Cornell 4 Clarkson 2

[cth95]

I actually had maroon for my high school color. Talk about supporting your biggest rival now.  I thought darker colors like that and dark green seemed classier and less cheap back then, but I quickly appreciated how red on a classy (and classic) jersey really stands out well.  I think poor designs are easier to get away with with less vibrant colors as shown by some of our crappy football jerseys people mentioned.  Incidentally, I have always found this true of cars as well.  A bright red Nissan Sentra (just to pick an econobox) looks cheap, while a red Porsche looks classy.  A maroon Sentra isn't a Porsche, but looks at least somewhat tasteful. My dad went to Clarkson, so I have always had a t-shirt or two from there with some green and yel.. (excuse me) gold.

[RichS]

Must be the Spring Training games that John was thinking of because in a regular season game, I've never seen them wear blue.  And I'm also hoping that George never succumbs to suggestions to have the name on the back of the jersey!

The Pirates were the first to wear the God-awful double knit jobs...the once that let us all know how "big" Willie Stargell really was.  Far worse than those or the '79 version or even the Astros rainbow ones was, in my opinion, the disaster the Padres wore.

Speaking of mustard.

After years of wearing Yankee pinstripes, I wonder how Graig Nettles felt dressing like a clown?

[KeithK]

[q]And I'm also hoping that George never succumbs to suggestions to have the name on the back of the jersey![/q]As Michael Kay would say, "No name.........of course."

[jkahn]

JTW wrote:

Although the Yankees are occasionally guilty of wearing their dark blue practice jerseys in games.  

I was ready to jump in and say only in spring training - but then I scanned down and I see Keith and Rich S. have also weighed in on that accord.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote RichS]After years of wearing Yankee pinstripes, I wonder how Graig Nettles felt dressing like a clown?[/quote]
Filthy rich.

[DeltaOne81]

[quote RichS]
Anyone here dislike red pre-college?[/quote]

I was remarkably consistant in team colors. My high school was red & white (the Rams), as was my junior high. I guess that makes sense though, cause they were the only high school and junior high in town.


Of course, my only experience with red & hockey (never watched HS hockey) was the Red Wings, who I despise - because they won twice in a row, and because Brendan Shanahan's a douchebag (I grew up a Whalers fan). And, on the Whalers note... the Hurricanes, because Karmonos is an even greater douchebag who's wet dream is to own the Red Wings - but since he couldn't afford them, he figured he'd just buy a small market team, move them, and make the new uniforms look like the Wings.

So therefore, the first time I saw the Red step into Lynah, I had to overcome the natural revulsion to the color scheme on ice. Didn't take long though


Of course, all this means I still have a soft spot for green & blue. Not enough of that in hockey anymore.

[RichS]

Not a surprising response but I don't recall that he signed for a lot more than the riches he already had earned in the Bronx.  Or was it actually less than George paid him?

[KeithK]

[quote RichS]Not a surprising response but I don't recall that he signed for a lot more than the riches he already had earned in the Bronx.  Or was it actually less than George paid him?[/quote]It was exactly what George had signed him for.  I'd long thought that Nettles signed as a FA, but baseball-reference.com lists it as a trade: Nettles for Dennis Rasmussen and PTBNL (minor leaguer Darin Cloninger).

[RichS]

Rasmussen is or was the answer to a trivia question which had something to do with his being a lefty who won 20 games as a Yank.

Is Darin C a relation to Tony Cloninger?  Tony is the answer to another great trivia question.

More thread drift, eh?

[jkahn]

[quote RichS]

 Tony is the answer to another great trivia question.

More thread drift, eh?[/quote]
Since you're playing jeopardy, the question is "Name the only pitcher and first National Leaguer to hit 2 grand slams in a game?"

[Trotsky]

[quote jkahn]
Since you're playing jeopardy, the question is "Name the only pitcher and first National Leaguer to hit 2 grand slams in a game?"[/quote]
Coulda sworn that was Bob Gibson.  I know he's the answer to *another* trivia question about a pitcher and two homeruns.  Maybe the only P to hit two homeruns in a WS game?

[WillR]

I can't recall the term of art for colors...is it "Pantone"...someone help me here...but I was told that the uni companies call the Tech color "gold" or whatever the industry name for it is.

In the trade there is a uniform definition of colors.  The colors would be Pantone ____, something alpha numeric.  Thus one can specify an exact Pantone color for Clarkson's yellow.  There is a seperate pantone book that would have metalic colors where one could find gold and silver.

-WillR

[atb9]

[quote RichS]More thread drift, eh?[/quote]

Even John Spencer doesn't want to touch this one.  ;-)

[CowbellGuy]

[quote billhoward]I bet Cornell is using cheap cameras, eg $500 or $2,000, not $10,000, and they have trouble dealing with the relatively low light at Lynah. Watch a replay of the Harvard game (upcoming) feed when broadcast quality cameras are used because it's a televised game. You'll still get the pixellation and low-res, but there'll be much better shadow detail and a dark jersey such as Clarkson's will be green not off-black.[/quote]
Last year, i2Sports (or whatever the hell they're called) was using couple-year-old $2000ish prosumer Canon crap in the corners. The team camera was an even older, even crappier rented lump, but not as old and crappy as the one with the burned-out CCD I was getting the feed from when I ran the webcast. Bandwidth and framerate aside, image quality is up against a very thick glass ceiling given the source. The one game I did with the feed from a professional crew for a televised game was so markedly better it was shocking, even without touching the bitrate. As long as you have monkeys pointing crappy cameras in a dark rink, the outcome is very predictable.

[RichS]

Ok, Thanks...so all I have to do now is find the # for Clarkson's Pantone GOLD!  :-D