[Passan] MLB to modify uniforms after player complaints, per memo
April 28, 2024
[Passan] MLB to modify uniforms after player complaints, per memo
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> “This has been entirely a Nike issue,” the memo to players said. “At its core, what has happened here is that Nike was innovating something that didn’t need to be innovated.”
> “We cautioned Nike against various changes when they previewed them in 2022, particularly regarding pants,” the union memo said. “MLB had been, and has been, aware of our concerns as well. Unfortunately, until recently Nike’s position has essentially boiled down to — ‘nothing to see here, Players will need to adjust.’ “
>The changes, which will happen at the latest by the beginning of the 2025 season, will also include fixes to the pants, widely panned this spring for being see-through.
Hahahahahahahahahaha
“Nike was innovating something that didn’t need to be innovated.”
No shit
MLB just threw Nike under a triple decker bus lol
Fully absolving Fanatics. Well hot damn.
Nike what is you doing xD
Weren’t they trying to gaslight everyone about the jerseys not being different? This is hilarious
**THE BUS**
Nike
THEY ADMITTED THE PANTS WERE MORE SEE THROUGH. They really gaslighted us huh.
I thought MLB said they were told no changes were made
“Nike was innovating something that didn’t need to be innovated.”
Ya sounds like every company doing something “for change just for the sake of change”
Stop messing with shit
Good. I hate Nike.
> “We cautioned Nike against various changes when they previewed them in 2022, particularly regarding pants,” the union memo said. “MLB had been, and has been, aware of our concerns as well. Unfortunately, until recently Nike’s position has essentially boiled down to — ‘nothing to see here, Players will need to adjust.’ ”
> MLB declined comment. Nike did not offer immediate comment when reached by ESPN. Fanatics did not respond to a request for comment. The MLBPA declined comment.
Lmao.
“Remember when Nike fielded see through pants that one season?”
We won!
This is it, *this* is my World Series
bullying works
Bullying works
If that’s true and quality actually goes up, I’ll resume buying jerseys
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA POINT AND LAUGH AT BIG COMPANY BLUNDER
Bullying works!
>**The most prominent modifications include a return to larger lettering on the back of jerseys**, remedying mismatched grey tops and bottoms, and addressing the new Nike jersey’s propensity to collect sweat, according to the memo distributed to players by the MLB Players Association on Sunday.
Thank fuck. I honestly found that worse than the see-through material. What’s the point of having names on the back if they’re too small to read?
Finally
Take notes NHL. Going happing to you too
Didn’t expect this to happen but I’m pleasantly surprised.
The smaller nameplates were hideous.
Still not absolving Fanatics for anything because their products are still shit on the website.
Interested to see what Nike has to say, if anything. The argument made against fanatics made a lot of sense if I’m remembering right
Can we just go back to the Majestic jerseys? Those were the best.
Wow. Only a month too late.
>The changes, which will happen at the latest by the beginning of the 2025 season
FTFY The changes, which will happen ~~at the latest~~ by the beginning of the 2025 season
At the earliest, I’m sure
Pathetic attempt at shifting all the blame on Nike. All the parties involved are responsible. Thankfully the fans and players still care about the sport or they’d be getting away with this.
OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER
#GIVE US MAJESTIC OR GIVE US DEATH
I hope they go back to piping on the sleeves instead of cuffs as well
Hoping these fixes include more than just making the letters bigger. They need to fix the awful kerning on some teams, move the batterman back where it belongs, and expand the placket.
Dumping it all on Nike is funny because I’m quite sure Nike didn’t specify that every single unit ship with crooked stitching and puckering
They will just sell the leftovers to the fans
Will we get a return of stitching and embroidery? Or will it still be iron on bullshit
> The union also absolved Fanatics, the manufacturer of the uniform that has received the majority of public scorn for the uniform mess, saying the company “recognizes the vital importance of soliciting Player feedback, obtaining Player buy-in and not being afraid to have difficult conversations about jerseys or trading cards. Our hope is that, moving forward, Nike will take a similar approach.”
This is one of those situations where I don’t care if fanatics has been absolved of blame.
They’re a terrible, monopolistic company that I cannot wait to see fail. Their fan merchandise and customer service has been shit for as long as I can remember. I have never had a good experience with them.
Okay so changes won’t be made until 2025… are we going to let teams wear last years uni’s or is that still not allowed.
Player uniforms, fan uniforms or both?
We did it I guess
If only MLB were as serious about uniforms as mediocre umpires 😒.
Thank god. These things are terrible.
>The changes, which will happen at the latest by the beginning of the 2025 season
But we might be stuck looking at them the rest of this season…
The fact that it took them THIS long to admit the problem is almost as embarrassing as the shitty uniforms themselves. Good riddance.
They can point fingers at Nike but MLB itself and Fanatics took a huge hit in reputation from this whole fiasco, they denied anything was wrong until they had to admit it
The most annoying thing is , if you ever hear Michael Rubin talk about Fanatics … it sounds like a good idea. I think it was Linsanity and Adidas not able to pump out his jerseys quick enough to capitalize on the hype that created this. Fanatics woulda had 250,000 Lin jerseys terribly made after his breakout game.
You all know this is only happening because they probably aren’t selling well
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> “This has been entirely a Nike issue,” the memo to players said. “At its core, what has happened here is that Nike was innovating something that didn’t need to be innovated.”
> “We cautioned Nike against various changes when they previewed them in 2022, particularly regarding pants,” the union memo said. “MLB had been, and has been, aware of our concerns as well. Unfortunately, until recently Nike’s position has essentially boiled down to — ‘nothing to see here, Players will need to adjust.’ “
>The changes, which will happen at the latest by the beginning of the 2025 season, will also include fixes to the pants, widely panned this spring for being see-through.
Hahahahahahahahahaha
“Nike was innovating something that didn’t need to be innovated.”
No shit
MLB just threw Nike under a triple decker bus lol
Fully absolving Fanatics. Well hot damn.
Nike what is you doing xD
Weren’t they trying to gaslight everyone about the jerseys not being different? This is hilarious
**THE BUS**
Nike
THEY ADMITTED THE PANTS WERE MORE SEE THROUGH. They really gaslighted us huh.
EDIT: [ThE pAnTs ArE tHe SaMe](https://imgur.com/a/nehsdIv)
I thought MLB said they were told no changes were made
“Nike was innovating something that didn’t need to be innovated.”
Ya sounds like every company doing something “for change just for the sake of change”
Stop messing with shit
Good. I hate Nike.
> “We cautioned Nike against various changes when they previewed them in 2022, particularly regarding pants,” the union memo said. “MLB had been, and has been, aware of our concerns as well. Unfortunately, until recently Nike’s position has essentially boiled down to — ‘nothing to see here, Players will need to adjust.’ ”
[uh-huh](https://youtu.be/TkgxXL_Gu40?si=SfUGffodfSdmH0J8)
> MLB declined comment. Nike did not offer immediate comment when reached by ESPN. Fanatics did not respond to a request for comment. The MLBPA declined comment.
Lmao.
“Remember when Nike fielded see through pants that one season?”
We won!
This is it, *this* is my World Series
bullying works
Bullying works
If that’s true and quality actually goes up, I’ll resume buying jerseys
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA POINT AND LAUGH AT BIG COMPANY BLUNDER
Bullying works!
>**The most prominent modifications include a return to larger lettering on the back of jerseys**, remedying mismatched grey tops and bottoms, and addressing the new Nike jersey’s propensity to collect sweat, according to the memo distributed to players by the MLB Players Association on Sunday.
Thank fuck. I honestly found that worse than the see-through material. What’s the point of having names on the back if they’re too small to read?
Finally
Take notes NHL. Going happing to you too
Didn’t expect this to happen but I’m pleasantly surprised.
The smaller nameplates were hideous.
Still not absolving Fanatics for anything because their products are still shit on the website.
Interested to see what Nike has to say, if anything. The argument made against fanatics made a lot of sense if I’m remembering right
Can we just go back to the Majestic jerseys? Those were the best.
Wow. Only a month too late.
>The changes, which will happen at the latest by the beginning of the 2025 season
FTFY The changes, which will happen ~~at the latest~~ by the beginning of the 2025 season
At the earliest, I’m sure
Pathetic attempt at shifting all the blame on Nike. All the parties involved are responsible. Thankfully the fans and players still care about the sport or they’d be getting away with this.
OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER
#GIVE US MAJESTIC OR GIVE US DEATH
I hope they go back to piping on the sleeves instead of cuffs as well
Hoping these fixes include more than just making the letters bigger. They need to fix the awful kerning on some teams, move the batterman back where it belongs, and expand the placket.
Dumping it all on Nike is funny because I’m quite sure Nike didn’t specify that every single unit ship with crooked stitching and puckering
They will just sell the leftovers to the fans
Will we get a return of stitching and embroidery? Or will it still be iron on bullshit
> The union also absolved Fanatics, the manufacturer of the uniform that has received the majority of public scorn for the uniform mess, saying the company “recognizes the vital importance of soliciting Player feedback, obtaining Player buy-in and not being afraid to have difficult conversations about jerseys or trading cards. Our hope is that, moving forward, Nike will take a similar approach.”
This is one of those situations where I don’t care if fanatics has been absolved of blame.
They’re a terrible, monopolistic company that I cannot wait to see fail. Their fan merchandise and customer service has been shit for as long as I can remember. I have never had a good experience with them.
Okay so changes won’t be made until 2025… are we going to let teams wear last years uni’s or is that still not allowed.
Player uniforms, fan uniforms or both?
We did it I guess
If only MLB were as serious about uniforms as mediocre umpires 😒.
Thank god. These things are terrible.
>The changes, which will happen at the latest by the beginning of the 2025 season
But we might be stuck looking at them the rest of this season…
The fact that it took them THIS long to admit the problem is almost as embarrassing as the shitty uniforms themselves. Good riddance.
They can point fingers at Nike but MLB itself and Fanatics took a huge hit in reputation from this whole fiasco, they denied anything was wrong until they had to admit it
The most annoying thing is , if you ever hear Michael Rubin talk about Fanatics … it sounds like a good idea. I think it was Linsanity and Adidas not able to pump out his jerseys quick enough to capitalize on the hype that created this. Fanatics woulda had 250,000 Lin jerseys terribly made after his breakout game.
You all know this is only happening because they probably aren’t selling well
