I will be looking for a 90s- or 2000s-era Majestic jersey, preferably someone who played for the local team where I live now, as well as my favorite team, from where I grew up.
Absolute garbage. I’ll now pay more than the authentic just to get a custom Ohtani Jersey that looks like last year’s. Thanks for making the video though, needs more exposure!
They really do look cheap. Not a professional MLB jersey. They are giving the fans and players less and charging more for it. Why make all those aesthetic changes? It just doesn't make sense. They have time to go back and fix this issue.
Under armour probably would have been awesome. They consistently make really high quality stuff across the board it seems and they've earned a decent amount of brand loyalty from me over the past decade. This just sucks.
@@pumpbustersv1 At the time in 2019 Under Armour was not the answer, they were in a really bad spot financially and had no clear sense of direction with Kevin Plank still at the helm as CEO. There were a lot of internal issues that set them up for failure like the 2018 stripper scandal, the 2021 SEC charges, and the $67 million settlement with UCLA in 2022. If the deal was to happen now, Under Armour would make sense. They got a new CEO in December ‘23 and made some big changes in their marketing department and is fully in on maximizing growth. They are really in a great spot now, and should be making a comeback in the near future.
Exactly! I will not buy any jersey made by Fanatics. I'm also a huge hockey fan, so I'm dreading next season's change to the NHL sweaters. That said, I'll be keeping (and wearing) my old Reebok and Adidas hockey jerseys.
They really do look terrible. It’s crazy to think that a team of designers who get paid probably well over 6 figures looked at the finished product and thought “hell yeah it’s perfect”
They are thinking billion dollar corporations buying ad space is a priority customer, not the poor peon fans who's backs their franchises are built on. Fans buying jerseys for a couple hundred bucks here and there don't matter, neither do the opinions of players for that matter, all the owners care about is profit. Corporate greed only grows, far outpacing customer care or quality of product.
As a Phillies fan, this has been especially infuriating. Last year, it was the removal of sleeve numbers for an ad patch that still isn't being used. Now, the beautiful chain-stitched crest has been replaced with regular flat twill. 30 years of tradition gone, just like that, because some bean counter at Nike is trying to get noticed for saving the company a few bucks.
That’s brutal. I’m a Mets fan but I’ve always really appreciated the Phillies jerseys over the years. It’s a shame little personality quirks like that are being taken away
@@tweezerjamPhillies fan here. If you look at where it says “Phillies” on the jersey. It isn’t a patch that’s sowed on like numbers and letters. The entire lettering is stitched in to say Phillies.
@@JabroniBaseball Mets fan here too, and I know that this is unrelated to the MLB uniform change, but why the hell did they remove the white outline from the black jerseys?
here's something I think is being overlooked. The players can literally afford to wear the lightest, least durable jersey because if they tear etc, the team will have a new one waiting. Conversely the fan, needs to have something sturdier as they literally cannot afford to have their jersey fall apart.
That’s such a good point. Logically you’re 100%. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks they’re made to be terrible quality so they fall apart quicker and we buy new ones more regularly to replace them
I hate corporate logos on jerseys so much. I can tolerate having the manufacturers logo on the jersey but seeing that Giant Motorola logo on the Padres makes me want to vomit.
A lot of NBA jerseys have been like this for a long time... heat pressed letters and numbers on polyester jerseys shouldn't be being sold for 140 dollars
Dude I’ve been playing hockey my whole life. I think it says a lot that my PRACTICE jerseys that were 150$ for both are better quality than fanatics jerseys. Real patches that were sewn on and numbers and names that were beautifully put on there. This is exactly why sports are getting so terrible. Increasing ticket prices expensive jerseys that are cheap quality and the pushing of useless trinkets and betting
This is the new world order, the totalitarian control of every industry, the textile industry in general is in disarray and when you add in who controls pro sports licensing these days you have an outright disaster.
To be fair: Russell and Rawlings also had their logos on the uniform sleeve in the 80s and 90s...but the quality of those jerseys was top-notch! This is garbage!
Except the Yankees. George did not allow the manufacturer's logo on any Yankee on field jersey. They were the only exception to that. You never saw a Russell or Majestic logo on any Yankee on field jersey. George would roll over in his grave to see the Nike "swoosh" across the chest. Or an ad. "Starr Insurance"????? Who are they?
@engelmann82 Well yeah I meant that was a good thing, at least for its time. They and Nike as well as Majestic made even better jerseys into the late 2000s. It was the 2010s when more stuff in all sports began prioritizing paper thin lightweight as possible stuff, and now they're doing it at the expense of the rest of the things that make a jersey important.
What are you expect when you used forced labor? More slavery right now on earth, and any other time in human history. And it’s absolutely abhorrent that American Americans gobble up slave products.
It’s just so bright and doesn’t go with the uniform at all. Apparently the Phillies owner has said F that and has vowed not to sell out. I hope so. He’s got enough money.
Braves fan here, Quikrete has its headquarters in Atlanta that’s the reason for the sponsorship, I honestly think it looks fine. We have have yellow on our jerseys on the tomahawk
Hockey fan here. Was recommended this likely after watching The Hockey Guy mention the fanatics deal not going well in the MLB. Its scary to me, that hockey jersies are about to get this same treatment
If Nike had kept the same material and put the logo in the same spot majestic had it, i think it’d look badass. Nike used to be quality till it got global and cut costs and corners
I hate that we live in this timeline. Everything being cheaply made and costing so much... I used to have such a passion for collecting jerseys as a sort of historic momento, now i guess im cool with my collection and will just shift to something else... I dont want this kind of cheap garbage hanging in my closet, I already consider my '23 ASG jersey as just a cheap beater
I hope new era doesn't lose the hat contract cause i can just imagine how bad the quality will be if one of the big sports gear companies get hold of that
Hope it lasts. My 2004 Majestic jersey wore out at the armpits (I wore it a lot). SO I bought a knock off Nike jersey for $40. It has a few discrepancies but still looks good overall and nobody, including myself, cares about those discrepancies.
I run a sport retail store in Pittsburgh and we haven’t sold any of the finatic jerseys, people don’t want to spend 40$ more for a cheaper product. We already have issues selling Pirates stuff later in the season, but these jerseys are going to make it impossible to sell.
Call me what you want , I been buying the Knock off brand jerseys for the past 2 years... My 30 dollar jerseys look just as good if not better than some of my 300 dollar ones.
I still can't believe the NHL signed a 10-year deal with Fanatics. I know I won't be buying jerseys from them anytime soon once the change goes through. Hopefully, they prove me wrong but I don't have high hopes for them doing that.
I don’t really care how they look but it does matter if they affect the comfort or performance of the players. I imagine the team owners care a great deal about that too.
I DESPISE the Nike "swoosh" being on the front of the jerseys! IMO, they should've either put it where the Majestic logo used to be, or do what Nike does with NFL jerseys and just put them at the top of the sleeves! At least there, it would look SOMEWHAT natural.
5:51 you should never have to squint to make out the teal and silver against the navy. Trimming on any numbers and names should always be bold enough to see clearly. Even if Nike wanted lighter fabrics and application, that's no excuse to mess up the team's font and colors like that.
Maybe it’s me being a jaded A’s fan but it’s depressing how much manfred and MLB as whole just straight up don’t care what the fans say or any sort of tradition, all they see is dollar signs
What it seems to me, the conclusion I got is that fanatics decided let's be cheap and press the Batterman the player name plate, and the numbers and will make the player's name curved and smaller, so it all fits on the heat press. They didn't do any redesign, They wanted to all fit , so one person can do it on one machine and he press it all at once. Then use cheaper thin materials from different material vendors and then say that it's lighter and better. 400 bucks for what? No thanks! Great video! 🎉
I don’t think what makes a great on-field jersey makes a good fan jersey. You can’t convince me a bunch of huge embroidered inflexible patches are good to play in. But it’s super nice as a fan to wear something like that.
I am so glad i got my two Astros Jerseys back last year for celebrating the world series win. The issue is they might have shown them off last year but it is clear changes were made since then and they weren't improvements. Now the Nike logo was annoying but wasn't terrible the sponsor patch was probably always going to happen and if those had been the only changes we would be find but no. MLB will take action if they are pressured to do so either by fans buying less jerseys or enough players complaining that the PA gets involved or a combination of both (which is the more likely out of these 3 outcomes). This reminds me a lot of NBA trying to change the basketball which they have done once and they have been teasing with Wilson that they are going to soon try again but the issue was players hated the new basketballs and this new one has its own boat load of issues.
Sports fans deserve better than to be disrespected with obviously cheap products being sold at insane prices while those in charge try to convince us that it's all high quality stuff.
Depends on the contract. In this case Nike designed them and Fanatics is doing the manufacturing. However for the NHL next year, Fanatics is in charge of both.
@@JabroniBaseball Ok thanks. Big football teams in the UK partner with Fanatics, but I'm pretty sure it's just as a retail/distribution partner, and other brands like Adidas make the clothing.
When it comes to designing, manufacturing, and distributing sports jerseys, there's actually a LOT more companies involved than you might think. Did you know that the 2000s Reebok(who was already acquired by Adidas at that point) NFL jerseys were actually made by Russell? Reebok and the teams design them. Russell made them with their fabrics, contracted the machines and process to the factories overseas(which are owned by companies in those countries, not Russell or Adidas, the brands we know "order" x number of jerseys with their fabrics to their specifications from the factory), then Reebok brands them, then Adidas gets the money as their parent company. Plus the jerseys are made in a different place than where the names and numbers are applied.
After watching this video and Icethetics series of the NHL jerseys, I’m glad this trend hasn’t hit soccer yet. An authentic soccer jersey can cost around $150 and it’s the same thing the players wear and replicas are made by the same manufacturer but at a lower cost.
This is just sad. I saw a new Twins jersey last week at a local store and it was way worse than last years model. The XL looked more like a L size. I also noticed this with NFL Nike Limited jerseys. They switched the numbers to heat pressed instead of stitched. That is a huge disappointment. Especially after they raised the price $10.
What the ffffffing f..k does nike know about baseball! That Dodger’s jersey with the swoosh, sorry nike and mlb, such branding maybe accepted in other sports, but not in baseball. That swoosh makes it look like it’s the flag on a dumpster truck. From the looks of it, the manufacturer used some spare rolls of the similar cloth used for soccer jerseys. They say they’re breathable but make you sweat like being in a bloody sauna. Once again doesn’t work for baseball. Mlb better get rid of this nike deal, this ain’t gonna work, nor is it gonna get any better from here on out. Cheerio
I need some clarification, In 2020 when MLB signed a 10 year deal with Nike, they made an agreement to manufacture the jerseys for the players at Fanatics (who purchased Majestic), basically using the same fabrics and materials just with a Nike swoosh on it, hence why they reach more than $400 online (the branding). What they were doing was using up all their fabric instead of getting rid of it to make their money's worth in material for a few years until Nike came with a new layout. Is that accurate of what was done back let say 2018 or 2019 when Majestic was phasing out by Fanatics? Help me with some clarity on this topic.
Yeah, until this year Nike authentic jerseys were made in the same factory as the majestic jerseys. The only real difference was the jock tag changed and the Nike swoosh was added. Nike increased the price of their jerseys probably for branding reasons.
Nike has shown little interest in baseball. I feel over the last 2 decades Under Armour was investing a lot in baseball. Nike only got invoked in baseball to prevent Under Armour's growth. I understand that Under Armour is the one that backed out, however Russel, Adidas, New Era, or several other manufacturers could have made the baseball uniforms. Nike only did this to push Under Armour down more.
So, basically, Nike outsourced the work and then made a bunch of cost cutting changes in order to keep their profit margins the same. Less work for the same money, all while redirecting most of the negative publicity towards Fanatics.
The number on my MLS jersey mostly fell off after one season. Bought it online, so not a team employee doing a bad job. Didn't realize Fanatics was making them. Meanwhile my first season jersey is just fine. Baseball being infected now too.
Jerseys look cheaply made. Glad I bought my majestic one before all the enhanced changes for the fan. Meanwhile charging us a lot more for a shittier product! Dreading to see what changes fanatics will do with the NHL jerseys. Wont be buying those anymore.
thankfully in NHL right now you either buy a adidas very very close replica to what the players wear and look great but then fanatics if you just want a jersey but don’t want to drop $200
More corporate logos on the jerseys are inevitable. Other sport's jersey's are plastered in logos (soccer, rugby, NASCAR, F1, etc..). It is only a matter of time until MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL teams get tired of missing out on that money.
What do you think of the new Fanatics jerseys?
I will be looking for a 90s- or 2000s-era Majestic jersey, preferably someone who played for the local team where I live now, as well as my favorite team, from where I grew up.
Absolute garbage. I’ll now pay more than the authentic just to get a custom Ohtani Jersey that looks like last year’s. Thanks for making the video though, needs more exposure!
@@imastudd thanks for watching! I appreciate the support!
Completely and totally true
They really do look cheap. Not a professional MLB jersey. They are giving the fans and players less and charging more for it. Why make all those aesthetic changes? It just doesn't make sense. They have time to go back and fix this issue.
Going away from majestic was the worst decision ever made.
MLB disaster-class
Under armour probably would have been awesome. They consistently make really high quality stuff across the board it seems and they've earned a decent amount of brand loyalty from me over the past decade.
This just sucks.
Majestic was purchased by Fanatics in 2017.
@@pumpbustersv1 At the time in 2019 Under Armour was not the answer, they were in a really bad spot financially and had no clear sense of direction with Kevin Plank still at the helm as CEO. There were a lot of internal issues that set them up for failure like the 2018 stripper scandal, the 2021 SEC charges, and the $67 million settlement with UCLA in 2022.
If the deal was to happen now, Under Armour would make sense. They got a new CEO in December ‘23 and made some big changes in their marketing department and is fully in on maximizing growth. They are really in a great spot now, and should be making a comeback in the near future.
Majestic is owned by Fanatics so in terms of manufacturing quality we’d still be in the same position.
I love that fanatics took over everything. I will save so much money because I will not buy fanatics.
Exactly! I will not buy any jersey made by Fanatics. I'm also a huge hockey fan, so I'm dreading next season's change to the NHL sweaters. That said, I'll be keeping (and wearing) my old Reebok and Adidas hockey jerseys.
They're doing everything they can to not make me want their product. What are they thinking? Those jerseys look like knockoffs of their own brand.
They really do look terrible. It’s crazy to think that a team of designers who get paid probably well over 6 figures looked at the finished product and thought “hell yeah it’s perfect”
@@JabroniBaseball They look like something you would find at Academy in the non alarmed team merchandise section.
They are thinking billion dollar corporations buying ad space is a priority customer, not the poor peon fans who's backs their franchises are built on. Fans buying jerseys for a couple hundred bucks here and there don't matter, neither do the opinions of players for that matter, all the owners care about is profit. Corporate greed only grows, far outpacing customer care or quality of product.
As a Phillies fan, this has been especially infuriating. Last year, it was the removal of sleeve numbers for an ad patch that still isn't being used. Now, the beautiful chain-stitched crest has been replaced with regular flat twill. 30 years of tradition gone, just like that, because some bean counter at Nike is trying to get noticed for saving the company a few bucks.
That’s brutal. I’m a Mets fan but I’ve always really appreciated the Phillies jerseys over the years. It’s a shame little personality quirks like that are being taken away
Lifelong Phillies fan here. No idea what you’re talking about. Care to explain?😂
@@tweezerjamPhillies fan here. If you look at where it says “Phillies” on the jersey. It isn’t a patch that’s sowed on like numbers and letters. The entire lettering is stitched in to say Phillies.
@@JabroniBaseball Mets fan here too, and I know that this is unrelated to the MLB uniform change, but why the hell did they remove the white outline from the black jerseys?
Blame mlb not nike.
We all know nike sucks but come on mlb.
I didn't know MLB was sponsored by Temu.
Really 😂
Shit, Temu prolly could do a better job, hell DHGate is already proving that point.
@@DeeJamBeeI have a couple jerseys from DHGate. They’re not 100% perfect, but they’re stitched and were only about $15
here's something I think is being overlooked. The players can literally afford to wear the lightest, least durable jersey because if they tear etc, the team will have a new one waiting. Conversely the fan, needs to have something sturdier as they literally cannot afford to have their jersey fall apart.
That’s such a good point. Logically you’re 100%. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks they’re made to be terrible quality so they fall apart quicker and we buy new ones more regularly to replace them
The fan doesn't use that shirt to play baseball
@@JabroniBaseballnot a conspiracy. You’re absolutely correct. It’s all about the money.
In the mlb they’d prefer not to make new jerseys for a player. That’s why you’re not allowed to jersey swap in the mlb
@@Al0305likely not but heat pressed patches only last for so many wash cycles/sun exposure before they start to crack and peel away.
Crazy to think that fake knock-off jerseys may soon have higher quality than the on-field uniforms.
Fanatics is the bane of the sports community.
I hate corporate logos on jerseys so much. I can tolerate having the manufacturers logo on the jersey but seeing that Giant Motorola logo on the Padres makes me want to vomit.
I can deal with it if the patches were on the same side sleeve for every player. There's no uniformity with the logos and it bothers me
A lot of NBA jerseys have been like this for a long time... heat pressed letters and numbers on polyester jerseys shouldn't be being sold for 140 dollars
Costs no more than 20$ to make. It's a scam.
Dude I’ve been playing hockey my whole life. I think it says a lot that my PRACTICE jerseys that were 150$ for both are better quality than fanatics jerseys. Real patches that were sewn on and numbers and names that were beautifully put on there. This is exactly why sports are getting so terrible. Increasing ticket prices expensive jerseys that are cheap quality and the pushing of useless trinkets and betting
This is the new world order, the totalitarian control of every industry, the textile industry in general is in disarray and when you add in who controls pro sports licensing these days you have an outright disaster.
To be fair: Russell and Rawlings also had their logos on the uniform sleeve in the 80s and 90s...but the quality of those jerseys was top-notch! This is garbage!
Except the Yankees. George did not allow the manufacturer's logo on any Yankee on field jersey. They were the only exception to that. You never saw a Russell or Majestic logo on any Yankee on field jersey. George would roll over in his grave to see the Nike "swoosh" across the chest. Or an ad. "Starr Insurance"????? Who are they?
@@frankg.2949 yes, you’re right. They were the only team to do so! 👍🏻 and the ads are atrocious…on every team jersey! 🤮
Russell baseball jerseys from the 90s weighed a ton, too!
@@Matt_Fields_29 I love that though...
@engelmann82 Well yeah I meant that was a good thing, at least for its time. They and Nike as well as Majestic made even better jerseys into the late 2000s. It was the 2010s when more stuff in all sports began prioritizing paper thin lightweight as possible stuff, and now they're doing it at the expense of the rest of the things that make a jersey important.
This is why all my gear remains majestic. T Shirts and hats excluded.
This is the way
Nah New Era have the hats down to a science
Nike is simultaneously screwing up both MLB and NBA jerseys.
And they keep getting away with it
Nike hasn't made a quality product since the early 90s. They are just cutting corners and raising prices.
@@kineticstar the innovation they had even up to the early 2010s is a far cry from what they are now.
Don’t forget the original Nike NFL uniforms with that stupid collar!
At least they got their crap together after that disaster…
What are you expect when you used forced labor?
More slavery right now on earth, and any other time in human history. And it’s absolutely abhorrent that American Americans gobble up slave products.
Rob Manfred literally singlehandedly ruined the sports
At least he’s outta here in 5 years
Time saver was clutch though
100% correct. It's Manfredball now. America's pastime is dead.
@@Desert-Father Major League Whiffleball and Bananaball. Who cares about MLB anymore. Baseball lives on, just in other forms.
That pitch timer🤢
To put it short, these new uniforms make those Chinese knockoffs look cooler than ever.
Authentic dodger jersey was like 325-350 $usd now it’s over 400 . Unbelievable
They can’t keep getting away with this
@@JabroniBaseball sure they can, and they will
Suckers are always going to be suckers
enjoy those marquee names on the team. Not cheap be a Dodger fan
@@GJLCreativeStudiosTV deal pays all those names off. The rest is just the MLB and teams milking every single penny.
The worst sleeve ad has to be quikrete on the Braves. Yes, I want the official bagged concrete of the Braves.
The QT logo for the Royals is lame as well.
It’s just so bright and doesn’t go with the uniform at all. Apparently the Phillies owner has said F that and has vowed not to sell out. I hope so. He’s got enough money.
Braves fan here, Quikrete has its headquarters in Atlanta that’s the reason for the sponsorship, I honestly think it looks fine. We have have yellow on our jerseys on the tomahawk
Hockey fan here. Was recommended this likely after watching The Hockey Guy mention the fanatics deal not going well in the MLB. Its scary to me, that hockey jersies are about to get this same treatment
That’s why I’m here too. I’m not excited.
450 for a jersey. Fuuuuuuuuck that
Price is ridiculous and the quality stinks. Bring back Majestic. Listen to the fans
Those Majestic jerseys were so quality
If Nike had kept the same material and put the logo in the same spot majestic had it, i think it’d look badass. Nike used to be quality till it got global and cut costs and corners
That switch from embroidered logo to stamp on looks brutal
They made the players wear replica jerseys 😂😂.. they better get this resolved ASAP
lmao if they’re wearing replica quality, imagine the shirsey quality we’re about to get
If the authentic ones look like replicas then imagine how bad the replicas are.
I hate that we live in this timeline. Everything being cheaply made and costing so much... I used to have such a passion for collecting jerseys as a sort of historic momento, now i guess im cool with my collection and will just shift to something else... I dont want this kind of cheap garbage hanging in my closet, I already consider my '23 ASG jersey as just a cheap beater
I'm not even a Yankees fan and seeing an ad patch on their jersey sleeve seems like sacrilege
There's no problem. Just ask Rob Manfred. Everyone will love the new uniforms.
Every sport will have terrible jerseys now :( unfortunately there’s really no point in collecting anymore
Apart from football, Adidas MLS shirts this season are 🔥
I hope new era doesn't lose the hat contract cause i can just imagine how bad the quality will be if one of the big sports gear companies get hold of that
I would have gotten a few more jerseys if I knew this was gonna happen so quickly
Same 100%
Appearentl they are going back to the previous years uniforms in 2025, there was a letter sent out to the MLBPA
MAJESTIC IS THE GOAT
Miss those jerseys so much
As I watch this video I am scouring Ebay right now looking for Majestic jerseys from all teams.
This sounds like a lot of fixing what’s not broke, and cutting corners where they didn’t need to be cut.
How disgustingly unprofessional. 87 billboards at the stadium ain’t enough?
Get ready for MLB jerseys to look like NASCAR suits
as an nhl fan, i hate the ads on jerseys so much, as far as i know only two or so teams have ads right now and its just so ugly
Any self-respecting American sport uniform should be free of corporate logos. We are not FIFA or NASCAR.
Lol. Never been to Fenway Park, have you? Oh, wait. You said "self-respecting". My bad!
Sometimes shit just needs to be left alone! Do better, Nike.
Nike fumbled hard on this
I’ll stick with my 00s Majestic Jersey’s over Nike shit
Such good jerseys IMO
Hope it lasts. My 2004 Majestic jersey wore out at the armpits (I wore it a lot). SO I bought a knock off Nike jersey for $40. It has a few discrepancies but still looks good overall and nobody, including myself, cares about those discrepancies.
I run a sport retail store in Pittsburgh and we haven’t sold any of the finatic jerseys, people don’t want to spend 40$ more for a cheaper product. We already have issues selling Pirates stuff later in the season, but these jerseys are going to make it impossible to sell.
Time for George Costanza to shine
Aha! POLYESTER!
They are basically becoming MLS uniforms.
Sad considering the average MLS team is worth almost 700 million and the average MLB team is worth a little over 2 billion
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Same is happening in NHL too. New fanatics deal, starting next season. Horrible, awful quality. It will ruin the jerseys
Call me what you want , I been buying the Knock off brand jerseys for the past 2 years... My 30 dollar jerseys look just as good if not better than some of my 300 dollar ones.
I’ve actually been looking more into those like DHgate. I think more and more fans are going to join you in that market
Sounds like a decision from George Costanza🤪
so sad to see this cheap junk take over all sports. I bought a couple replicas from china, and honestly the SAME quality but I bought mine for $20
It really is sad to watch
I still can't believe the NHL signed a 10-year deal with Fanatics. I know I won't be buying jerseys from them anytime soon once the change goes through. Hopefully, they prove me wrong but I don't have high hopes for them doing that.
The name plate is weird. It's like the number is wearing the name, not the players.
Former minor leaguer here… No one did it better than Majestic.
Majestic needs to make a comeback
This could be a sign of how the NHL jerseys are going to go with Adidas leaving after this season.
The damn kids in the Little League World Series wouldn’t wear these rags
Get a load of this: the guy uses the word “jabroni” in his handle.
Subscribed.
Had me in the first half not gonna lie
It's not about "performance", it's about ascetic. The optimal baseball uniform is tights with shorts and a cheap tee shirt.
When you have to pay Lebron James $30 mil/year for his lifetime, and Michael Jordan $550 mil. Theyre going to cut costs elsewhere
These were my exact initial thoughts.
It’s a business, cutting quality for costs is always gonna be the way it is. Wait until y’all find out how little they’re really paying players.
I wasn’t sure what to expect but it looks like absolute trash
Lower quality 🤝🏼 more expensive
The Nike logo on the chest was the beginning of the end of clean and classy uniforms. It's a sad day when no one values tradition anymore.
Totally agree. I hated Nike for putting their stupid ugly swoosh logo on the front of MLB jerseys and now I hate them even more.
@@jonnyt16 Yeah, I HATE the placement of the “swoosh”!
Rob Manfred makes Gary Bettman look good in comparison. That's a monumental feat.
I don’t really care how they look but it does matter if they affect the comfort or performance of the players. I imagine the team owners care a great deal about that too.
This is why I'll continue to buy knock off jerseys
I DESPISE the Nike "swoosh" being on the front of the jerseys! IMO, they should've either put it where the Majestic logo used to be, or do what Nike does with NFL jerseys and just put them at the top of the sleeves! At least there, it would look SOMEWHAT natural.
5:51 you should never have to squint to make out the teal and silver against the navy. Trimming on any numbers and names should always be bold enough to see clearly. Even if Nike wanted lighter fabrics and application, that's no excuse to mess up the team's font and colors like that.
Wow Nike did MLB dirty off loading Jersey production LoL tells you how much they give a crap that's cold Man
Maybe it’s me being a jaded A’s fan but it’s depressing how much manfred and MLB as whole just straight up don’t care what the fans say or any sort of tradition, all they see is dollar signs
What it seems to me, the conclusion I got is that fanatics decided let's be cheap and press the Batterman the player name plate, and the numbers and will make the player's name curved and smaller, so it all fits on the heat press. They didn't do any redesign, They wanted to all fit , so one person can do it on one machine and he press it all at once. Then use cheaper thin materials from different material vendors and then say that it's lighter and better. 400 bucks for what? No thanks! Great video! 🎉
The Manfred Era continues to be a glorious, shining time in MLB history....Fanatics' influence in the sports card business is similarly worrisome.
I don’t think what makes a great on-field jersey makes a good fan jersey. You can’t convince me a bunch of huge embroidered inflexible patches are good to play in. But it’s super nice as a fan to wear something like that.
Great point!
At this point, the Chinese knock offs are better quality
I am so glad i got my two Astros Jerseys back last year for celebrating the world series win. The issue is they might have shown them off last year but it is clear changes were made since then and they weren't improvements. Now the Nike logo was annoying but wasn't terrible the sponsor patch was probably always going to happen and if those had been the only changes we would be find but no. MLB will take action if they are pressured to do so either by fans buying less jerseys or enough players complaining that the PA gets involved or a combination of both (which is the more likely out of these 3 outcomes). This reminds me a lot of NBA trying to change the basketball which they have done once and they have been teasing with Wilson that they are going to soon try again but the issue was players hated the new basketballs and this new one has its own boat load of issues.
Completely agree with you. If the patches and Nike logo were there but the uniform was high quality I don’t think people complain as much.
Sports fans deserve better than to be disrespected with obviously cheap products being sold at insane prices while those in charge try to convince us that it's all high quality stuff.
If Nike really wants their logo so prominent, maybe they should actually make the uniforms instead of farming out to Fanatics
This is how i felt about fanatics years ago, all their apparel is absolute trash and way too expensive. Never again
That ending song.. it’s blue bird by ikimono-gakari isn’t it?
Good ear 😂
“Cheaper and more expensive to buy”. 🤨
Not to mention a pants problem. 😵💫
May MLB rot in hell for their Fanatics partnership.
I thought fanatics were just the retailers? Do they also design and/or manufacture them?
Depends on the contract. In this case Nike designed them and Fanatics is doing the manufacturing. However for the NHL next year, Fanatics is in charge of both.
@@JabroniBaseball Ok thanks. Big football teams in the UK partner with Fanatics, but I'm pretty sure it's just as a retail/distribution partner, and other brands like Adidas make the clothing.
When it comes to designing, manufacturing, and distributing sports jerseys, there's actually a LOT more companies involved than you might think.
Did you know that the 2000s Reebok(who was already acquired by Adidas at that point) NFL jerseys were actually made by Russell? Reebok and the teams design them. Russell made them with their fabrics, contracted the machines and process to the factories overseas(which are owned by companies in those countries, not Russell or Adidas, the brands we know "order" x number of jerseys with their fabrics to their specifications from the factory), then Reebok brands them, then Adidas gets the money as their parent company. Plus the jerseys are made in a different place than where the names and numbers are applied.
I feel like making them as cheap as they are just invites easier counterfeits.
I saw the terrible see-through trousers but didn’t realise the jerseys were even worse.
After watching this video and Icethetics series of the NHL jerseys, I’m glad this trend hasn’t hit soccer yet. An authentic soccer jersey can cost around $150 and it’s the same thing the players wear and replicas are made by the same manufacturer but at a lower cost.
This is just sad. I saw a new Twins jersey last week at a local store and it was way worse than last years model. The XL looked more like a L size. I also noticed this with NFL Nike Limited jerseys. They switched the numbers to heat pressed instead of stitched. That is a huge disappointment. Especially after they raised the price $10.
i remember when nike nba jerseys were ripping like beef jerkys during nba games in the first year of the contract
Football where iam from have had these problems 4 years an yet we just go on with it
What the ffffffing f..k does nike know about baseball! That Dodger’s jersey with the swoosh, sorry nike and mlb, such branding maybe accepted in other sports, but not in baseball. That swoosh makes it look like it’s the flag on a dumpster truck. From the looks of it, the manufacturer used some spare rolls of the similar cloth used for soccer jerseys. They say they’re breathable but make you sweat like being in a bloody sauna. Once again doesn’t work for baseball. Mlb better get rid of this nike deal, this ain’t gonna work, nor is it gonna get any better from here on out. Cheerio
I need some clarification, In 2020 when MLB signed a 10 year deal with Nike, they made an agreement to manufacture the jerseys for the players at Fanatics (who purchased Majestic), basically using the same fabrics and materials just with a Nike swoosh on it, hence why they reach more than $400 online (the branding). What they were doing was using up all their fabric instead of getting rid of it to make their money's worth in material for a few years until Nike came with a new layout. Is that accurate of what was done back let say 2018 or 2019 when Majestic was phasing out by Fanatics? Help me with some clarity on this topic.
Yeah, until this year Nike authentic jerseys were made in the same factory as the majestic jerseys. The only real difference was the jock tag changed and the Nike swoosh was added. Nike increased the price of their jerseys probably for branding reasons.
Will never replace traditional baseball jerseys 😤💎
Flannel wool-cotton blend or GTFO.
100% Agree. Bring back the thick boi jerseys
First it was the sleeve ads and now these cheap ass uniforms. I’m over it
Nike has shown little interest in baseball. I feel over the last 2 decades Under Armour was investing a lot in baseball. Nike only got invoked in baseball to prevent Under Armour's growth. I understand that Under Armour is the one that backed out, however Russel, Adidas, New Era, or several other manufacturers could have made the baseball uniforms. Nike only did this to push Under Armour down more.
As a hockey fan. This is awful. Planning on buying any last jerseys before the next season
I worked at Majestic the last five years before the UA/Nike/Fanatics era. We knew this was coming.
So, basically, Nike outsourced the work and then made a bunch of cost cutting changes in order to keep their profit margins the same. Less work for the same money, all while redirecting most of the negative publicity towards Fanatics.
Good thing I got my Seattle Kraken jersey before Fanatic sets to become the main supplier. Dodged that bullet xD
The number on my MLS jersey mostly fell off after one season. Bought it online, so not a team employee doing a bad job. Didn't realize Fanatics was making them. Meanwhile my first season jersey is just fine. Baseball being infected now too.
Is the outro a remix of Blue Bird?
100% it is haha best Shippuden intro 💪🏼
@@JabroniBaseball I was listening to the song earlier but was not expecting to hear it during a baseball video 😂 Great song
Anime transcends all things 😂
Should have stayed with Majestic
Jerseys look cheaply made. Glad I bought my majestic one before all the enhanced changes for the fan. Meanwhile charging us a lot more for a shittier product!
Dreading to see what changes fanatics will do with the NHL jerseys. Wont be buying those anymore.
Unfortunately Fanatics have a history of letting everyone down
thankfully in NHL right now you either buy a adidas very very close replica to what the players wear and look great but then fanatics if you just want a jersey but don’t want to drop $200
These new jerseys look like cheap knock offs.
More corporate logos on the jerseys are inevitable. Other sport's jersey's are plastered in logos (soccer, rugby, NASCAR, F1, etc..). It is only a matter of time until MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL teams get tired of missing out on that money.