Jim Crane: Kiss my Astros goodbye?

THey didn't have any success whatsoever as the Colt .45s. The most wins they ever had as the Colts was 66. Where did you get that idea?

 

The Astros seem to be one of those teams that changes uniforms every two years or so. I'm exaggerating a bit obviously but it seems like they never stick with one uni for long. Brewers were that way for a while. Diamondbacks are now. OH BOY NOW WE HAVE MORE RED IN OUR UNIFORM! That's great.

A name change would just be awful. Astros is associated with Houston. They haven't been great for 50 years but until last year they weren't truly awful either. Stick with the brand, butthead billionaire.

 

The Brewers changed uniforms a few times in the 90s, but they only added a color once ... those dreadful 1994-97 unis where they wedged green into the mix.



I liked the last version of the glove logo unis they had in the early 90s with the script Brewers on the home jerseys.

 

You'll probably hate me for this but I loved those mid-90s hats. Not as much as the original MB glove logo, but close.

 

D'backs have only changed uniforms once in 14 years, but it was good rant while it lasted.

 

Oh and they're the fucking Astros. Do not change the name. They have had a lot of colors over the years though.

From blue being dominant ...



(JON, I DON'T BELIEVE IN WINS AGAINST REPLACEMENT!)

To a sort of coolish orange in the early 70s ...



To, of course, their rainbow duds ...



(Here's a shot in the original version of the rainbows, with the butt-ugly circular number on the back)

Then they had that era in the late 80s when they rarely wore the rainbows (and eventually dropped them) and had that oddball can't-tell-if-they're-wearing-home-or-away-uniform blandness ...



Then they completely went off-board and went blue and gold, uniforms I really hated, because even though they're somewhat sharp, I hate it when teams change colors ...



Which morphed into today's uniform, which has actually been around for over a decade now ...



There's your history of Houston Astros uniforms. I'll be doing the Houston Oilers and Rockets presently.

 

I hate the fuck out of you for that.

It didn't help that those uniforms came after the glove logo unis were disposed, an unpopular decision then as much as now.

 

Joe Morgan AND Randy Johnson in a visual history of the Astros' uniforms? Well done.

 

Fuck that. I want points for Enos Cabell and Bill Doran!

 

OK, I'm an idiot But TECHNICALLY it was three uni changes: http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/ari/history/uniforms_logos.jsp

And I guess I was just counting their alternate logos, which are quite plentiful. I swear every time I turn on a DBacks game I see a different hat.

http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?id=50

Thanks for shaming me dick.

 

I went fishing in Cabo and a Mexican kid cleaning the fish offered me about 200 pesos for that old mid-'90s Astros cap. I just gave him the grubby thing.

 

I admit, the penis logo is quite unbecoming.