Can we all agree that the old-school 1919 throwbacks should stay? And can we sunset the 1980’s look that Chris Sale hated so much he tried to attack it with a knife?
It’s not like the Winning Ugly era uniforms are bad or anything. It’s just that it’s time to change the look compared to the recent drop of the Southside jersey and these way-back jerseys. The White Sox are one of the first teams in baseball, the front office should embrace that history like the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, and Cincinnati Reds do. Baseball is a game reliant on its history and lives by its past successes while embracing new milestones and heroes. The White Sox shouldn’t be an outlier given their status as one of the sport’s first handful of teams.
The White Sox did embrace the look back in the early nineties but ditched it once everyone wanted neon purple and pink on everything, so the front office focused on the fact that everyone liked the basic black look. Google it – plenty of photos of Robin Ventura and Ozzie as player years with them suited up in the old school garb.
Let’s flip the script on the Sunday uniform. Embrace the past. Do something different.
In this new era of White Sox baseball, where the club can truly separate itself from the Cubs in ways never experienced, making stylistic, bold choices should be at the forefront of the home office rather than ham-fisted mistakes the Ricketts family. The players seemed to like the O.G. uniform, and the fans did, too. My brother waited in line at Grandstand for a jersey, which soon sold out after he scored his. The White Sox faithful are ready for some changes, and this is an easy one. Let’s retire the Bobby Thigpen-era pull-over jersey and give the south side a few new looks to show off the swagger of this next-generation team. Now, when it comes to those sleeveless vests they wore around the World Series-era, that would be fun, too.
