Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
March 09, 2003
Merchandising:

I didn't realize the Marlins were changing their colors this year:


Then there's the Marlins, who are shifting away from their traditional teal to what is considered a more marketable silver-and-black color scheme. There's no truth, however, to the rumor that they plan to put an eye patch on the Marlin mascot and add crossed fishing rods to the logo.

"Teal just isn't a very popular color," said Kristy Garcia, who manages souvenir sales at Jupiter's Roger Dean Stadium, spring training home for Florida and the St. Louis Cardinals. "Black-and-silver is a good seller."


Who they think they are, the Oakland Raiders? Hate them if you must, but at least the Yankees don't change their uniform every other year so that fans will go out and buy new merchandise.

P.S. In searching on google for a picture of a Yankees uniform, the image that came up #1 was Rusty Torres, a former member of the 1979 Pinto Hatchbacks strat-o-matic team. Not the person I think of when I think of a Yankees uniform.


Posted by David Pinto at 06:08 PM | Baseball