Jeff Passan Discusses Concerns With MLB's New Uniforms | 2/26/24

ESPN senior MLB insider Jeff Passan joins the Dan Patrick Show and discusses the concerns over Major League Baseball's new uniforms

[@notwilliam32]

Fanatics has a long history of makimg cheap products. Not surprised by this at all

[@bhouser79]

Hearing Passan talk about "junk" and "twig and berries"...I'm dead

[@AlicePearlJam]

Chico’s Bail Bonds the greatest sponsors ever.

[@m.kennedy342]

Yes. The part that made that sponser in Bad News Bears so brilliant was the “Let freedom ring” part of it.

[@SirVic42]

This reminds me a lot of the NBA changing the basketball to one with synthetic leather about 15 years ago. David Stern blatantly lied about the availability of the leather needed to make the balls, then when the players protested, the original leather balls came back and have been used ever since. The question that never got asked is who stood to make money on the synthetic leather scam, and how many steps away were they from Stern? With the MLB uniform scam, it's pretty obvious that Nike & Fanatics are just gouging the league and delivering uniforms with 50% less fabric than before, and overall cheaper workmanship on the logos, numbers and lettering. The question to be asked about this scam is who in the MLB Commissioner's office approved this deal, and how did it effect their bank account (meaning, bribes)?

[@deshaundozier]

JUST GO BK TO THE OLD UNI’s. Please!!!!!

[@alaskanyeti907]

If this is how Fanatics treats Nike's product, imagine how it'll be with the NHL when they have full control next year.

[@RealJeffTidwell]

I get the sense that MLB will have “corrected” uniform-pants when the regular season starts.

[@itscalleddesign9940]

Nike did this to the pants in the NFL in 2012 as well...

[@jrb281]

Don't insult Chico's Bail Bonds uniforms by comparing them to the 2024 MLB uniforms.

[@nathangleason1774]

“What did you know and when did you know it?”

[@artistical88]

Jeff how can you not know your seraph fonts from your sans-seraph fonts?

[@MiguelRodriguez-ry9wg]

Quality over quantity I want Majestic jerseys back by far best materials 🤷🏻

[@juergenwest]

Simple solution.. go back to last year’s uniforms and call it a day.. I’m not aware of anyone who’d decline that option..

[@long-time-first-time]

Why aren't the teams screaming like maniacs about this? Clearly MLB doesn't care or they're too incompetent to fix this, but the teams should be raising hell for their players.

[@dr.awkward9075]

Things are springing alright! I can't tell you how excited Altuve was to hit that triple the other day. Well, i could, but the comment would get deleted.

[@karlmckinnell2635]

Feel for the player who goes commando 😂.

[@archie15900]

And the spectators.

[@Grillinnap]

MLB got fleeced with their Nike deal. Did they not know Nike wasn’t gonna be the actual manufacturer and Nike brand was just gonna be used as a logo on the jersey?

[@prberg2]

They really messed up these new Jerseys and pants. Looks so cheap, and MLB/Nike/Fanatics needs to fix it!

[@chrisphillips348]

Errors should be caught in Testing. Especially when you brag about how extensive it was

[@HunkDrangus]

I miss majestic

[@oscararredondo9672]

maybe mlb will care when they see their jersey sales. As a fan they are garbage

[@obi1910]

👍🏻 yup Once sales drop and they see the difference- Fanatics will fold 😅

[@lexis4490]

They are really see through. 😮

[@janaeshepherd5854]

Why aren't players saying anything about this? It's embarrassing.

[@oscararredondo9672]

players have been very outspoken on this!

[@jc2333]

4 balls to walk and you’ve to look at two of them Now with horrible clear pants

[@Rascallucci]

Nike is cheap that's why. A lot of their gear are made from average materials at best.

[@9orION83]

Junk. HAHAHAHAHAHA. So good.

[@philipdileo3750]

MLB has been a joke since Manfred has been in charge. Letting MacGwire and Sosa use steroids, giving immunity to the Astros for cheating, now this uniform debauchery

[@jerzeegrl1693]

Worst Commish in all of Sports

[@oiler62]

Also, helping the A's go to Vegas was simply atrocious.

[@zeked4200]

I don't care for Manfred either, but McGwire and Sosa were under Bud Selig...weren't they?

[@oiler62]

@@zeked4200 yes they were. Bud sucked too but I think actually liked the game compared to Manfraud.

[@Chris.E.]

Why are we acting surprised about companies giving consumers less of a product and/or less quality of a product and charging the same or more? Companies of all kinds have been doing it for years. Capitalism at its finest. We're a consumer driven culture and there will be complaints but people will still spend money. A byproduct is that the companies that do make quality now charge even more. It's difficult to find quality products at reasonable prices. That's why Walmart is king.

[@babyyoda6549]

I don’t think the women mind lol😂

[@archie15900]

Obviously I don't speak for all female baseball fans but I'm a hetero woman and I don't want to see mlb ball players' junk when I watch a game(and thank goodness Bartolo Colon retired).

[@bobbybodybagz7207]

Bring back majestic and new era sucks too.

[@brianf.8996]

"Twig'n'berries" Passan is clearly a big fan of see-through pants on other men.

[@jerzeegrl1693]

No attention to detail- lazy on MLB's part

[@sonofppio139]

How to Dodge this blasphemous franchise and the poison the offer as sport. May the baptized value their eternal souls over the fleeting joys of watching millionaires.

[@nathanr5825]

Catastrophic is a bit overblown...... It's a uniform, who cares. If you think they are too cheap and too expensive then don't buy one. The players are not impacted in the slightest. This doesn't prevent them from throwing, hitting or running. Get over it. Ive never seen such a stupid reaction to a UNIFORM change in my life.

[@MC-24]

It could be catastrophic. When Fanatics reputation and sales plummet they will be forced to terminate employees. And it won’t be the ones who made the decision to produce cheap products.

[@nathanr5825]

@@MC-24 if it gets to the point that their bottom line is impacted, they will change the uniforms back to the way they were.

[@jerzeegrl1693]

@@nathanr5825 and lose a shit load of money for all the crap they already produced- so still layoffs all because MLB is sleep at the wheel.

[@user-lm5fq3bb6e]

If you don't get why uniforms should be professional quality and well-made at this level perhaps slowpitch is more your game.