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So spring training for Major League Baseball happened and we finally got to see the long worried about new uniforms for the players. The PROFESSIONAL baseball players. Let's talk about this Temu looking quality from Fanatics and Nike.
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Huge fan. Been listening for a while. Your last two vids(this one and the willy wonka vid) seem to sound a little off. Lots of treble and thin sounding with static scratchiness in the background. I'm not sure if you've addressed this or not. Just thought I'd mention it. Did you change mics or something? The content is still stellar...the sound just seems off. I checked earlier vids to make sure it wasn't just me. I did notice a difference between your florida man video and the last two videos after that.
"they'll get beat up and dirty" ... that's exactly why they should be higher quality
Anybody who shops Carhartt knows that higher quality is way more efficient and effective than churning through cheap stuff
@OfficerZ637 piss off
@@sideways5153 Anyone shopping for Carhartt will also know they're getting items of similar quality to ones you can get cheaper from other good companies since they're paying for the name much like Ray-Ban and Red Wing. (Sorry had to go there companies living off of past brand recognition bugs me).
I love it when late-stage capitalism skimps out on quality to the point of having player uniforms made by SHEIN
Bro I am so sorry that you have so many bots under your comment omg
@@dinner1232I just keep reporting them
@@dinner1232 They're everywhere in the comments, the same 3. I've been reporting them as well
It's useless reporting them all since UA-cam never takes them down
@@ville__LOL clown
The older I get, the worse quality stuff gets and the more expensive it gets. I have 15+ year old shirts from high school that hold up better than tank tops I bought a year ago.
even basic hoodies feel like t-shirts now. You used to be able to wear them as your outer layer/shell but you need yet another layer for cold weather nowadays
Very true
So true, the saying "they don't make things like they used to" is very real
Same… I hate it
Even socks have gotten cheaper. I used to go years without needing replacements, now I'm lucky if they last a single one.
The fact that their pants will also not be fitted to each player extra sucks because players tend to have some serious cake and those pants are not tailored properly!
who knows. maybe it’s a sign form above 🙏🙏 be blessed. amen
I'm a connoisseur of pitcher cakes and I can tell you that I have a feeling that at least one pitcher is gonna split his pants this year and it's gonna be wild.
NO SERIOUSLY THO it needs to be tailored to the dumpy
srsly😍😍😍
@@northstarjakobsI think we will all be watching in anticipation.
Textile scientist here. When they say breathable, theres two ways to do that. Better materials or thinner.
Its possible they switched to a new material and it doesn't hold up to stitching as well. Its also possible that the mlb samples hadn't been washed which would show the issues.
Its also possible that fanatics sales rep wowed them with technobabble, then found the cheapest way to produce everything.
Ultimately, these look terrible and i feel bad for those baseball boys
@@T-bone-cq6pci dont even remotely understand this sentiment …
@@485OCEAN pretty sure all of these are bots
@@dismurrart6648 What ARE these comments?? If these are bots (and I have no reason to think they're not), what purpose do these comments even serve? Do they just exist to make bot accounts seem credible (like the nonsense gibberish comments of a few years ago, e.g. "the clandestine spoon twirls odiously beyond feckless rugs")?
@@rachelnotluf4585 it's probably gibberish fake engagement
Best thing to do is report the bot comments so they get cleaned out by UA-cam.... they spam the comments section to make the accounts look active so they can sell them. They're a pain in ass - much like I imagine those translucent player pants are going to be the first time they slide into base!
the off-center numbers??😭 that's horrendous. I guess I never imagined the "clothes are way worse now" thing would reach all the way to professional sports
This is atrocious. You'd think there HAS to be a way for them to say no to this. How is it okay to tell them they have to wear see-through pants?! That has to be violating some sort of rights doesn't it? Yikes. I kinda hope they all just agree to wear last year's pants and tell these companies they will not put their junk on display for America. I mean the jerseys are awful but the pants are another level of "oh my god". You are right though, its very possible we just have to wait for someone to "take one for the team" and wear them on a rainy day with no underwear before something changes.
Also: Seeing a lot of thirsty "Ooh I wanna see where do I find these pics, I'm gonna start watching baseball!" comments and ew. Come on ladies you wouldn't be happy about it if this was happening to women. Don't be a hypocrite, we're better than that. Let's not fetishize all these guys, they're clearly not happy with the situation either
THANK YOU! For the sexualizing-comment, it made me so uncomfortable to see all those 😬🤢 like, wtf?!
@@kristelbrok998 same! I was like “wait isn’t this exactly what we’ve been fighting against happening to us? What is going on here?” If a women’s team was forced to wear see through pants there’d be an absolute riot. People would be loudly protesting until a change was made. We should be giving these men the same respect and let them keep their dignity.
Agreed. I enjoy degrading men in general, but it's their job?? They do it to feed their families? No one should have to endure that at work, I feel they could sue for this.
@@Khunai. I mean, hooters exists. But I understand what you're saying
@shaylamills1416 actually alot of women's sports they're forced to wear revealing clothing. Volleyball, gymnastics
Y’know, all I can think of when I hear about the transparency of the jerseys is the stereotypical trope you see in shoujo manga or whatever where the love interest offers the main heroine their umbrella after a rainy school day and the heroine is gushing over how you can see their skin because of the white uniform getting wet 😭😭 not usually what I think of when at a ballgame but alright. to each their own
HELP I THOUGHT THE SAME THING💀
mlb execs saw the hockey shipping fandom and took notes
Can’t wait to see Ohtani looking all bishi
Btw this issue is not just an MLB thing either. In the Japanese baseball league (NPB), teams have their own uniform suppliers and there are 3 teams that have Fanatics create their jerseys. They have also taken a noticeable hit in jersey quality as well. Yomiuri Giants (Nike/Fanatics), Seibu Lions (Fanatics) and Yakult Swallows (Majestic/Fanatics). Swallows are the only ones with decent quality jerseys but thats most likely because they are going through Majestic and not Nike or straight Fanatics.
Ohhhh v helpful note, ty! Baseball (やきゅう) is extremely popular in Japan!!
NHL has been dealing with it for at least a couple years
The move away from Majestic was a disastrous idea. If Adidas was smart they would’ve gone in on MLB when they had the NBA and the NHL at the same time.
(I don’t actually care all that much but my father worked for Adidas/Reebok when they were owned by Adidas for 20 years)
So I worked in a fabric store as a manager and ordered fabric from mills. I also worked in production sewing. MY GUESS?
They changed factories for production to a cheaper production cost. Inexperience is where the sewing issues stem from. *OR* it's the same factory and the new material is not easy sew on to--it slides and shreds when sewn. A lot of performance style fabrics are knits that would shred under the multiple piercings of the fiber during embroidery and would be distorted by the kind of sizing/facing that would protect the fabric. There are probably even variances by color as color dyes can effect the yarn of the fabric. I kind of favor this second explanation because it really explains ALL of the issues.
The pants fabric is that same order order of named/color material, but the manufacture of material changed. (If they changed factories, very common to find a new source for the same material due to logistics.) It may be the yarn the fabric is made of changed in some way. This is a frequent problem with production sewing. Each mill will not produce the same fabric even if it's call called ponte or sateen, it will vary production run to production run of yardage, you get the idea.
It looks like they went from some kind of actual sports/performance fabric (often made out of polyester for those not into textiles) to just... plain poly.
Text treatment went from something properly type-set to generic template. Or they changed the template itself if they had a previous template. Erm... possibly even someone using a knock-off font instead of an official one that has proper spacing and they never bothered to fix anything with it. They probably only spent 30 seconds for typesetting and called it a day
Which is why it’s important for sales reps to be familiar with the production process and the product itself, including seeing the samples of the fabric and how it reacts to being embroidered. And using those to sell the product.
When you go on a companies word alone, you are not guaranteed
Any quality standards. I simply don’t understand when people who work for production companies aren’t required to learn or know about their product in a practical capacity.
The only two takes I've seen online about the new jerseys are:
1) "Wow why are they so cheap?? I can see through them!"
2) "Oooh I can see through the jerseys... 🥵😳 Guess I'm watching baseball now!"
if only baseball players were all rlly toned or smth 😔 the most that some of the lucky ones have are dumptrucks
Really trying to get a new audience of pink dollars and YA Romance moms migrating from Hockey to Baseball
It’s gonna take someone going commando to see change in the uniforms.
@@ville__ Do you like the fanatics baseball pants
@@TheCamSaysif thats what it takes to change, well then I guess we need a league-wide protest
I'm not even 30, but the decrease in overall quality of life in this country just in my lifetime has been astounding. It feels like you seriously can't buy anything now that isn't intentionally made shitty, with a price tag that's just out of control. Late-stage capitalism rots everything it touches.
I will say that it's become much easier to avoid impulse purchases when I know that there's a 9/10 chance I'll be wasting my money on literally anything I buy these days.
No frr I swear all earbuds are made to die after 6 months like why pay good money for shit that will die soon anyway? Planned obsolescence is a cancer on society
How the hell is a fan jersey i bought like 10 years ago better quality then the ones they have given the professional players.
*than
Use _than_ when making comparisons.
@@Eidolon1andOnly Unnecessary comment. This is UA-cam.
@@Username0467 So what if it's UA-cam? I do agree however that _your_ coment was unnecessary.
@@Eidolon1andOnly op is just tryna say people tend to not take it well when a minor spelling mistake is pointed out the them 🥴 it just feels rude, regardless of intentions
@@pptenshi3900 It wasn't the OP who responed, just someone else taking offense on OP's behalf.
Only native English speakers have developed a culture of getting offended over minor corrections being offered and making excuses for bad spelling and grammar habits. Even worse, the culture of getting offended on behalf of others when an error is pointed out. Literally no other minor error or offered corrections for anything else are taken as offensive. Correction for a math error? That's fine. Scientific error? A correction for a historical error? Also fine. But offering a correction for a spelling/grammar error? Get called a "not see" or some other insult.
Time for a cultural shift.
As a diehard baseball fan, this pissed me off to no end. Capitalism really does ruin everything. Fuck me, the MLBPA needs to do something. That’s what unions are supposed to do
They fixed the pants, but still not the jerseys
How did the jerseys hurt you and where? What about a jersey you will never wear pisses you off so much?
what is this thread….
@@485OCEAN looks like someone botted her comments maybe. I remember seeing some similar ones on jacksfilms but I thought it was just a kid because there weren't as many.
I’m not a baseball fan and I’m pissed off for you guys! The gull of these people!
Another option is wearing dark red lingerie under their uniforms, it would make the flaws in the new uniform more obvious and while also keeping all the important bits covered.
They should wear bright red cartoon boxers with hearts on them! prove the point and it stays 100% clean for the poor players and the audience
Wear underwear with messages on them that show up through the pants.
@@_PatrickO I'd put on the front of the boxers "if you can read this my uniform is toooooo thin." and on the back "How's my pitching? 1800 Fanatics sucks." That'd get their attention! Especially if it was a pitcher cause you see them from behind the entire time they're playing.
Having them wear something so see-through is honestly disrespectful. Some might feel really uncomfortable with that.
I would be lying if I said I was upset
@@Velereonicsyeah of course you’re not upset at someone ELSE being sexually objectified and shown in see through material due to it being their uniform. You’d be bitching and moaning if it was you. Funny how hypocritical some people are.
Nobody should be sexualised if they dont want it. It’s a fucking sport. They are there to play that sport. Not be meat candy for yall to drool over. You wanna drool over men? Go to a male strip club. People cry about women being objectified but when it happens to men we laugh and drool over them???? Literally so gross.
bummed you didn't include the nick castellanos quote where he called out the mlb for thinking the players are dumb, but excited you covered this! only possible upside to this would be more people getting into baseball lol
MLB been desperate to expand their audience and i guarantee they did not expect that expansion to be in the form of a Swell Entertainment take down. This is perfection
got me interested for the first time in my life
As a hobby sewist my guess is the new company’s pitch went “we can get you the same xyz fabric blend you’re used to from this factory but for cheaper” but not all places do the same blend, ie they might all call it “jersey knit” but what might be a 10% cotton 10% rayon and 80% acrylic blend from one place under that name is now a 5% cotton, 30% rayon and 65% acrylic and it’s become maybe become way thinner, more slippery and shreds more easily. (Material names and blend percentages are just made up to prove a point). It’s basically just corporate BS and the people who know materials are probably spoken over to keep profits high and this is how they can say, “oh it’s the same material as last year” but when you break it down it’s not really.
Like I don’t agree with but understand cheaping out on fan merch, a shitty practice but common, but these are literal athletes being paid big bucks to perform for people’s entertainment and to be profited off of, it’s wild to see them with badly kerned, small and hard to read names, numbers sloppily placed and see-through pants! As someone who played baseball I’d definitely be a bit nervous to slide in those, and are they really saving money if the jerseys are trash after a single game due to their lower quality? I hope someone pulls a stunt. It’s just really gross to see entities with huge profits do stuff like this and then try to gaslight people.
If I played baseball I would be thrilled to slide in these new uniforms. Prove to the MLB how completely brainless this decision was and make sure this isn't a cost saving measure after I've torn through my 3rd pair of pants this game.
No, this is real and an issue across the board. Castore made a Red Bull F1 sweater that started peeling the second time I wore it. Thankfully, New Era brought fully embroidered hats back instead of more heat-pressed garbage. Just go back to screen printing if my shirt is going to literally fall apart the week I get it.
As someone who is involved in the Tumblr baseball fandom, there is a deep conflict between "these are ugly/poorly made/bad quality and MLB should be ashamed" and "I am looking 👀" going on, but everyone agrees that there needs to be some sort of coordination going on with players when it comes to underwear. My vote is that someone needs to wear those hearts-patterned boxers or some other flashy design. Or, as other people have suggested, go commando. Maybe that would lead to change. I will say, as a respectful appreciator of MLB cakes, we need to do better for the coverings for the big dumpy! And by big dumpy I am of course referring to Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh what else could I possibly be talking about.
I don’t think they would be allowed to play commando for several reasons, but my concern would be getting charged with indecent exposure or smth
@@VultureSkinsthat’s the mlbs fault not theirs 😂
Unfortunately, there are rules in regards to uniforms, so they are not allowed to pull off these types of shenanigans without potentially getting disqualified/disciplinary actions. Even just having the wrong underwear would be a demerit, such as black underwear instead of white if they can tell what color it is as it would happen with less transparent white pants
Yikes this reminds me of what happened in the premier League (soccer) where Aston Villa straight up cut their contract with a jersey provider last year because when they got wet the jerseys would retain too much water and the players all looked like they came out of the ocean.
sure. i, an australian who's closest involvement with baseball is sports anime. will watch this. because swell made it.
REAL.
@@ville__ and nobody asked
I'm sure someone with zero understanding of fabric content or weaves made a call to use something cheaper to save money without realizing what will happen with that. It's sad because quality fabrics aren't even that expensive as far as a multi billion dollar company is concerned. I'm not familiar enough with sports uniforms to know what they're usually made out of, but this is almost certainly due to being cheap.
My partner works in baseball and day one of spring training he came home and was like "you have to see the new uniforms, it's hilarious" 😂
A professional MLB jersey should NOT be heat pressed. Heat pressed is for cheap trucker hats.
It's too cheap for cheap truckers hats too you can literally go one town over from where I live to their local mall and get whatever you want embroidered onto a hat of your choice right in front of you for like 10 bucks.
imagine doing all that hard work to get on the mlb only to be rewarded with a see through probably produced in a sweat shop uniform that will most definitely need to be replaced constantly
They have been produced in sweat shops prior, but now it's just lower quality
Fanatics has been infiltrating the NHL fan jerseys for years (previous supplier was Reebok) and the quality has been awful. Now they are also switching over the game-worn jerseys to fanatics as well for the 24-25 season. Can't wait! /s
As someone who used to work at an apparel printing company, everyone involved in these decisions should be ashamed. It's a cost cutting measure, for sure. Sports Twill (the standard layers and embroidered part of a jersey, usually the teams logo) are AMAZING. So much work and craftsmanship goes into making them look just right and it's an immediate sign of quality. Don't even get me started on the lack of quality in the fabric...
I own one jersey for the Cardinals and I can't imagine getting a new one WITHOUT even a cheap twill front??? These prints will not last. It's one thing for the numbers and name letters to be vinyl, but the rest of the jersey? Not even the patches are real? UP. SETTING.
What bugs me most about this story is how it was reported in the news. A lot of female news readers were ogling the players, saying they “will have to start watching baseball *wink*”. It had the same slimy tone of the old FIFA president saying female footballers should “wear tighter shorts”. It feels like nobody calls folks out when women objectify men
Those jerseys look like they'd fit right in at a bachelorette party
It looks like they used automatic alignment in the design, not optical. That means they just let the software look at edges and mathematical centers and no one went back and adjusted it to make it visually *look* aligned.
I just went to my first baseball game as an adult this weekend and I was literally thinking the uniforms looked terrible, I don’t remember them looking that bad when I was younger.
The pants going viral pulled so much attention away from how bad the jerseys are
9:29 😮
Damn I don’t care about baseball but even i can admit this is so WRONG 😂 Their old uniforms and dignity need to be returned asap
Swell is now in her sports fashion arc. My condolences that you grew up an Angels fan. At least you had two of the greatest players in MLB history on your team at one point
I mean trouts having a great start to his season so far rn
@@dudemanofdude 😬
@@SebastianTheGreat lol spoke too soon
Which man is gonna take one for the team and go commando? If they need better uniforms maybe just make it a "family friendly" issue 👀👀👀👀
even seeing their ball prints through the pants isn't family friendly 😭 I don't want to see sack when I'm watching baseball.
@@evelynwright329 Someone's gotta go full hog🐷
@evelynwright329 speak for yourself 🌚
16:53 I think Scherzer would do it. Dude's unhinged and he was ready to strip down on the field a few years ago when the Umps kept checking him for sticky.
Oh boy these scream unethical labour practices and environmental repercussions from artificial fabrics. I HATE the current state of garment manufacturing across the board but especially activewear that is literally 100% plastic which sheds microplastics, usually non-recyclable, and are non-breathable which traps sweat and bacteria making you sweat even more and stink 😭 I have a Nike polo shirt that my mother gave me that is from so long ago that it’s a thick and robust 100% cotton weave that I treasure with all my heart. The fashion industry is my enemy
hello! graphic designer and shirt designer here! what your looking at is heat transfer, a version of printing that is signifigantly cheaper because its not sopposed to hold up to wear and tear.. heat transfer is soposed to last for 2 years tops. as for the tight ness of more spread out of the lettering, that could be the lack of a graphic designer creating mockups that actually fit the payers, as with how nice the old ones looked, id assume they had before. as a designer myself, i can tell these letters were absolutly not optically corrected either, where letters are made bigger smaller wider or thinner to make sure everything looks right to the eye, especially a t a distance.. thios is just sad, my jaw dropped when you mentioned the price jump too! they should be ashamed of themselves for this. not even mentioning the lower quality materials.....
When the graphic artist discovers the curve tool in Photoshop. Now suddenly every word needs a huge arch lmao😂
Can literally see the nike logo on the underware underneath their pants
The thing about the jerseys being more like athletic shirts, is that players already wear athletic shirts underneath them to wick sweat, and for comfort, so now they're basically dual-layering gym shirts. The whole point of the baseball jersey is to be like a heavy duty t-shirt that's comfortable, but also stands up to the abuse that professional players are going to put the jerseys through, so they obviously aren't doing this for the players sakes, but just to save on fabric costs. Not to mention the MLB logo moving below the collar, the players names shrinking, the patches changing from stitched+embroidered to heat pressed (except for the MLB and Nike logos, those are still stitched+embroidered), and it's all just very disappointing and underwhelming. And the argument of "give the license back to Majestic" unfortunately isn't valid because Fanatics bought out Majestic in 2019, so even if they changed the logos, they'd likely still be the same quality. This has me extremely worried about NHL jerseys, because the current Adidas ones are beautiful, but if baseball is getting garbage like this, how bad are the hockey ones gonna be? Overall, shame on Nike and Fanatics, I have a custom Dodgers Ohtani jersey that uses the old jersey, but has Ohtani and 17 on it, plus the city patch, so I'm satisfied with that, but I definitely will not be getting any official MLB jersey's for the foreseeable future, I don't have enough money to spend on garbage.
This is wild because for *ages* I've heard the advice that "investment" in clothing is better than replacing clothing every year or two. The concept being that by paying more money upfront, you're saving money long-term. But this shows that even the richest people (the team owners and the companies that sell uniforms to the team owners) who are clothing other rich people (the players) are still unwilling to provide a quality product. So even if you're both *able and willing* to shell out cash for something, what is being offered is still crap. So much for (the myth that) "quiet wealth" fashion translates to "better quality."
Just as a personal side note: This is why I exclusively thrift my clothes. I haven't seen anything new on a rack that was worth the price for which they're asking. I try to vet my clothes and research brands for longevity and quality in addition to comfort and my personal style, but even so, if my clothes aren't going to last, then I'm not paying double digits for anything if I can avoid it.
I mean, just because they /can/ spend more money doesn't mean they want to. Sports teams are a business and it's in their best interest to cut costs wherever they can. I'm sure the only reason all these leagues are changing over to Fanatics is because they're cheaper.
All this to say, it's definitely not a myth that it's better to buy higher-quality stuff for more than cheap stuff for less.
I work at a baseball stadium and when someone asked me what I thought of the new city connect uniforms (a team that had them last year), I told them the truth and they're ugliest things. That person was owner of the team and my boss without realizing it, they laughed and nothing happened to me luckily.
As a Mets fan, I thought you were gonna talk about the walking advertisements jerseys became. For the Mets we had this huge one from Presbyterian hospital until the owner said it was too much. Now this, this is just awful quality all around
For these athletes the jerseys are their work uniform. It is what they work so hard for during their childhoods into teens and adulthood. They deserve to have their work uniform be high quality, and allow them to keep their dignity.
Does anybody remember that time Lenny Kravitz's pants split mid concert because he did a squat and the leather was tight and his whole entire package popped out? Yeah, I think we're gonna get a repeat of that
If a player wants to try going commando during a game, make sure it isn’t in Seattle, our stadium has a retractable roof and they will pause the game to close it if it starts to rain.
Bruh I literally got a custom jersey from a kind of knock off company of Fanatic and it was hand-sewn onto the jersey for a single piece order for like $25. HOW IS THIS THE OFFICIAL UNIFORM??
So, is it possible that the logo was a patch on the neck banding and now it's PRINTED on? That would explain why they moved it from the neckband to the upper part of the back.
Almost certainly.
I had embroidery done to jackets in the 1990s that looked 100x better than these photos... not to mention it was from a store in a mall
I’ve seen better quality from the T-shirt’s I got playing softball as a pre-teen sponsored by a local restaurant😳 at least our numbers were even and our names not squished, the bad kerning on the letters is 🥴
Okay, love that you both play and are sponsored by June's Journey! It's been my favorite mobile game for relaxing for years now and i love them supporting a creator I watch!
i use to work at the warehouse where they make the jerseys. QC is full of old people with bad eye sight that cant be fired
My theory about the see through pants - MLB saw what some thirsty booktokkers did for NHL sales and they wanted to be a part of it too.
if nhl sweaters become heat pressed theres going to be a Problem, since the equipment managers actively sew on new names and numbers if they need to up to and including during a game! imagine having to basically cricut together an EBUG sweater during an intermission? absolutely not.
I bought my baby an Under Armor football jersey. (Bougie, I know, but it’s for my favorite team in all sports.) He was able to wear it exactly twice before the paint (ink?) on the jersey started shredding off and leaving paint bits all over my house.
It’s funny because baseball is not big in my country but I love it since I was a kid, I don’t even remember why, but I do enjoy watching the games
Huge baseball fan and been subscribed to you for 4? years and did a double take when I saw you covering a baseball story. Love these two worlds colliding
the translucent pants are WILD
I don't watch baseball. For some reason I always thought the uniforms were like onesies. Mind blown to find out they're wearing two pieces 😅
Literally same 😂
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO now im imagining baseball onesies.. lol
thank you so much for having human captions on your videos ❤
I’m so sad, when Nike first purchased the rights to manufacture the jerseys, they were so beautiful, the stitching was awesome, the quality was prime Nike grade. I miss the older jerseys, I’ve been wanting to buy a jersey this year but it’s not worth what they’re asking me to spend.
yesss i'm so glad to have ur coverage on this !!!
If the pants weren't bad enough construction-wise, they also didn't even send all the teams enough this spring. A couple of teams reported that a bunch of their non-roster/minor league players had to scrounge around for last year's pants because they didn't have enough. A lot of players also noted that they had fewer tailoring and sizing options for the pants this year. That's because Nike relied on body scans of a select group of players to develop the size and fit of both the jerseys and pants. They're no longer made to measure, but rather a set number of sizing options. It's absolutely brutal stuff. They tried the jerseys out in last year's all-star game and they looked NOTHING like this so something definitely happened in manufacturing. Also, as a Jays fan, I'm so disappointed this drop-off had to happen now because we're getting our city connect jerseys this season and I was so pumped to get one....now I'm not so sure lol. Loved the video as always!!
They are literally just getting rid of real embroidery so they can have even higher profit margin and don't care about the quality if it stays like this I hope they sell no fan jerseys this year and realize that the quality does matter you cannot sell what probably costs less than $15 to actually make, this insane of a price for crap quality
This reminds me of when George put the Yankees in all cotton uniforms and they started to shrink as they sweat.
This is on Fanatics. They probably have a Graphic Design intern who just learned how to put text on a curve.
Longtime Dodgers fan here, and I bought my "official" jersey once Ohtani announced he was going to the Dodgers. (Granted, this was before I was aware of the new Fanatics fabrication.) When it arrived in the mail, I was SHOCKED at how cheap the quality felt for something I paid over $100 for. It honestly feels like a Dodgers jersey-style shirt I bought at Target for maybe $30 at the time.
I chalked it up to being a women's cut versus an actual replica jersey (since it's no secret that women's clothing often gets the shaft in construction and fabrication compared to their male counterparts), but how incredibly disappointing to see it's across the board, even for the players themselves!
I run a Twitter page for uniforms and it’s in college baseball too. Awesome that you’re covering this
Not me thinking we need a countdown to wardrobe malfunction so close to the Superbowl Anniversary of, “gonna have you…” 🤐
Players, teams & fans need to keep the pressure on Fanatics & the MLB to replace _all_ their jerseys & pants with _professional,_ quality garb.... the jerseys are bad enough, but those _pants?!!_ The MLB will become a laughing stock.... imagine sending the men you pay millions of dollars for, out onto the field looking like 5th graders with uniforms their parents ducked down to the Dollar Store to buy just before the game. If I saw those jerseys with the wonky lettering in a store or online I'd assume they were counterfeit.
I love how fanatics tried to play off you could see through the pants saying "Oh no they were always like that". Like we can't go back and look 😂
Oh my god! When you where talking about the jerseys I was looking at the pants and was thinking 'Are those pants see through?!?!' And I don't watch MLB, I don't even get any content apart from this video on it and yet I was able to pick up how see through the pants where by looking it for 5 seconds. The jerseys look like all the manufacturing staff quit and the people from head office were panicking and tried to do it themselves. The comment about the pockets right at the end was so good.
Sports apparel deep dive isn't something I thought I needed, but I hope someone does it
i get sooo excited when a random thing i deep dived on twitter about one night ends up being a swell video topic
My white uniform pants were two layers, and you couldn’t see the tails of my brightly colored jersey or my sliding shorts under them at all. Missing layers sounds plausible…also I am somehow personally disrespected by Marte’s Jersey.
Only sort of related to this, but I would love to see your take on the Savannah Bananas and the Party Animals. :)
Swell’s brother caught a direct bullet 😭😂
Did not expect this but I’m here for it
So what I am gathering is that all jerseys are made by the same supplier for the MLB? Why?
I am from the Netherlands and major football clubs here have different clothing suppliers. Like yes there's still Nike and Adidas, but also suppliers Castore, Puma and Robey
I can almost feel this material right through my screen - anyone who's ever bought a $3 Walmart toddler shirt-and-shorts set in paper-thin 100% acrylic knows what I'm talking about. I immediately thought "it's the Temu-fication of everything left in the world," and the comments (both those included in the video, and those down here in the UA-cam comment section) let me know I'm not alone.
The only way I can think of why the letters on the jerseys are so bad is because of the difference in the fabric. The fabric might be thinner and harder for the letters to be pressed or printed on to that they just slip and embroidering the patches or letters might snag the cheap “breathable” fabric
Gonna be alot more balls in baseball this year.
It looks like they are forced to place the text on a circle now.
The older ones look like they made a curve that flowed best with the name length and number
Shohei Ohtani is probably already one of the best baseball players of all time and they got him wearing see through pants :(
As a mariners fan, my favorite player may be big dumper but that does not mean I want to see his big dump truck
LMAO at your rainy game comment. I hadn't thought about it, but now, now I'm thinking about it 😂
You should go to the Phillies vs. Mets game in London June 8th or 9th. My travel buddy and I are going, cause why not! 😁
I *need* a full video on your job as a baseball spy!
14:33 Honestly, I see that as plausible. But I also imagine they tested them in a room with approximately one light in it and tested it by sitting down once. These look so horrible
I enjoy your videos because you point out areas of pop culture that I'm not really familiar with.
This really gives a new meaning of baseball 😂
The first bit of this I saw was a video with Cal Raleigh (Mariners) and you could see the shirt tucked in THROUGH the pants. The quality was like a cheap high school uniform! I was SHOCKED the MLB would let this go through! UGHHH
Sports-adjacent Amanda vids are kinda turning into my favorite Amanda vids
Undergarments with obscenities all over them in intense colors becoming popular for professional baseball players all of a sudden would be a mighty strange trend to suddenly be aware of. _COULDN'T POSSIBLY SEE THAT HAPPENING AT ALL, NOPE. THEY WOULD NEVER ALTER THEIR BOXER ROTATION TO INCLUDE NOVELTY PRINTS WITH ALL MANOR OF FORBIDDEN WORDS AND IMAGRY INTO THEIR GAMEDAY ATTIRE. WOULD NEEEEEEEEEVER HAPPEN._
I was so ready to hear you talk about the pants!!!
The Orioles tv station shows classic baseball games. Looking at pitchers like Jim Palmer pitching in the World Series in 1966, 1970, etc., the average times between pitches was 12 seconds. Of course, batters didn’t “have to” readjust their batting gloves after every pitch (gloves? What gloves?) and didn’t have body armor.