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Episode 18: Law and Order QBU + City Connect Monday
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The summer of lists continues as the boys combine forces to create the ultimate tier ranking of current city connect jerseys. This list has been stewing since the release of this year's new gen 2 concepts back in April and it is finally time for the tier list to see the light of day! Let us know how you think your team should rank? Were we right in hating on the jersey or do we just not understand the city?
Also, Brendan Sorsby broke the college football world with the ruling that he was granted a temporary injunction by the Texas state court in Lubbock and will be eligible to play for Texas Tech despite admitting to betting on his own team's games at Indiana. Plus, the Stanley Cup has delivered three instant classics, Danhausen is in control of all playoff outcomes, and more!
If you want to play along, the tier list we used can be found here: https://tiermaker.com/create/mlb-city-connect-2026-19366107
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Transcript
Introduction & Topic Overview
00:00:01
Cody Atkinson
Hello and welcome to the Coastal Launch Sports Talk. I'm Cody coming to you from the bayous of Houston, Texas.
00:00:09
Justin Daulton
And I'm Justin coming to you from the magic of Orlando, Florida.
00:00:13
Cody Atkinson
And today we will be your destination for Jersey talk. We have been eagerly awaiting our chance to discuss the city connect jerseys ever since the most recent batch of releases came out back in April.
00:00:27
Cody Atkinson
ah But we wanted to do it the right way, not by just talking through the new releases. But by talking about every active City Connect jersey, so we wanted this to stand alone as its own episode. And today is finally that day.
00:00:39
Cody Atkinson
We are continuing our streak of list-based episodes with a slight twist, um as this episode will not be our two individual lists, but will be a combined list between the two of us, tier-based episodes. taking each of the active City Connect jerseys and dropping them into tiers. So with our trajectory set, it's time to sit back, lock in and get started with the rundown.
00:01:04
Cody Atkinson
This is the Coastal Launch and we are ready for liftoff here on episode 18.
NHL Stanley Cup Finals Analysis
00:01:09
Cody Atkinson
teen And as we are known to do, Justin, We're getting started with the rundown and we are getting started with NHL talk. We have been starting virtually every episode here for so long now.
00:01:21
Cody Atkinson
Three games into the Stanley Cup final. Vegas is up two to one over Carolina. Every game decided by just one point. And I don't know if you've you've spotted the trend yet, but we had game one in regulation, game two in overtime, game three in double overtime. So sit down tomorrow and get locked in for what is guaranteed to be triple overtime at this rate. Man, what are your thoughts on the series so far?
00:01:47
Justin Daulton
Well, first of all, that guarantee definitely isn't going to age poorly at all by the by by next Monday.
00:01:50
Cody Atkinson
No, absolutely not.
00:01:52
Justin Daulton
i know. I mean, this Stanley Cup final is delivering. I think something that you and I talked about last week is how the the conference finals really didn't give us drama, didn't really give us intrigue through the series, right?
00:02:05
Justin Daulton
Besides the fact that Vegas was the one that beat Colorado. So it's good to see that the Stanley Cup finals are giving us what we deserved um in the eastern conference finals especially after talking about that tampa montreal should have been the the conference finals and maybe minnesota and colorado should have been the conference finals on the other side so it's good to see that there is a stanley cup final that is giving us this big game feel the championship vibes that we deserve to have um so it's good to see it uh it's electric like any time the we start getting into one point hockey one goal you know and it's punch counter punch like we talked about last week it's electric and it's so exactly what the sport is built on it's why the Stanley Cup is the hardest trophy in professional sports to win so it's it's been amazing to watch so I'm I'm locked in on every single minute that happens
00:02:55
Cody Atkinson
yeah Yeah, absolutely. it's I don't know how, if you're a remote fan of hockey or a remote remote fan of competition in general, I don't know how you could sit down and not be locked in ah from start to finish. I guess like I could understand from start to finish because the game the game script themselves has lulled you into a sense of security that the game is over and then immediately rebounded to be an all-time classic but no like you said it's given us everything that we wanted everything that we asked for it really is taking us back to round one of the stan of the stanley cup playoffs as we know the issues with the not doing it one through eight you get a killer killer first round and And the the playoffs taper off pretty much every round since then.
00:03:39
Cody Atkinson
And it's been this trend that we've been watching and been very frustrated with. And this is taking us back to round one. It is taking us back to Montreal, Tampa Bay. It is taking us back to the Philly-Pittsburgh series that was incredible.
00:03:52
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:03:54
Cody Atkinson
I'm trying to think of the series off the of my head, but even even like Montreal Buffalo in round two, like is this is taking us back to the classics, Minnesota, Dallas, like these ones that that we got to watch that were just electric and made us wish that it had been saved for later in the playoffs.
00:04:10
Cody Atkinson
And and we're finally getting it, right? We're getting Carolina. um Can they get over the hump? And we're getting Vegas. How on earth are they still here? And how are they so favored?
00:04:21
Cody Atkinson
and And it's been incredible. I do want to get your thoughts, though, on the series to come. Right. We're sitting here two to one every game by one point.
00:04:31
Cody Atkinson
But every game also feels like it could have just as easily been a blowout. And I'm curious if you think we're going to continue to get great games or if you think it tips and we're going to get some of these games that start looking like a blowout and and stay that way this time.
00:04:37
Justin Daulton
don't
00:04:49
Justin Daulton
think you're gonna get a game that goes blowout fashion. i don't think you're gonna see a three zero four zero win in this playoffs or in the standingup final I think you're going to see if there is a team that wins and they win throughout the game, it's going to be a one zero maybe a 2-1 victory.
00:05:07
Justin Daulton
And that's just the way that the these two teams are playing each other. like They do feel like they are evenly matched across the board. So you definitely have that that feel going through these through the series that this is going to be close all the way through. And like there is a chance that Vegas takes Game 3 and they're up 3-1.
00:05:24
Justin Daulton
and then they force an eliminatation game and they the game is still close so that's still very much in the card so it just really depends on how you know how the goaltending plays each game who lines up better you know line versus line but that's what the Stanley Cup finals is about it's trying to but get best on best and win the matchups and hopefully hopefully the luck bounce yours bounces your way because as you and understand have known and seen over the years it truly is you just put a puck on net you just hope for the best sometimes and that sometimes wins you a Stanley Cup
00:05:58
Cody Atkinson
I mean, that's what's doing it right now too, right? I think there were two own goals yesterday's, not yesterday's and Saturday's.
00:06:03
Justin Daulton
Thank you.
00:06:06
Cody Atkinson
I think that was five to four, you know, double overtime win or two own goals. It's like Chuck, Chuck, the puck at the net, make chaos happen. And hopefully it trickles in for you. And so there, there is a lot of that. I do, I do, I think have a little more fear than you that this series could start great and get out of hand because it's,
00:06:24
Cody Atkinson
it's always Vegas that is the one stretching the lead, right? So i forget exactly game two, Vegas either goes up 2-0 or 3-0 before.
00:06:34
Justin Daulton
It was 3-0, yeah.
00:06:36
Cody Atkinson
So 3-0 before Carolina has to climb back. And then Saturday it was 4-0 before Carolina climbs back. And that does have me nervous that the series could could tilt because – um ah It just begs the question, like does Vegas learn from its mistakes? right is Is Carolina getting back into the game because Vegas is taking their foot off the gas, and do they learn not to do that? And then we see them take game four, game four and then they're up three to one, and and at that point they snowball five-game series. That's
00:07:11
Cody Atkinson
That possibility, I think I'm a little more nervous that we could go down that route just because it it does feel like it's two to one and every game's been decided by one point. But at the same time, Vegas, it feels like in a lot of ways, it's just dominated the series and and kind of let Carolina off the hook, even though I know game one was kind of flipped the script. Carolina dominated, let Vegas off the hook. But So I'm i'm hopeful.
00:07:34
Cody Atkinson
um I really, really want to see Carolina take game four. And then I think that sets up for us being able to go the distance and really wonder
College Football and Gambling Scandal Discussion
00:07:43
Cody Atkinson
who's going to win. If if Vegas takes game game four, um it could take a lot of the air out of this series.
00:07:50
Cody Atkinson
but But one of the things it's going to decide game four, and and you you noted it a little bit in yours, is is the goaltending. um Vegas goes up 4-0. Carolina pulls Anderson, their their main goalie, puts in, I forget his name, like Busby or something like that.
00:08:07
Cody Atkinson
um I forget his last name. I didn't write it down. um They put him in net make the comeback to get four to four. He has a penalty shot save. By all accounts, plays incredible.
00:08:19
Cody Atkinson
Who who do you think you go to in game four? Is it the starter's job again? Or do you do you see the hot hand from that you know period and a half and and try to ride that for the game four victory?
00:08:30
Cody Atkinson
It's Anderson's job.
00:08:31
Justin Daulton
It's Anderson's job. And that's that's it's my that's my philosophy. And we dealt with this as Tampa fans when the passing of the torch between Ben Bishop and Andre Vasileski happened.
00:08:42
Justin Daulton
There was the the the first Stanley Cup that the Lightning went to. Bishop goes down with the injury. But before that, they there was a blowout, I think, in game two against Chicago. And Vazzy came in.
00:08:54
Justin Daulton
Like game three, Bishop went back in to the net and that was a game he ultimately got hurt in. He plays game, plays the rest of the game three, plays game four, ultimately losing game five. don't know. We lost in game six. So Vazzy still plays three whole games as the goaltender in net.
00:09:08
Justin Daulton
But for all accounts, that it was still been Bishop's job until it wasn't in terms of injury. And then the next season they split goaltending 60, 40, and then Vazzy took over the next season after that.
00:09:19
Justin Daulton
So Anderson is the one that you there you go with You go with Anderson. I understand the hot hand conversation, but an athlete, you're allowed to have one bad day as long as you rebound the next day. Now, if he comes out tomorrow night and gives up three in the first period, now you have a conversation of like, hey, we can't bet are our season, this incredible season that we just had.
00:09:44
Justin Daulton
on you having a bad series so i think the conversation changes if it's two games in a row, but one game, no, you you're allowed to have a ah bad day as long as you rebound the next time out there.
00:09:49
Cody Atkinson
Mm-hmm.
00:09:54
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, I think that's probably where I sit too. It was just an interesting topic. to In my mind, I was like, it's it's obviously Anderson game four. I was listening to a hockey podcast this morning and they were debating it pretty heavily, pretty 50-50 split of of what they thought they should do. And I was kind of taken a little bit aback by that. But also, I don't think I realized how 1A, 1B the Carolina goaltending situation is. like It wasn't I think it was a little closer split in the regular season and then Anderson's just taken off in the playoffs. But from a confidence perspective, I feel like you just have to give it to him and say, you know, the the the world wants me to bench you, but you're the guy.
00:10:34
Cody Atkinson
go out there and prove it. And then obviously, if like you said, if he if he starts giving up, you know, one, two, three early, or even if it's just one, but it's a bad one, then I think you can have a quick trigger and try to keep yourself in the game because you have to win game four for this to be a competitive series. In my opinion, you going down is going to be really, really tough. So I think we're both on the same page on that. I'm pretty stoked to see it. I've i've said up I've been rooting for Carolina. I'll still take them to win it, but i ah that is that is stubbornness alone because I think it's looking like Vegas.
00:11:12
Cody Atkinson
um But yeah, I think i think that that wraps it up. We've we've got a great Stanley Cup. If you're not enjoying it, get to enjoying it. um Tuesday night, triple overtime. You heard it here first.
00:11:25
Justin Daulton
Yeah, if you're not watching this and you're not a hockey fan, like watch it because it'll make you a hockey fan.
00:11:30
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. Yeah, exactly. but But with that, we're going to kick it to a much more depressing conversation. Big, big news out of out of college football today. i have labeled it in our rundown as the death of college sports. Brendan Soresby, Texas Tech transfer quarterback, noted gambler.
00:11:52
Cody Atkinson
I think it's up to like over a thousand get ah bets across his career. college career, I think between his personal bets and money that he went to family members to bet, I think he's over $90,000 in bets during his college career, some of which obviously in college football, some of which on other sports. That does include him betting on games played by the University of Indiana while he was a ah backup quarterback for the football team.
00:12:21
Cody Atkinson
The judge in Lubbock ruled that, sort ah quote unquote, Sorsby's attorneys demonstrated he will suffer a probably imminent and irreparable injury if he were not able to participate for tech in 2026, to which I say, duh, he's going to face injury. That's called the consequences of your own actions. that From what I can gather, the statement didn't really have much to say about whether or not the judge believed that he that there was evidence that he gambled or anything like that. It was just literally looking at,
00:12:56
Cody Atkinson
what would happen if he weren't able to play. So he has the temporary injunction. And as of right now, he would be suspended for the first two games against Abilene Christian and Oregon state, a real murderer's row of two games. And then he would be eligible to play the remainder of the season and would be the first athlete ever. I believe to play in a sport after having been caught gambling on that sport. What are your thoughts, man?
00:13:24
Justin Daulton
Yeah, i then we initially messaged each other about it, right? um We predicted it, or at least I did, right? Last week, I think you said that he won't play or whatever last time we spoke about him.
00:13:35
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:13:35
Cody Atkinson
I was more hopeful that that sanity would reign supreme.
00:13:39
Justin Daulton
Yeah, and I was just very cutthroat. I was like, no he's going to play because the state of Texas or the city of Lubbock is going to rule in his favor so he can play. And I was right. And it's that's just the current state of college athletics is that the state and the states and the situation have way too much power to to allow these players to play.
00:13:57
Justin Daulton
And and that's just what's ah that's just what's happening. We talked about it. in the spring with Alabama playing a ah basketball player that shouldn't be playing ultimately didn't end into playing towards the end, but was still granted allowed to play.
00:14:10
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, he he played he played five games, I think it was, before he was before he eventually was removed from the from the team after the second ruling came back in the favor of the NCAA.
00:14:17
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:14:21
Justin Daulton
Yeah. So, I mean, we now have like, we now have proven like cases that the state is going to allow these players to play if they get involved. And, uh, You would now have a workaround. You have a loophole. if you're If you're a player that gets caught doing something you shouldn't be doing that violates NIL or violates NCAA rules.
00:14:39
Justin Daulton
the The issue at hand to this is what you and I texted about is that there needs to be a governing body that actually has power in college athletics. And I'm i'm not smart enough to have a plan for that. I know that people have thrown up the idea of you know, the president of the United States has this power, or you create a new power of being, you elect Nick Saban to be the president of it. And he's the one that sets down on the committee. And, you know, maybe that committee is what also handles the college football playoff and, you know, playoff expansion and NIL and all these things like and they oversee everything and when they actually levy out punishment, the punishment goes through. That's what needs to happen.
00:15:15
Justin Daulton
I know that you are a little bit more cynical in it that it's never going to happen. I do think there will be ah a day where it does happen because it has to. like College athletics and the way that it's going, NCAA is a powerless being and we've known that for years that the NCAA doesn't actually do anything unless they send down like the death penalty to a program.
00:15:35
Justin Daulton
So... And that hasn't happened since, what, the 70s with SMU?
00:15:40
Cody Atkinson
Since SMU, yeah.
00:15:41
Justin Daulton
still And a baseball program in in the 2000s that I can't recall right now. So a it is what it is. He shouldn't be playing. I know you had a direct comparison to Pete Rose earlier when we were when we were messaging each other about it.
00:15:59
Justin Daulton
a It is what it is at this point. If he does it in in and ah and the NFL, he won't play in the NFL. So hopefully he learns his lesson because if he gets caught doing in the nfl he'll get he'll get blacklisted out of the NFL and he won't play.
00:16:11
Justin Daulton
So get away with it while you can in college football and and move on.
00:16:15
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, I think that's the thing that confuses me the most, right? Is like the legal atmosphere, however you want to refer to it, is so heavily based on precedent, right? Like whatever has been decided in the past is the standard for what gets decided in the future.
00:16:25
Justin Daulton
Mm-hmm.
00:16:30
Cody Atkinson
And and that's why it made sense to me that like all these guys who are making age-based claims were winning, right? Like I'm being discriminated against because of age buth blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:16:41
Cody Atkinson
They were winning. And I was like, okay, I see the logic there, right? Like I see where a judge looks at that and says, well, you know, you're not able to do that in any other area of life. So why should you be able to do that here? And that's where I thought we, I thought that that's where I thought we could stand firm on gambling, right? Pete Rose, band for life.
00:16:59
Cody Atkinson
You have the two, I think two baseball pitchers right now, Emmanuel Class A and I forget the other guy who are out of the game because of prop bets. They weren't, they they were just, you know, ah telling people that they were to throw a ball as the first pitch.
00:17:13
Cody Atkinson
and they're banned from the sport during the investigation, which is the right you know approach to this. And you have, there's been, i think, a handful of college basketball cases that have come out lately, and those players are getting banned from the sport.
00:17:27
Cody Atkinson
um It just felt like we had a precedent here that was pretty set in stone. Like, you can get away with a lot of things if you're good at sports, and that's something that we morally have to walk through as fans, right? Do I want a root for this guy? Because technically he can play, but...
00:17:42
Cody Atkinson
I wouldn't be rooting for him in any other area of life. But but but like betting was the obvious one, right? You can't impact the credibility of the sport you're playing. And and now we can't even stand on that. Like that's bonkers to me, man. It's it's I mean, I put it as the the death of college sports like.
00:18:01
Cody Atkinson
you know, we, we have the issues with NIL where like it's players should be getting paid, but the system we have to pay them is outrageously untrackable and inconsistent with the rules.
00:18:13
Cody Atkinson
We have, you know, the portal that really needs to be wrapped up. Players should have mobility, but also we don't, it's not good for the sport of players play for four different teams in four different years.
00:18:24
Cody Atkinson
Like, We have we have these things that are that that like people are having to wrestle with as fans, and then on top of that, professionals coming back to the sport, international professionals coming to the sport, players getting sixth and seventh years, and now you can gamble on the sport.
00:18:25
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:18:41
Cody Atkinson
As long as you can sue, because you you it's not hard to get a temporary injunction, apparently, and that injunction will stand up for long enough for you to play the season because the legal system moves slow.
00:18:53
Cody Atkinson
um I'm going to transfer us over to the, to the kind of the second aspect of this here. um The courts can't do anything, won't do anything, however you want to say it. It's the most devastated I've been in like receiving sports news in a long time where I just like kind of had to like, i just like read it and was like, do I even want to watch the season next year? If this is like what we're doing these days, like, is this even, is this even sport anymore?
00:19:19
Cody Atkinson
Or is this just like litigation or, um I was i still very dejected by the the news, but obviously it's it's one step in the process, right? So the NCAA will appeal the injunction and seek to um get a higher court to reverse the ruling of the the state court in Lubbock.
00:19:42
Cody Atkinson
So that will depend on the timing. If they can get in front of a higher judge quickly enough, maybe we can get this reversed before the season starts. I think that's similar to what happened with Betty Aka. has the injunction, it gets overturned, um and then he gets removed from the Alabama the alabama basketball team. um Also, things I've seen today, ADs for the Big 12, and also I saw a quote from the Georgia AD discussing the option of refusing to play Texas Tech, not just in football, but in all sports. If Texas Tech chooses to proceed by putting Brendan Soresby on the field, that they will just, that they're they're weighing options of taking them off of their schedule um and just refusing to play them so that they have nobody to play.
00:20:28
Cody Atkinson
um my One that I hope, I haven't seen anything about it, but um you know can the NCAA just take the punishment off of Sorsby since the legal system said they can't do that and put it on Texas Tech, who is a member of their body, um and just say, if you play Brandon Sorsby, a quarterback, you will be ineligible for the playoffs. So he's allowed to play for you because because the courts won't let us not.
00:20:53
Cody Atkinson
But if you do choose to play him, you will be ineligible to compete for a national championship. um Any thoughts on on kind of that? Like, what are you hoping to see? um How much hope do you have that we get a change before the season? are you just resigned to like he's playing?
00:21:10
Justin Daulton
Yeah, I chalked up to almost a 0% chance that this changes before kickoff in August. um I guess ah the hard part here is I hate i hate um disciplining the whole because of the one.
00:21:25
Justin Daulton
And that sucks because there's a lot of good guys, I'm sure, that play for that exact team that deserve to play football games, that have a chance to play for the playoffs, the national championship, whatever it may be.
00:21:37
Justin Daulton
so i I hate both options because it's punishing the whole. But I mean, that's if you really want change, that's the only way to really get it is by eliminating the fact that a team can't be competitive or they immediately forfeit any sort of, you know, additional, you know, you almost levy out, you know, i a situation or an SMU situation where you can play regular season games, but you're going to kill the program by not allowing it to play for postseason games, whether it be bowl games or, or a college football playoff in this situation. So I don't hate, I hate both, but if I hadn't picked one, I'd much rather it be these guys still get to play football and give a chance to, uh,
00:22:19
Justin Daulton
you know, play out their their hopes of dreams of being a professional football player. So that's what I would hope.
00:22:23
Cody Atkinson
get
00:22:24
Justin Daulton
But I give it a 0% chance of the change over Brandon Sorsley will be playing quarterback for Texas Tech come August and September.
00:22:30
Cody Atkinson
yeah i think with any of these my general hope is that the proposed threat would be enough for texas tech to do what's right and take brendan sourceby off of their roster on their own accord um so that they can still be competitive right like i wouldn't want them to actually play with Sorsby and then be ineligible. I would hope that by telling them they're gonna be ineligible for the playoffs, it would be enough for them to just not play him so that the rest of the team members can can still compete for the highest honor. To be clear, I i do hope that happens. i so I have, I don't know, like I'm assuming the NCAA will appeal. ah My assumption is that that timeline will come back
00:23:15
Cody Atkinson
and it won't be immediate. And so I doubt that brings relief before the season starts. AD's coming together and boycotting Texas Tech, I doubt it. Like, I'm glad they're having the conversations. i'm I'm glad everyone is voicing their displeasure across the whole sport so that we can hopefully make sure that this is not protocol in the future. But but I would be utterly shocked if anything happened to their schedule. Like, maybe one of these teams that you're paying to play in the non-conference refuses to play like an Abilene Christian or Oregon State or, you know, whoever else they selling, maybe one of those, but like a big 12 team not playing them, I doubt that happens because the big 12 AD would have to go against tech who is currently the richest school in his conference.
00:24:03
Cody Atkinson
So, you know, doing what's right for the sport is probably signing the the death certificate on your career. um I would respect it immensely. I don't see it happening.
00:24:03
Justin Daulton
Right.
00:24:16
Cody Atkinson
My only hope is that the NCAA comes out and says, look, you went around our rules. And so here's another rule that says you need to do it our way. We're just going to round about it. But again, I don't, to your point, I don't have a ton of hope in that because they didn't do that to Alabama basketball.
00:24:35
Cody Atkinson
They didn't punish them for playing with an illegal player for five games.
00:24:35
Justin Daulton
Right.
00:24:38
Cody Atkinson
So What are they going to do But this is a much bigger case that's going to force them to make more statements than they had to make in the past. So I have slight hope, but I am probably more along with you where I think he will play this season.
00:24:53
Cody Atkinson
um And I think he will have the opportunity to play for the playoffs. And I will die a little on the inside, but I can almost assure you if if Texas Tech plays football, I will not be watching a second of it, nor will I be discussing it because – That's what I can do, right? Like ADs can boycott playing. I can just not watch and not discuss. And then if we all did that as a collective unit, they would become the least marketable property in the sport and would be forced to make different decisions.
00:25:23
Cody Atkinson
Not that we actually have power. um Collectively we do, but there's that's not going to happen. But that's what I can do, right? So that's probably what I will do if he plays. I will just refuse to watch Texas Tech football, including any playoff games if they were to were to make it.
00:25:41
Cody Atkinson
But we can we can we can kill it there. I think we've we've we've talked about this before. um It needed to be talked about again because... you know It's still a shock to the system that he that this actually worked.
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00:25:53
Cody Atkinson
um and it just kind of It needs to be voiced across the landscape how much the entire fan base, media, everybody is disgusted with.
00:26:05
Cody Atkinson
this decision and and hopefully can can do something about it. But we're going to kick it over and start having some fun again. You brought up a fun topic last week about Dan Howson cursing playoff teams and you're telling me it's spreading. So what's the latest?
00:26:21
Justin Daulton
So I briefed you on this last week that the Knicks and Stephen A. Smith were involved with Dan Howes on the WWE superstar, that his whole gimmick is that he curses other WWE superstars and that puts them on like to the punch where they're losing championships, matches, bad luck, you name it, it's it's happening, right?
00:26:39
Justin Daulton
So he curses teams that the Knicks are playing, which led to the Knicks coming back to beat whoever they beat in the first round. And then they sweep the Cavaliers to make it into the ends of the finals.
00:26:53
Justin Daulton
And so now you're kind of in this situation where the Knicks... have continued to win basketball games. Dan Housen did make a video to Stephen H. Smith before the finals started saying that if you don't send me another check, the curse is goingnna going back on the Knicks.
00:27:09
Justin Daulton
Stephen H. Smith's noncommittal said that he will continue to pay the checks. um so danhausen has not uncursed the knicks or has not cursed the Knicks um and the Knicks are up to nothing um granted they've been really good they've been really good games honestly I i did catch the the last little bit of game one um when they when they came out like and they came back and they won the game so that was fun and then they win basically on a last shot victory in game two
00:27:22
Cody Atkinson
Shockingly.
00:27:42
Justin Daulton
So the Knicks seem to have this Dan Housen thing going on and it's working. Now, I briefed you on that. What I did not expect is that this has now gone to the NHL.
00:27:54
Cody Atkinson
So has he cursed Carolina?
00:27:55
Justin Daulton
what if So what if I told you that a fan paid on Cameo for Dan Housen to curse the Carolina Hurricanes? So they played it.
00:28:04
Cody Atkinson
Dan Housen must be stopped. this This cannot be allowed.
00:28:08
Justin Daulton
They played it. they played it before game two And Vegas. And then Vegas wins game two. And then win the games. And then won game three to go 2-1 in the series.
00:28:24
Cody Atkinson
that's That's crazy. um ah damn he might like it Obviously, it's it's shits it's funny, right? But also, like it's almost like when you know the dog that like hits the basketballs into to two hoops at the bottom of the stick.
00:28:39
Justin Daulton
Yeah, yeah, The Corgi.
00:28:41
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, the corgi.
00:28:41
Justin Daulton
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:28:41
Cody Atkinson
And then you're like, how is he so right all the time?
00:28:44
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:28:45
Cody Atkinson
it's like It's kind of like that. It's funny. It's like, okay, this is obviously like, I don't believe this has any the impact on the games, but like, haha. But then he like he keeps it keeps working and you're like, no, but like maybe we should make him stop because he might actually be.
00:28:59
Cody Atkinson
like The dad is starting to say that he might be impacting this somehow and maybe we don't understand it all, but we got to stop it somehow because like we can't have Dan House and picking our champions based on who pays him on Etsy or Cameo or whatever.
00:29:14
Justin Daulton
A cameo.
00:29:14
Cody Atkinson
yeah
00:29:16
Justin Daulton
I'm over here thinking about how do we how do we pull money together for for Texas A&M to win football games this fall like or the Texans.
00:29:20
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:29:23
Cody Atkinson
But I think like, I think the answer is you have to wait until it matters enough, right? Like you can't start paying in week one because that's just too much money.
00:29:31
Justin Daulton
Sure.
00:29:32
Cody Atkinson
You have, they have to be good enough to get there on their own to the playoffs. And then you start paying him because you can't be paying him for three months.
00:29:37
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:29:41
Cody Atkinson
Like that's just, it's unaffordable.
00:29:42
Justin Daulton
That's fair. like So like, you know, we would have taken him back. we We would have paid him to curse the hurricanes when the, when the, when they were the Cal field and then Ole Miss.
00:29:47
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, of course the hurricanes and and then Ohio State and then what I think it would have been Ole Miss and then Indiana. So I think we have time to figure this out is what I'm saying.
00:29:54
Justin Daulton
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:57
Cody Atkinson
Like come December, we really need to understand like what the investment requirement is and then we then we can play.
00:30:04
Justin Daulton
Well, I think, I think it's gotta it's gotta be one game before that we have to we have to have money ready by Thanksgiving.
00:30:10
Cody Atkinson
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
00:30:12
Justin Daulton
To curse the curse Longhorns. Yeah.
00:30:14
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, yeah, that's true. We got to do that one too.
00:30:16
Cody Atkinson
um there's Yeah, if we're going to do it, we got to start where it matters.
00:30:16
Justin Daulton
Yeah, so
00:30:21
Justin Daulton
so... So if you're if you're listening...
00:30:21
Cody Atkinson
We got to get that the first win under our belt for a lot.
00:30:22
Justin Daulton
we So if you're listening, we're going to start a GoFundMe here for the Colts to launch to to pay ah Dan Housen on Cameo to curse football teams for us in the fall.
00:30:28
Cody Atkinson
Exactly.
00:30:35
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. Yeah. We got, we got to figure out what the, what the cost is going to be. Then we'll put the GoFundMe together and, and we, we probably won't stop at A&M football if we're being honest. So if you overfund, we'll just extend it to the Texans and um then we can, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:30:48
Justin Daulton
The Texans and then to the Lightning or the Wild.
00:30:50
Cody Atkinson
Like A&M baseball or whoever.
00:30:51
Justin Daulton
Yeah, it'll just keep rolling on.
00:30:52
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:54
Cody Atkinson
yeah yeah well Yeah, exactly. We'll have a standing Danhausen fun because ah because as ridiculous as it is, that the the results are there. The data says if you want to win, contact Danhausen.
00:30:54
Justin Daulton
We'll just call it the Danhausen Fund.
MLB Team Updates
00:31:07
Cody Atkinson
And so that's what we got to do.
00:31:07
Justin Daulton
Yeah, if especially especially Vegas goes up 3-1 tomorrow. And then obviously the Knicks are playing tonight. So the Knicks go up 3-0 and then the Knights go 3-1. the data is there
00:31:18
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:31:18
Justin Daulton
You can't dispute it.
00:31:19
Cody Atkinson
Well, honestly, the data's there enough at this point.
00:31:20
Justin Daulton
And
00:31:21
Cody Atkinson
If I was a fan of the Spurs or Carolina, somebody from that fan base needs to be contacting him, up the price to undo it and and flip the curse.
00:31:31
Justin Daulton
and that's the thing.
00:31:31
Cody Atkinson
And
00:31:31
Justin Daulton
he he He offers for a fee to uncurse.
00:31:35
Cody Atkinson
yeah.
00:31:35
Justin Daulton
So none of these teeth none of these fans have done anything to uncurse either. So obviously they they don't care enough. They don't care enough to commit to the bit to to take care of what they need to take care of.
00:31:46
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. Yeah. So, so they, they should do, they should be doing that today. It should have been done already.
00:31:51
Justin Daulton
Right, yes. Should have been done already.
00:31:52
Cody Atkinson
And, and that's why we need, that's why we need help with the GoFundMe is because we are going to need to recurse regularly when the other team figures out what we're doing and uncurses.
00:32:00
Justin Daulton
Yes.
00:32:05
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:32:05
Cody Atkinson
So who we're prepared to curse like five times per, per game.
00:32:05
Justin Daulton
so
00:32:11
Justin Daulton
Yeah, it's 100%. The data's there, man. it's it's It's hilarious to watch this stuff, especially when you see him interact with people like was Stephen A. Smith and all that. The fact that the the Golden Knights planted on their Jumbotron before the game was hilarious.
00:32:25
Cody Atkinson
That's so funny.
00:32:25
Justin Daulton
So, yeah. So, i mean, it's ah it's a hilarious bit. It's working, and it's... if if we come back onto the pod next week obviously you're out of town judd and i pop on the pod next week talking about danhausen because the nicks swept uh swept the spurs and the knights went for one over over carolina that we know this is all danhausen's fault yeah immediately oh i'll start the go fund me right then and there
00:32:46
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. We immediately know what has to be done.
00:32:55
Cody Atkinson
Absolutely. Good stuff, man. with with With that, we have, you know, four or five months to put this GoFundMe together. So well we'll keep working in the background, but we'll we'll push the episode forward here um and we'll do the wrap up. We haven't talked any MLB yet. We will be talking, I guess, a lot of MLB technically, but just jerseys, not what's on the field. So give us the low down on the raise and then i'll I'll hook it with the Astros and we can get cruising on this thing.
00:33:23
Justin Daulton
Yeah, ah things are not looking good in St. Petersburg, Florida right now. The Rays went 1-4 this week. They got swept by the Tigers last week, only took one against the Marlins over the weekend.
00:33:35
Justin Daulton
As of recording, we were up we were leading against the Red Sox. Let me see. Yeah, that lead still holds right now, two to one um So that's good. At least there's some sort of shining hope.
00:33:46
Justin Daulton
So this week, my commitment a couple weeks ago was that I was going to bring you a stat each week.
00:33:51
Cody Atkinson
A stat a week.
00:33:51
Justin Daulton
i do don't have i do not have a stat for you this week except for the fact that local medias have started to do exorcisms to get rid of whatever has happened to the Tampa Bay race the last two weeks.
00:34:01
Justin Daulton
um
00:34:01
Cody Atkinson
Dude, maybe it's Dan Housen and you just don't know about it.
00:34:03
Justin Daulton
man Maybe it's Dan Allison. So one of the radio stations that that I follow that have really good opinions, but they're also talking about the stadium deal. So I follow them more for the insight on the stadium deal.
00:34:14
Justin Daulton
They were doing an exorcism live on radio for the Tampa Bay race. So yeah,
00:34:19
Cody Atkinson
so stupid.
00:34:20
Justin Daulton
just ah Just to get some mojo going back in a positive direction. so we'll see if it works. The only thing I know really this week to talk about is Nick Matz, who was our number four starter in the rotation, has been moved to the bullpen due to some lackluster starts to see if he can get, see some things moving again for him.
00:34:37
Cody Atkinson
I saw that. Yeah.
00:34:40
Justin Daulton
Yeah. too early to tell. But long season, I'm not super concerned yet. I'm not on my reaching for you know the the the mallet to break the glass quite yet.
00:34:51
Justin Daulton
um But definitely need to start getting things going back in the
City Connect Jerseys Evaluation
00:34:55
Justin Daulton
right direction. You had a hot start, you're going to have some lulls, so it's it's how you gottanna get out of it. So that's just kind of where I'm at.
00:35:02
Justin Daulton
Still floating at the top of the ALE, so nothing too extreme yet, especially because the Yankees just lost Aaron Judge for a little bit of time. So you know this is the but this is the time to kind of capitalize on that situation.
00:35:10
Cody Atkinson
for a while.
00:35:14
Justin Daulton
So hopefully we can get things moving me in the right direction. A win against Boston tonight will help with that a lot. So we'll see. I'm definitely going to be watching a lot closer this week to see what's going on with this team because the backs have gone silent. We're not scoring runs and we're not pitching well. So we're just not playing good baseball all around.
00:35:32
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be, like you said hot start. This is just a ball a little bit of, you know, you shock the league with a style of play. They're going to adjust and then you got to make another adjustment, like the back and forth.
00:35:43
Cody Atkinson
Just got to get back going in the right direction. um it does help. I think they said the judge would be re-imaged or something along those lines in four to six weeks, which means he will not be back in four to six weeks.
00:35:55
Cody Atkinson
We'll just have a better timeline in four to six weeks.
00:35:58
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:35:58
Cody Atkinson
He's going to be out for a while and, um
00:36:00
Justin Daulton
At least pass the all-star break.
00:36:01
Cody Atkinson
you know, yeah, at least past the all-star break that the rays really need to see what they can do to try to gain some ground and give themselves some cushion for what he does come back rested and, and ready to go.
00:36:14
Cody Atkinson
Absolutely.
00:36:16
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:36:16
Cody Atkinson
Astros this week, a little bit better than the Rays, but not like not a great week. They went three and three this week. um I would refer to it as a disappointing week. um You came out a couple weeks ago, you had the sweep against Chicago.
00:36:31
Cody Atkinson
You followed that up with a 3-1 series win over the Rangers. It was the most momentum. You had had all season, but we said as a fan base, you know, let's see how they do against the Brewers and the Pirates. These are the measuring stick opponents.
00:36:47
Cody Atkinson
They went one and two against the Brewers, but you felt really good about it. And that ended last week. And then this week, one and two against the Pirates. And it was not pretty. You were, they had a six run comeback in the eighth inning. And that's how they won the one game that they won.
00:37:02
Cody Atkinson
um You were a single six run, inning away from getting swept by the Pirates in what would have been under that scenario, three fairly uncompetitive games. It was not a good look.
00:37:14
Cody Atkinson
the The vibes were down, but then the A's come to town. You destroy them game one and two. You feel really good about it. you start to You're starting to see the light the end the tunnel again, and then you get 5-0'd.
00:37:25
Cody Atkinson
Game three, can't quite finish the sweep. This is a team that is just it's it's teetering on the edge, man. It's like ah one bad week and you're like sell it all and then one good week and you're like but maybe we can compete this year and then and like it's just a little back and forth they really do feel like they've been on the verge of breaking through and and becoming a at least wild card al west week division competitor and they just can't break through you every time they have moment momentum they lose it
00:37:57
Cody Atkinson
Every time they lose enough momentum for you to give up, they get it back, but they just continue to hover here under 500 and five-ish games out of the division. So every week I will come here and I will check to see if we are trending in the right direction or if it's time to give up.
00:38:13
Cody Atkinson
And and currently they are just staying close enough to not allow you to make a decision on that. So, but I also will bring a a fact here using your methodology, and this is why you cannot trade Jordan.
00:38:20
Justin Daulton
Saw that.
00:38:28
Cody Atkinson
Jordan is on a tear. He got AL Player of the Week this week with an on-base percentage of 577. He hit a Grand Slam on Saturday.
00:38:39
Cody Atkinson
At that point, the Grand Slam put him into first place in every Triple Crown category.
00:38:40
Justin Daulton
saw that
00:38:45
Cody Atkinson
He has since been passed up in batting average by one Yandy Diaz, who leads the league or leads the AL batting average. But Jordan remains first in two of three Triple Crown categories. He is second in batting average. That is what, as Astros fans, that is what we are here to watch at this point.
00:39:02
Cody Atkinson
um Until further notice, right? The team is going to tell me whether I should invest or whether I should start mock drafting. Here soon, they will tell me. But until then, it's just all eyes on Jordan.
00:39:14
Cody Atkinson
Will I get to see a Triple Crown winner in an Astros uniform?
00:39:18
Justin Daulton
Be cool. Yeah.
00:39:19
Cody Atkinson
That would be cool, man. With that, we'll kick it to the notifications. I'll take this first one i don't know if you want to grab the last two. I think those are... ah I think you like those better, but um I didn't pick, put this as a topic this week. This has been a talking point the last couple weeks, but the college world series playoffs have carried on. The super regionals were put a bit of a dude. They were a bit of a dud this week. There were eight, eight series best of three. Only one of the eight series went to game three. That was UNC USC and North Carolina walked them off on the final matter of the game. It was electric.
00:40:00
Cody Atkinson
But the other seven series were all 2-0 sweeps, so not much to talk about. But the Omaha field is set. ah That will begin, I believe, Thursday, maybe Friday, but I believe the College World Series in Omaha will begin on Thursday.
00:40:17
Cody Atkinson
There are two sides of the bracket.
00:40:17
Justin Daulton
Jesus.
00:40:19
Cody Atkinson
Side one is West Virginia, Troy, North Carolina, and Ole Miss. Side two is Oklahoma, Alabama, Texas, and Georgia. ah You'll note five of the eight competitors are from the SEC, so the SEC continues to dominate college baseball. I believe they've won three or four in a row, and they will be guaranteed to have at least one team in the College World Series finals.
00:40:44
Cody Atkinson
If Ole Miss makes it out of side one, which – Right now, I think is either going to be UNC or Ole Miss. I think one of those two makes it through. There's a chance that we get an all-SEC final for i believe what I believe would be the second or third time in the last four years. so um Super Regionals were a dud, but i ah there's reason to to be excited for the field that Omaha set that that that's set for Omaha. when when you get uneven results, but all the favorites move on, that that gives you reason to believe that when the favorites face each other, it'll be electric. So highly recommend you tune into that still.
00:41:20
Justin Daulton
I have an announcement to make with all this because you surprised me with an announcement at the end of the NHL season or but as the regular or the playoffs was going on.
00:41:22
Cody Atkinson
All right, what is it?
00:41:30
Justin Daulton
I'm attaching, um I'm attaching a wagon for, for the, for Omaha for me.
00:41:36
Cody Atkinson
okay
00:41:37
Justin Daulton
I am all in on vibes. This is pure vibes. You know that I'm vibes over logic when it comes to college athletics.
00:41:42
Cody Atkinson
It's going to one of three. I just don't know which one it's going to be. It's one of the non-SEC teams, I'm pretty sure.
00:41:45
Justin Daulton
I'm, It sure is. I am hitching my wagon to West Virginia University.
00:41:50
Cody Atkinson
i can see. Yeah, it's because you watched them sing Country Royals at the end the game, didn't you?
00:41:54
Justin Daulton
If I'm in country rows, it's the way that they play baseball, man. It's electric. The the the walk-off hits they had in in the regionals. I saw the walk-off home run they had in game one against Cal Poly. like It is electric baseball. So I'm hitching my wagon to West Virginia. Do I think they're going win?
00:42:11
Justin Daulton
No. But I'm here for a good time, not a long time. So as long as I get good baseball, fun baseball out of it,
00:42:14
Cody Atkinson
That's right.
00:42:16
Justin Daulton
i'm here for so for the next two weeks i'm a mountaineer and i'm go to be singing country roads with the with the Mountaineers.
00:42:23
Cody Atkinson
I mean, you've seen have you seen the video where they lock arms like we do the war hand?
00:42:26
Justin Daulton
Yes. Yes.
00:42:27
Cody Atkinson
And they sing country roads.
00:42:29
Justin Daulton
Yes. i want to be a part of it. like How do we get to West Virginia to go watch some baseball with them?
00:42:31
Cody Atkinson
it's
00:42:34
Justin Daulton
Because that is the electric.
00:42:36
Cody Atkinson
You've got to fly into Pittsburgh and then drive over.
00:42:36
Justin Daulton
i won don't tell me Don't tell me you won't want to do it too because i know you're in for the bit.
00:42:40
Cody Atkinson
You can't.
00:42:43
Cody Atkinson
Oh, I would do it. i would do it in a – are you kidding me? I would do it in a heartbeat. if ah i i will go to Omaha one of these years. It's not this year. i will be out of the country during the first weekend of Omaha. I will go to the first weekend of Omaha one of these years, and it will be the best weekend of my life almost certainly.
00:42:59
Cody Atkinson
The best sports weekend.
00:43:00
Justin Daulton
Can't wait.
00:43:01
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, Amanda can probably hear me, so i shouldn't say that.
00:43:01
Justin Daulton
Can't wait. Can't wait.
00:43:06
Justin Daulton
um Okay. Other two notifications for you guys this week. Texans have officially reworked the contract for Nico Collins, ah guaranteeing his salary for the next two years, um giving him a $9 million ah raise next year and then an $8 million dollar raise the following year.
00:43:20
Justin Daulton
The deal did not include an extension, which is something that we've talked about on the podcast, is that all the two players on the Texans 53-man roster are locked in for the next two to three seasons. so that's really good news for the the window that is open for the Texans and securing Nico Collins for the next two years where you don't have to really talk about contracts or trades or anything like that. Like you're putting a top 10 wide receiver lockdown for the team for the next two to three years.
00:43:49
Justin Daulton
So that's a good sign for for the Texans and something that will help out CJ Stroud this year, especially in a wide receiver room that was pretty shaky last year, you know ah for for all intents purposes. So i good to see the man get some money. He's definitely well worth the money.
00:44:07
Justin Daulton
Any notes from you?
00:44:09
Cody Atkinson
No, no, no, no. I was surprised to see that it didn't include an extension, but I know Casario is a big fan of of working on those kind of three-year deals, so it doesn't surprise me as much that that he kind of wants to see this one run its course and bounce back.
00:44:23
Cody Atkinson
um And, you know, Nico has this injury history, so I'm also not fully opposed to to keeping the deal short and just making sure that that we don't sign on right before, you know, one of the injuries ends up being worse than...
00:44:27
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:44:36
Cody Atkinson
Expected, obviously, i I hope he plays his entire career here and it is successful the whole time, but I think this was a good way to approach keeping him happy while not, you know, adding too much years to, ah you know, an injury prone receiver.
00:44:51
Justin Daulton
Yeah, absolutely. And the last one I have for you, because we talked NHL awards, gosh, what felt like months ago now, right, that we talked about it. Awards have started to go out to nhl players and coaches for the 10-day lightning.
00:45:06
Justin Daulton
John Cooper has won his first Jack Adams trophy, which is for the best coach. Obviously, well-deserved second straight season of 100 plus more points. And, uh,
00:45:18
Justin Daulton
Ultimately, probably would have won a division if it wasn't for Buffalo catching a wagon there towards the last two months of the season. So good on my coach for a guy that at this point is cemented himself as a probably a first ballot Hall of Famer in the NHL.
00:45:32
Justin Daulton
So happy to see him get recognized for the hard work that he's done in Tampa. And then for the other trophies coming to to Channel Side Drive is Andre Vazileski has won his second Vizna trophy for best goaltender in the league.
00:45:47
Justin Daulton
Obviously well-deserved. Big Cat played one hell a season every time that either you or I churned on Tampa hockey. He was standing on his head. Damn near shutting out every single time that that he played. So well-deserved second year or a second time winning that trophy.
00:46:02
Justin Daulton
Obviously a little bittersweet that it didn't come with a a better p playoff appearance for Tampa, but hopefully some rest, some moves that will happen over the offseason will help out and get the scene refocused, you know, kind of figure out what's going Victor Hedman.
00:46:14
Justin Daulton
And then obviously kind of see what see what happens with the draft. Tampa did make a a trade last week getting a prospect from Chicago, swapping them for like a fifth round pick or something like that.
00:46:26
Justin Daulton
It's a kid that is committed to play collegiate hockey this year with the potential of graduating and coming out to play in Tampa for the second half of the season. So we'll see how that plays out.
00:46:40
Cody Atkinson
I mean, you saw Porter, was it Porter Matone did that for Philadelphia?
00:46:40
Justin Daulton
Definitely.
00:46:43
Cody Atkinson
I think that's how you say his name, did it Philadelphia was a massive contributor to the playoff run.
00:46:47
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
00:46:47
Cody Atkinson
So yeah, don't overlook a guy like that.
00:46:48
Justin Daulton
So I think it's something that we're, and it's something think you and I have talked about right on here is that Tampa going and looking at every possibility to try to get young again, think is a big success for a team that really young. So anything that allows this team to get some youth in there again is huge. So definitely all eyes on the Lightning here the next month or so as they get ready for next year. So Correct, yeah.
00:47:18
Justin Daulton
so
00:47:19
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:47:19
Justin Daulton
with
00:47:20
Cody Atkinson
I'll say surprise that Cooper is winning that for the first time.
00:47:25
Justin Daulton
correct yeah Which is why every fan of the Lightning is like very happy that he finally got because he deserved to have one for many, many seasons before this.
00:47:27
Cody Atkinson
That's my only note.
00:47:34
Justin Daulton
like
00:47:34
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:47:34
Justin Daulton
we won the We won the President's Trophy range and he didn't win best coach that year. I don't know. Happy that has one finally and he didn't win best best coach that year so i don't know it happy that he has one part though
00:47:50
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
00:47:54
Justin Daulton
So with that, Cody, we are going to do your and I's first ever joint list of MLB City Connect jerseys. um a tale for the last three, what, three seasons of the good, the bad, and the ugly with City Connect jerseys.
00:48:11
Justin Daulton
So let's just, let's what's start off here, you know, let's talk about the hometowns. I think that's, let's just get those two out of the way. I think that's the best way to go about this. For those of you listening, if you want to jump and do it yourself, hop online, let's do it. We're going to an internet tier list. If any of you don't know what an internet tier list, um this starts at S tier, S tier being like God tier, like best of the best, no flaws, no notes, nothing.
00:48:35
Justin Daulton
It goes S, A, B, C, D, and then F, F being garbage, throw it in the phone in the trash can, light it on fire. And there are going to be some that end up in the F tier.
00:48:46
Justin Daulton
So I think that's only fair.
00:48:47
Cody Atkinson
Oh, certainly.
00:48:49
Justin Daulton
So Cody, I'm going to give you...
00:48:50
Cody Atkinson
and and And if you're a fan of a fan base that's in the F tier, it might be that we just don't get it because we don't live there. And that's okay. The jersey still sucks. um
00:48:59
Justin Daulton
yeah
00:48:59
Cody Atkinson
i'll put the I'll put the link that we're using in the in the show notes just for anybody that wants to look at look along with it. Obviously, this is yeah ah a picture format and we're doing it um on audio, but We'll do our best to describe. and and And Justin, I want to lay the ground rules here. Is there a limit on tiers, right? Like, are we saying like max one, two, three in S tier? Are we trying to keep that exclusive?
00:49:27
Cody Atkinson
Or is it just like wherever stuff ends up?
00:49:30
Justin Daulton
It's wherever stuff ends up, but that's why it's, that's why we're doing it jointly.
00:49:32
Cody Atkinson
right.
00:49:34
Justin Daulton
You, you and I are, checking balance on each other.
00:49:35
Cody Atkinson
All right.
00:49:37
Justin Daulton
Right? So if there's ones that were both super high on and they deserve to be in that a or S tier, absolutely. But there needs to be dialogue. So that especially if we're goingnna say tier, it has to be that there is no nose.
00:49:48
Justin Daulton
It is perfect and it needs to be perfect.
00:49:50
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. Okay.
00:49:53
Justin Daulton
So with that.
00:49:54
Cody Atkinson
So you said we're starting with hometowns, right?
00:49:56
Justin Daulton
Yeah, let's just rip the bandaid off. Let's do hometown. I do see that you have the Astros on here twice, by the way. You have the old and the new on here.
00:50:04
Cody Atkinson
Well, that's what was saying. I have a bunch. I don't know if it shows it on yours. I had a bunch that I threw in the old category already. i don't know if that's showing up when you look at it.
00:50:12
Justin Daulton
don't see it mold. No, I didn't show up on my...
00:50:14
Cody Atkinson
you'll see it in this You'll see it in the screenshot in the notes. that i put in the notes
00:50:18
Justin Daulton
Okay.
00:50:20
Cody Atkinson
Because I couldn't ah couldn't find one ah couldn't find one that only had the active because this is just made by somebody else.
00:50:21
Justin Daulton
Oh, okay, okay, okay, I see.
00:50:26
Justin Daulton
okay
00:50:28
Cody Atkinson
So if you you can maybe track what I did. and there's fifteen I think there's that we throw in the old category so that we can just ignore them from this point forward.
00:50:39
Justin Daulton
Well, let's go ahead and let's have a conversation. I think I can differentiate and you can kind of help guide me because I don't know the as much of the old.
00:50:44
Cody Atkinson
right.
00:50:46
Justin Daulton
Let's start with Houston, shall we? Let's talk about the Astros. I am a big fan of the Whites.
00:50:50
Cody Atkinson
So this is the astral whites, the whites.
00:50:53
Justin Daulton
I will say I love the old ones, so it was always going to be really hard for me to enjoy the second one as much as I like the the Space City first ones. So what are your thoughts on the the Whites?
00:51:03
Cody Atkinson
The way the show, i think with, honestly, I, for both of the city connect Astros jerseys, I hated them immediately. And then they kind of grow on you because like any, i think any new design for a team you've watched for so long, iss kind of just hard to, to grasp per se. You're just like, I'm not my, my mind and my eyes aren't ready for this to be what I'm looking at.
00:51:25
Cody Atkinson
um I think the blues are better. than than the new whites. i think the new whites are a little bit bland. um You have the call out to the 90s logo with the shape of the star, but it looks better in the 90s logo. You have Strohs instead of Astros.
00:51:43
Cody Atkinson
um And that's really it. Like there's a fun quote in the bottom. It's like, we we do things, we do things not because we think they're easy, but because we know that they're hard. There's like the why rice place, Texas quote. If you're familiar with that, it's very, i guess, NASA oriented. um I think this is just a strong, like C. I think it's just, i think it's a little average. There's not a ton going on with it. I do own one of these.
00:52:12
Cody Atkinson
Um, But like it's not necessarily what I would what i would pick. if like If they're wearing a jersey that day, this is not at the top of the list of what I hope they're wearing when I go to the game.
00:52:24
Justin Daulton
Yeah, I think this is anchored really heavily by the hat. the hat is
00:52:28
Cody Atkinson
The hat's good.
00:52:30
Justin Daulton
The hat's real good. um And in the we'll segue that with the race here in a second. like I think this is anchored so heavily by the hat that you almost get distracted by how poor the jersey itself is.
00:52:43
Justin Daulton
I do like the small details, especially as someone who grew up an Astros fan. I just don't prefer this jersey in terms of what they could have done for a throwback. If you want to make an amalgamation of of Astros jerseys, like the blues would have looked better. The brick reds would have looked better. Like finding some way to incorporate what they actually did early on in the franchise's history i think what of would have set a lot ah a lot better a precedent for this jersey
00:53:10
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:53:10
Justin Daulton
um especially coming off the space so I agree I was leaning towards B but then yeah looking over it again I went i want C so C is the way to go for sure
00:53:20
Cody Atkinson
I mean, that's hit me the struggle with a lot of these. the hat The hats anchor a lot of these jerseys. The hats across the board in the City Connect, I think, are often elite. But sometimes it just doesn't connect with the rest of the jersey. And feel like if you look at the jersey itself, it's a little...
00:53:37
Cody Atkinson
a little bland, but the hat is sick and that's pretty C.
00:53:40
Justin Daulton
the hat's real good yeah yeah
00:53:40
Cody Atkinson
It's pretty c to me.
00:53:43
Justin Daulton
Let's talk Tampa. this is ah This is a jersey that's very polarizing in the city of Tampa. i If you're looking at these jerseys from far away, you love them. Because the colors the colors work well.
00:53:53
Cody Atkinson
Mm-hmm.
00:53:54
Justin Daulton
You're using the color scheme. that you like You're getting that pop of yellow for that we don't see a lot in in raised jerseys. But the moment you get close and personal with these jerseys, they look awful. they They went for this... like grip tape like skateboard look to it it just doesn't work on an MLB jersey.
00:54:11
Justin Daulton
But once again, it's anchored by it really good hat that I own and I wear on the podcast quite frequently because it is this that good. They use the Skybridge in Tampa. They put the the the ray in it and then use the the rainbow from the old Devil Rays jerseys along with it. And it's such a good hat.
00:54:30
Justin Daulton
it's ah It's a hat that I wish that they would just make it into the rotation of just like a primary hat because it's just that good. This jersey did give us a really cool alternate logo of the skateboarding ray, but it's a logo that doesn't get used on anything else besides the laundry tag on the jersey.
00:54:45
Justin Daulton
So for me, I'm actually going to go a step below you. I'm going to go d on this, unless you have an argument to bump it up one.
00:54:50
Cody Atkinson
Okay. No, I'm, I'm fine with putting it at D. Um, Ultimately, I think if you so told me anywhere from B to D, I'd be okay.
00:55:01
Cody Atkinson
Because if you said B, I would be like, well, it's the best hat of every hat in the fifth thing. And that that's enough to say that it's B, right? Like everything else sucks, but the hat is literally the best hat that City Connect has come out with.
00:55:13
Justin Daulton
the hat to The hat's elite. Yeah.
00:55:15
Cody Atkinson
ah So I would have been fine with it. If you put it at I would have been fine with it. If you put it at D, it's okay. I think it's... I'll say the one thing it has going for it that the Astros one doesn't is that it uses old school colors.
00:55:30
Justin Daulton
Sure.
00:55:30
Cody Atkinson
You know, that that the the pop the the lime green, the purple, the black really calls back to the to the true Tampa Bay Devil Rays from when we were kids. And that's an iconic color scheme. I think I would go higher than D, but um there is enough wrong with it that I'm fine with putting it at D.
00:55:47
Justin Daulton
Yeah, I think at if the if the actual jersey itself looked better, i would go see because it would be anchored by an elite hat.
00:55:52
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:55:56
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. I will say, I do think a lot of the Gen 2s are coming out better than their... like I mean, obviously, the Astros didn't. We talked about it. But there's a decent bit of Gen 2s in my mind that are better than the original pass. ah Hopefully, if Tampa gets a Gen 2, they can just improve on this, keep some of what we liked about it, and fix up the rest and and give us what could be what truly...
00:56:19
Cody Atkinson
Connecting to the city of Tampa has all the reason to BS'd here. like
00:56:24
Justin Daulton
Yeah, especially with the with the potential move into Tampa. I think not just the City Connect, but like something that I would love to see if the stadium field officially goes through is a rebrand.
00:56:35
Justin Daulton
like Redo of the jerseys and all that stuff would be so good.
00:56:37
Cody Atkinson
take go Bring back the orange the green and the purples, man. I loved it.
00:56:43
Justin Daulton
ah All right. I just want to go to order of what you have it. So I'm going to go top left here. The Kansas City Royals. This is one for me, there's some missed opportunity for this jersey, but I actually like it more than I gave credit for when they first rolled out.
00:57:01
Justin Daulton
i I love the the script that they use for the K on their jersey. Right. It's a K or is it an R? It's a K.
00:57:09
Cody Atkinson
That's an R.
00:57:11
Justin Daulton
Is it an R? Okay. It's blurry on the image.
00:57:12
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, it's an r it's an R for this one.
00:57:14
Justin Daulton
Okay. I love it. I love the script. The hat's a little boring, but I'm a sucker for that baby blue color that they that they use in Kansas City. So anything that just includes that baby blue, I'm i'm i'm here for it.
00:57:26
Cody Atkinson
So this is the white right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:57:29
Justin Daulton
Yeah, the one they the very first image that you have, yeah.
00:57:30
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:57:32
Justin Daulton
So white base with the baby blue hat. I like it.
00:57:36
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, a lot of blue gradient to purple on this in the logo and the hat.
00:57:36
Justin Daulton
Yeah. Yeah. yeah what are you What are your thoughts before we get a ranking?
00:57:44
Cody Atkinson
So I, when, when it first came out, like in this, like the way that we're looking at in this picture, i thought it was elite. I was like, this is so cool. I love the, the R with the crown on top. I love the white, blue, purple, blue fade to purple. It's absolutely sick. I don't think it looks as good in person, like seeing them use the Jersey on the field.
00:58:05
Cody Atkinson
i think it's, it's that drops it for me compared to, what it is just looking at it on the screen. Like if I saw some highlights of them playing and was like, yeah that doesn't carry to the field as well as I thought. So i ah based on the release, I would have been close to S tier with this. I think it's probably closer to B.
00:58:23
Justin Daulton
Yeah, I was thinking B tier for me as well.
00:58:26
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
00:58:28
Cody Atkinson
I am good with that. Let's put it at B.
00:58:28
Justin Daulton
ah
00:58:31
Justin Daulton
B tier that one.
00:58:31
Cody Atkinson
I'm tracking on my phone so I can keep up with it.
00:58:35
Justin Daulton
Next one that you have here is Milwaukee. They're Wesco. Wisco? Wisco?
00:58:40
Cody Atkinson
Wisco, yeah, short for Wisconsin, Wisco.
00:58:40
Justin Daulton
Yeah. whisperful yeah um I don't like it. This is one that came out this year that I did not like. I didn't like most of the ones that came out this year. That's to be a theme that I'm going to have of of this year's jerseys.
00:58:53
Justin Daulton
I think it's just uninspired. If going to be completely honest, you're talking about a team that is rooted in beer culture and nothing on here screams beer culture. um So it's just not doing it for me.
00:59:07
Cody Atkinson
I will probably, I'll debate a few of these with you. um I think the thing about Wisco for me is it comes off of the back of their brew crew, which was their Gen 1 City Connect, which I think is one of the best City Connects that there's been so far. And so no matter what they did on this Gen 2, it was going to be it wasn't going to be as good.
00:59:30
Cody Atkinson
So I was kind of disappointed to see them even do a second one. I was like, you you you hit on the first one, just keep it.
00:59:36
Justin Daulton
Right. Yeah.
00:59:36
Cody Atkinson
um I do think it's, I do like Wisco as a, like ah a shorthand. That's kind of fun to say. um the blue orange, I think it looked, I think it fits good. It looks good.
00:59:49
Cody Atkinson
ah But coming off of a brew crew, i think struggles with it. For me, I'd be fine probably putting it at like C. I don't think it deserves to be below C. um it sounds like you might be leaning towards that but um i think i would be fine with like with like a c
01:00:05
Justin Daulton
I was going go D tier on it. that And the hat's just, once again, I'm going to keep going back to the hats. Like, I don't really love the hat either.
01:00:11
Cody Atkinson
yeah this is where it's a struggle that i like my computer can't open too many things at the same time because i like actually i don't have the hat in front of me so i'm gonna start i'm gonna start looking at some of the stuff off on my phone so i can be more prepared here
01:00:12
Justin Daulton
so i think for me, it's a D.
01:00:23
Justin Daulton
Yeah, pull up the hat. You
01:00:29
Cody Atkinson
um
01:00:30
Justin Daulton
yeah also didn't, you didn't have the old one in here, right? No.
01:00:33
Cody Atkinson
It is in there. It's ah like a ah real baby blue.
01:00:38
Justin Daulton
Oh, it's the one it's it's the one after the Dodgers, or the Padres, right? Before the Angels?
01:00:42
Cody Atkinson
yeah you can Yeah, you can see a catch a wreck catcher with a red catcher's gear on.
01:00:46
Justin Daulton
Yeah, okay.
01:00:47
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, yeah.
01:00:47
Justin Daulton
I'm trying to put the ones and into the old category while you do other research.
01:00:49
Cody Atkinson
yeah Yeah, toss that into the old. Oh, yeah, this hat, not not a great hat. That's a fair point. Okay.
01:00:56
Justin Daulton
Yeah, I'm going D tier. Do you agree with the D tier? Okay.
01:00:58
Cody Atkinson
um I would prefer to see it at C, but I'm fine with D.
01:01:02
Justin Daulton
Okay. Next we have on this list is the pirates. This one came out this year. It's the all black with the, with the gold. It's simple. Something that city connects has not done a whole lot this through this process.
01:01:18
Justin Daulton
It works. I don't love it as much. It's definitely not an S tier for me. I can see it being on a higher rating. I think we can put it around the Royals, maybe about the Royals in my opinion. a
01:01:28
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:01:29
Justin Daulton
But because it's just that it's simple and that, that works.
01:01:32
Cody Atkinson
It's very simple, but I think it fixes like their their first one, which you can throw in the old. You'll see it's, yeah, it's McCutcheon. It's a yellow McCutcheon jersey.
01:01:41
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:01:43
Cody Atkinson
yeah Too yellow for some way too yellow. Just wasn't a fan of it. Only said Pitt. There wasn't anything to it. This one, I think they did a lot better. You have the Jolly Roger logo in the patch on the sleeve.
01:01:53
Cody Atkinson
You have the Jolly Roger on the hat. I think the hat's sick that way. And I just love the way Pirates is written, almost like it's each letter, like its own torn flag.
01:02:04
Cody Atkinson
um I would be very happy to see this be our first tier, but if you want to put it alongside the Royals at B, I think I'm fine with that too.
01:02:11
Justin Daulton
I could go A tier on it. It's good. It's a good one.
01:02:14
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:02:16
Justin Daulton
um Next one you have here is the new San Diego, the what looks like like a navy color scheme as opposed to their old one.
01:02:22
Cody Atkinson
Mm-hmm.
01:02:24
Justin Daulton
This is another one that they went Gen 2, and their Gen 1 was so close to being perfect, in my opinion. i love that West Coast, like San Diego vibe that they had with it. But the new one, hearkening back to their older jerseys, I think works as well.
01:02:40
Justin Daulton
not as perfectly i think the old one would probably been one of our first S tiers um but I do like the it's still got that slanted logo that you saw from old Padres jerseys they use I like the use of the number three on the front of it like the numbering it's not too big sometimes when you get a number on the front of the jersey it's way too distracting um and the hat's good as well with the San Diego one I'm not confident enough to say this is an S for me but it's definitely a strong A a plus combo
01:02:56
Cody Atkinson
they
01:03:03
Cody Atkinson
had the... hader
01:03:12
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, if you want to put it at A, I'm good with that. i do The first one was very good for me. it was There was a lot going on with the first one, right? like it was
01:03:20
Justin Daulton
Sure. Mm-hmm.
01:03:21
Cody Atkinson
It was the most in-your-face City Connect from the first one. It did grow over time. like At first, I was like, I don't get it And then it kind of grew over time. I think this one does a good job of incorporating some of the same themes, but doing it on a smaller scale. ah It very much the jersey reminds me of the San Antonio Fiesta colors. Like i was I was hyping them up for bringing those back to playoff. I think that hits here, too. So I put this at I'm good with tier.
01:03:49
Justin Daulton
What's the next one you have on here? What is this red one?
01:03:51
Cody Atkinson
That's the Rangers. That is the Rangers Tejas. I think if if you want to make this quick, we can drop it in the F tier. It's disgusting.
01:03:58
Justin Daulton
Yep.
01:03:59
Cody Atkinson
All they did was make it say Tejas, and then they picked a shade of red that I think they said resembles a poinsettia or something stupid like that, and that's the whole jersey. It sucks.
01:04:09
Justin Daulton
ah The last, they're also their gen ones suck too.
01:04:11
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, their gym one is probably worse. like But this was just bland.
01:04:15
Justin Daulton
that
01:04:16
Cody Atkinson
It was like somebody was like, what if we said Tejas instead of Texas? And then everyone's a great idea. And then they just put it off to the side and then realized that like two days before the deadline that they forgot to finish it.
01:04:27
Justin Daulton
Yeah. I can't tell what the next one is. It's blurry. So what is this? I can look it up on my phone.
01:04:31
Cody Atkinson
Is that the bright red? I think that's the new Cincinnati Reds.
01:04:34
Justin Daulton
No, it's before that. This like baby blue.
01:04:36
Cody Atkinson
Oh, that's the new Atlanta Braves.
01:04:38
Justin Daulton
New Atlanta Braves. Let me look at that one.
01:04:40
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, they popped that one open. the The new Atlanta Braves. I'm just going to get you started while you look this up. Excellent. it is It's nice, dude.
01:04:50
Justin Daulton
Oh, yeah.
01:04:51
Cody Atkinson
I'm a sucker for powder blue jerseys.
01:04:54
Cody Atkinson
um This is them bringing the powder blue. You have the old school A powder blue, dark world blue, red.
01:04:54
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:04:58
Justin Daulton
I love the red letter or the red piping around the letters too.
01:05:01
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. You have the ATL on the sleeve is in in the TBS lettering for Turner Broadcast, obviously owners of the braids.
01:05:09
Justin Daulton
oh yeah, I see that. Yeah, that's real good.
01:05:12
Cody Atkinson
I think people like this one more than I do. Like, I think it's really good. i think people act like it's the best thing ever been invented, which I don't think it is, but I also would still be fine putting it at S tier if you wanted to, because it is powder blue and powder blue is hard to do wrong.
01:05:31
Justin Daulton
I think for me and the reason why I'm going to say S is because if everything works head to toe. I love the hat.
01:05:35
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, it does.
01:05:36
Justin Daulton
i love the I love the jersey, but I also like the socks. Sometimes the socks don't get a lot of love because a lot of people love or hate the stance socks. But I think the socks also work well with the with the red and the white or the blue and the and the red.
01:05:49
Justin Daulton
So I'm good with going as tier on that.
01:05:53
Cody Atkinson
I'm good with that. Let's go S tier on that one
01:05:57
Justin Daulton
is this is The Scentsy one is the one that says Scentsy on it, right? That's what they went with this one.
01:06:02
Cody Atkinson
one. Let me see.
01:06:07
Cody Atkinson
ah clip them wrong I don't remember if this one's the one that says Cincy. I think it's just the letter C with some unique piping.
01:06:12
Justin Daulton
Oh, yeah. They got rid of the Scentsy one.
01:06:15
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. So this this Cincinnati red one is also a one that's new to this season.
01:06:16
Justin Daulton
um
01:06:22
Justin Daulton
Yeah. There's pen striping on this? didn't know there was pen striping on this.
01:06:25
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, there's very faint pinstriping on this one. I think it might be. Yeah, it's on the jersey and the hat.
01:06:31
Justin Daulton
It's on the jersey and the pants and the hat. So it's head to toe pinstriping. i Man, there's a lot of red on this jersey. i don't know if i like it that much.
01:06:41
Cody Atkinson
ah Yeah, I think this the the first Sinti one, what they did wrong is there was not enough red on it. like It was um almost an all black. um This one is is very, very red, which i think ultimately I'd be kind of fine with, but then the really the only other thing you did to it was was add a ah C logo that's just kind of meh.
01:07:01
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:07:02
Justin Daulton
Especially a C that was, like, made so popular by rappers to wear.
01:07:06
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:07:07
Justin Daulton
and like, you get rid of that.
01:07:07
Cody Atkinson
And like, why not just like do something with Mr. Red or something? Like, I don't really get what they're doing here.
01:07:11
Justin Daulton
Yeah. Remember
01:07:13
Cody Atkinson
um
01:07:14
Justin Daulton
when the All-Star Game was there and they had that really good, like, Mr. Red, like, All-Star Game hat?
01:07:19
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, dude, the Mr. Red hats are elite.
01:07:22
Justin Daulton
Yeah, I'm i'm good.
01:07:23
Cody Atkinson
I almost started rooting for them once because I liked Mr.
01:07:23
Justin Daulton
i
01:07:25
Cody Atkinson
Red so much.
01:07:27
Justin Daulton
I... I think this is... For me, I would...
01:07:29
Cody Atkinson
It's a C or a d Where do we want to put it?
01:07:32
Justin Daulton
It's a D for me.
01:07:32
Cody Atkinson
Right? It's a D. Let's put it in D.
01:07:34
Justin Daulton
Yeah. ah I don't like the next one. This Baltimore one, this B Moore.
01:07:39
Cody Atkinson
You don't like the Baltimore one?
01:07:41
Justin Daulton
No, I don't like it. i don't like it, man. ah do not.
01:07:45
Cody Atkinson
this is That sucks. I actually do like this one. um One, I like i think B-more fun... it's kind of you can it it might be stupid, but I think it's a fun play. like Fun shortening of Baltimore.
01:07:59
Cody Atkinson
um They use the the old school Aureole logo like sitting on top of the R. I think that's very fun. um The green, like the it exchanging the black, I think for a forest green that matches the original color of the chairs is cool.
01:08:16
Cody Atkinson
And I do like the hat a lot. I think the hat, ah it's not a hat that I wouldn't wear because it's the front panels different from the back. And that's just like not my style of hat.
01:08:29
Cody Atkinson
But ah I think that the new B that they did to it, I thought was pretty cool. Um, so we're, we're, we're, we're very indifferent on this one.
01:08:35
Justin Daulton
I chalked this up to almost...
01:08:38
Cody Atkinson
It seems like this is the first one
01:08:41
Justin Daulton
Yeah, I chalked this up to be like the Rays where like the details are really good. but the whole the whole doesn't work like I like the clock from the from the scoreboard being on the by the laundry tag.
01:08:52
Justin Daulton
I like the jersey patch from the stoop to the as it stoopped to the yard, being the home run, the home run pack, but the medallions that put out in the outfield, I like that a lot.
01:08:58
Cody Atkinson
from the student to the yard for 10.
01:09:05
Justin Daulton
um I'm not as big of a fan of the hat as you are. I think it's just a fine hat. um I just don't like the beam wear. I think if they just did a different... lettering on the front.
01:09:16
Justin Daulton
I would have liked it a lot more. It's just not for me. Yeah, I think this is...
01:09:21
Cody Atkinson
should we settle should we settle on C here just put it right smack dab in the middle you don't like it I do so let's put it in the middle alright let's do that
01:09:26
Justin Daulton
That's fine with me. Yeah, that's fine with me. The next one looks like it's the new Boston Red Sox one.
01:09:34
Cody Atkinson
yeah the Fenway boston the green monster Boston's you do okay what what do you like about it
01:09:39
Justin Daulton
I like these. Yeah, I do. It's... Well, first off, it's the Green Monster. It's probably one of the most iconic imagery and all of all of Major League Baseball, with the exception of maybe the Ivy at Wrigley.
01:09:53
Justin Daulton
So I think lean awesome marathon look it was so bad um i like these because once again as we talked about with the pirates it's simple um i i the only thing i wish that we would have got on it and i can't yeah the only thing i wish that we would have got is a little bit of red maybe around the red socks like maybe you outline the the the lettering in red and i think maybe that would have set it to an s or even maybe an a for me
01:09:59
Cody Atkinson
Oh yeah.
01:10:08
Cody Atkinson
It is very simple and effective.
01:10:24
Justin Daulton
but I do like that it's very simple um and the hat matches it I'm a sucker for all that that the the the flow through it all so I do I like it I think it's i think it's definitely one of the better ones of the gen twos
01:10:39
Cody Atkinson
Okay, so we want to drop, what are you thinking? Like B tier?
01:10:43
Justin Daulton
I think B is solid for this yeah
01:10:45
Cody Atkinson
I think I'd be fine with that. um It's not what I would expect from a City Connect, but I think it does do the green monster really well. It's very simple, like you said, but it is also very clean.
01:10:56
Cody Atkinson
um I think this is ah this is a quality B tier.
01:11:00
Justin Daulton
Yeah. What's this next one? I can't tell what this next one is.
01:11:02
Cody Atkinson
it this what's the What's the color? Is it the purple one?
01:11:05
Justin Daulton
Purple one with some cursive on the on the front.
01:11:06
Cody Atkinson
This is the Arizona Diamondbacks, Serpientes.
01:11:10
Justin Daulton
Serpientes.
01:11:11
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, so this is this is a very, very strong callback to the old school colors of the Diamondbacks, but then done to the to the maximum degree.
01:11:11
Justin Daulton
Another one with the Spanish.
01:11:25
Cody Atkinson
This is absolutely a you love it or you hate it jersey because it is loud. The hat is loud.
01:11:32
Justin Daulton
my
01:11:33
Cody Atkinson
The jersey is loud.
01:11:35
Justin Daulton
My gut initial reaction is I hate it. um
01:11:42
Justin Daulton
And I think it's because they're using a textured color on the jersey. and that's And I know what they're going for. They're going for like the snakeskin look.
01:11:51
Cody Atkinson
and
01:11:51
Justin Daulton
But i don't think I don't think it's working, in my opinion.
01:11:54
Cody Atkinson
Okay.
01:11:56
Justin Daulton
And I don't like that... Here's thing about the Diamondbacks. You and I grew up, you and I grew up at a time when the 2000s, early 2000s Diamondbacks had probably the best uniform combinations in all of baseball.
01:11:59
Cody Atkinson
Here's what I'm going
01:12:07
Justin Daulton
This is not it. This is not the early 2000s.
01:12:09
Cody Atkinson
No, this is an exaggerated version, right? It's intended to be kind of an exaggerated version of of the... They took the accents from the original, they changed the green to more of a teal, and then they just threw it up.
01:12:21
Justin Daulton
Like, why didn't you just use, why didn't you just use that as the logo?
01:12:25
Cody Atkinson
I don't know, man. i I will say that I do think this is a Jersey that grows on you. The more you see it, I'll tell you that. It is one that I think it's loud. It slaps you in the face. the First time you see it and you don't really know how to feel about it and then it'll grow on you.
01:12:37
Cody Atkinson
Yeah,
01:12:38
Justin Daulton
I feel like this is a jersey that I can put together on Diamond Dynasty only movie of the show.
01:12:42
Cody Atkinson
yeah you probably could. Probably could.
01:12:43
Justin Daulton
Like, I don't know, man. i This is on the lower end for me. You're going to convince me to come up.
01:12:47
Cody Atkinson
right, let's put it – no, it's fine. We can put it on the lower end because it's loud enough that, like, it probably should be the favorite of, like, a teenager. And the older you get, the less you like it. And so I'm i'm fine with it. i I do think when you, when you like – the jersey itself, like, if I was a Diamondbacks fan, I think I'd be stoked to own the jersey.
01:13:05
Cody Atkinson
i would never buy the hat, and I think this might be the only one that's built that way. So I'm fine docking it for being a bad hat.
01:13:13
Justin Daulton
How low are you willing to go?
01:13:15
Cody Atkinson
doesn't mean and I'm not putting it F, but if you want to put it like D, that's fine.
01:13:19
Justin Daulton
right. I was gonna try to argue an F, but I'll i'll go with the D on that one.
01:13:23
Cody Atkinson
I'm not going because I think give it two weeks and I think you're going to be like, no, you're right. It's not an F.
01:13:29
Justin Daulton
if but If I come back with change of mind on it, I will come back on the pod and and and tell everyone.
01:13:32
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. i We got to figure out what day of the week the Diamondbacks wear their city connects on it. Your assignment is to watch a Diamondbacks game while they're wearing it and then report if you still think it's an All right.
01:13:44
Justin Daulton
I can do that.
01:13:45
Cody Atkinson
I think we got the Miami Vice up next from Miami.
01:13:48
Justin Daulton
Is that what this one is?
01:13:49
Cody Atkinson
It's the black with a little pink trim.
01:13:52
Justin Daulton
Pink trim. Is it? Hang
01:13:55
Cody Atkinson
There's a coach whispering into the into the runner's ear is the picture.
01:13:58
Justin Daulton
on. Is it this one? Is it that? that
01:14:00
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, the Miami Vice. Yeah, that's it.
01:14:02
Justin Daulton
okay
01:14:02
Cody Atkinson
It's pretty standard Miami Vice.
01:14:03
Justin Daulton
OK.
01:14:04
Cody Atkinson
I think every Miami team has a version of this.
01:14:06
Justin Daulton
What's with the striping, like the speed striping on it? What's with that?
01:14:12
Cody Atkinson
don't know let me pull it up
01:14:14
Justin Daulton
Like, I don't, i don't, what is that? Because like the the best Miami Vice one is the Heat. The Heat's Miami Vice jerseys is so good. What is with the speed striping on this?
01:14:22
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. i don't really know what's up with that. That's interesting.
01:14:26
Justin Daulton
I don't, if you got rid of that, I think this is an S-tier jersey, but i don't know if I can putt something with the speed striping that high up.
01:14:26
Cody Atkinson
I've never really paid that much attention to it.
01:14:37
Cody Atkinson
I can understand that.
01:14:37
Justin Daulton
Like, they have the old Marlins logo. I love that. I love the old...
01:14:41
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:14:41
Justin Daulton
build I love the Miami Vice colors. I love the Florida... pat The Miami patch on the bottom is really good, too.
01:14:46
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, the lightning punch in the bottom is pretty sick. I still, so the the the speed piping, get it. This still feels like a B to me. Like it does. I don't think it kills it.
01:14:55
Justin Daulton
Nah, I can't... The hat, man. The hat is atrocious.
01:14:58
Cody Atkinson
Let me look the hat. I'm not looking at the hat right now.
01:15:00
Justin Daulton
Because it's not Miami Vice. They're doing the 305...
01:15:02
Cody Atkinson
Oh my God. 305 with the gradient bill.
01:15:05
Justin Daulton
Yeah, I can't do it. This is at least a C for me.
01:15:06
Cody Atkinson
All right, that's fair.
01:15:08
Justin Daulton
You'll to talk me up above from a C.
01:15:09
Cody Atkinson
Let's, let's, let's drop it and see that hat is not for me.
01:15:13
Justin Daulton
Yeah, that's bad. ah The next one is Chicago?
01:15:17
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, so this is the White Sox wearing the Bulls colors in their jersey.
01:15:17
Justin Daulton
White Sox?
01:15:20
Cody Atkinson
I think we go ahead and drop this in the F. That's stupid.
01:15:24
Justin Daulton
Is it? i mean I just want to look at not Cubs.
01:15:25
Cody Atkinson
In my opinion, and I'm pretty sure if you if double check me on this, but the stitching in the collar has a combination of all Bulls championships and White Sox championships because the owner owns both teams.
01:15:37
Justin Daulton
yeah
01:15:39
Cody Atkinson
Stupid, ridiculous, have your own identity. That's my thought on this.
01:15:44
Justin Daulton
Honestly, if it wasn't for if the sleeves were better, I would probably fight you on this, but this black sleeve thing that they have going on is weird.
01:15:52
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, I just don't like it, dude. This has nothing to do with the White Sox. They entirely said, let's get...
01:15:56
Justin Daulton
Yeah, they're just trying to with the they're just trying to wear a jersey.
01:16:00
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, they said, let's get in good graces with the city by dressing like a different team from the city. And I just don't think that's how you connect with the city. That's the owner connecting with the other thing that he owns.
01:16:11
Justin Daulton
Yeah, yeah.
01:16:12
Cody Atkinson
That's whack.
01:16:12
Justin Daulton
a As a gimmick, I like it, but I don't like it as a baseball jersey.
01:16:16
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:16:17
Justin Daulton
Their original one was better. The south side one.
01:16:20
Cody Atkinson
The original one was way better. Southside was sick.
01:16:23
Justin Daulton
ah The next one looks like...
01:16:24
Cody Atkinson
So we're dropping this in F.
01:16:26
Justin Daulton
Yeah, I dropped it in F. The next one...
01:16:27
Cody Atkinson
Is this the the next purple one? I think this is Colorado. It's like purple.
01:16:30
Justin Daulton
Okay. Some of these pictures are real...
01:16:32
Cody Atkinson
You see purple and purple and baby blue.
01:16:35
Justin Daulton
Yeah. Colorado Rockies...
01:16:36
Cody Atkinson
Yes, Colorado. um I don't like these.
01:16:41
Justin Daulton
Oh, it's the old Denver Nuggets.
01:16:42
Cody Atkinson
A lot of.
01:16:43
Justin Daulton
Okay.
01:16:44
Cody Atkinson
A lot of people like these. I think it's supposed to look similar to like the sunset or something. There's too much color on this for me to like...
01:16:51
Justin Daulton
No, it's the it's the old Denver Nuggets jerseys. Look up the old Denver Nuggets.
01:16:55
Cody Atkinson
is this the old nuggets?
01:16:56
Justin Daulton
Yeah, look up the old 2000 Denver Nuggets. That's what it is. It's harkening back to that.
01:17:02
Cody Atkinson
But it's different colors, right?
01:17:06
Justin Daulton
Maybe. Maybe.
01:17:12
Cody Atkinson
you talking about this blue with the rainbow, Denver Nuggets?
01:17:15
Justin Daulton
Let me see it.
01:17:17
Cody Atkinson
Oh yeah, I can just i gotta to show you that.
01:17:18
Justin Daulton
It's the one that, like, look for, Carmelo Anthony in the Denver Nuggets jersey.
01:17:23
Cody Atkinson
right, let's see.
01:17:23
Justin Daulton
Because that's when he wore it.
01:17:24
Cody Atkinson
Let's do a notice of Jersey history. All right, so what are your thoughts on this while I'm looking this up?
01:17:31
Justin Daulton
Initially, i don't like it. But the more I look at it, I do like that they're going for the retro collar. I like that. um The hard part is the design of, like, where the colors level off doesn't work so like the sleeves are the purple but like the line for the baby blue is like a lot higher so i think they would have way to design that a little bit better i would have liked it a lot because i do like that 2000s nuggets jerseys a lot um like with that gold like on the with the mountain and all that stuff like i like that a lot but um yeah the design's just little yeah a little bit like that yeah
01:18:07
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, you type you're looking at like these ones.
01:18:16
Justin Daulton
don't know, I'll find it for you. But yeah, it's a lower one. I think if this pipe falls in a C or a D for me.
01:18:23
Cody Atkinson
I think I would probably lean D. i just To me, there's just it's too it's too much. I think in the same way that like the Diamondbacks one was too much for you, like this is too much for me. I can't imagine dressing in that.
01:18:38
Justin Daulton
Yeah. The next looks like San Francisco.
01:18:41
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, that's the new the new San Francisco is up next. ah The original San Francisco is very white, an orange to white gradient on all the logos. This is heavy black with some orange and purple. I think it's very graffiti ah inspired.
01:18:59
Justin Daulton
of and This is another one like Miami. What is it with the what's with the the piping on the Jersey? I don't understand that. There's something like weird like is it for earthquakes? Is that what it is?
01:19:14
Cody Atkinson
For earthquakes?
01:19:15
Justin Daulton
I mean
01:19:15
Cody Atkinson
Oh, I see what you're saying. It's almost like topographical.
01:19:18
Justin Daulton
Yeah, one of those meant for like earthquakes.
01:19:19
Cody Atkinson
Seriously.
01:19:22
Justin Daulton
I like the logo.
01:19:22
Cody Atkinson
I don't know.
01:19:23
Justin Daulton
I like the graffiti logo.
01:19:24
Cody Atkinson
The glove logo on the side looks very hippie-ish. I wonder if there's just some hippie aspects to the... Some LSD aspects to the lines on this jersey.
01:19:33
Justin Daulton
Yeah, they're definite definitely going race. Oh, they're going I was about to say, they're going 70s with it, but they literally said 1958 on the side.
01:19:39
Cody Atkinson
There you go.
01:19:41
Justin Daulton
um
01:19:42
Cody Atkinson
Very grateful dead, if you ask me.
01:19:42
Justin Daulton
It's okay. Yeah, it's okay. I don't love it.
01:19:46
Cody Atkinson
You just want to drop it in the C tier and move on because I think we got to speed these up too.
01:19:46
Justin Daulton
i don't hate it. Yeah, I think this is the quintessential tier.
01:19:52
Cody Atkinson
yeah let's drop that in the C tier then. I'm fine with that. It's it's good. i think it's better than the first one. The first one was had its cool aspects, but it was way too white. um I think they did better on this one, but maybe just too far removed from the city to really appreciate it.
01:20:09
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:20:09
Cody Atkinson
Next one should be the Nationals, I believe.
01:20:09
Justin Daulton
What's the next one you have here?
01:20:12
Cody Atkinson
The second gen...
01:20:13
Justin Daulton
Oh, this is the one that didn't, they should never have gone away from their first one.
01:20:15
Cody Atkinson
No, I loved the first one with the cherry blossom.
01:20:18
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:20:19
Cody Atkinson
And this is, so I think this is the second gen Nationals jersey, which, yeah, I think that the hat, like that there's the W with this the like the flower petals on each side, I think it's elegant.
01:20:24
Justin Daulton
With the street map. Yeah.
01:20:35
Cody Atkinson
I think it's nice. um But I'm not really a big fan of of the jersey and how it all comes together.
01:20:43
Justin Daulton
Yeah, the street map isn't doing it for me. I like the hat, though. I do like the hat.
01:20:46
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. um I'd be fine.
01:20:48
Justin Daulton
I think this falls into
01:20:52
Cody Atkinson
C or D. i like the I like the intent to do the street map. I think it could have been cool. I just don't think it i is something that works here. like I like the thought process.
01:21:05
Cody Atkinson
I'm fine with the It's not good.
01:21:06
Justin Daulton
All right.
01:21:08
Cody Atkinson
We got to be careful not to go too heavy C as well.
01:21:09
Justin Daulton
All right.
01:21:11
Cody Atkinson
you know
01:21:12
Justin Daulton
That's fair.
01:21:13
Cody Atkinson
Is this the the Dodgers, I think?
01:21:13
Justin Daulton
The next one looks like the new Dodgers one, yeah.
01:21:17
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, the new Dodgers one. ah Uninspired.
01:21:22
Justin Daulton
I just like their first one.
01:21:22
Cody Atkinson
the dot that It's more inspired than the first one, but I feel like the Dodgers are still scared to do much. They're better than the Yankees in the fact that the Yankees won't do it at all, but they're still scared to try new things because they're quote-unquote too iconic or whatever.
01:21:38
Justin Daulton
Yeah. i do like I do like it more than their first one. But i don't i don't I don't understand the sprinkles on it.
01:21:42
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, first one.
01:21:45
Cody Atkinson
First one's the lowest lowest bar in the history of bars, though.
01:21:45
Justin Daulton
I don't understand that.
01:21:48
Justin Daulton
i would need to talk to Daughters fans to understand what the sprinkles... Because i like the I like the lettering. I like the... What's like a moonshot going through it? A star? Like a shooting star? I just don't understand what the sprinkles were for.
01:22:00
Justin Daulton
that supposed confetti?
01:22:00
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:22:01
Justin Daulton
Are there back-to-back championships? Is that what that's supposed to be?
01:22:04
Cody Atkinson
I wouldn't think so, because this came out before that, right? Maybe for, like, the one championship.
01:22:08
Justin Daulton
and Maybe they're celebrating some sort of anniversary.
01:22:10
Cody Atkinson
don't know.
01:22:11
Justin Daulton
I don't know. um What does the hat look like? um it's just a Oh, it's just their little cursive D. Okay. um
01:22:27
Justin Daulton
D.
01:22:29
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, that's fine. i don't do but I just don't think there's enough going on with it to to do much with it.
01:22:34
Justin Daulton
Yeah. We're in the homestretch here.
01:22:37
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, we got the...
01:22:37
Justin Daulton
So what do we got next?
01:22:37
Cody Atkinson
minute I believe this should be Minnesota next.
01:22:40
Justin Daulton
Yeah, the Minneapolis jerseys.
01:22:42
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:22:45
Justin Daulton
City, connect, jersey.
01:22:49
Justin Daulton
I like this better than... They got the weird design on it but it kind of works better with the flow of the jersey. The hat's elite, though, with the state on it.
01:23:02
Justin Daulton
And they're using the...
01:23:02
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. hat is, is that with like the, it's just the state. It says like a thousand, 10,000 likes on the side. Like it's got like the Aurora lights or something.
01:23:08
Justin Daulton
Yeah, but then they're also using like the the state the state crest on it. Here, look on the screen.
01:23:13
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:23:14
Justin Daulton
like They're using that crest on the you're on the journey on the sleeve patch.
01:23:15
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:23:17
Justin Daulton
I don't care what I put this in the i an A. I like the pop of color throughout.
01:23:21
Cody Atkinson
I'm fine with that. I like this color scheme better than the, than their actual color scheme. Um,
01:23:27
Justin Daulton
Yeah, that's fair
01:23:28
Cody Atkinson
I think they do it really well. There's a lot of cool design on it. 10,000 lakes is a nice call out.
01:23:32
Justin Daulton
that's fair. They're calling it the ripple effect because of 10,000 lakes.
01:23:34
Cody Atkinson
North star.
01:23:36
Justin Daulton
I like that. That's a good flow.
01:23:37
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, no, I like it a lot. and Put that at the a I'm good with that.
01:23:41
Justin Daulton
Yeah. Next one.
01:23:41
Cody Atkinson
That's Toronto.
01:23:42
Justin Daulton
Toronto.
01:23:42
Cody Atkinson
Toronto up next.
01:23:48
Cody Atkinson
That is, I believe, Beau Bichette on the picture, who's no longer with the team.
01:23:51
Justin Daulton
Oh, this is the one with the city with the black and then the city skyline on it.
01:23:55
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:23:56
Justin Daulton
Okay. ah
01:23:59
Cody Atkinson
I think I like the concept, but I don't think I like the execution.
01:24:03
Justin Daulton
The hat sucks.
01:24:05
Cody Atkinson
right, let me see the hat.
01:24:05
Justin Daulton
And that's where i ah that's that's the only note that I really have for you.
01:24:06
Cody Atkinson
I haven't pulled the hat yet.
01:24:11
Cody Atkinson
Pulled down. Yeah, hat's not great.
01:24:12
Justin Daulton
I think I'm good with... The hat brings it down to at least a C for me. I could be convinced to go down to a D.
01:24:20
Cody Atkinson
Keep me, but how many do we have at C? How many do we have at D? We got to be careful not to...
01:24:24
Justin Daulton
C, we have four. D, we have seven.
01:24:28
Cody Atkinson
OK, let's put it at C then. Because I just want to make sure we're not we're not leaning on any categories like a crutch here.
01:24:30
Justin Daulton
Okay.
01:24:35
Justin Daulton
Next one is St.
01:24:35
Cody Atkinson
And correct me, do we have a do do we have an S yet?
01:24:35
Justin Daulton
Louis Cardinals.
01:24:38
Cody Atkinson
We do, right?
01:24:39
Justin Daulton
We have one S. It's the Braves.
01:24:40
Cody Atkinson
One S. OK, cool.
01:24:42
Justin Daulton
Next one is the St. Louis Cardinals.
01:24:44
Cody Atkinson
St. Louis Cardinals. Let me look this one. This is actually the one that I think I'm the least familiar with.
01:24:49
Justin Daulton
Oh, this is the Lou with the STL and the hat. And then the golding, or not golding, the arch on the sleeve.
01:24:53
Cody Atkinson
Oh.
01:24:57
Cody Atkinson
I like the use of the phrase, the loo. I think that's fun.
01:25:01
Justin Daulton
Yeah. Yeah, that's a fun one.
01:25:02
Cody Atkinson
um I do knock it a little bit for being too close to the original. And the fact that it's like, yeah.
01:25:10
Justin Daulton
The hat is on Inspired.
01:25:15
Cody Atkinson
Let's see, let me so me check this patch out here.
01:25:15
Justin Daulton
I'd go...
01:25:16
Justin Daulton
I like the jersey. I'd go B just for the jersey alone.
01:25:20
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, I'm fine with B for the jersey. the The two birds on a bat, like you're going struggle to to be...
01:25:25
Justin Daulton
iconic.
01:25:26
Cody Atkinson
to Yeah, it doesn't matter who you are. If you if you come out with that, you're gonna struggle to fall too far down the list.
01:25:32
Justin Daulton
Yeah. Yeah.
01:25:33
Cody Atkinson
like Even like yeah if you go go look up two lanes, baseball jersey, you have some fun with that. Man, they got the two birds on a bat. Beautiful.
01:25:42
Justin Daulton
Next one looks like the Cleveland Knicks.
01:25:42
Cody Atkinson
All right, so I think we got Cleveland up next, right?
01:25:45
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:25:47
Cody Atkinson
Um...
01:25:49
Justin Daulton
See, this one falls like with that Cincy one, but I don't like it.
01:25:55
Justin Daulton
I don't like the CLE on the front. I don't like the the granite kind of color scheme through the jersey.
01:26:02
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:26:02
Justin Daulton
ah to To me, this falls. This is borderline an F for me. The hat, too.
01:26:07
Cody Atkinson
How many do we have at F right now?
01:26:11
Cody Atkinson
Let's put it at F. I'm fine with that. Well, actually, yeah, I'm fine with that, but I think I'm also going to recommend that the next one goes there too. So maybe we have a little run here.
01:26:18
Justin Daulton
um Yeah, immediately. the The Motor City one, yeah, don't like it.
01:26:20
Cody Atkinson
the Yeah, Motor City Detroit f gro Gross.
01:26:24
Justin Daulton
yeah next Yeah, the next one for me too, I don't like it.
01:26:24
Cody Atkinson
I might do it. The next one, too.
01:26:28
Justin Daulton
The Mets brick gray color that they have going on, yeah it's not great.
01:26:31
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, so this, I think, is inspired by the the subway or something like that.
01:26:35
Justin Daulton
yes Yes, or like the streets of New York or something like that, yeah.
01:26:38
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, something like that. It's just very gray, black pinstripes, NYC. There's a little bit of purple on there. um The hat itself is, like, okay But i I'm fine. If we if we're going to have a run of three Fs in a row right there, I would i'd be okay with that
01:26:57
Justin Daulton
yeah um the next one is the phillies with the philly jersey the hat i don't like the hat the gradient on it is fine it just doesn't scream philly for me like you had a chance to to bring in the kelly green color scheme or at least an element of kelly green some way to incorporate food culture from philly anything like that rocky alvoa and you
01:26:59
Cody Atkinson
that. Philly.
01:27:19
Cody Atkinson
They had to put cheesesteak on there.
01:27:22
Justin Daulton
and But you just what you just kind of took the the low way out of this and just did a really weird gradient color. This is borderline in F, but I think it falls into the D category.
01:27:32
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, I say let's put it at D. i don't I just don't think it's – I don't feel good having a run of four Fs in a row. I feel like we're finishing weak here.
01:27:38
Justin Daulton
fair.
01:27:39
Cody Atkinson
um But it's the because I do think it i think it has – I think it's more redeemable than the ones we all just threw in F2. Like I think that's a fun blue – like the blue color they use I like.
01:27:50
Cody Atkinson
I don't really get it for the city, but that I don't live there. So maybe that's just me being dumb. Yeah. So I think it has that going forward. I think the use of the cracked Liberty Bell is redeemable.
01:28:03
Cody Atkinson
um And now I'm i trying to zoom in on this thing.
01:28:03
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:28:05
Cody Atkinson
and My phone's freaking out right now. um the And then like the love patch with the crack city bells as an O. think i think there's I think it's better than the Fs that we've been looking at.
01:28:16
Justin Daulton
That's fair.
01:28:16
Cody Atkinson
and I don't know who. Oh, this is Seattle's the next one.
01:28:21
Justin Daulton
The black one?
01:28:22
Cody Atkinson
The, what are you, there's a, oh, so we we got some throwaways here, right? Okay, what are you looking at?
01:28:28
Justin Daulton
It's black with what's like red on the back of it. Red lettering on the back.
01:28:32
Cody Atkinson
I think that might be the old Orioles you're looking at. Is it two guys like high-fiving or something?
01:28:37
Justin Daulton
Yeah, is that the old Orioles?
01:28:38
Cody Atkinson
That's the old Orioles, you can throw that into old.
01:28:41
Justin Daulton
I got another what looks like a black one with three guys on it.
01:28:45
Cody Atkinson
is it Is it hints of red? I think that's the old reds one.
01:28:48
Justin Daulton
Okay. Then, yeah, next I have is the Seattle one.
01:28:51
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, let's do Seattle. Yeah, because I think we only have three left. I think you have a lot of throwaways left sitting on yours.
01:29:00
Justin Daulton
I like the Seattle ones.
01:29:02
Cody Atkinson
You do? OK, sell me on it.
01:29:05
Justin Daulton
But first off, the hat, it's gotta be up there. It's simple, but it works. I love the trident look to it. I like the little pop of red on the bill. Like, I think that works really well. Right, that's red.
01:29:16
Cody Atkinson
On the bill?
01:29:17
Justin Daulton
Going to a different, try to get a different image on it. Looks like it's a pop of red, I might be wrong.
01:29:21
Cody Atkinson
I don't think there's... That's
01:29:24
Justin Daulton
The pictures are very misleading.
01:29:27
Cody Atkinson
fair. I don't think there's a popper right on the bill.
01:29:29
Justin Daulton
No, it's not. It's just a dark it's just a darker it's just a darker blue.
01:29:30
Cody Atkinson
I think it's... Yeah.
01:29:32
Justin Daulton
um I like the gold or the accents of colors on top of the blue. um i like the collar and the the sleeve being the same stitched effect.
01:29:43
Justin Daulton
um I just think it works, man. i And I love the trident. I think the trident is such under...
01:29:48
Cody Atkinson
I do like the use of the trident a lot.
01:29:50
Justin Daulton
i think that's just so underutilized for them. So anytime that they get to use that, I think it's just so good. what's the laundry patch oh the laundry patch is just more of the tri to yeah No, i this is great. I think this is definitely on the higher end of scale. I can see this being an A or a B. i don't think it's an S. It's real close for me to being in an S. um But it's real 3A,
01:30:12
Cody Atkinson
All right, give me the rundown. So we got one S tier. How many A tiers do we have?
01:30:16
Justin Daulton
three a three b one s
01:30:18
Cody Atkinson
Okay, so we're we're even A and B. I think I would lean.
01:30:24
Cody Atkinson
i do like the use of the Trident a lot. um not a
01:30:27
Justin Daulton
So is this on the same category as the Pirates, the new San Diego and Minnesota, or is this in the range of the Royals, the new Red Sox, and then the Cardinals?
01:30:37
Cody Atkinson
I would put this in the range of the Red Sox and the Cardinals, I think.
01:30:41
Justin Daulton
Okay. I can make that agreement.
01:30:43
Cody Atkinson
That's a good way to, that's a good way of framing that.
01:30:45
Justin Daulton
Next is the Angels for me, right?
01:30:48
Cody Atkinson
Yep. So we, yep, we do have the angels up next.
01:30:48
Justin Daulton
Is that the next one you got?
01:30:51
Cody Atkinson
This is an older one. I think they're, I think they're eligible for a redo and they just haven't done it yet.
01:30:56
Justin Daulton
A gen two.
01:30:58
Cody Atkinson
Um, they've not done a gen two. I will say this, a lot of people think that this angels one is really uninspired. And that's kind of what I remember hearing about it. I love the beach vibes on this one, dude. I feel like you can really just grab this jersey and wear it to the beach. It's got the sandy color.
01:31:18
Cody Atkinson
um it's yeah There's not a lot to it. There's not a lot to explain here. But to me, the simplicity, I think, actually works really well for this. I will knock it. There's not much to the hat.
01:31:30
Cody Atkinson
There's not much uniqueness to the hat here. And there's not really much uniqueness to the jersey at all. But I do like that it really does feel like a jersey. If what they were going for was beach and surf culture, I feel like they actually hit it pretty well.
01:31:45
Justin Daulton
Yeah, no, I actually like this one. So I like the hat. I like the retro A that they use here. um And i like I just like the way that the lettering is done on it. Like, I think it's so smooth.
01:31:59
Justin Daulton
um I love this, like, like, surfer culture that they went for. Like, I think think they nailed it.
01:32:04
Cody Atkinson
Yeah.
01:32:06
Justin Daulton
um This is on the higher end for me.
01:32:09
Cody Atkinson
All right, so we're looking at A or B again?
01:32:12
Justin Daulton
Yeah, I think this falls into an A because like when you start talking about like, is it on the same? Maybe it's
01:32:20
Cody Atkinson
Let's toss it at B. um I'm fine with either one, honestly.
01:32:21
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:32:23
Cody Atkinson
i like this more than the average. If i was an Angels fan, I'd have a bunch of these because it does, like to me, it feels like it fits what they were going for.
01:32:28
Justin Daulton
Yes.
01:32:31
Cody Atkinson
like They did it well. But it also is almost too simple to be too high on the list.
01:32:38
Justin Daulton
Sure. I've got four more images left. How many more do you have?
01:32:42
Cody Atkinson
i I think we just have one. So let me tell me what the four are. What's the first one you're looking at?
01:32:46
Justin Daulton
Well, what's the one that you have left? Cause that'll make it easier.
01:32:47
Cody Atkinson
I've got Wrigleyville, Chicago, Navy Blue.
01:32:49
Justin Daulton
Rayleighville. Okay. That helps.
01:32:51
Cody Atkinson
So what are the what are the ones you're getting rid of?
01:32:54
Justin Daulton
I just got rid of them.
01:32:55
Cody Atkinson
well Well, I guess what were they just to double check and make sure I wasn't messed up?
01:32:55
Justin Daulton
It uh, looks like it's the guy wearing number seven. it looks like it's the old San Francisco.
01:33:06
Cody Atkinson
Oh, is that a navy blue?
01:33:08
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:33:09
Cody Atkinson
Okay, so that was the old Kansas City.
01:33:11
Justin Daulton
And then the old Giants one, and then I think the old Brewers one, with the guy wearing number four and the number seven.
01:33:13
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. yeah like
01:33:19
Cody Atkinson
Oh, that was the old Diamondbacks one.
01:33:21
Justin Daulton
Dino backs. Okay, those are ones that put us in the old category.
01:33:23
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. so I believe Wrigleyville Cubs is the last one we have. And that should give us 28 because the Yankees and the A's do not participate.
01:33:33
Justin Daulton
Yeah, Wrigleyville...
01:33:37
Justin Daulton
I like the hat. I like using the star from the Chicago city flag or the the Illinois flag. i like that. um I like to use a Wrigleyville. They don't use that a lot.
01:33:49
Justin Daulton
I do like that.
01:33:49
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, I agree with both of these content comments so far.
01:33:50
Justin Daulton
um the The sleeve patch is elite with the with the stars, like with that red and blue and everything. i just don't like that they go so far away from their original color scheme to do it.
01:34:09
Justin Daulton
The laundry tag respecter neighborhood is pretty good too though.
01:34:09
Cody Atkinson
just also, don't.
01:34:13
Cody Atkinson
Yeah, I think this, I think it falls to me, I think it falls strongly in the sea because i think the details are good. I like the star inside the sea in the hat. I like the use of Wrigleyville, protect our neighborhood, all of this, but also like, and I think this is the colors off of the Chicago flag, but when I think of Wrigleyville, think of Wrigley, and I think of kar green and white, like I think this should, yeah, or I mean, like I have a hat that I bought from the one time I've been to
01:34:36
Justin Daulton
You think of like the Ivy and everything.
01:34:43
Cody Atkinson
to Wrigley and it's a white hat with a green brim and a green sign that says beware a foul balls. Their other like Wrigley hat is like the clock pointed towards 120, I think, because that's when like all the games, all the day games at Wrigley started like 120.
01:34:50
Justin Daulton
That's
01:35:00
Cody Atkinson
And it's like, it's cool. I think if they were going to do this one well, like S tier level, I think, I think it probably is more akin to what the Red Sox did. Like, I think if you're going to Wrigley, you've got to have, i think it's got to be, it's got to be pops of green for the Ivy.
01:35:11
Justin Daulton
her. To do a IV.
01:35:16
Cody Atkinson
And like, I think pretty much all of the support beams and stuff in the stadium are green and they're iconic because I've never been to a stadium that has more obstructed views than when I went to Wrigley and I walked all over that field looking for a place that wasn't obstructed by a beam because it's just old, you know?
01:35:35
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:35:36
Cody Atkinson
So I think it falls in C just because like, to me, if you're doing Wrigley, Wrigleyville, Wrigley, i think you I think you should have leaned more into the Ivy and the stadium itself, not the Chicago flag, but the details, they still did really well, and it looks really good because it's the Chicago flag and it says I'm fine with that if you want to put it at B.
01:35:45
Justin Daulton
Yeah.
01:35:54
Justin Daulton
I think I could be, i could see the argument for C, but I think I'm more comfortable with being a B because of the details. All right. Good compromise.
01:36:04
Cody Atkinson
All right, so that
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01:36:05
Cody Atkinson
brings us to the end of our list.
01:36:05
Justin Daulton
Cool.
01:36:06
Cody Atkinson
You want to do a little recap for everybody here?
01:36:09
Justin Daulton
Yeah, so F tier, you have the new Rangers, the Chicago White Sox, Chicago Bulls jersey, the Cleveland CLE jerseys, the Motor City Detroit Tigers jerseys, and then the Brick Ray Mets jerseys.
01:36:09
Cody Atkinson
Just
01:36:24
Justin Daulton
The D tier, you have the Tampa Rays, the Wisconsin Brewers, because they're now Milwaukee Brewers in this one. The new Cincinnati jerseys with the weird C, the Serpentines, or however you want to pronounce it,
01:36:38
Cody Atkinson
Oh, forgot it. Serpentis. Man, was saying earlier ago a lot.
01:36:40
Justin Daulton
There you go Then you have the Colorado Rockies new one, and then it's the...
01:36:42
Cody Atkinson
I forgot what it is now.
01:36:48
Justin Daulton
what was that one?
01:36:49
Cody Atkinson
Serpentis.
01:36:51
Justin Daulton
Yeah, what was the... I can't tell what that one is now. Whatever that one is. get
01:36:55
Cody Atkinson
Can you describe it to me real quick? I don't have it currently.
01:36:57
Justin Daulton
It's the guy sliding into the bag.
01:36:59
Cody Atkinson
Guy, oh, is that the that's the Nationals, the subway or the city street one.
01:37:03
Justin Daulton
Nationals, their second one then the new Dodgers, and then the Philly jersey, that's your D tier. C tier, you have the new Astros, the BMO or Orioles, the weird speech-striping Miami Marlins, the new Giants jerseys with markedly improvements one, um and then the Toronto Blue Jays, and then your B tier is the Kansas City Royals, the Boston Red Sox Green Monsters, the Lou Cardinals,
01:37:31
Justin Daulton
The Seattle Mariners using the Trident, the Surfer Boy Angels, Wrigleyville Cubs. That's rounds at your B tier. And then your A tier is the Pirates second one, which is a lot better than the first one.
01:37:44
Justin Daulton
um The San Diego classic Padres look. The Minnesota Twins second attempt at this. And then your only S tier is the Atlanta Braves only attempt at it, which is fantastic. It harkens back to the Hank Aaron Atlanta Braves days.
01:38:01
Cody Atkinson
That's right.
01:38:01
Justin Daulton
And that's your and that's your and that's your rear jerseys.
01:38:02
Cody Atkinson
I, I feel pretty good about that. I think we settled on a, on a really good tier system there. I am surprised we only ended up with one S tier, but I think we showed a lot of restraint there keeping S tier to the truly elite. Yeah.
01:38:15
Justin Daulton
yeah i agree with it
01:38:17
Cody Atkinson
Well, that's that. That's all we got for this week. Um, that was a lot of fun. Really enjoyed that. We will certainly be continuing list season as we go throughout the summer. Next week you will get a Justin special. So I will be out of the country. So Justin's going running the show. I think, I think maybe it sounds like our, our WrestleMania correspondent may be back for a, for a fun, ah I guess this would be third appearance or fourth appearance.
01:38:44
Cody Atkinson
um Yeah. Yeah. Third, third appearance on the show. So definitely get to look forward to that. And then I'll be back the following week. I guess we, we don't fully know what's on the docket for next week.
01:38:44
Justin Daulton
Third appearance, yeah.
01:38:56
Cody Atkinson
So,
01:38:56
Justin Daulton
at At the bare minimum, not next week, we don't have next week's topic lockdown, but the following week when you're back, we have our June MLB check-in and our first Texans list after that as well.
01:39:06
Cody Atkinson
Yeah. Yeah, we'll be doing top 25 Texans to celebrate 25th year. And that will also help us transition um as we get towards football season. we'll still we'll We'll start prepping for it with some previews and that'll kind of help us gather that transition as well.
01:39:22
Cody Atkinson
So definitely got that to look forward to. And ah and just a little surprise bag. of ah of a special episode next week. I know there will be a ah me centric episode when you take some vacation later in the summer.
01:39:33
Cody Atkinson
So bear with us through these, but but the list season is far from over.
01:39:34
Justin Daulton
Yep.
01:39:37
Cody Atkinson
So we hope you're enjoying it. um If you are let us know, let us know if there's any other lists you want to do. um But other than that, just thanks for joining us here again, 18 episodes in, we've been doing this for like four months now, which is a shocker. It doesn't feel like that long.
01:39:55
Cody Atkinson
Um, but we're, we're enjoying it. We're, we're improving every week. We're getting better at what we do. And if there's something you want us to talk about, let us know.
01:40:02
Justin Daulton
Absolutely.
01:40:03
Cody Atkinson
All right.
01:40:03
Justin Daulton
See y'all.
01:40:04
Cody Atkinson
Yep. See y'all week. Peace.
01:40:06
Justin Daulton
Peace.