Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?

[BUWebguy]

Looks like the Dbacks are borrowing from the Astros' Crayon box.

 

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The Diamondbacks are expected to unveil new colors and uniforms at the end of this season, replacing the organization's signature purple with a brick red and tan color scheme that will give the team a makeover heading into its 10th season in existence.

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[JimR]

the "signature purple" is awful.

[Holly]

Their color scheme reminded me of a bag of jellybeans, from the day it debuted.

[Fredia]

wonder who got paid how much to come up with that color combination?

[David in Jackson]

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the "signature purple" is awful.

I missed the link to the picture?

[Bill McLuggage]

Speaking of uniform changes, I've read reports that one team will be wearing powder blue road unis soon.  I just hope it isn't the Co-ards...we play them too much to have to deal with that shit.

[Taras Bulba]

Didn't Andy Zipp report that Houston is looking at returning to blue and orange?

[Holly]

Hah, let the Braves return to their pre-dynastic color scheme.

[Gizzmonic]

I hope so...the current uniforms with navy and orange coloring would be awesome.  And I hope they ditch the pinstripes too, that belongs to the Yankees.

Maybe the D'Backs hideous old uniforms will become popular in the future, the way the Astros rainbow guts are now...

[HurricaneDavid]

There is wayyyyyyyyyy too much red in baseball.  At least the DBacks came up with something unique... I like their current style, for one.  Ditching a unique style to copy another team's colors is a horrible idea IMHO.

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

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I hope so...the current uniforms with navy and orange coloring would be awesome.  And I hope they ditch the pinstripes too, that belongs to the Yankees.

Maybe the D'Backs hideous old uniforms will become popular in the future, the way the Astros rainbow guts are now...

Their track record tells us the Astros are due for another uni change.

[Greg M]

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There is wayyyyyyyyyy too much red in baseball.  At least the DBacks came up with something unique... I like their current style, for one.  Ditching a unique style to copy another team's colors is a horrible idea IMHO.

Are you kidding me?  Those are the ugliest uniforms in all of sports.  Maroon little league shirts with iron-on numbers would be better than their purple pinstripe multi-layered painsyass shirts.

[BizidyDizidy]

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There is wayyyyyyyyyy too much red in baseball.  At least the DBacks came up with something unique... I like their current style, for one.  Ditching a unique style to copy another team's colors is a horrible idea IMHO.

Are you kidding me?  Those are the ugliest uniforms in all of sports.  Maroon little league shirts with iron-on numbers would be better than their purple pinstripe multi-layered painsyass shirts.

I beg to differ

[AllyDStros]

Well, personally I could get over the uniforms easily (don't ask me why) if it weren't for their obnoxious GoDucks! commercials.

The worst commercials for any sport team anywhere ever.

Or maybe that's just me, lol!

Ohh, and I'd tend to agree on teams needing to find another color other than any other shade of red. Getting a little old.

[Guinness]

Back in the day (early 80s), the Spring High baseball team unis were the same as the Astros rainbow gut, but instead of the orange and yellow theme it was various shades of green.  The team looked like everyone of them puked on his shirt in the locker room...alas, couldn't find a pic on Google.

[Bench]

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There is wayyyyyyyyyy too much red in baseball.  At least the DBacks came up with something unique... I like their current style, for one.  Ditching a unique style to copy another team's colors is a horrible idea IMHO.

Are you kidding me?  Those are the ugliest uniforms in all of sports.  Maroon little league shirts with iron-on numbers would be better than their purple pinstripe multi-layered painsyass shirts.

I beg to differ

I love the Ducks' uniforms. There's something to be said for quirkiness in college that can't be extended to the pros. The relationship of the uniform with the "intimidating" mascot and the emphasis of green in Eugene (both in natural verdant plushness and cannabinoidal enthusiasm) all work well together.

[BizidyDizidy]

And the fact that they look like they got run over by a truck?

[MusicMan]

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There is wayyyyyyyyyy too much red in baseball.  At least the DBacks came up with something unique... I like their current style, for one.  Ditching a unique style to copy another team's colors is a horrible idea IMHO.

Are you kidding me?  Those are the ugliest uniforms in all of sports.  Maroon little league shirts with iron-on numbers would be better than their purple pinstripe multi-layered painsyass shirts.

I beg to differ

I love the Ducks' uniforms. There's something to be said for quirkiness in college that can't be extended to the pros. The relationship of the uniform with the "intimidating" mascot and the emphasis of green in Eugene (both in natural verdant plushness and cannabinoidal enthusiasm) all work well together.

Are you serious?  Boy George called the Ducks and asked them to tone down the unis a little.

[Bench]

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There is wayyyyyyyyyy too much red in baseball.  At least the DBacks came up with something unique... I like their current style, for one.  Ditching a unique style to copy another team's colors is a horrible idea IMHO.

Are you kidding me?  Those are the ugliest uniforms in all of sports.  Maroon little league shirts with iron-on numbers would be better than their purple pinstripe multi-layered painsyass shirts.

I beg to differ

I love the Ducks' uniforms. There's something to be said for quirkiness in college that can't be extended to the pros. The relationship of the uniform with the "intimidating" mascot and the emphasis of green in Eugene (both in natural verdant plushness and cannabinoidal enthusiasm) all work well together.

Are you serious?  Boy George called the Ducks and asked them to tone down the unis a little.

I like a little over-the-top in college. I went and visited Oregon several years ago when I was considering law schools. I wandered into the bookstore and immediately become disoreinted from all the yellow, green, and Prefontaine paraphenalia.

It's like the Rainbowgut uniforms. If you're going to go for it, why hold back?

[strosrays]

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I love the Ducks' uniforms. There's something to be said for quirkiness in college that can't be extended to the pros. The relationship of the uniform with the "intimidating" mascot and the emphasis of green in Eugene (both in natural verdant plushness and cannabinoidal enthusiasm) all work well together.

FWIW, I believe that green and verdant part of Oregon is basically the Willamette Valley.  More than half the state is essentially a desert.

There should be a law that every sports team must have at least one primary color in their scheme, just to keep them from wandering too far afield.  And they should probably be regulated to two colors overall, three maybe, with special permission.  And imitating nature is never a good idea.  Those horrific uniforms the Bengals had several years back come to mind.  Also, the many-colored early Devil Rays unis, which were trying to imitate that spectrum-like sheen one sees on the side of a fish, I think.  Looks really cool in nature; on Carl Crawford, not so much.

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FWIW, I believe that green and verdant part of Oregon is basically the Willamette Valley.  More than half the state is essentially a desert.

 



I had no idea. I spent one weekend in Oregon, drove from Portland down to Eugene, over to the Pacific and back. It was all very pretty plush forest. I guess I couldn't see the desert for sake of the trees, or something.

[Holly]

Yeah, I'm not sure I buy that desert thing, either. Bend is sorta mid-state, and surrounded by trees and mountains. I've driven up I-5 on the western side, and down some other US Highway on the east side of the state, and saw nothing but forest.

[Ty in Tampa]

Maybe not half but...

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[Holly]

Yeah, I tried looking at their satellite images before posting just to see... but for some reason I'm getting messages about not having any satellite imagery, right now.

[Bench]

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Maybe not half but...

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Wow, that's pretty interesting. Is that desert or mountains or both? Isn't Mt. Hood in Oregon?

The greeness of the Willamette Valley is certainly highlighted in that picture.

[NeilT]

The eastern half, around Bend and up the Deschutes, looks like Big Bend.  Mt. Hood is in the Eastern half, as I recall.  I skied there once in June, but it was very icy.  And windy.  And cold.  They used the timberline lodge there as the outside of the hotel for the Shining, so it was a bit freaky staying there.

I have it in my head that it's a west slope, east slope thing caused by the Cascades, but I may be making that up.  The Cascades may be in Kansas, for what I can remember.


 Edit: I had confused my west and east.  I have the same problem trying to figure out south and north when it comes to the cold part of Argentina.  And it should be noted that the Timberline was freaky because I kept thinking I neede a Carl Yastremski autographed baseball bat, and all I had taken was a glove.

[AllyDStros]

As someone who's lived in Oregon, driven through it and flown through it, a great percentage of it (essentially everything to the South of the Willamette Valley and to the east of the Cascades (at least from *MY* memory) is desert.

Having said that, however, the part that isn't (the coast, the Willamette Valley) is very verdant and beautiful. Although, after having lived in the flatter-than-flat Houston much of my life, I was more impressed with all the mountains and hills around the Portland area.

Just.Gorgeous.

And hell, the desert is very pretty too. If I had a scanner I'd share some of my pictures from the drive through the state...

Ohhh, and both Mt. St. Helens (85 miles) and Mt. Hood (75 miles) are within easy driving distance of the Portland Metro area.

[HudsonHawk]

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Back in the day (early 80s), the Spring High baseball team unis were the same as the Astros rainbow gut, but instead of the orange and yellow theme it was various shades of green.  The team looked like everyone of them puked on his shirt in the locker room...alas, couldn't find a pic on Google.

At lot of teams had those type of rainbow but uniforms.  Check out the unis from the Univ. of North Carolina from back in the mid-80's.  Baby blue rainbow guts.  U-G-L-Y!

[AllyDStros]

I-84 will take you through a ton of stuff in northern Oregon, not the least of which is a) areas of desert, b) the Cascades, c) the Columbia River Gorge.

I don't know how familiar you are with Dead Man's Pass from the Oregon Trail, either, but that's also on I-84.

[NeilT]

Some of the desert, too, is alpine, like New Mexico, or the bowl in Big Bend.  So driving in the higher elevations on the western slope you still may be driving through pretty arid areas with a lot of trees.