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Is there another team that has a three tone hat like the Orioles just unveiled? I can't think of any.
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So wait, that HR celebration monstrosity is actually real?

 

Oh yes. And it's not small either. I can't find the pic at the moment, but there's one floating around of the frame of the thing in it's spot in the ballpark.

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http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2011/10/insanely_ugly_animatronic_home.php

 

Nashville-born, New York-based artist Red Grooms would be charged with "designing a spectacular signature home-run feature that will be in the center-field area... His display will incorporate water, lasers, sound effects, and caricatures of Marlins."

 

 

This is what he apparently came up with.

 

 

"When you're in that ballpark, and a Marlins' player hits a home run, the whole park is going to come alive with this feature," said Michael Spring, director of the Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs. "Lasers will go off. It's going to be fabulous."

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150370601964746

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It's like someone vomited a bunch of cliché South Florida imagery on a Guy Harvery shirt after a rough night on South Beach and then motorized it.

 

This is such an amazingly accurate description.

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"When you're in that ballpark, and a Marlins' player hits a home run, the whole park is going to come alive with this feature," said Michael Spring, director of the Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs.

 

this is how i always feel at wrigley. i mean, i guess it's cool that someone hit a home run, but i wish something actually exciting would happen so the park could come alive

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"When you're in that ballpark, and a Marlins' player hits a home run, the whole park is going to come alive with this feature," said Michael Spring, director of the Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs.

 

this is how i always feel at wrigley. i mean, i guess it's cool that someone hit a home run, but i wish something actually exciting would happen so the park could come alive

I think each Cubs HR should prompt a man costumed as a european ethnic stereotype to jump out of a treehouse and slide down a spiral tube. They could install it right next to the jumbotron, that way fans watching his descent would know when to "Make Noise".

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Is there another team that has a three tone hat like the Orioles just unveiled? I can't think of any.

Lots of teams wore the white front panel back in the day. Last one was the Blue Jays in 1993.

 

This is a huge improvement for Baltimore IMO. The "correct" oriole looked great when first introduced in 1989, but the logo looked worse with each successive revision as they tried to make it look more like an actual bird.

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Regarding the new orioles cap, I find it odd that the bird in the logo is wearing the old cap:

 

http://www.sportslogos.net/images/logos/53/52/full/opx6tqq8op3bfdukbvuggz75f.gif

 

 

This differs from the most recent "oriole head" cap (1975-'88), in which the bird appears to be wearing a pickelhaube:

 

http://www.sportslogos.net/images/logos/53/52/full/8gwv5vpgjsq8fox4fjsl4p54f.gif

 

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http://deadspin.com/5860274/laundry-basket-the-orioles-present-their-new+old-cartoon-bird-with-old+new-typo

 

 

http://fastcache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2011/11/11fe030d9ed19af840cce5713b683fd7.jpg

 

 

The Baltimore Orioles announced this week that they are replacing the awkward, pedantically overdesigned "ornithologically correct" bird logo on their caps with a slightly revised version of the grinning cartoon Oriole Bird heads the team employed from 1966 to 1988—a span that included six pennants, three World Series wins, and 18 consecutive winning seasons.

It's a welcome move, aesthetically.

 

Hold that thought. There is one little—nearly invisible—detail that more or less ruins the new Bird business. The log on the baseball cap is wearing a baseball cap of its own. And that cap has a logo, too.

 

On the original cartoon heads, the cap-within-a-cap had a little splotch, suggesting infinite recursion: the Bird's cap had a Bird on it, and that Bird's cap apparently had a Bird on it, and so on. The new Bird is wearing the Orioles' alternate cap, which says "O's" on it. Or rather, it says "O‘s," with the apostrophe upside-down.

 

This is an idiotic error, originally caused by the fact that Bill Gates is illiterate. It has been discussed for years, but the Orioles have never bothered fixing it. And now they've gone to the trouble of propagating it in miniature. It's itty-bitty, but it's still definitely wrong. The same mistake, over and over again. That's the Baltimore Orioles.

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http://deadspin.com/5860274/laundry-basket-the-orioles-present-their-new+old-cartoon-bird-with-old+new-typo

 

 

http://fastcache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2011/11/11fe030d9ed19af840cce5713b683fd7.jpg

 

 

The Baltimore Orioles announced this week that they are replacing the awkward, pedantically overdesigned "ornithologically correct" bird logo on their caps with a slightly revised version of the grinning cartoon Oriole Bird heads the team employed from 1966 to 1988—a span that included six pennants, three World Series wins, and 18 consecutive winning seasons.

It's a welcome move, aesthetically.

 

Hold that thought. There is one little—nearly invisible—detail that more or less ruins the new Bird business. The log on the baseball cap is wearing a baseball cap of its own. And that cap has a logo, too.

 

On the original cartoon heads, the cap-within-a-cap had a little splotch, suggesting infinite recursion: the Bird's cap had a Bird on it, and that Bird's cap apparently had a Bird on it, and so on. The new Bird is wearing the Orioles' alternate cap, which says "O's" on it. Or rather, it says "O‘s," with the apostrophe upside-down.

 

This is an idiotic error, originally caused by the fact that Bill Gates is illiterate. It has been discussed for years, but the Orioles have never bothered fixing it. And now they've gone to the trouble of propagating it in miniature. It's itty-bitty, but it's still definitely wrong. The same mistake, over and over again. That's the Baltimore Orioles.

The '64 and '89 logo's are just poorly done. Wow. I feel like my 2 year old daughter could do better.

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