Re: OS Uni Snob Thread
Possible new uniform number code. What are your views on the MLB implementing this? It's not official yet, but it was a small wrinkle in the new CBA that has yet to be voted on.
From ESPN.com and uni-watch.com
"Any big leaguer who wants to change uniform numbers without switching teams better give eight months’ notice unless he’s willing to buy warehouses full of his overstocked jerseys. …
Players must tell the commissioner’s office by July 31 of the preceding year if they want a new jersey. That is, unless ‘the player (or someone on his behalf) purchases the existing finished goods inventory of apparel containing the player’s jersey number.’ As in, every replica jersey, jacket, T-shirt, mug and anything else with a number that’s anywhere in stock."
Personally, I don't like it, but I also don't like a lot of changes in baseball either. So what if the league loses money over Jon Jay changing his number from #15 to #19 so Furcal can wear #15. How many times to big name players actually change numbers, unless they are traded, in which case those old shirseys are useless anyway?
Possible new uniform number code. What are your views on the MLB implementing this? It's not official yet, but it was a small wrinkle in the new CBA that has yet to be voted on.
From ESPN.com and uni-watch.com
"Any big leaguer who wants to change uniform numbers without switching teams better give eight months’ notice unless he’s willing to buy warehouses full of his overstocked jerseys. …
Players must tell the commissioner’s office by July 31 of the preceding year if they want a new jersey. That is, unless ‘the player (or someone on his behalf) purchases the existing finished goods inventory of apparel containing the player’s jersey number.’ As in, every replica jersey, jacket, T-shirt, mug and anything else with a number that’s anywhere in stock."
Personally, I don't like it, but I also don't like a lot of changes in baseball either. So what if the league loses money over Jon Jay changing his number from #15 to #19 so Furcal can wear #15. How many times to big name players actually change numbers, unless they are traded, in which case those old shirseys are useless anyway?
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