If Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon has his way, the Texas Rangers will be hypnotized by a sea of plaid at Tropicana Field for Wednesday’s ALDS Game 1.

After popularizing the “Brayser” (Rays + blazer) earlier this season and having his team wear caps with plaid bills during a game last week, Maddon said he would like to see Rays fans adopting his fashion trend in the stands for the postseason.

– ‘Duk, Big League Stew.

Well that’s awesome. As ‘Duk suggests later in the article, it would be a pretty difficult thing to organize, but a stadium-wide plaid-out would be pretty amazing. Too bad it would probably be way too expensive to just distribute the Braysers in question:

Anyway, you might have noticed some aesthetic changes happening around here if you came to this site in the past 20 minutes or so. I changed the TedQuarters color scheme to celebrate the Rays’ postseason run, and also to celebrate a baseball team using sky blue and yellow in its uniform, something I’ve felt should happen for a long, long time.

(The Rays didn’t take it far enough, incidentally, since they haven’t yet abandoned the dark blue that’s pretty much ubiquitous in baseball uniforms. But I do credit them for being smart enough to play with my initials on their cap. Also Taco Bell’s.)

Anyway, it turns out that while that color scheme is pretty cool for a baseball club it makes for a butt-ugly website, so I’m not sure how long this will last. But this site design makes it really easy to switch up colors and I intended to do so more often when we relaunched, and I figured now, with the Mets in transition and the playoffs starting and everything, you know, why not?

Why the Rays and not the National League’s obvious good guys, the Reds? I think that color red might be a little jarring on a monitor. Plus it looks too much like the Phillies.