Saga involving new MLB uniforms reaches hilarious, sad new low

Nike has introduced new uniforms for the 2024 MLB season. Needless to say, the reviews have not been kind — that includes players, media and fans.

Nike is currently in the midst of a 10-year deal to be MLB’s official uniform provider which began with the 2020 season. There had been no real issues since the switch from Majestic to Nike. except for maybe the inclusion of on-jersey ads last season. But then Nike decided to switch things up for 2024.

It should be noted that Fanatics is actually manufacturing these uniforms on behalf of Nike, but as Paul Lukas points out at Uni-Watch, they’re actually following Nike’s specs and making the much-derided uniforms from the same factory Majestic used to use.

Beyond looking cheap, with more standardized, smaller fonts, players have also been unhappy that pants could no longer be customized and there might even be a pant shortage, if you can believe that.

And now the latest indignity is the fact that many have noticed that the new pants may be … uh … slightly revealing.

Jessica Smetana of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz joined Mike Golic Jr. and Mike Golic Sr. on GoJo and Golic on Friday and shared her thoughts on this new phenomenon.

She wasn’t even sure the pictures she was seeing on social media could be shown on the show because they are so graphic. The photo shown on GoJo and Golic was relatively tame, but Jessica said she saw some photos on social media that left little to the imagination. While not entirely sure if they were photoshopped or not, the fact that you could believe they were real leads Jessica to think that there is a real problem here.

Jessica has seen the downplaying of the uniform issue, but the main problem at hand appears to be the pants. Something has to be done about the pants. As GoJo points out, instead of balls and strikes, we’re just getting balls. And maybe something else that can’t be unseen. We’ll give the final word to DKN analyst Garion Thorne.

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SHOW BREAKDOWN

Hour 1: Jessica Smetana on Caitlin Clark Takes & MLB’s See-through Pants + Manziel’s Bag Man Story

Hour 2: Kenny Dillingham, ASU Head Coach on CFB’s NIL, Transfer Portal Era & Bo Nix + KFC’s Chizza

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