LOOK: Seattle Mariners Reveal 'City Connect' Uniforms
The Seattle Mariners are the latest team to reveal their 'city connect' uniforms from Nike.
As a Mariners fan, I can tell you that I'm not completely thrilled about them, but I don't hate them, either.
The uniforms feature the blue and yellow that have been a staple of the Mariners for much of their existence. When the franchise began, they were blue and yellow, when Ken Griffey Jr. came up, they were blue and yellow, and recently, the Mariners have unveiled a Sunday uniform that is blue and yellow.
That much, I love. What I don't love is the black pants. If the pants had matched the top, they would have looked very sharp. The team also included the original "trident" logo for the hat, which is a nice touch. Not crazy about the black brim on the hat, though.
You can see the uniforms, modeled by Mariners star Julio Rodriguez below:
Uniform expert Paul Lukas, who runs the popular "UniWatch" had this to say about the pants:
This will be the most controversial part of this uniform, and with good reason. The black pants are almost tolerable if the player is going high-cuffed, but low-cuffers are gonna look like they’re wearing NFL officiating slacks. We’ve already seen the Rockies and Dodgers swap out their colored CC pants for white, and I’m gonna predict right here that the M’s end up doing the same — maybe not this season, but at some point down the road.
The historical antecedent for the black pants is supposedly the Seattle Steelheads of the Negro Leagues (who the Mariners salute each year by wearing Steelheads throwbacks, usually on or around Juneteenth). But to my knowledge, the Steelheads never wore black pants — they just had black as a team color. So again, this seems like a reverse-engineered rationale for BFBS.
I couldn't agree more. I do love the updated trident and the color of the tops, but the pants? I could do without.
The Mariners will use these uniforms for the first time on May 5th against the Houston Astros.
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