Red Sox Uniforms

I was gonna write about free agents, so I'll do that quickly. The Yankees are trying to sign Manny. They couldn't beat him. Might as well sign him I guess to go with Sabathia and Burnett. The Red Sox, on the other hand are trying to sign Teixeira. Talk on the radio is what will happen to Mike Lowell, who would be the odd man out with Youk moving over to third. I guess you'd have to trade him (while obviously eating a HUGE portion of his contract). I'll keep you posted.

Now, I've been very busy with finals and grading, so I just went to redsox.com for the first time in I don't remember how long. I almost threw up cause I read on the Sox are introducing new uniforms next year. New away, new alternate home, new alternate away. Thankfully they're keeping the home jerseys.

Here's what I think of each, and I'm looking at them for the first time as I type. These are my first impressions.
Road Jersey
The new road jersey. This is ok. I calmed down a lot after seeing it. I thought It harkens back to the days of my youth, if you consider preschool and earlier to be youth. They look similiar to the jerseys the team wore in the 80s. The major differences are the new jerseys have a font similiar to what they used the past 15 years or so, whereas the 80s jerseys looked like they were done in time new Roman. Also, the old 80s jerseys never had names on the back. These ones do. Reviewing it more, the color scheme reminds me of the New York road jerseys. That's not a good thing. I miss the old (new? 1990s version) ones already. I don't mind the red sox they have on the sleave. Can we comprimise and just put that on the road uniforms from last year?

Alternate Road Jersey
First of all, since when do the Red Sox do alternate road jerseys? That's something crappy teams like Seattle do to get more revinue. Oh yeah...revinue. That's what this is all about. Second of all, this is atricious. It's like one of those kids you see dressed up as a ball player on Halloween wearing nothing that comes close to resembling the actual uniform. In all honesty, I don't mind the jersey that much. I kind of like it better than the red alternates they've been wearing. Those things kind of hurt your eyes to look at. If that were the only change, I'd be quite happy. But the hat. That's disgusting. When I was a young boy, around 8 or 9, I use to think other teams like the Marlins had hats that were so much cooler than the Red Sox. I can't find an old Marlin hat online, but it was teal with a black bill and had the F and the fish and it looked awesome. So anyway, I spent many an hour trying to design an awesome Red Sox hat, and came to the realization, this is as good as it gets. This hat was worn by all the great Red Sox, and all their fans. This has all the history and tradition. Look at that beautiful B. Just look at it. No other way to describe it. It's beautiful. Now look at the alternate hat. It's hideous. It looks like something a little kid would wear. I'm 100% against it.

New Alternate Home Jersey.
I don't know why I wasted time looking for an image of the old alternate, cause this "new" alternate looks the same to me at first glance.

New Logo
They're also changing the logo. I miss the old one, with the Sox insider the baseball and "BOSTON" up top and "RED SOX" down bottom. The new logo is the hanging Sox on the hat. Not much of a change, I agree, but still, what I grew up with was better.