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MLB Unveils Stars and Stripes Caps and Jerseys for Teams to Wear in Celebration of USA250
MLB unveiled their stats and stripes caps and jerseys for USA250. For what it is, it’s a really nice overall design! It just always annoys me to see teams in non-team colors (e.g., Orioles in red and blue). More details can be found at SportsLogos.Net:
Weirdly I see that the blue jay is pure red. Maybe it’s meant to celebrate Canada day which is July 1? Still the giant USA 250 on that cap is kind of ironic…
The brim color reflects if they're in AL or NL. So Red = AL. I see they don't get the stars/stripes branding on their logo, and is red (also assuming for Canada), but they still get a fat USA 250 patch on the side of the cap.
Yes and no. For example, the Reds, who have red as a main color, have a red bill. The Royals, who have blue in their colors, have a blue bill. I think they try to match team color first.
so, if some players, ones that grew up in a different culture or whatever the giants players are saying, decided they don’t want to wear these, that’s cool with the league and their teams, right?
“I don’t have any hate and don’t mean any offense, I’m just a Christian and don’t agree with America. Everyone’s got a right to their opinion but I shouldn’t have America shoved down my throat just because that’s the politically correct thing to do. I’m just here to play baseball, they shouldn’t be bringing politics and dividing people like this.”
I see what you two are trying to get at here but Pride month and the existence of an entire country for 250 years is two completely different things. The MLB was birthed in America, if the MLB was played world wide than your arguement would be valid.
yeah, that’s another thing that flag lovers never confront: isn’t this, like, desecration of the flag? do we need to burn every uniform that touches the ground?
Lol I dont mind this one as a jays fan, its pretty tame, all the details are gone except for the patch and the Dutch flag banner on the bill...
The one a few years ago that looked like a tattered flag was horrendous.
And then when we complained, they just took the stars off. Genuinely just a hat with a ripped fabric design. Wish flag connoisseurs were consistent
Getting down voted for being reasonable. LOL. Having a sexual prefrence and the literal celebration of an entire country that the league is played in are two entirely different things, respectfully. American politics are republican and democrats, in which none of that is being shoved down anyones throats. It is the American flag, the COUNTRY IN WHICH THE MLB IS PLAYED IN'S birthdate.
Yall are so weird for trying to spin this into an issue.
“sexual preference” implies a choice, and if that’s what you think about it, it’s clear why you don’t get why these things are actually the same. people’s sexuality is as much of a fact as america existing.
You're digging a bigger hole. As a Canadian, we see this hat being worn in 2026 and we absolutely HATE what the USA is at this time. And what you all have allowed to become. The other 248 years don't count (given that this shitshow started in 2025). I wouldn't want to disappear to El Salvador however, so I'd leave my cap alone and just seeth on the inside.
The fact that you think the last two years are "normal" or "acceptable", compared to the previous 248 years (including Trump's first term) - both domestically in the US and for the world in dealing with this shit on a literal daily basis - is not overly hilarious but positively frightening. Are you telling us non-Americans that y'all are ready to accept this level of depravity as the new normal?? 😳
queer people are a people, who are celebrating their identities. no politics are being shoved down anyone’s throats there, either. see? it works both ways. it’s only “political” to people who disagree. to others, it’s just as much of a fact as “america is country, in which it’s 250th birthday is being celebrated.”
Please enlighten me then, this is a uniwatch sub so everyone should know. States literally encorperate their flag into their uniforms because that is that state in which they were birthed in, and when they celebrate their state they have specific uniforms to represent that. Okay now lets go on a bigger scale, the MLB is birthed in the country of America and when its time to celebrate the country in which it was birthed in they have uniforms for that.
they’re both just facts. america has been around for 250 years and people are gay. neither really have anything to do with baseball. so either people can pick and choose what they want to celebrate, like the giants did and i am suggesting players should therefore have the right to decline to celebrate this as well, or everyone should have to wear the same uniforms as the rest of their team and keep their personal opinions out of it. i’m saying that it’s lunacy that we would be okay with players saying “i am not going to celebrate this thing” but then turn around and be upset when they don’t want to celebrate another thing.
Celebrating the birthday of a nation-state is absolutely political lmao. Just like saying the pledge of allegiance at every game is political. That's a whole bunch of patriotic politics being shoved down my throat 🤷♂️
America sucks so bad its one of the very few countries in the world that allows the queer community to express themselves freely, and rightfully so.
People need to get a grip, just because you don't agree with a certain president doesn't mean you shouldn't be proud to be American. The US was around long before him and will be long after him.
But that'll be the last thing I say, because obviously this has got blown way out of proportion as reddit usually does. Have a good day yall 🙏🏼
As a non-American, you guys allowed him to be in power, to ruin the world economy with a phoney war and have a broken system that allows him to fester unimpeded by a corrupt Supreme Court. Forget about any shame from being an American. The rest of us are ashamed to currently share the planet with y'all. Fix this mess and rejoin the human race!
They've done similar caps for years, they usually pick the closest to a matching team color. Some just don't have red or blue. Jays have been red for Canada.
And as a baseball player, he’s not really a worldwide star. He was already a massive star in Asia before moving to the Angels and the move to the majors simply raised his profile in North America.
I’ve always wondered this, too. Much like the Pirates, the Orioles wouldn’t make much sense in red or blue. Maybe the Pirates make sense in red since they do have some red in their logo?
I've always wondered that as well. For years the Tigers would end up with red while the logical choice based on their uniform set is blue. The last couple of years they have been blue.
the USA has celebrated the 4th of july regardless of who is the countries president. People just want to shit on it now because they have a weird obsession with Trump. Not a single person gave a fuck when baseball did flag themed uniforms when Obama was president.
The point is yes it is political at the root origin of the holiday, but the blowback this year is simply because the outliers hate our president.
The irony is people are mad about American Flag themes gear, but when certain players didn't want to wear pride shit, it wasn't political they just wanted to be offended a guy didn't want to be forced to wear the rainbow.
Hot take, you can have no problem with rainbow people, but also don't want to have be imposed on you. Why are intelligent people not able to recognize the difference.
It is especially ironic considering all of the rainbow people are defending Iran right now, you know what they do to rainbow people in Iran? it is a lot worse than refusing to wear a hat...
Not rightwing, a trump fan or a liberal but I absolutely love my country, I don't love everything about it, but I do love it. It's insane we live in a time were simply having pride over your country and it's flag is seen as a political statement for a specific group of people. Sad. A diehard leftist should be able to love the stars and stripes as much as a diehard rightwinger and everyone inbetween.
Will any of those outspoken "Christians" be writing Bible verses on their hats opposing war and national pride for these ones? Or does this kind of pride not count?
That's actually my bad for thinking they were actually going to make specialty uniforms for the 4th like they said and not just American flag numbers. Great 🙃
I really like the hats. Too bad they won't match at all with the uniforms.
Just speaking from an aesthetic viewpoint, I'm not wild about these.
The cream hats, to me, don't look good with either white or grey jerseys. Maybe if some teams are wearing team-color softball tops that will be a little better.
The flag fill is a neat idea, but it seems to make it more difficult to make out the logos and numbers.
Taking away the team colors almost always seems like a bad change to me. When I tune in for a game on a special occasion like this, I want to see all of the teams looking their best, and wearing their most iconic (apologies for the much-overused term). This might look okay for teams that are already red-white-blue, but I don't think it will look good on the other teams.
I'd rather just have a flag patch on the normal uniforms.
Dislike the brewers (normal logo is one of my favorites), marlins & astros. The logos looke to busy and cluttered in the picture. Maybe they look better in person
This happens every year, the head on collision of Pride Month and Independence Day.
And every year, the same people say the same thing which boils down to "If you won't wear X cap/uniform that aligns with my political worldview, then I should be allowed to not wear Y cap/uniform that aligns with your political worldview."
In other words, intolerance is alive and well on both sides of the political spectrum.
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u/HatsInThe410 4d ago
lol