"16 Worst Dressed Teams"

[Taras Bulba]

It's a slow news day (get to work, Tim).  Si.com lists its 16 worst dressed professional teams, dominated by hockey and football.  Three baseball uniforms get mentioned: Tampa Bay, the Mets, and your Atlanta Braves (red unis).

No mention of Drayton's favorites, the Astros pinstripes.

[Golden Sombrero]

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It's a slow news day (get to work, Tim).  Si.com lists its 16 worst dressed professional teams, dominated by hockey and football.  Three baseball uniforms get mentioned: Tampa Bay, the Mets, and your Atlanta Braves (red unis).

No mention of Drayton's favorites, the Astros pinstripes.

I saw that.  Honestly I don't think most of the unis are that bad.  But then I'm not known for a killer fashion sense.

[strosrays]

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It's a slow news day (get to work, Tim).  Si.com lists its 16 worst dressed professional teams, dominated by hockey and football.  Three baseball uniforms get mentioned: Tampa Bay, the Mets, and your Atlanta Braves (red unis).

No mention of Drayton's favorites, the Astros pinstripes.

I believe the Rays original color scheme was supposed to approximate the rainbow sheen on a fish.  It might be instructive to remember fish don't generally acquire this coloration until they are (very) dead.

I never could figure out what the Diamondbacks' uniforms were supposed to represent.  Aside from the fact purple and teal together are I believe against the law (except possibly in N. California), they don't look like any snake I've ever seen.  Too bad, they could've had some really distinctive togs, maybe a diamond-check pattern all over, accented with a snakeskin hat, belt and shoes. . .

BTW, the top 10 or 50 places on the list should be reserved for any football team, college or pro, that wears dark pants with dark jerseys.  Goddammit, that just brings out the Isaac Mizrahi in me.

[VirtualBob]

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BTW, the top 10 or 50 places on the list should be reserved for any football team, college or pro, that wears dark pants with dark jerseys.  Goddammit, that just brings out the Isaac Mizrahi in me.

I think the worst all-time has got to be a dead heat between the original early 60's Denver Broncos and the Charley-Finley era Oakland (Circus) Athletics.  (Does anyone else remember the elephant balanced on the ball?)

[HudsonHawk]

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I think the worst all-time has got to be a dead heat between the original early 60's Denver Broncos and the Charley-Finley era Oakland (Circus) Athletics.  (Does anyone else remember the elephant balanced on the ball?)

You mean the elephant on the ball that's still on their jerseys to this day?

[VirtualBob]

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I think the worst all-time has got to be a dead heat between the original early 60's Denver Broncos and the Charley-Finley era Oakland (Circus) Athletics.  (Does anyone else remember the elephant balanced on the ball?)

You mean the elephant on the ball that's still on their jerseys to this day?

Oops.  I don't get out much I guess.  Did they bring it back, or am I even more clueless than I realized.  (And yes, I recognize that that was not actually a disjoint proposition.)  I plead too much research on the beer thread.

[HudsonHawk]

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Oops.  I don't get out much I guess.  Did they bring it back, or am I even more clueless than I realized.  (And yes, I recognize that that was not actually a disjoint proposition.)  I plead too much research on the beer thread.

The White Elephant was the symbol/mascot of the A's since Day 1 in 1901.  The irony of your original statement was that it was featured prominantly up *until* the Charley Finley era.  Finley got rid of the elephant.  The elephant was brought back sometime in the early 80's, I believe.

[VirtualBob]

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Oops.  I don't get out much I guess.  Did they bring it back, or am I even more clueless than I realized.  (And yes, I recognize that that was not actually a disjoint proposition.)  I plead too much research on the beer thread.

The White Elephant was the symbol/mascot of the A's since Day 1 in 1901.  The irony of your original statement was that it was featured prominantly up *until* the Charley Finley era.  Finley got rid of the elephant.  The elephant was brought back sometime in the early 80's, I believe.

Right ... It was when they got rid of the circus elephant and dressed the players like curcus clowns that they got my vote for "worst dressed".  Somehow I missed that they brought the elephant back.