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God this sounds nightmarish.

God damn.

This is like saying the Yankees hat is bland. Two contrasting colors using a good design is clean. Becoming the 14th MLB team to use red as a color is bland. As for it not being a black and white world: I'm not sure if you're going for the world being morally gray, which makes no sense in context of baseball, or fashion not being black and white, which is exactly why their current brand is fashionable.

Asked AI to create a modern, minimalist logo and this is what I'd roughly expect

Andrew Vaughn delivering in mysterious ways.

People are so giddy about a rebrand, thinking it'd be a throw back to a past uniform. If there's a rebrand, it's going to be a modern, minimalist logo (look at the NBA losing all flavor). Keep the classic looking that could skyrocket in popularity (moreso than it already has) by fielding a good team.

If I had to guess, it's cause his friends were still around, so he might have been doing whatever he could to try to put the dying embers of that team on his back and keep the band together.

On pace for 70 RBIs. I think that's perfectly reasonable to expect.

Luis might be one of the biggest vibes-driven players I've ever seen.

I think the better question is that of the Padres 2024 top prospects, how did we get #5 (Thorpe), #7 (Zavala) and #8 (Iriarte) and not ask for the #6 shortstop (De Vries).

I'll raise my hand and eat mad crow.

I want to believe but after getting burned by the last rebuild the only chickens I'm going to dare count are Colson Montgomery Edgar Quero Kyle Teel Lenyn Sosa Sean Burke Grant Taylor (reliever) Meidroth is on the borderline — he's the closest we can get to a reincarnated Nellie Fox since you know who — for me and Vargas graduated from "jettison into the sun" to "wait and see" territory. No owner is gonna ditch branding that is profitable despite the team being catastrophically bad. All you do is risk another team taking that spot (like Jay-Z tried with the Nets).

Gio this year + ReyLo last year is softened a bit by Quero and hopefully Bush. The rebuild hitters (outside of bratwurst-fueled Vaughn) aren't painful to watch, but damn if it doesn't hurt seeing Crochet-Giolito-Reynaldo-Rodon-Cease, let alone Chris Sale.

Plesac and Schriffen match each other's weirdness.

I don't know if you're familiar with banner curse, but this feels like it would invoke the same problems

Didn't even have time to turn on the game to see Colson has already homered. My lord.

Benintendi does not hit

Lenyn Sosa just hits.

Start getting Lenyn playing time in LF and get Baldwin more playing time. I still really, really want to see Taylor's arm build more innings.

As expected.

While I see your point, If Colson Montgomery won it over Nick Kurtz, we'd have just witnessed one of the greatest half seasons ever by a rookie and the hype would be real.

I'm on-board with team try Sosa in LF. Tbh, him hitting .202 in Birmingham after not playing baseball for a decade is an absurd athletic feat.

Colson wants to be ROY

Couple of thoughts: - Please god, let Braden and [insert 2B of choice] be the RF and 2B that the Sox haven't had since Dye/Iguchi. - Looked at Burke's stats out of curiosity and man, he's the poster child of being consumed by Birmingham.

We had big "only I can call my brother a moron" energy at the time.