MLB Releases Final Details of Jersey and Helmet Sponsorships

I love it!...

About as much as I love a good colonoscopy. 

The Microsoft Mariners of Seattle and the U.S. Bank Twins of Minnesota will play a 3 game series at T Mobile Park.  The first pitch is brought to you by Arby's "they have the meat."  Lets take a look at the starting lineup brought to you by.....

Theres the 3rd out brought to you by All State, "you're in good hands."  Now lets pause for 3 minutes of uninterrupted advertising.

I guess I'd rather they make money off the players' backs (possibly literally) with an ad patch, than mine by jacking up ticket prices or cable package prices or whatever.

29 minutes ago, chaderic20 said:

I guess I'd rather they make money off the players' backs (possibly literally) with an ad patch, than mine by jacking up ticket prices or cable package prices or whatever.

That's awesome that you really believe that these patches will do anything to lower ticket prices or your cable package.  Prime example, if you get a jersey with the Motorola patch on the sleeve, do you get a discount on the jersey?  Do you get a gift card to Motorola?  Nope.  You get the same $200.00 jersey made for $1.50 in China by children but now it comes with a big gaudy tacky eyesore on the sleeve.  These ads will never have any direct effect on reducing the costs put onto the fans.  If this was even an option, why don't we get a coupon or something from Target every time we buy a ticket?

All this does is make Target Field and the Twins look like a softball league playing at a field located next to a trailer park.  It's classless and disgusting to allow these patches.  

With the Twins no longer available on most streaming services and many cutting ties with cable, no one is going to see these jersey's anyway....so it isn't a big thing to me.

Otherwise, count me among the people who like baseball the way it was played the first 100+ years of its existence.

Advertising on uniforms is unwanted trash, and the money it raises won't go to players, nor will the money translate to savings for the fans. I can put up with it though.

1 hour ago, KnoblauchWasFramed said:

That's awesome that you really believe that these patches will do anything to lower ticket prices or your cable package.  Prime example, if you get a jersey with the Motorola patch on the sleeve, do you get a discount on the jersey?  Do you get a gift card to Motorola?  Nope.  You get the same $200.00 jersey made for $1.50 in China by children but now it comes with a big gaudy tacky eyesore on the sleeve.  These ads will never have any direct effect on reducing the costs put onto the fans.  If this was even an option, why don't we get a coupon or something from Target every time we buy a ticket?

All this does is make Target Field and the Twins look like a softball league playing at a field located next to a trailer park.  It's classless and disgusting to allow these patches.  

That's awesome that you really believe I said anything about it lowering ticket/cable prices (or getting coupons??). All I said was if the owners are going to get more money, I'd rather they get it from ad patches than from raising prices on anything I might pay for, with tickets and cable being two examples of things they could raise prices on. And I'll pre-emptively add, don't read here what I'm not saying, because I am not saying this guarantees those prices will never go up.

TLDR; The ad patches don't bother me.

24 minutes ago, Melissa Berman said:

I guess we'll probably get used to it.. but why do the logos have to be so massive?!

At least it's not quite as bad as what Minnesota United has to wear.

So what happens if a player has an issue with the advertising company?  I know I wouldn’t want to represent certain companies with a patch on my uniform.  I mean your uniform is more personal to a player then a bill board.  I wouldn’t want a patch from a company like Disney or any other activist company as I think that can be a distraction.

1 hour ago, Brandon said:

So what happens if a player has an issue with the advertising company?  I know I wouldn’t want to represent certain companies with a patch on my uniform.  I mean your uniform is more personal to a player then a bill board.  I wouldn’t want a patch from a company like Disney or any other activist company as I think that can be a distraction.

There's a whole episode of Ted Lasso devoted to this.

Interesting point about tradition and the nature of the buttons on the front of the shirt.  If you look back on the 70s and early 80s, the uniforms absolutely lost a lot of tradition.  Most teams wore pullovers, looked awful.  The White Sox tried out shorts at one point.  There was a real snapback to tradition in the mid-to-late 80s.  So if you don't care for the patches, there is hope.

If I'm going to buy a MLB jersey with a patch, they better be paying ME to wear it.

As for the look, fortunately for me I'm pretty much immune to advertising. Save big money...

6 hours ago, Bradfoot said:

The Microsoft Mariners of Seattle and the U.S. Bank Twins of Minnesota will play a 3 game series at T Mobile Park.  The first pitch is brought to you by Arby's "they have the meat."  Lets take a look at the starting lineup brought to you by.....

Theres the 3rd out brought to you by All State, "you're in good hands."  Now lets pause for 3 minutes of uninterrupted advertising.

That's a great point about the 3 minutes of uninterrupted ads.

Soccer players (EPL, La Liga, etc) have worn ads for a long time, but they don't have any stoppages of play. No commercials at all for 90 minutes of non-stop action.

In theory, baseball shouldn't need this. But then again, it's a free money cash grab so it's impossible to expect them to turn it down.

2 hours ago, bighat said:

That's a great point about the 3 minutes of uninterrupted ads.

Soccer players (EPL, La Liga, etc) have worn ads for a long time, but they don't have any stoppages of play. No commercials at all for 90 minutes of non-stop action.

In theory, baseball shouldn't need this. But then again, it's a free money cash grab so it's impossible to expect them to turn it down.

MLB has been reducing the time between innings as part of the pace of play issue, so maybe there?  Great point about the nature of soccer stoppages.

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Sad........

The commercial ads stink, but if it has to be done it should at least be entertaining:

Buxton could be sponsored by BluCross/BlueShield 

Sano ‘s sponsor would be Lucky Strikes.