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Check out all the little scribblings on Ramon Ramirez’s cap last night. They’re a little smudged, but they’re definitely handwritten inscriptions arranged in a symmetrical pattern, not just random bits of resin or something like that. After reader Tom Hedrick tipped me off to this phenomenon, I went back and checked Ramirez’s previous . . . → Read More: Red Sox, Blue Caps, White Annotations New ESPN column today — link coming soon. tomorrow. Meanwhile: Several uni-related discussions during yesterday’s ballgames. Let’s start in Milwaukee, where the combination of a blowout game and one of those stupid text-vote promotions gave Brewers broadcasters Brian Anderson and Bill Schroeder the opportunity to have the following uni dialogue: Brian Anderson: Our . . . → Read More: Hey, Todd Radom, They’re Talking About Your Logo By Phil Hecken, with Pacific Rim Correspondent, Jeremy Brahm I’m once again joined by Uni Watch’s resident expert on all things Asian, Jeremy Brahm. Jeremy enjoys bringing us a look at the uniforms throughout the globe we rarely get to glimpse. Today, he takes an incredibly in-depth look at the uniforms of the Korean . . . → Read More: KBO? Don’t Ya Know By Phil Hecken & John Okray (“Johnny O”) I’m joined today by longtime UW reader John Okray, better known by his nom de post “Johnny O.” I had been wanting to collaborate with Johnny for a long time, and we were supposed to get together last weekend during the U.S. Open, since, aside from . . . → Read More: Getting Inside John Daly’s Pants As Kirsten and I were meandering our way to Baltimore last week, we passed through York, Pennsylvania. A few miles outside of town we spotted the very enticing York Barbell complex, which includes the USA Weightlifting Hall of Fame. This clearly merited further study, so we stopped in for a visit. The dude . . . → Read More: And to Think That They Did It All Without Steroids Two interesting moments during last night’s Yanks/Braves game in Atlanta. One of them came during the top of the 9th, when Mariano Rivera got a rare turn at bat — only the second regular-season plate appearance of his career, and only the fifth overall. So this was a very unusual chance to see . . . → Read More: In Which We Learn That the Yankees Are Actually a Bunch of Penny-Pinchers Who Wear All Sorts of Unauthorized Headgear  155 comments - (Comments are closed)  Caps, Helmets, League Logos, Logo Creep, MLB, Patches, Uni Numbers So guess what: I kinda like them. I mean, I don’t like them the way I like USC’s uni set, or Michigan’s. But it’s sooooo much better than what they’ve worn for the past few years. Like it or not (and I’m in the “not” camp myself), Oregon is its own aesthetic category . . . → Read More: Duck Season Back in the early 1990s, when I was working as a book editor, our company published a book called The Designer’s Guide to Charts and Diagrams, written by a guy named Nigel Holmes, who at the time was the “explanation graphics” editor for Time magazine. (He’s now an independent designer and consultant, with . . . → Read More: Who Doesn’t Love a Good Pie Chart? |
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