10 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

But...

Severino

L.Butler

Rooker

Langeliers

J.Wilson

working on Kurtz but might be too late

Yep, the A’s have multiple contracts around the total value of Benintendi’s. It truly does make the Sox look even worse.

Love how these two have just been instant friends lol

16 minutes ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

Love how these two have just been instant friends lol

Much better than how Vargas looked when he was first acquired from the Dodgers. Depression memes galore.

10 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

Much better than how Vargas looked when he was first acquired from the Dodgers. Depression memes galore.

Thought it was interesting when he talked about how LRJ was very welcoming to him even then and trying to pay that forward to new Sox now

Also he was apparently close with Yamamoto, who encouraged him to support Mune here

On 12/20/2025 at 11:28 AM, ChiSoxFanMike said:

Prime Joey Gallo was one of the best home run hitters in the game and an above average hitter even with all the strikeouts. I’d definitely take that at first base on this team. They desperately need more power.

Because this new software keeps showing me the first page I keep seeing this, Prime Joey Gallo was not an above average hitter at any point of his career. When he made contact he could make it go far but come on man, dude never made contact.

6 hours ago, Kyyle23 said:

Because this new software keeps showing me the first page I keep seeing this, Prime Joey Gallo was not an above average hitter at any point of his career. When he made contact he could make it go far but come on man, dude never made contact.

Are you trolling? He was better than league average offensively in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021…so basically his prime outside of the COVID outlier season.

Japanese fans on twitter are calling out the Japanese Murakami jersey. This post alone has 11k likes and 750k views. +1 to organizational blunders.

Translated from Japanese

The font is way too tacky lmaooooooooo

Translated from Japanese

To the Chicago White Sox. This font is commonly known as the "Chinese font," and it truly has a very bad reputation among Japanese people and Japanese people living in the U.S. (about n=50 people), so please do something about it in the next batch. I kindly and earnestly ask for your assistance.

Translated from Japanese

A wind design made by elementary school students in their first computer class

32 minutes ago, DoUEvenShift said:

Japanese fans on twitter are calling out the Japanese Murakami jersey. This post alone has 11k likes and 750k views. +1 to organizational blunders.

Dumbasses.

As someone who has lived in China now for 15 years and also spent a lot of time in Okinawa Tokyo Kyoto and Osaka...this is the equivalent of GM naming a car with a Spanish translation that meant "no go/doesn't go."

https://www.thoughtco.com/chevy-nova-that-wouldnt-go-3078090&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiXmsCjidqTAxVCb_UHHRsoOwMQFnoECAcQAg&usg=AOvVaw0VA2ZQo_L_MznBdEZI3-QX

Not only don't they have sponsors from Japan...they're somehow managing to actively alienate them.

https://www.zhihu.com/en/answer/3431677268

Edited April 6Apr 6 by caulfield12

17 minutes ago, DoUEvenShift said:

Japanese fans on twitter are calling out the Japanese Murakami jersey. This post alone has 11k likes and 750k views. +1 to organizational blunders.

This is not Sox-specific, the same complaints exist for most MLB kanji merch. The default fonts used here for kanji just don't read as well to native Japanese fans (but of course, they sell to Americans who can't judge fonts in a language they don't read)

3 minutes ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

This is not Sox-specific, the same complaints exist for most MLB kanji merch. The default fonts used here for kanji just don't read as well to native Japanese fans (but of course, they sell to Americans who can't judge fonts in a language they don't read)

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1118094146996724&id=100063884472928

I honestly think they believe Japanese will buy anything they put out that's MLB related.

China currently has a massive number of MLB and New Era cap shops despite the sport itself only existing in Taiwan.

It's simply fashion for young people ... essentially.

www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1bxbozm/in_china_and_large_mlb_shops_are_popping_up_in/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjXu6LYi9qTAxWj1TQHHa8LFJUQFnoECAsQAg&usg=AOvVaw1zgosYSt7oAZ6BrbAgWj1F

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Apr 6, 2024 · In China and large MLB shops are popping up in every mall. MLB is now high fashion in Asia...

Edited April 6Apr 6 by caulfield12

Come on guys. How you can't ask around about this stuff BEFORE you start printing it, is beyond me. Hell ask the dude you wrote a $40 million check for.

36 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

Come on guys. How you can't ask around about this stuff BEFORE you start printing it, is beyond me. Hell ask the dude you wrote a $40 million check for.

That's all on Fanatics, right? White Sox employees aren't cutting the material for the names.

19 minutes ago, WestEddy said:

That's all on Fanatics, right? White Sox employees aren't cutting the material for the names.

They’re too busy making sure Frank doesn’t get paid and goes on a Nugenix-fueled tirade on social media as a result.

8 minutes ago, WestEddy said:

That's all on Fanatics, right? White Sox employees aren't cutting the material for the names.

Yep. Like I said, the same complaints exist for most MLB attempts at kanji merch. MLB should have an interest in correcting it given their clear desire to expand global reach, but they have also just been poor overall at holding Fanatics to quality/consistency standards in any number of ways in recent years.

These are about Imai's HOU City Connect:

It's a recurring issue that's not in the hands of Sox staff.

Or, you know, maybe it's just Getz personally cutting out all the characters poorly league-wide I guess.

Keep in mind that knockoffs or fake products proliferate in China.

Whereas Japan is incredibly strict and proactive about IP and product quality.

It's a lot about perception. What it feels like to customers.

1 hour ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

Yep. Like I said, the same complaints exist for most MLB attempts at kanji merch. MLB should have an interest in correcting it given their clear desire to expand global reach, but they have also just been poor overall at holding Fanatics to quality/consistency standards in any number of ways in recent years.

These are about Imai's HOU City Connect:

It's a recurring issue that's not in the hands of Sox staff.

Or, you know, maybe it's just Getz personally cutting out all the characters poorly league-wide I guess.

Instead of players spending time with the Trajekt machine, Getz probably had players researching the most insulting jersey font so he could make the biggest mistake.

what's wrong with Kanji? These twitter posts sound like some Meiji era propaganda

6 minutes ago, nrockway said:

what's wrong with Kanji? These twitter posts sound like some Meiji era propaganda

It's not kanji in and of itself, it's the font. Like imagine seeing the back of a jersey in comic sans or something.

9 minutes ago, nrockway said:

what's wrong with Kanji? These twitter posts sound like some Meiji era propaganda

Nothing wrong with it, what's being said by Japanese fans is that the font being used (across MLB, not exclusive to the Sox) is not aesthetically pleasing to Japanese culture. It's a design flaw made by a designer at Fanatics that didn't do due diligence researching it. Anyone with the basic knowledge of Kanji, understands that the flow, balance, and elegance of the characters is just as important as the characters themselves. Think of it as Japanese calligraphy. The Munetaka kanji jersey's fail to capture the essence of that style. Look at a Japanese uniform if you want to see the visual difference being pointed out.

7 minutes ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

It's not kanji in and of itself, it's the font. Like imagine seeing the back of a jersey in comic sans or something.

I don't think it's like comic sans. Maybe Arial vs Times New Roman. Don't think I've ever seen a jersey where the name had a serif font. I'm reading anti-Chinese sentiment more than anything tbh.

1 hour ago, nrockway said:

I don't think it's like comic sans. Maybe Arial vs Times New Roman. Don't think I've ever seen a jersey where the name had a serif font. I'm reading anti-Chinese sentiment more than anything tbh.

Maybe it is. But MLB wants to sell jerseys. If there's an anti-Chinese sentiment among Japanese consumers, MLB should learn that and avoid it. It's not the job of the consumer to get over themselves, change their feelings and just buy what's on the shelf. American baseball fans screamed when Fanatics changed the size of the name lettering on the backs of the jerseys. Were I in the market for a jersey that season, I might have held onto my $150 until they corrected that oversight.

17 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

Come on guys. How you can't ask around about this stuff BEFORE you start printing it, is beyond me. Hell ask the dude you wrote a $40 million check for.

they misspelled mune's name on his locker, you're expecting this org to handle this s%*# properly?

also lol why are they using chinese font for Japanese player names, how tf doesn't MLB have someone who's an expert designing this s%*#

Edited April 7Apr 7 by joejoesox