new rays uniforms announced today

[patrickgpe]

the reason i like the brewers uniforms is that appear to be both modern and classic. What i mean by that is that they have a classic look, but not so classic they are the 82 retro uniforms. If you look what teams did like the angels in the mid 90's, they went out of control with trying to make modern uniforms. The rays on the other hand decided to have no differentiation from anyone at all.

[homer]

"What an absurd little joke. Dumping the "Devil." I think they should call themselves the "Morality Rays.""

 

Where did you read they dropped 'Devil' because of some satanic connotation?

[pitchleague]

I remember reading a while back that ownership wanted to get rid of "Devil" from the name for a few years now, due to pressure from many senior citizen groups in the Tampa area.

[patrickgpe]

that doesn't make any sense since they are not named after any satanic connotation and instead an animal, i guess id believe it though in the times of pc.

[And That]

Where did you read they dropped 'Devil' because of some satanic connotation?

A number of years ago, I read that a conservative religious group was on the Rays' tail about the "Devil." But what linkage that has, if any, to the organization dropping the "Devil" from the name, I don't know.

 

[homer]

I wonder if ASU gets flack for being the Sun Devils? Don't remember any when I lived out there.

[jlau20]

I wonder if the New Jersey Devils get flack for being the Devils? I still find it funny that Marquette changed it's name from Warriors because of stuff like this, yet the Cleveland Indians are just straight up the Indians. Who knows.

 

Weird how things work, whether the Rays change is due to criticism or not isn't really clear either.

[Fatter than Joey]

I wonder if the New Jersey Devils get flack for being the Devils?

 

Isn't there an actual devil in NJ?

[GenoSeligPrieb]

Supposedly yes, FTJ.

 

Legend has it that in the New Jersey area, there's a beastie, a sprite, a thing...in their midst, like a Yeti or something.

 

http://theshadowlands.net/jd.htm

 

On a similar subject, I'm a DePaul alum, and from what I've heard, there's never been any movement away from the Blue Demons (a Catholic school, too). The story goes that in the 20's or sometime, when upperclassmen would letter in a sport, they'd sport a jacket with a big D on it, for DePaul, of course. And our teams always have worn blue. So, literally, these lettering athletes (women athletes? un-ladylike!), were blue D men. Blue Demons!

 

Anyway, I'd like to pause and mourn the death of another creative color scheme in baseball, which is replaced by either red or, of course, navy blue. *yawn*

 

With this change, the teams without red or blue as their primary colors, is now down to 7.

 

The Orioles, Giants, A's, Pirates, Marlins, Rockies and the White Sox.

 

And out of them, since black IS navy blue to those of us looking for socks in a dark bedroom, only the A's have any chutzpah...and even THEY have incorporated black into their logos in recent years.

 

Baseball is the only sport where it's too often the case where you have to tell the home team from the visitor by the pants. Stupid.

 

By the way, I can only wonder how slimming these uniforms are, if Don Zimmer's modeling them...

[SeriesFinale]

I remember reading a while back that ownership wanted to get rid of "Devil" from the name for a few years now, due to pressure from many senior citizen groups in the Tampa area.

 

I lived there for a long time and there wasn't what I would call serious pressure from hardly anywhere, much less "many senior citizen groups."

 

It was just a clunky, bad name. They should have gone with the Rays to begin with.

[pmg4]

Also, in the year 3000, we know the Robot Devil will be living in New Jersey.

 

http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/43735d1d96f9872159d4af9ae491745fa5201db.jpg

 

 

[Diskono]

The players' comments remind me of when the Arizona Cardinals added teeth and an angry face to their logo, and the team management started talking about how the "meaner" logo will make them more intimidating.

[jlau20]

I missed that link for the ESPN article the first time I read through this. With some of those quotes I thought it was an article from the Onion.

[berniebrewer4life]

Kevin Costner and his band

 

He has a band?

 

Was sucking in movies and TV not enough?

Joey, you just made my day. Thank you!

[RU Rah Rah]

"Death Rays" -- now that would be sinister. Just plain old "Rays" makes me think of a bunch of guys named "Ray."

 

Any ideas for all-time "Ray" team? Ray Grimes, Ray Lankford, Ray Fosse....

[DHonks]

I like the new uniforms. I hated the DRays uniforms when I worked in the AFL. Of course, even those grew on me a bit. But these are an upgrade. I'd say that they no longer have the worst uniforms in the game. The Blue Jays' are pretty awful.

[hawing]

Ray King for the all-Ray team, of course.

[sbrylski]

Tampa Bay Devil Rays Change Name, Uniform, Sport

[logan82]

Well now nobody will be runnign through the streets yelling "we are the devils."