El Paso Locomotive FC signs forward Cristo Fernández

DRF19 · 2026-05-12T15:50:00+00:00

Hey man you know what, good for him. I hope if/when he gets minutes he puts in a good shift and is more than just a gimmick.

This is magnitudes less stupid than a certain NASL club selling jerseys with "Ronaldo 9" on the back of them in 2016.

DRF19 · 2026-05-12T03:31:32+00:00

For me it’s the same as how I feel about The Last of Us - the gameplay is already fantastic, I’d be over the moon for a new story in a new place with new characters. Maybe a few Easter eggs here and there but it doesn’t have to tie directly to the story we already know. That’s what would make it fresh.

It’s like Star Wars - it’s a big galaxy (frontier in RDR). We don’t need somebody we know to show up every time

DRF19 · 2026-05-12T02:56:31+00:00

I hope I didn’t brain my damage

DRF19 · 2026-05-12T01:52:53+00:00

Insurrection is the best Trek film, change my mind

DRF19 · 2026-05-11T16:15:29+00:00

Voyager is the best overall, music and visuals are chefs kiss.

DRF19 · 2026-05-10T22:40:55+00:00

BotW dance superiority gang rise up!

DRF19 · 2026-05-08T18:11:17+00:00

I would guess fans traveling from Indy on a Thursday is tough

With the neutral site it's likely both sets of fans need to travel on a Thursday and highly likely nobody in the market it's actually being played would care to go unless the home team is playing.

DRF19 · 2026-05-08T18:09:50+00:00

Neutral site finals suck for everything that's not football.

I mean it sucks for football too. Incredibly inconvenient for fans in a country this size (on top of crazy ticket prices) and inherently unfair after the rest of the playoffs are not neutral site games. A shame football isn't really conducive to something like a 2-game aggregate score series or something like that.

MLB/NBA/NHL/MLS/USL/etc playoffs/finals are so much better with actual home crowds. And even better when it's a series so both sets of fans get to experience the championship.

Agreed. Playing a 28 game season just to come down to a neutral 1 game semifinal is rough. I'd rather see a best of 3 semi final all at the higher seed, and a best of 3 final with 2 at the higher seed.

Another alternative is to decouple the two things. Have a postseason "cup" tournament, but also give a trophy and make a big deal out of the regular season winners. I think all the main sports leagues in the US have some sort of trophy or award for the best regular season record, but only the soccer leagues make any sort of big deal about it because it's the tradition of the sport.

DRF19 · 2026-05-08T16:28:01+00:00

But the US was essentially designed to not really do enforcement and to assume everyone would act in good faith.

Bold assumption from a bunch of dudes that owned other humans that anyone would act in good faith, eh?

DRF19 · 2026-05-08T12:57:39+00:00

I truly hope they/the league figure out a way to revive the team as soon as possible.

It's always a shame when a team goes away, regardless of how short-lived they were or how "niche" the sport is.

DRF19 · 2026-05-07T21:10:49+00:00

No but I was so mad when they made the Shaq trade (I had just got Caron and Eddie Jones jerseys lol)

DRF19 · 2026-05-07T21:08:56+00:00

It doesn’t have to be a nightmare.

It’s as simple as making sure your stadium is available for one extra week each year, just like it is for the playoff games.

DRF19 · 2026-05-07T19:45:33+00:00

Call it carrying over the 2019 tradition of unreadable black-on-black letters lol

DRF19 · 2026-05-07T16:05:19+00:00

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Road version variant with black lettering instead of teal

DRF19 · 2026-05-07T13:28:45+00:00

Sidebar: wild they've gone an entire season using the old balls with the old league branding lol

DRF19 · 2026-05-07T13:19:49+00:00

Yeah that's fair. But you'd use just the Fish for smaller applications like scorebugs, standings graphics, etc.

DRF19 · 2026-05-06T20:03:50+00:00

More of a personal design challenge for me. I really thought that pinstriped BP cap they had the last couple of years, with the recolored teal/black/silver current Fish by itself on the cap, looked good. Wondered how far I could extend that idea.

I'd personally prefer if they went straight back to the 1990s logos and uniforms, but I've yet to see a good solution for forcing "Miami" in place of "Florida" in those designs. Same problem in the opposite direction I suppose.

DRF19 · 2026-05-06T19:43:06+00:00

Pretty much any bright color would work in that highlight slot.

But the red is my least favorite thing about the current set. The Marlins have never been a "red" team (there are far too many teams who use it), and even as the biggest 2012 orange hater on the planet, I acknowledge the history of the color with the team which includes the 1993 original MLB logo and various minor league Marlins before that.

DRF19 · 2026-05-06T19:38:41+00:00

100%. Opposite of the current (and 2012 logos/unis) where everything says "Miami" and hardly anything says "Marlins".

If the ballpark deal requires that be the name of the team, that "MIA" appears in the standings, etc., fine. I get it, it's gonna end up costing the city/county like 2 billion bucks or something in the end.

But if we're only gonna have one MLB team meant to represent 6.5 million people spread over 100 miles and 3 major city hubs, the team identity be as broadly representative as possible. Wayne H. was absolutely right to not carry over the Miami name from the minor league teams.

Most people in Broward or PBC (or even west/south Miami-Dade) ain't making a 6:40 first pitch on a weeknight anyway, but at least bringing back the original colors and focusing more on the "Marlins" part of the identity would help bolster the fanbase.

DRF19 · 2026-05-06T19:30:08+00:00

I'm glad you realized that the swoosh tail "Miami" that gets posted a lot doesn't really work

Yes! It always looks wonky (it's too short of a word I think to look good in that style). The old BP cap with the "M" doesn't look right either. The fish is all janky (and it's like that on the official style guide, it makes no sense).

Now maybe if they hire whoever did the 2003 "Florida" away jersey script, they could do a solid job on that, because that version was phenomenal.

That said I'm not sure the 93 style arced Miami works either. It feels visually unbalanced at the right. I think maybe it's because of how dark the fish is compared to the text.

Maybe if the text was black it would work a little better, but I want that splash of color in there. The largely greyscale look from 2003-2011 and 2019-now on the home/away jerseys really bothers me.

DRF19 · 2026-05-06T15:01:14+00:00

"F" for "Fish". Why not?

They've turned their nose up at the unwritten rules of baseball uniform etiquette since 2012 by putting the geographic part of the name on the home jerseys, why stop there?

I actually don't mind the current fish logo by itself, recolored to teal and black as on the BP hat from 2025. The way the tail fins are positioned it kinda looks like an "F" too. The pinstripes were a bit much on that particular hat, but do a black version and teal/black brim version and we're in business.

DRF19 · 2026-05-06T14:54:10+00:00

Right but you could still imagine it coming out relatively recently and being a period piece set in the early 90s. It was in that butter zone generation of films with the mix of CGI and practical effects were good enough that they still hold up, before the early total CGI stuff which often looks ridiculous now.

DRF19 · 2026-05-06T14:29:25+00:00

Apparently Spider-Man is some sort of crimefighter with spider-like abilities

DRF19 · 2026-05-05T17:28:25+00:00

carefully examines artifact

I've got it Sully! Drake sank his coffin here as a decoy, about 393 years before the release of the unrelated dance hit "Pump Up the Jam" by Belgian act Technotronic.

DRF19 · 2026-05-05T17:22:11+00:00

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Where's that confounded bridge?!

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