new rays uniforms announced today

[patrickgpe]

I know there was a thread on this earlier and there seems to be some hints on the rays website of a logo, and it appears that the logo will be some version of a sun. Also bringing in Kevin Costner and his band to play seems to be a questionable decision to me.Ill be interested to see how similar they are to the ones that were leaked a while ago.

 

edit: the are officially the rays. which i don't get. last year the jays this year the rays.

[hawing]

Well, their website is not responding when I try to display it. The tension mounts!

[Fatter than Joey]

Kevin Costner and his band

 

He has a band?

 

Was sucking in movies and TV not enough?

[patrickgpe]

i can get on it hawing

 

very bland

 

http://shop.mlb.com/category/index.jsp?categoryId=2929293&source=TBHP_160x600_newgear

[trwi7]

Ugly. The dark and light blues don't compliment eachother at all.

[And That]

I've written accounting theory papers more exciting than those things. Viva la boring.

[sbrylski]

2 minutes I could have had something designed like that. I wonder how much they paid the designers....

[patrickgpe]

yeah i like a classic look, but come on....What they had last season was much better.

[Crew2323]

Count me in as underwhelmed. I didn't mind their look last year. I thought the logo with the Ray was pretty cool actually. Maybe they're attempting to draw fans from a new demographic: retired snow birds.

[Invader3K]

It looks too similar to the Marlins logo, but without the cool colors.

 

I really don't get what was wrong with the current uniforms. I thought they were kind of neat, actually.

[pogokat]

looks like a minor league logo...

 

very uninspired..

[joshjs]

I like the color palette. Mixing "safe" navy blue (as found in the Brewers' and Padres' revamped looks) with the lighter blue and slightly earth-toned yellow is neither obnoxious (like the former D-Backs' palette) nor boring (like our colors). I think the lighter colors could be a bit more prominent in the unis and logo, though. And I hate their typeface - it makes their logo look like that of a minor league team, or a team from a Disney Channel movie.

 

Here's hoping the fans demand "retro Fridays" down there. That'd be pretty funny. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[SeriesFinale]

I know we all dumped on them the last time we had this thread but they've grown on me since then and they look a lot better on Carl Crawford (if he ever actually wears it, who knows?) and Scott Kazmir than they do that standard-issue drawing model (I believe someone here named him "Geoff")

 

I'll take a subtle effort like this over their original gimmicky neon unis anyday

[hawing]

So now it's happy sunny Rays instead of evil menacing Devil Rays?

[colbyjack]

I don't mind the color combo, using a navy & powder blue along with a mustard gold-like color, but the overall look is about as vanilla as you can get. Plus, the inclusion of the sunburst is a pretty half-butt effort to try and make Rays a double meaning, since they didn't get rid of the actual Devil Ray graphic from their overall look.

 

Regarding the color combos though, I liked the fact that they were the one team in baseball that used green as one of their main colors. Now they look like the Padres, although they Padres logo at least has some character to it.

 

It's definitely better than the look they had though, but I said the same thing about the D-Backs change a year ago and I still think their new look is pretty hard to look at. It makes me realize how much I like the Brewers current look all things considered (meaning, it could be worse).

 

EDIT: I just remembered I shared some ideas of mine for the Devil Rays over a year and a half ago. I'll share that proposed jersey configuration again, not saying its better, but I can comfortably say my idea definitely has more character:

 

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y155/colbyjack/devilrays-uniforms.jpg

[Cracked Bat Collector]

Talk about boring, wow.

[joshjs]

I like the black and green, colby. And the devilish characters. Your "TB" is miles better than theirs.

[brains and braun]

I think they should scrap the name and all of it. Unless of course they put Ray Charles' likeness on the hat. Rays are lame. Period.

[Invader3K]

Just contract the team already and call it a day.

[Tbadder]

What an absurd little joke. Dumping the "Devil." I think they should call themselves the "Morality Rays." And the color scheme--it's so "my little pony" cute. A great move by a solid organization.

[patrickgpe]

anyone see the list of name changes they considered

"Rays" was the owner's first choice, but the organization considered others like Cannons, Stars, Wave and Dukes before settling on Rays and developing a logo featuring a bright yellow sunburst.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3101213

 

what a joke

[Fatter than Joey]

The evening was capped by a concert featuring the actor Kevin Costner and his band, Modern West.

 

Wow, The fans were treated to Don Zimmer modeling and Kevin Costner playing music.

 

That just does not strike me as awesome.

[davego]

I kind of like their new threads.

[jlau20]

I think they're very minor league-ish too. I don't necessarily mind the blue and white colors, but they could have worked on them a bit longer to get something a bit more attention grabbing. Count me as one of the ones who actually liked the green colors they had.

[SeriesFinale]

A lot of vitriol on the tail end of that last page