T. Rowe Price O's new jersey sponsor

[deward]

32 minutes ago, Too Tall said:

Only time I noticed the patch was when they showed Hyde. He was wearing all black and the teal patch sort of jumped out at me. Don't like it but winning sooths a lot of ills. Extend Gunner and I'll wear a T Rowe P patch on my arse. 

It's definitely not as big an eyesore on the white tops as it's going to be on the black or orange ones. I have no faith that any deals like this will have any bearing at all on extensions for guys like Gunnar or Adley.

[BRobinsonfan]

On 6/10/2024 at 5:54 PM, Moose Milligan said:

Got a downvote from someone other than DirtyBird!!

DirtyBirds?  

[Moose Milligan]

49 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Of course it’s not..but more money isn’t a bad thing 

No, it’s a good thing. 

[OriolesMagic83]

1 hour ago, Too Tall said:

Only time I noticed the patch was when they showed Hyde. He was wearing all black and the teal patch sort of jumped out at me. Don't like it but winning sooths a lot of ills. Extend Gunner and I'll wear a T Rowe P patch on my arse. 

I draw the line when they start being referred to as the T Rowe O's.

[BRobinsonfan]

1 hour ago, Sports Guy said:

But advertising has always been a part of baseball. 

You're right. 

And I don't mind the signage and other forms of sponsorship; it's just the uniform patches that bother me. They make baseball players look like NASCAR drivers or (shudder) soccer players. I admit it's purely an emotional response. Since my Dad took me to my first game in Memorial Stadium in 1966, I have loved baseball. I love the illusion of it, the poetic symmetry of it, the myth of it. There's an emotional attachment to baseball that just isn't there for me with other sports – even though I enjoy and appreciate other sports – they don't have the same hold on me that baseball does. 

I want baseball to be more than just a business, more than a sport, more than a simple contest. The sponsorship patches on the uniforms are a glaring intrusion into that illusion.. It's like A. Bartlett Giamatti wrote in A Great and Glorious Game, “I need to think something lasts forever, and it might as well be that state of being that is a game; it might as well be that, in a green field, in the sun.” 

I admit it makes no logical sense… but still… T. Rowe Price be damned.

Edited June 12 by BRobinsonfan

[Sports Guy]

2 minutes ago, BRobinsonfan said:

You're right. 

And I don't mind the signage and other forms of sponsorship; it's just the uniform patches that bother me. They make baseball players look like NASCAR drivers or (shudder) soccer players. I admit it's purely an emotional response. Since my Dad took me to my first game in Memorial Stadium in 1966, I have loved baseball. I love the illusion of it, the poetic symmetry of it, the myth of it. There's an emotional attachment to baseball that just isn't there for me with other sports – even though I enjoy and appreciate other sports – they don't have the same hold on me that baseball does. 

I want baseball to be more than just a business, more than a sport, more than a simple contest. The sponsorship patches on the uniforms are a glaring intrusion into that illusion.. It's like A. Bartlett Giamatti wrote in A Great and Glorious Game, “I need to think something lasts forever, and it might as well be that state of being that is a game; it might as well be that, in a green field, in the sun.” 

I admit it makes no logical sense… but still… T. Rowe Price be damned.

I don’t disagree with anything you say here but I still am not bothered by it.  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[BRobinsonfan]

4 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

I don’t disagree with anything you say here but I still am not bothered by it.  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I won't stop watching the games, and I'm sure I won't even notice them in time. But having reached old guy status I need to be mad about it for awhile.

 

[NashLumber]

6 hours ago, OriolesMagic83 said:

Elias could show up to a news conference in a suit emblazened with T Rowe emblems making him look like the Joker and if the O's start spending money on extending players, I won't complain.

Mr. Cash. 

[deward]

1 hour ago, BRobinsonfan said:

You're right. 

And I don't mind the signage and other forms of sponsorship; it's just the uniform patches that bother me. They make baseball players look like NASCAR drivers or (shudder) soccer players. I admit it's purely an emotional response. Since my Dad took me to my first game in Memorial Stadium in 1966, I have loved baseball. I love the illusion of it, the poetic symmetry of it, the myth of it. There's an emotional attachment to baseball that just isn't there for me with other sports – even though I enjoy and appreciate other sports – they don't have the same hold on me that baseball does. 

I want baseball to be more than just a business, more than a sport, more than a simple contest. The sponsorship patches on the uniforms are a glaring intrusion into that illusion.. It's like A. Bartlett Giamatti wrote in A Great and Glorious Game, “I need to think something lasts forever, and it might as well be that state of being that is a game; it might as well be that, in a green field, in the sun.” 

I admit it makes no logical sense… but still… T. Rowe Price be damned.

Well said, and I agree with all of it. Beyond that, for me, is the depressing thought that it's not going to stop here. It was gratifying on some level for me to feel that, in a world of increasingly relentless ads, MLB (the uniforms) and the O's (the stadium name) had left at least a couple of lines uncrossed; small islands in a sea of crass commercialism. As you said, largely an illusion, but an enjoyable one. Now that these thresholds have been broken, nothing seems off-limits. I'm not looking forward to a future where the O's step onto T. Rowe Price Field at Legg Mason Stadium at Camden Yards, wearing uniforms where the player number and sponsor patch have swapped places of prominence, to take on Gunnar Henderson and the Yankees. 

[Malike]

I'm more annoyed with the green screens for ads behind home plate at most of the stadiums that put an aura around the batter and pitcher and find that a hell of a lot more distracting than an arm patch I didn't even notice last night.

[AdamK]

3 hours ago, OriolesMagic83 said:

I draw the line when they start being referred to as the T Rowe O's.

They better stay out of our National Anthem...

[InsideCoroner]

13 hours ago, Frobby said:

I watched last night and never even noticed the patch, TBH.  I did notice the T. Rowe Price signage on the wall behind home plate.  Didn’t bother me, however.  Honestly, when I’m watching baseball, I’m pretty focused on the game, not what the player are wearing or what signage is around.  

The only time it gets to me is when there’s a really annoying and obvious digital overlay on the pitching mound, especially when it’s for sports betting or something of the sort. With live Apple TV updates about whether Urias has a 32% chance of striking out so that you can bet for or against it.