' black and orange, etc.

 

All in all, it sucked, and I couldn't care less about the stupid nicknames on the uniforms, especially those in languages other than English. I realize that is a microaggression to College students and recent college graduates, but it isn't. Simply, if I can't understand the nickname on the uniform or pronounce it, it means nothing to me and can't possibly add to my enjoyment of the game. But then again, players weekend isn't about the enjoyment of the fans. It is about the enjoyment of players. The same can be said about players' walk up music. That is for the players' enjoyment. I don't get it. The game is a business for the owners and players, and it is a very high paying business. The entertainment that the business provides is supposed to be directed at the fans -- the paying customers. It is a complete loss of focus by the Business side of baseball on what their business is.

[Bellhorn04]

I'm indifferent to such gimmicks. But it would be interesting to know what impact, if any, there was on attendance and ratings.

[bkzwhitestrican]

I don't mind the custom shoes and bats, but everything else is crap.

[Slasher9]

i was at mets v braves friday night and found the uniforms interesting. when atlanta was in the field it looked like there was 7 infielders as the umpires wear black.

[a700hitter]

There are just too many weekends that MLB suits up in uniforms other than their traditional unis. They wear pink on Mother's Day weekend, blue on Fathers Day weekend, Cammo on Memorial Day weekend, Red White and Blue on 4th of July, and the hideous monochrome on Player's Weekend. Am I missing any? Almost 25% of the Weekends are gimmick uniforms. The Mets announcers yesterday commented that Pete Alonso will have the opportunity to set the Met season HR record in their traditional uniforms. When he breaks it, that will be a highlight that will be replayed possibly for many years. Who wants to memorialize that moment in a monochromatic white.

[a700hitter]

Someone voted to keep it. What do you like about it?

[Slasher9]

Someone voted to keep it. What do you like about it?

 

That was me. I guess mostly the players can express themselves with unique cleats and bats for a few games. I also like the nicknames aspect, even though most are hokey

[dgalehouse]

With men on base , the field looked like one big chess board.

[Bellhorn04]

700hitter, you would get along great with Phil.

 

Players’ Weekend disaster shows MLB’s continuing foolishness

Phil Mushnick

August 29, 2019 10:02 PM

 

In the 1934 movie “You’re Telling Me!” W.C. Fields says he “bought a wonderful club in Toronto,” then tells his caddie, “Give me the Canadian Club.”

 

By the time MLB’s “Players’ Weekend” ended, no elixir was strong enough to clear or further dull the mind of the systemic senselessness.

 

But MLB never runs low on rotten ideas. It suffers from advanced nearsightedness while self-deluded into practicing the kind of innovative thinking that guarantees a maximum of unintended, unforeseen, ridiculous circumstances. So does the NFL.

 

Thus, our question for commissioner/marketing genius Rob Manfred:

 

Given that every game for three consecutive days appeared the same — Johnny Cash and the San Quentin 9 versus the psychiatric facility security detail from the movie “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” — which game or games did he choose to watch? After all, by design they all looked alike.

 

The players wore monochromatic white-on-white or black-on-black self-selected nicknames on the backs of their corresponding all-white or all-black monochromatic uniforms, making it impossible to know for sure who many of them were — even if you knew their nicknames, which were mostly inside gags.

 

Reader Joe Plitnick thinks Gary Sanchez went with “No Sweat.”

 

Of course, at MLB no one saw this coming. MLB placed everyone in the same clown suit then hit “send” under the full impression and authority that it knows exactly what it’s doing.

 

So all 44 games over the weekend were played in indecipherable secret code — white ink put to white paper, black ink on black paper. Morons.

 

Or as the bibulous W.C. Fields said of his African safari: “We forgot the corkscrew. All we had to live on was food and water.”

[mvp 78]

That was me. I guess mostly the players can express themselves with unique cleats and bats for a few games. I also like the nicknames aspect, even though most are hokey

 

I think the cleats, bats and nicknames should go all year. The alternate jerseys suck though.

[a700hitter]

700hitter, you would get along great with Phil.

 

Players’ Weekend disaster shows MLB’s continuing foolishness

Phil Mushnick

August 29, 2019 10:02 PM

 

In the 1934 movie “You’re Telling Me!” W.C. Fields says he “bought a wonderful club in Toronto,” then tells his caddie, “Give me the Canadian Club.”

 

By the time MLB’s “Players’ Weekend” ended, no elixir was strong enough to clear or further dull the mind of the systemic senselessness.

 

But MLB never runs low on rotten ideas. It suffers from advanced nearsightedness while self-deluded into practicing the kind of innovative thinking that guarantees a maximum of unintended, unforeseen, ridiculous circumstances. So does the NFL.

 

Thus, our question for commissioner/marketing genius Rob Manfred:

 

Given that every game for three consecutive days appeared the same — Johnny Cash and the San Quentin 9 versus the psychiatric facility security detail from the movie “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” — which game or games did he choose to watch? After all, by design they all looked alike.

 

The players wore monochromatic white-on-white or black-on-black self-selected nicknames on the backs of their corresponding all-white or all-black monochromatic uniforms, making it impossible to know for sure who many of them were — even if you knew their nicknames, which were mostly inside gags.

 

Reader Joe Plitnick thinks Gary Sanchez went with “No Sweat.”

 

Of course, at MLB no one saw this coming. MLB placed everyone in the same clown suit then hit “send” under the full impression and authority that it knows exactly what it’s doing.

 

So all 44 games over the weekend were played in indecipherable secret code — white ink put to white paper, black ink on black paper. Morons.

 

Or as the bibulous W.C. Fields said of his African safari: “We forgot the corkscrew. All we had to live on was food and water.”

In this instance, I agree with Mushnick