Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Stretching the Term "Throwback"

This past Saturday, the Mariners and Angels hooked up for one of their many divisional games that will happen through out the year. It was also decided that both teams would brand themselves in throwbacks from the famous 1995 season. This was the season the Angels choked away a 13 game lead  and lost to the Mariners in a tiebreaker game, pitched by Randy Johnson. This is also the season the Mariners then shocked the Yankees with the famous slide to score the winning run by Ken Griffey Jr in game 5 before bowing out to the Indians in the ALCS. The Angels wore the old California Angels uniforms, as they were known then complete with the interlocking "CA" logo. Really this wasn't a bad look for them. I like their current duds and logo but the Angels and the Texas Rangers seem too similar (seriously, am I the only one to pick up on this?). Someone is copying someone here. The Mariners wore "throwbacks" as well. However, the only thing throwback about them is that the jerseys were teal. The Mariners only wore the teal for one season. This makes me ask the question, are they really throwbacks if the still use the same logos and color set? Isn't this just more of an alternate? I think the M's were stretching the term throwback. Now if they wore these old dandies, then yes I would consider that a throwback uni. But the teals jerseys, not so much. You can't throwback on one color. A complete makeover is necessary. Let's make that a rule from now on.

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