Wednesday, December 10, 2008

RED SOX UNIFORM CHANGES: JUST STOP IT ALREADY

The Boston Red Sox ownership group, comprised of John Henry, Tom Werner, and Larry Lucchino, are known as guys who get things done. In their brief reign over Boston's baseball team, we have seen two World Series Championships, as well as soaring popularity throughout the nation (and plenty of hatred, too). But there is one aspect of Henry, Werner, and Lucchino's time as owners that is most telling: Their need to squeeze the fans out of every last dime.

There are the constant additions to Fenway Park, adding seats in every possible direction, the embarrassing Red Sox Nation Membership Cards, and now a logo and uniform change that is set to be unveiled on Thursday. The Sox have had the same basic uniform design (and logo for that matter) for quite a long time, and it seems like the only reason to change that now is to sell more hats and jerseys. All of it seems so unnecessary.

Hopefully the changes will be minor, and they won't completely butcher the whole thing. Either way, you can bet these new unis will be up for sale on redsox.com very soon.

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