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Do you remember the days when players in the Major League Baseball All-Star Game all wore the jerseys of their actual teams? The home team wore their home whites and the road team wore their away gear? You know, like in that photo above from the 1999 MLB All-Star Game? That was pretty cool, right?
Yeah, well, those days are long gone now. At least as long as professional baseball hater Rob Manfred is in charge of our national pastime.
For several years now, players have been forced to wear one-off, special uniforms for the MLB All-Star Game and almost without fail, fans have hated them.
So, naturally, with all of that feedback in mind from the sport’s fanbase, plus the fiasco that has been the new Nike slash Fanatics uniforms that players have been wearing this season, what does Major League Baseball do for this year’s All-Star Game?
You guessed it. More crap.
Check out this photo that’s been going around the internet on Wednesday that gives us a look at Juan Soto’s MLB All-Star Game jersey in the Yankee Stadium team shop.
First look at the American League All Star jersey
(via @snyyankees) pic.twitter.com/RqUXTb9niZ
— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) July 3, 2024
Take a wild guess how baseball fans felt about it.
“These are awful. Just go back to having them wear their team’s jersey,” read one comment, echoing many, many others.
“This might be the worst jersey I have ever laid eyes on,” read another.
Grade the AL All-Star jersey👇
— DraftKings Network (@DKNetwork) July 3, 2024
“These looks like celebrity little league jerseys,” someone else wrote.
“Can MLB hire someone with a little talent and taste to make these jerseys,” another fan complained. “These and the city connects are barf warmed over.”
“The crime is @Nike is paid and paid well by @MLB to produce this nonsense,” read another complaint. “These look like the softball jerseys your friend got for the team at that ‘sports and trophy store’ in the strip mall around the corner.”
The bad (worse) news is that as long as Rob Manfred is in charge fans will continue to be ignored.
Case in point: back in 2022, Manfred said, “I never thought that a baseball team wearing different jerseys in a game was a particularly appealing look for us.”
Then again, this is the same guy who once publicly referred to the World Series trophy as simply “a piece of metal.”