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>the City Connect uniform which is unrecognizable to the extreme for most teams

but it gets even worse in gradations, compare the Milwaukee "Brew Crew" uniform which is kinda cool

https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/private/t_16x9/t_...

to the similar color combination Boston "spray painted stencil" font abomination

https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/private/t_16x9/t_...

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I get that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but why would you describe the font as an abomination? It seems unassuming and easy to read to me.

not gonna debate taste, but i was describing the uniform as an abomination. I think the font is perfect for indicating where in Fenway park the MEN and WOMEN's rooms are, but i'm old skool and I miss the group trough urinals

For one thing they don't space it so that the S isn't overlapping the two sides of the shirt. I hate that no matter what the font.

Those Boston stencil jerseys are the Boston Marathon ones. Red Sox play a day game on the same day as the marathon each April. It’s a whole day of things for the city. The stencil approach mimics the days of spray painting down the finish line.

If they only wore it on Patriots' Day, fine, but they wore it 50 times in the last four years.

True, I'm OK with an alternate, including the City Connect uniform for a few teams, that's basically a throwback uniform. Milwaukee's is kind of like that, at least with the colors. Also Atlanta's, Pittsburgh's, and Seattle's. The rest of them... no.

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