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Uni Watch is closed today while I deal with a family-related matter. I’ll be back tomorrow with a full-sized entry plus a new ESPN column. See you then. — Paul

Snakes on a jersey?

By Phil Hecken

For years now, we’ve expected crappy All Star Game BP jerseys. It comes with the territory. Take the host team’s crappy BP jersey, change up the colors a bit, throw on some type of “city-specific” logo, and add “American” and “National” and “BOOM” — crappy instant “must have” for fans . . . → Read More: Snakes on a jersey?

Are new unis good or bad? Depends on who you ask: '87 Twins

By Phil Hecken, with Rick Pearson

Every once in a while, talk in the comments leads to a main entry — in fact, it was just such a phenomenon that led to an article I wrote last year entitled, Did The Uni Make Them Better?, in which we discussed how fan impressions of . . . → Read More: Are new unis good or bad? Depends on who you ask: ’87 Twins

Watching nine innings / Tossing ten frames / These are my two very favorite games

I love baseball and I love bowling, so I was plenty stoked when reader Bruce Menard found a bunch of photos from a 1963 event called the NBC Major League All-Star Base/Bowl Championship. As you’ll see in a second, the photos offer a rare look at the tasty intersection of these two great . . . → Read More: Watching nine innings / Tossing ten frames / These are my two very favorite games

egamI rorriM

Not a lot to cheer about at last night’s Mets/Pirates game, but at least Phil and I looked … uh, weird. No, I didn’t flip the image — those are the sdrawkcab jerseys that David “Frosty” Frost made for us a few months back (if you’re skeptical, check out the guy in the . . . → Read More: egamI rorriM

Another Jason with a Goalie Mask Fixation

[Editor's Note: Last year Jason Levine — possibly shown at right — prepared a assessment of the Stanley Cup Finals goalie masks, which ran in the middle of this weekend post. He's back today with this year's version, just in time for Game 1 tonight in Vancouver. Enjoy. — PL]

By Jason Levine

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