{"id":49378,"date":"2023-05-18T23:24:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T04:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49378"},"modified":"2023-05-20T23:24:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T04:24:38","slug":"of-course-the-braves-had-to-sell-their-jerseys-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49378","title":{"rendered":"Of course the Braves had to sell their jerseys too"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When it comes to clowning on the stupid shit that happens in professional sports, nobody is exempt, especially the teams that I say that I am a fan of.\u00a0 After all, nobody hates X more than fans of X, so when the Mets were getting dunked on for their ludicrously large sponsorship patches on their jerseys, it wasn\u2019t because they were the Mets, I would\u2019ve done the same to absolutely anybody.<\/span><\/p>\n

Which brings us to the Braves, who have also jumped aboard the sponsorship patch train, because they clearly need the money; $588 million in revenue in 2022 barely covered the spike in the cost of eggs that occurred.\u00a0 And much like the Mets who sold their jersey sleeves to a local entity, the Braves sold their sleeves to an Atlanta company, Quikrete, which is among the leaders of the entire concrete industry in the western hemisphere.<\/span><\/p>\n

But not only did they sell their sleeves to Quikrete, they also did exactly what the Mets did, at first: not really consider just how ridiculously large the sponsorship patch would actually be on their sleeves.\u00a0 I mean seriously, the patch is maybe a 25% size increase from being the primary logo on the entire fucking jersey, and the Braves would become the first franchise in baseball to go the route of futbol, and have the chief sponsor be the biggest focal point of the jersey, even over the team\u2019s name or city.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how many people reading this (zero) have any understanding of embroidery or any experience with it, but it\u2019s tremendously difficult to engrain any sort of details in embroidery.\u00a0 That being said, Quikrete\u2019s likely insistence that their logo look like it was on one of their signature yellow bags of concrete probably explains why it\u2019s so fucking huge; in order for the tiny little wrinkles to show on the corners of the bag that help make it look like a bag of concrete are the reason why the whole thing has to be the size of an actual bag of concrete, making their logo shout louder than a MARTA rider<\/a> hoping to avoid the post-Taylor Swift concert rush.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, my theories about how the patches might affect player performance for the Mets now also apply to the Braves.\u00a0 And considering the Mets\u2019 performance was pretty pitiful<\/a>, and the fact that they relented and actually redesigned their sponsor logo, let\u2019s hope the Braves wizen up a little bit sooner than the Mets did before their nice little cushion they\u2019ve build in the National League disintegrates.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of which, among the best slams on the internet to emerge from the mass-dunking on the Braves for selling out, was this particular gem that I chuckled heartily at:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Right to the jugular.\u00a0 Good job Barves, for never straying too far from the need to be greedy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it comes to clowning on the stupid shit that happens in professional sports, nobody is exempt, especially the teams that I say that I am a fan of.\u00a0 After all, nobody hates X more than fans of X, so when the Mets were getting dunked on for their ludicrously large sponsorship patches on their … Continue reading Of course the Braves had to sell their jerseys too<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,196,131,66,79,100,45,83,52,156,190,49],"class_list":["post-49378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-art","tag-barves","tag-branding","tag-braves","tag-cashmoney","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-social-media","tag-white-people","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49381,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49378\/revisions\/49381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}