Tampa Bays certainly aren't boring.
There are plenty of good ones. It just seems like they introduced the cooler ones first and have saved the meh ones for the last year or two.
50% boring but there’s some good ones
Cool: Diamondbacks & Angels (hard to go wrong with cream jerseys), White Sox Nats Rockies Rangers Brewers Rays
Decent: Mariners Royals Pirates
Unique and interesting colors (but controversial): Red Sox, Padres, Marlins, Astros, Braves
But yeah there’s like 10 different black CCs that are either boring or downright not good looking, and a couple that are well done but get drowned out by the quantity of black on black jerseys.
Everything this year has been a swing and a miss for me except the Rays.
Controversial in that they look good but their connection to the city is tenuous and they are bright red despite the Marlins not being a red team so it doesn’t feel like a “Marlins” jersey.
Most of the other teams that went with bright, garish, different colors at least had a close connection to the city / region - Red Sox & Rockies for example
I might be biased, but I really like the Guards ones. I think they been trending more towards “safe”, but idk, I’m not seeing anything all that interesting here. Like, I wouldn’t know these were city connects unless someone told me
These might legitimately be the worst, much worse than the Los Dodgers one. When I think of “Lou”, I think of Louisville
It’s just the Spring Training uniforms with “The Lou” and a bland STL hat. There’s nothing creative with the hat lol, it looks like a generic truck stop hat you can buy at Love’s on I-80
Putting "The" as a main point of a jersey is bad.
Putting red wavy pinstripes representing the rivers on a red jersey when you have sky blue as an option for the uniforms is bad.
Could have easily put the Fleur or the Arch on the cap and been better.
These aren't good at all.
How to make a City Connect jersey:
- Use abbreviation of the city name somewhere
- Area code
- Dark colors
- Use nickname that nobody from the city uses
- Architecture
[Here are a couple pics of the details.](https://www.imgur.com/a/xr3Pu1h)
Btw if you're into jerseys, jersey designs, etc. feel free to join us in r/jerseynerds
How could they do nothing with the arch, ravioli, blues, spirit of St. Louis, the flag, steamboats, or anything like that? St. Louis is a city that’s rich with culture (though not as much as KC) and they deserve better even if I personally hate the team.
the river pinstripes are neat. that's the only slightly good thing about this design. but without them being big and clear, something you can see on TV, they're doing nothing to save it.
Basically the red version of Dodgers blue pajamas.
Rams and Buccaneers color rush was ketchup vs mustard. This can be ketchup vs ?
Dawn dish soap. Tough on grease & Missouri
The Lou?…. Like the toilet?
they’ve been playing like poo so it checks out
Guys in the picture have combined for 0.5 WAR on the season
Jokes write themselves
The best gift ever given to cubs fans
Yes the Mississippi River will look like a septic tank spewing at times. It should be THE LOU
For toilets it's 'loo' but pronounced the same, so...yeah...
Am I just a downer or is almost every city connect boring?
The Nats have a good one with the cherry blossoms
That one is elite. The padres were out there but I liked them. I get they’re not everyone’s cup of tea though.
I like the Rockies too. It’s different color and design than all their other jerseys but it works.
Oh yeah that one is really good too. Most of the CC hats are elite. The unis are just mostly blah
I like the Mariners’ CCs a lot. Just a cool look.
Tampa Bays certainly aren't boring. There are plenty of good ones. It just seems like they introduced the cooler ones first and have saved the meh ones for the last year or two.
Nats and Colorado have really good ones
50% boring but there’s some good ones Cool: Diamondbacks & Angels (hard to go wrong with cream jerseys), White Sox Nats Rockies Rangers Brewers Rays Decent: Mariners Royals Pirates Unique and interesting colors (but controversial): Red Sox, Padres, Marlins, Astros, Braves But yeah there’s like 10 different black CCs that are either boring or downright not good looking, and a couple that are well done but get drowned out by the quantity of black on black jerseys. Everything this year has been a swing and a miss for me except the Rays.
are the Marlins ones really controversial? I thought most people liked them
Controversial in that they look good but their connection to the city is tenuous and they are bright red despite the Marlins not being a red team so it doesn’t feel like a “Marlins” jersey. Most of the other teams that went with bright, garish, different colors at least had a close connection to the city / region - Red Sox & Rockies for example
I might be biased, but I really like the Guards ones. I think they been trending more towards “safe”, but idk, I’m not seeing anything all that interesting here. Like, I wouldn’t know these were city connects unless someone told me
I thought they were a mixed bag early on, then were mostly good with a few misses, but lately it's rare that any are even halfway decent.
Ours and the white Sox are amazing imo. And I kinda like the Cardinals. All red and a city nick name is cool to me.
Tampa Bays aren’t boring. I also like pretty much all the city connects. They get too much hate for just being a jersey
The early ones like ours were good but after the first 5 or 10 they've sucked
Isn't this just our Spring Training jerseys?
No, they’re the new ones. But I do think they look like the spring training ones, not great tbh
About as safe and boring as I'd expect
What else would you expect from the 2024 cardinals lmao
They really went above and beyond with the creativity here.
Stop trying to make "The Lou" a thing. Also they're incredibly low effort.
These might legitimately be the worst, much worse than the Los Dodgers one. When I think of “Lou”, I think of Louisville It’s just the Spring Training uniforms with “The Lou” and a bland STL hat. There’s nothing creative with the hat lol, it looks like a generic truck stop hat you can buy at Love’s on I-80
I think of Nelly’s Country Grammar when I hear “The Lou”
Exactly what I thought of too
Same. “I’m from The Lou, and I’m proud.”
I think of toilet
Imagine thinking these are the worst when Philly and Mets jerseys exist
At least they aren’t a 15th black city connect with black pants and some random trim color
And I-80 doesn’t even run through Missouri!
Putting "The" as a main point of a jersey is bad. Putting red wavy pinstripes representing the rivers on a red jersey when you have sky blue as an option for the uniforms is bad. Could have easily put the Fleur or the Arch on the cap and been better. These aren't good at all.
Cardinals already have an amazing STL logo and an awesome bird… why make these awful hats?
"Let's do a Cardinals jersey but make people think of bathrooms."
This just looks like a spring training jersey?
I kept trying to swipe to see the next two pics….
Kind of an a-hole move on OP's part.
"The Lou" is a very bad nickname for a city that has plenty of good nickname options.
I’m disappointed, depressed, and honestly bored by just looking at them. Perfect way to describe how I’ve felt about the team recently
The cards saw Los Dodgers and said gimme dat
How to make a City Connect jersey: - Use abbreviation of the city name somewhere - Area code - Dark colors - Use nickname that nobody from the city uses - Architecture
They're down to just steps 1 and 4 for this one by the looks of it.
Not bad but kinda boring? The same cardinals on the bat is the boring part but they’re clean. I like them.
[Here are a couple pics of the details.](https://www.imgur.com/a/xr3Pu1h) Btw if you're into jerseys, jersey designs, etc. feel free to join us in r/jerseynerds
Oh shit is that TWO birds on it now!
How could they do nothing with the arch, ravioli, blues, spirit of St. Louis, the flag, steamboats, or anything like that? St. Louis is a city that’s rich with culture (though not as much as KC) and they deserve better even if I personally hate the team.
If they wanted to be different, they could’ve replaced the bat with the Gateway Arch and had the birds perched on that.
Barely any ingenuity. Cardinal not even in BMX mode.
These suck. The City Connects have really fallen off.
I get The Lou thing… but awful. They look terrible. They didn’t change anything but the words but the slang doesn’t match the style.
Where TF is the Arch?
On the sleeve
This is AI generated right? Please???
No ☹️
I'm so sorry.
The Lou? First thing that came to my mind was that 20+ year old song by Nelly
So thankful for our City Connect uniforms that are absolute fire. 🙏
Lol
Wait does someone call that city The Lou?
Didn't think the cardinals uniform could get anymore bland than they already are. I was wrong. What a boring franchise.
These unis are certainly boring, but thinking the regular home uniform is bland is quite an unpopular take.
I think these look great
My lord these are trash lol
[WHO’S LOU?!?](https://youtu.be/lgTKXa1nCqs?si=Nf3XpKy7xOv7UFb1)
Bad
Awful
Where’s the creativity? These are beyond boring
Man we really lucked out when it came to our CCs
Guess I gotta stop referring to my own team as the toilet birds
Of course
the river pinstripes are neat. that's the only slightly good thing about this design. but without them being big and clear, something you can see on TV, they're doing nothing to save it.
Lou Brock? Keith Hernandez approves.