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New Uniforms/School Colors

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How long since we have had a uniform that actually displayed the school colors? In case new Rebel fans are unaware our colors are not BLACK, WHITE & RED. They are SCARLET & GRAY. I used to really like the old gray road colors as well as the home scarlet with gray.
 
Finally.... I totally agree !!! Please Coach Sanchez and Coach Menzies... lets encourage our school colors more... ( like Ohio St does ) Scarlet & Gray..... has a nice ring to it....Plus; its more colorful to see ! Just my two cents from a guy who was at our very first football game at the old Cashman Field....
 
How long since we have had a uniform that actually displayed the school colors? In case new Rebel fans are unaware our colors are not BLACK, WHITE & RED. They are SCARLET & GRAY. I used to really like the old gray road colors as well as the home scarlet with gray.
I agree with it, but it's slowly been diluted over the years and it's more about style over tradition. If you support the tradition, you're old and it "doesn't really matter".... so, whatever. Let's maybe possibly compete at decent level in the wrong colors.
 
How long since we have had a uniform that actually displayed the school colors? In case new Rebel fans are unaware our colors are not BLACK, WHITE & RED. They are SCARLET & GRAY. I used to really like the old gray road colors as well as the home scarlet with gray.

I want some retro uniforms. Early 90's and even 70's.
 
I think the football team could use a gray set, and I think the basketball team should redo a gray set. The current one, doesn't look gray, it looks like dirty whites.

I don't mind black sets, though they should be used as alternates more and less of the norm. I think the football team will use black more since it will probably match the Raider influence of the stadium a little more.
 
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Taking this thread in a slightly different direction, I'd be interested to hear nominations for worst (or best, if you prefer) uniform colors.

My personal choice is Baylor, hands down. That neon gives me a migraine...
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But I was always partial to the Las Vegas Stars / San Diego Padres Brown color scheme. Weird, I know.

You know who else's uniform sucked? Houston Astros. At least in the 70s-80s. Horrid.
 
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But I was always partial to the Las Vegas Stars / San Diego Padres Brown color scheme. Weird, I know.

You know who else's uniform sucked? Houston Astros. At least in the 70s-80s. Horrid.
NO!!

I dug the old astros unis. I'm glad they brought back the old colors. It is much better than the 90a's reboot, then the 2000's boring ones.
 
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Boise: blue and orange - only the Mets pull that off with any class.
The blue & orange that the Mets chose, was a welcome homage to the departed Dodgers and Giants.

Those of us that were NL fans, having no team to cheer for (under no circumstance would a self-respecting ex-Dodger or Giant fan switch allegiance to the hated Yankees!), from 58‘to ’62, found the colors of those hapless teams (120 losses in ’62) absolutely beautiful.

Sadly, after back-to-back post-season appearances, injury and under-performance doomed the 2017 season for the Mets. They’re currently 22-games below .500. Despite that, this October baseball is shaping up to be very interesting. Washington and LA are looking strong in the NL. But one can’t overlook the defending champs, the Cubs. They didn’t dominate, like expected, but they seem to be playing their best ball down the stretch.

In the AL, you’ve got Houston with 100 wins, and Cleveland, the team that came within an eyelash of winning it all last year, not to mention the incredible 22-game win streak, and 101-wins as of Friday. So, with a tear in my eye, I’ll put my Mets gear away until April, and watch some exciting baseball, as I await the Rebels season to begin…
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You are all wrong...the Creamsicle Tampa Bay Bucs uni’s are the worst of all time!
 
Don't hate on the Stros uni, too pimpalicious for you?
 
Not at all a fan, but my feeling is that this will be the year for the Nats.

As long as Harper is healthy, they've got a rotation of Max Scherzer, Stephen Strasburg and Gio Gonzalez that can dominate any team in a seven-game series. Not to mention Dusty Baker, who's been there before.

Washington will beat the Cubs, and then the Dodgers. WAS-CLE World Series...
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Uh oh, just now heard that Scherzer came out of his game today, early. Something about catching a cleat. If he's not 100%, all bets are off...
 
Hahaha!!!

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Ah, J.R. Richard & Nolan Ryan...The two most dominant right-handers in the game at that time '1976-'80. And probably the most overpowering tandem of all-time. Certainly in my lifetime.

Richard's story is tragic. He had complained of weakness and blurred vision to team doctors. Although they sent him to a local Houston hospital, they failed to find the source of his complaints. There was plenty of chatter, both from the public, the media, his teammates and the Astro's front office. "He's just whining"" He's dogging it", "He needs to man-up"", etc...

During a game of catch along the sidelines, he collapsed. An ambulance came and drove off of the field at the Astrodome. It was a stroke, from a blood clot in his neck. The game's most-powerful pitcher was basically done in 1980, at the age of 30.

He attempted a comeback in the minor leagues, but he couldn't re-capture the arm-strength that had caused the great Johnny Bench to cite J.R. as the toughest pitcher he ever faced. I think it might surprise many (it surprised me), that Richard still holds the all-time Houston record for strikeouts in a season (313). That's on a team that had Nolan Ryan for nine seasons. In 1979 he was the best pitcher in the game. It wasn't even close. The fact that he finished third in the Cy Young voting remains one of the greatest travesties in Cy Young history. Starting the 1980 All-Star game, just a few weeks before the stroke, was the only accolade he received in his short, but stellar career.

He went on to divorce twice, bankruptcy and ultimately he became homeless. After living under a Houston overpass, in recent years he turned to religion. He's become a minister, and has seemingly turned his life around. I'm rooting for him. J.R. was dealt a tough hand...
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Maybe because he was teammates with Ryan? I truly don’t know. I assume I was just becoming a fan of baseball when Richard was either on his way out or gone. I’m guilty, as you say, of not remembering him as well. I know his name but that doesn’t amount to much.
It happens with quite a few. I also really, really liked Mike Scott, who I thought was on the tail of JR Richard and gave Houston a ridiculous top end of the rotation with Ryan.
 
Didn’t he throw a split finger (or was it a change)? He was dominant for years. If I remember correctly Houston just didn’t add hitting. Scott and Ryan would have sub 2’s ERA’s but Ryan would have records in the .500-.667 range. Scott usually fared better record wise for some reason.
Nasty, nasty split. Probably the very best in the game at that point.

Astros couldn't score a lick. Two of the best pitchers in all of baseball - on a normal team, those two would combine for 45 wins by themselves. They were THAT good.
 
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Nasty, nasty split. Probably the very best in the game at that point.

Astros couldn't score a lick. Two of the best pitchers in all of baseball - on a normal team, those two would combine for 45 wins by themselves. They were THAT good.
Mike Scott is a name that sends shivers down the spine of any Met fan, old enough to recall the 1986 season. He had broken into the majors several years earlier as a Met. But his tenure in N Y was un-inspiring. He spent time back-and-forth between the majors and minors. After four seasons, they gave up on Scott. He was traded to the Astros for Danny Heep, who went on to become a valuable pinch-hitter for New York.

But between the ’84 and ’85 seasons, Scott sought the tutelage of Roger Craig, who taught him the split-finger fastball that turned his career around. In ’85 he set records for wins (18), strikeouts and innings pitched. But 1985 was just a springboard into ’86. He won 18 games again, with a 2.22 ERA. His last start of the regular season was a no-hitter vs the Giants, which clinched Houston’s NL West title. Ironically, the manager for San Francisco was Roger Craig. Scott won the Cy Young award, in a landslide.

He got the chance to show his ex-team, the Mets, who they had lost faith in, in the NL Championship series. In the first game he struck out 14, in a 5-hit shutout. The Mets won games 2 & 3, but Scott started Game 4, and he once again, went the distance in a 3-hit, 3-1 complete game.

The Mets took game 5, which set up what all Met fans believed, was a do-or-die game 6. Because, Scott was poised to start Game 7, and no one believed he could be beaten. Game 6 turned out to be a classic. Down 3-0 in the 9th, the Mets rallied to tie it. Neither team scored until the 14th inning, when the Mets scored a go-ahead run, only to have Houston respond with a Billy Hatcher home run. The Mets then scored three runs in the top of the 16th.

The insurance runs proved valuable, as the Astros responded with two runs in the bottom of the 16th. With the tying and winning runs on base, Jesse Orosco struck out Kevin Bass, and the Mets went on to the World Series, and Scott was left in the dugout.

Despite pitching for the losing team, Mike Scott was voted series MVP.


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I like the new uniforms.

Rebels have that Flash Gordon like font
 
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