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.
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.
