New Uniforms Coming November 12th

by OEutaw on Oct 27, 2008 6:46 PM EDT Comment 67 comments

Our new away jerseys will be revealed on November 12th at the Gallery in Harborplace at noon. "Baltimore" will take it's rightful place on the away grays. Here's a sneak peek:

via i4.photobucket.com

In addition, the BALTIMORE Orioles are ditching the all-black hat they currently wear with the away uni in favor of the home hat with orange bill. The "O's" hat will remain the Friday alternate... unfortunately.

Interesting to note that the invitation for the unveiling has the full team name as opposed to the Angelos-pushed regional "Orioles" only moniker. Seems they're finally returning to their base. Good move!

UPDATE: The team will unveil new BP jerseys this year as well. A Maryland state flag patch will adorn the sleeves of game jerseys. And the bird has been "updated".

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the O’s hat is a thousand times better looking than the orthinologically correct bird ever has been.

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by getxstoked on Oct 27, 2008 8:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

How 'bout a new Owner to go with them?

(Sorry, most of my friends and my wife are Phillies fans. I’m very happy for them, but also feeling extra bitter, too.)

I don’t like the “O’s” hat. Call it irrational (it is!), but the apostrophe s annoys me. I’d like it more if it just had the “O”

Time's yours, Andy.

by BrianS on Oct 27, 2008 8:30 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I LOVE the black jersey tops, though

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by duck on Oct 28, 2008 5:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

oh me too

those are my favorite.

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by Stacey on Oct 28, 2008 9:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

What great news!

The all-black road cap always felt kinda lame. I can live with the O’s Friday cap.

Anyone going on the 12th?

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by Ghost of Floyd Rayford on Oct 27, 2008 8:33 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I might check it out

on my lunch hour. Will there be players there modeling I wonder?

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by Stacey on Oct 27, 2008 10:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'd like Cartoon Bird

But they’re not yet worthy of it.

Time's yours, Andy.

by BrianS on Oct 27, 2008 8:46 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

they're just as worthy as the 88 team.

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by getxstoked on Oct 27, 2008 9:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

The 88 team was so unworthy it got taken away the next year

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by spike2131 on Oct 28, 2008 12:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

and look what happened in '89

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by jobe on Oct 28, 2008 12:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

good news!!

hopefully the they aren’t being lazy and reusing a uni from the past – although i’d be ok with it if they did. I think we’ve had the cursive “orioles” logo for long enough

by marcusdavidhall on Oct 27, 2008 9:25 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

The script in the picture is different from the old Baltimore script

spring breeze / the green field / tempts me to play catch

by elk on Oct 27, 2008 10:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It would be totally sweet if it says “We LoVe CoOkInG tOo!!” across the front of the jersey.

Time's yours, Andy.

by BrianS on Oct 27, 2008 9:32 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Bring back the cartoon bird

It’s awesome that we have “Baltimore” on the jerseys on again, but I would be able to die happy if they brought back the real bird.

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by Baltimo on Oct 27, 2008 10:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Am I the only one that prefers the ornithalogically correct bird on our caps

Our logo is different story. How about the cartoon bird as a shoulder patch?

by jobe on Oct 28, 2008 12:35 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think it's just because we could use a change.

They’ve had the same scheme for 20 years now (and 14 of them were in losing seasons).

But I think maintaining ornithologically correct birds could work. Just making them a bit more stylized, like they were in the ’50s.

by Chanumas on Oct 28, 2008 10:23 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think that bird looks ridiculous

and dated.

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by Stacey on Oct 28, 2008 11:54 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

No, you're not the only one...

I did a poll on this back in the early days of CC. The cartoon bird won, but there were definitely passionate defenders of the current bird too. I’m all for the cartoon bird myself. They should at least bring it back as the Friday alternate because the “Os” hat is lame.

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by rebop on Oct 30, 2008 10:28 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

In a perfect world...

The O’s would alternate between an all-black hat with the cartoon bird and an all black hat with an orange “B”.

I hate the fact that the bill is a different color than the crown.

by Chanumas on Oct 27, 2008 10:52 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I also hate a different colored bill

It looks so bush league. Of the current hats, I much prefer the all black hat with the bird.

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by Stacey on Oct 27, 2008 10:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I like it!

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by SC on Oct 28, 2008 12:36 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don't

The orange billed caps are the best caps in baseball, even better than the Brewer’s baseball glove hat.

by jobe on Oct 28, 2008 12:40 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm saying I like the orange bills

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by SC on Oct 28, 2008 1:21 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don't like the orange bill

it makes it harder to color-coordinate what I wear

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by exitfare on Oct 28, 2008 12:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ask yourself this

Do you wear it as a fan or do you wear it because it’s a fashion accessory?

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by duck on Oct 28, 2008 5:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

as a fan

But still, I’m with this in some ways. I have like five orange shirts because of my O’s cap with the orange bill. Pain in my ass. Who wants to wear orange that often?

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by SC on Oct 28, 2008 8:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Agree with the "B".

In my perfect world, the home hats would have the “B” and the away hats would have the bird.
Thusly, you would always have mention of both the city & the nickname on each uni.
Home “B” hat with “Orioles” jersey – maybe a bird sleeve patch.
Away bird hat with “Baltimore” jersey.

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by OEutaw on Oct 28, 2008 9:32 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Good plan

I would love a B hat. Maybe an updated version of the old B hat they had for just a few years back in the 60s.

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by Stacey on Oct 28, 2008 11:55 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Chanumas...

…speaks the truth.

by Jonny Pops on Oct 29, 2008 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Pretty sure the regional Orioles thing

was Eli Jacobs’ doing, not PA’s.

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by CStoneNo37 on Oct 27, 2008 11:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Partly.

But Angelos is the one who had all mentions of the word “Baltimore” removed from all official merchandise & everywhere inside the stadium save for the Baltimore Sun clock. He even had the sales people answer the phones as “…the Orioles, how can I help you?” This was a specific directive to NOT say “…Baltimore Orioles, how can I help you?”

No surprise to anyone here, but he’s a big douche.

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by OEutaw on Oct 28, 2008 9:30 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I gotta buy one

Almost the second I move away from here which I might be doing near the start of spring. If I can get this associates degree together.

It’s gonna be cool, when I’m living in some other American League city, people will actually know which city I’m representing. Who woulda thought?

I don’t know about the cartoon bird. I think the only reason it’s so cool now is because it’s contrasted with the current logo. The current logo isn’t bad.

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by the fix is in on Oct 28, 2008 7:17 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Bravo. Birds.

And the cartoon bird with the orange bill ROCKS!!!

Kevbo: [to George Sherrill] George, you look a lot like Vin Diesel...

Flatbill: Let's get somethin' straight... Vin Diesel looks like me.

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by dayzd toe on Oct 28, 2008 9:05 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

My favorite is the Cartoon Bird with the orange bill (I guess they all had that) and the white panels in front. But that’s the one they wore when I was a kid.

I’m a big fan of the “Angry Bird” logo (Stacey’s avatar), too. They were selling a hat with that logo on the team’s website, but it looks like they’re out of it now.

Time's yours, Andy.

by BrianS on Oct 28, 2008 10:26 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

yeah...

another vote for the cartoon bird, and 70s tricolor scheme.

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by j.q. higgins on Oct 28, 2008 10:55 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

What about tri-cornered hats?

…with the 70s, tricolor scheme? That’s a hell of a combination, if you ask me. And you didn’t. But I offer that up free of charge…for now.

by Dr Orpheus on Oct 28, 2008 10:57 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Didn't the Jays wear those a few times last year?

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by oc on Oct 31, 2008 1:55 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

On that point, Messrs Higgins and S,

we must disagree.

The tri-colored hats look like clown hats to me. Simple and distinguished, with mostly blacks and some orange highlights is so much better, in my opinion.

by Chanumas on Oct 28, 2008 11:10 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I will very readily admit that I prefer the Cartoon bird largely on account of nostalgia, and not the actual aesthetics of the hat itself.

And I think it’s very uglyness is part of its appeal. You’ve got to be a real Orioles fan to wear that crap.

Time's yours, Andy.

by BrianS on Oct 28, 2008 11:59 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

If we went back to cartoon bird

I’d like it to be on an all black hat, or black with orange bill. I like the hats with the white background, but they in my mind only go with the older uniforms (like on throwback night).

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by Stacey on Oct 28, 2008 11:57 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Let's compromise.

I kid, I kid. I’ve seen these in the stores at harborplace, but the team actually wore them?

Time's yours, Andy.

by BrianS on Oct 28, 2008 12:01 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I sort of like that cap

But the more I look at that cartoon bird, the less likely I see it making a comeback.

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by Stacey on Oct 28, 2008 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

In the '70s, I believe

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by exitfare on Oct 28, 2008 12:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

looks good...

on a jack-o-lantern.

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by j.q. higgins on Oct 28, 2008 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I have that one

it’s pretty ugly but I wanted as much orange as possible….I"ve been seeing it around a lot more lately.

by Steve. on Oct 29, 2008 6:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

1975 only...

and they had orange uniforms to go with them. They dropped them when someone noticed that Boog Powell looked like a giant jack-o-lantern. I own that hat, it’s one of my favorites. Baseball uniforms have gotten too conservative.

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by rebop on Oct 30, 2008 10:32 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

New Unis

Adam Loewen hopes the new uniforms don’t affect his newly-built home run swing.

by Stet Sports Blog on Oct 28, 2008 12:14 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Did the Jays get new unis, too? :-)

Time's yours, Andy.

by BrianS on Oct 28, 2008 12:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

They should

Their uniforms are probably the worst in all of sport

by PhilR8 on Oct 28, 2008 12:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I like the powder blue alternates

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by Stacey on Oct 28, 2008 1:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

agreed

Yeah the powder blues are nice, but I think we all like the kitschy throwbacks. It’s their regular uniforms I can’t stand. First of all, the “J(ay)” on the cap is awful, and the script on the front of the uniform looks unbalanced to me. I get nauseous just looking at it. And don’t get me started about the numbers on the back of the uniform, which look like they were stolen from the pilot episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

by PhilR8 on Oct 28, 2008 2:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Another argument against teams invoking black where no black is needed.

Christ Almighty. They look like the Gray Jays.
And was “Blue Jays” too long to be bothered with?

Not to mention that the new font was so similar to Tampa Bay’s prior to this year… the Toronto Gray Devil Jays. Atrocious.

Gotta think Canada was just thrilled that their only MLB team removed the Canadian flag from their primary uniforms.

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by OEutaw on Oct 28, 2008 2:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

At one time the jays had some of the best unifoms in baseball

now they have some of the worst. There is nothing wrong with royal blue, you hear me milwaukee Brewers and Buffalo Sabres

by jobe on Oct 28, 2008 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Postcard

I got the postcard, but I have a hard time thinking I can go in the middle of a workday. Are many others here thinking about going down for the event?

by blawk359 on Oct 28, 2008 8:26 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

This will make old people happy

For some reason removing the “Baltimore” really pissed off older Orioles fans at the time. I think they saw it as a precursor to the O’s moving somewhere else.

A similar stir was raised when Jim Palmer called them the “Baltimore-Washington” Orioles on a broadcast in the 1980’s.

by yurizanow on Oct 29, 2008 1:01 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

He said that?

What an asshole.

It’s not like he hadn’t been living in the area for well over a decade by then. It takes about 2 weeks to figure out how Baltimorons feel about DC…particularly when it comes to their sports.

by Jonny Pops on Oct 29, 2008 10:49 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Young

I’m under 30 and I’m very happy about going back to the “Baltimore” road jerseys. Now I just wish we’d get rid of the hats with the apostrophe. “O’s” . . . that’s a possessive! What does the “O” possess?

by blawk359 on Oct 30, 2008 9:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

rioles

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by SC on Oct 30, 2008 12:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

What are they teaching kids these days?

Apostrophes are used to denote contractions as well as for possessives. Granted, it looks doofy on a hat, but it’s grammatically correct.

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by rebop on Oct 30, 2008 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You know what

I consider myself an intelligent, well educated person. But I didn’t know you could contract one word. I mean, I know people do it (we write gov’t on stuff at my work all the time for government), but I didn’t realize it was part of the contraction rule. But I just looked it up on Wiki and here is what it says:

In traditional grammar, a contraction is the formation of a new word from one or more individual words. This often is a result of a common sequence of words, or, as in French, to maintain a flowing sound. However, contraction has gained a broader meaning both in linguistics and other areas of language research. Based on the latest definitions, contraction is shortening of a word, syllable, or word group by omission of internal letters. [ISO 4:1984]

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by Stacey on Oct 30, 2008 1:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Back in my day...

we didn’t have Wikipedia to look stuff up on. Teachers made us memorize pointless stuff, and if we didn’t get it right we’d get whacked on the hand with a ruler. Kids today have it easy.

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by rebop on Oct 30, 2008 4:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wikipedia is great

Some teachers hate it, some love it. Personally, I think it’s great, and studies show that it’s about as accurate as the Encyclopedia Britannica, and is always growing.

by PhilR8 on Oct 30, 2008 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bah...

Back in my day we didn’t need Wikipedia.

Here’s how it worked in the good old days: Some guy who looked like he just escaped from a chain gang would stop by the homestead selling a set of encyclopedias. The parents, temporarily terrified at the idea that their own flesh-and-blood might not learn enough to do anything other than sell encyclopedias door-to-door, would agree to purchase a set. The first volume would be free, and they’d get another one in the mail each month as long as they kept paying for them.

By the time the letter “D” arrived in the mail the parents, having seen volumes “A” through “C” sit untouched on the shelf, would have given up on the idea that their child would ever make anything of themselves anyway, and would cancel the subscription. This is why people of my generation know very little about anything that begins with a letter after “D.”

Anyway, that was good enough for us. I don’t see why you kids today think you need more.

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by rebop on Oct 31, 2008 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

More from another blog...

New BP jerseys, Maryland state flag patch on the sleeves of game jerseys, and the bird has been updated.

I also happen to know that a certain team logo is going away…

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by OEutaw on Oct 30, 2008 5:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Nice

I’ll reserve comment on the bird until I see it, but the Maryland State Flag is one of the more awesome and distinctive flags IMO. If done right, that could be a big plus.

by Brotz13 on Oct 31, 2008 9:32 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs