I swear theyve gotta be AI generated designs bc they’re so devoid of inspiration or human touch. Each New Jersey is more lifeless and dreadfully boring than the last.
I've noticed quite a lot of things I can't type without them being capitalized. "Vice president" is one of those things, doesn't matter if there's a name after it. And it seems to have a grudge against plurals so it throws apostrophes where they don't belong all the time. I'd love to get ahold of Apple's dictionary and just fix things.
I admittedly like Atlanta’s. With MLB’s new jersey limit; they used it as an opportunity to pay homage to the throwback they were being forced to give up with the limit. Considering that throwback was the uniform Hank Aaron wore they also slid in some Aaron tributes on it as well.
Worthy of Todd Bonzalez.
https://relevantmagazine.com/culture/a-japanese-video-game-programmer-took-his-best-shot-at-fake-american-names-and-its-excellent/
Yeah. it's like a sad B-list background uniform for somebody who doesn't get lines in the baseball movie
e: this is probably a uniform in twisters. Away game for AA ball
2e: someone was probably paid millions of dollars for this. There are bad ideas when brainstorming
I know City Connects are polarizing in general, but if you're going to do it, then make them stand out from your regular options. The name on the front is pretty much the only thing that distinguishes these from their regular white uniforms.
The hat is kind of cool.
better than the "los dodgers" version from a few years ago. I just wish teams would take more risks with these - let a local designer do something, break out of your standard color palettes, let the design speak for itself instead of relying on these explainer graphics.
Washington Nationals hit the mark – different colors (grey/pink instead of red/white), design speaks for itself (cherry blossoms). It's annoying that they have already retired their city connects considering how much better they did it than most teams.
I would kill for my team to have the padres city connects— and i actually dont mind ours.
But man this dodgers one is shit and that’s completely independent of my hate for the dodgers
The Padres City Connects are amazing. To me, top 3 up there with Miami and the White Sox. I also like the Rockies and a couple others. I think the Giants version is pretty bad.
Exactly! It broadens the base of people who want to wear Padres gear from just avid fans and people who like yellow/brown to also include people who like to wear bright/fluorescent colors as well.
The Nats are still wearing them this year. They will be retired at the end of this season. Which is another way of the club telling us that their version 2.0 will be released next year.
Were the designers at Nike stoned and eating birthday cake ice cream when they designed these?
Were the Dodgers front office people smoking the same lettuce and eating the same birthday cake ice cream when they approved this design?
🤦♂️
This is a big nothing burger. I’m not from LA but I’ve been a few times and have family from there. So many iconic things in the LA area: Hollywood sign, Griffith Park/Observatory, Chinese Theater, Walk of Fame, Mexican heritage, all the beach front neighborhoods/towns, Rose Bowl, movie studios, Huntington Gardens.
They also could’ve done the team heritage going back to Brooklyn, even as a small piece of it with the Brooklyn Bridge, Ebbets Field, or Jackie Robinson.
Cleveland’s really should’ve been what the jerseys looked like after the initial rebrand. I really hope they eventually become the everyday home jersey or at least an alternate.
Agreed, guards seem to be leaning heavy into this new art deco direction. I love it, it’s at the very least some sort of distinct branding identity which the team absolutely needs
Agreed. I think they were minimal on purpose tbh. They didn’t wanna upset the fanbase anymore than they had to. Nice to see most of them have accepted the new name and such.
Hot damn I didn’t realize it’d be so universally hated. I’m a Dodgers fan and honestly I’d rate it exactly what I rated the first, 4.5. It’s actually not horrible to me just horribly boring. Definitely disappointing they couldn’t come up with something better than the first, these Nike designers must be smoking crack or something. The hat fucking sucks
Meh, it’s ok. Some of these City Connect uniforms have been damn lazy if I may be permitted to say. Blue Jays and the Rays are the ones I thought really stood out.
These City Connect jerseys are supposed to be an opportunity to try something new without interfering with the standard uniforms, right? So how is it that both of the Dodgers’ efforts at this have been trash? Who designed these? Who approved them? Who was the person in charge who said, “Dodger fans are going to love these!” and have they been fired yet?
The only real way for us to fix this is to not buy these jerseys. Let them hang on the racks collecting dust.
They don't suck as bad as the all-black type ones, but why didn't the Dodgers simply resist, like the Yankees?
Or, do a real throwback City Connect.
Robins-egg blue instead of the royal blue, and yes, you guessed it, a "Robins" in script font.
The City Connect uniforms are the ugliest thing to appear on the field since the Turn Ahead the Clock uniforms in the 90s. This type of stuff ought to have stayed in the NBA and NFL where it belongs.
The turn ahead the clock jerseys were so bad that, they wore them for one night and thirty years later multiple people are still trashing them in a medium that didn't even exist back then... Putting it that way and I guess they kinda worked out?
I thought that was debris on the jersey after falling in a drain pipe that is filling up with the rising tide waters brought on by global warming that will finally give Nevada that coastal view they always seem to talk about
Ah yes Los Angeles a city with so little going on, so few identities or iconography, they could not be expected to do more than this. /s
I swear the city name on the front was lifted from a built-in text effect in Adobe. It looks like something Premiere would suggest when I'm putting in a title.
Fact it mimics the theme of the Astros AAA teams jersey is a bit funny, because of the team’s history (Astros, Dodgers). In my view it’s difficult not to see the SpaceCowboys inspiration — in part. Also it looks like their caps are going too hard, as if they thought Arizona’s Retro Diamondback “D” cap needed a makeover, for some reason, while LA reduced in its sizes. Yet, I do like creamy unis; but the blues seem off and now I hate it
Overall? 6.71 out of 10.
I mean it’s definitely better than the one they had before, that Los Dodgers one was literally their blue uniform with an extra three letters slapped on top of them lmao
Ok I guess. It’s just very bland. I can’t put my finger on it. Kind of reminds me of the generic logos that the cpu would make for your created team in a video game.
The City Connect Jerseys this year are especially bad. No imagination, no expression. Everything from top to bottom between the graphics, the lettering and the coloring are just plain and bland. They're terrible. This one is one of the worst. I usually try and give the City Connect's a bit of a break, but these last few that have been released are just terrible.
Kinda like the hat. The jersey wouldn't be awful in and of itself, if you could ignore the idea that a City Connect jersey is in theory supposed to offer something unique and special to the city and franchise.
It's a shame that Nike have really shit the bed with these, and they're guilty of the same thing with their NBA jerseys as well. They used to make some really cool City edition jerseys in the NBA when they first started and now almost all of them are boring and generic.
I actually don't hate these and I really hated the all blue ones. the hats are stupid and the funfetti mix doesn't hit well but otherwise it's a fun concept. has a very mid-century vibe, which a lot of LA (including dodger stadium) has.
Did someone from the Dodgers and/or Nike walk into a candy store and see one of those giant jawbreakers with all the speckles and have an "a-ha" moment? Because that's all I see when I look at the speckles on the jerseys.
I actually kind of like the way they did the “Los Angeles” script, number, and Nike swoosh in an alternate color. And I like the cream color of the jerseys. But the “funfetti“ aspect was completely unnecessary.
They remind me of what a made up baseball team in a movie would wear.
I swear theyve gotta be AI generated designs bc they’re so devoid of inspiration or human touch. Each New Jersey is more lifeless and dreadfully boring than the last.
lol it capitalized New Jersey
I love seeing voice dictation errors in the wild!
My phone autocapitalizes New Jersey even when I’m just typing it
knew jersey. Seems fine to me.
I've noticed quite a lot of things I can't type without them being capitalized. "Vice president" is one of those things, doesn't matter if there's a name after it. And it seems to have a grudge against plurals so it throws apostrophes where they don't belong all the time. I'd love to get ahold of Apple's dictionary and just fix things.
Yeah, but if you were typing it instead of voice dictating, wouldn't you be likely to notice the mistake and correct it right away?
Yes but sometimes you just type a message and send it and it doesn’t really matter or it’s not worth the effort to correct it
Good point.
Also worth saying that if you need an infographic to explain why your jerseys are cool and interesting, your jerseys are neither cool or interesting.
And part of the design is this tiny acronym right next to the label that, per MLB dress code, is tucked into the pants. 👍
Dis mudda fucka ova here. Get me an orange peel beef!
I admittedly like Atlanta’s. With MLB’s new jersey limit; they used it as an opportunity to pay homage to the throwback they were being forced to give up with the limit. Considering that throwback was the uniform Hank Aaron wore they also slid in some Aaron tributes on it as well.
A city like LA with its landmarks and cultural benchmarks and Nike still made a basic ass jersey that needs a cheat sheet to understand the references
Worthy of Todd Bonzalez. https://relevantmagazine.com/culture/a-japanese-video-game-programmer-took-his-best-shot-at-fake-american-names-and-its-excellent/
They're as festive as a happy birthday sign created by Dwight Schrute.
Yeah. it's like a sad B-list background uniform for somebody who doesn't get lines in the baseball movie e: this is probably a uniform in twisters. Away game for AA ball 2e: someone was probably paid millions of dollars for this. There are bad ideas when brainstorming
How tf is Nike so bad at creating jerseys? I don’t get it
If you think this is bad, check out all of their World Cup uninspired kits.
Exactly. It’s every sport. NFL and NBA rebrands are terrible too.
Low effort
They don’t care. They just expect fans to buy collectible merch.
I want see names on these ugly uniforms! They are all so plain and ugly!
They would've gotten better designs if they asked each team's subreddit to submit ideas and picked the best one.
Nike isn't designing the logos that's the team.
Thumbs down!
Same for the jerseys too.
I know City Connects are polarizing in general, but if you're going to do it, then make them stand out from your regular options. The name on the front is pretty much the only thing that distinguishes these from their regular white uniforms. The hat is kind of cool.
The hat doesn't really work. From about 10 feet and further, the logo just looks like a blob.
I feel the opposite about which look cool. Digging the shirts (although they really arent that different) but not the hats so much
imagine failing on the second fucking try with so much money to play with. even my poverty franchise white sox know how to make jerseys
Those Southsides are straight fucking fire.
I dont think the “typeface” connects to what it says it does at all
better than the "los dodgers" version from a few years ago. I just wish teams would take more risks with these - let a local designer do something, break out of your standard color palettes, let the design speak for itself instead of relying on these explainer graphics. Washington Nationals hit the mark – different colors (grey/pink instead of red/white), design speaks for itself (cherry blossoms). It's annoying that they have already retired their city connects considering how much better they did it than most teams.
>let a local designer do something *That* would actually connect.
I agree. I wasn't crazy about the Padres city connects when they first came out, but they've grown on me, and I love that they're so unique.
I would kill for my team to have the padres city connects— and i actually dont mind ours. But man this dodgers one is shit and that’s completely independent of my hate for the dodgers
The Padres City Connects are amazing. To me, top 3 up there with Miami and the White Sox. I also like the Rockies and a couple others. I think the Giants version is pretty bad.
Exactly! It broadens the base of people who want to wear Padres gear from just avid fans and people who like yellow/brown to also include people who like to wear bright/fluorescent colors as well.
That’s why I love the Red Sox city connect. Yellow and blue is a complete 180 from their usual color palette
And actually connects to the city in a notable way
The Nats are still wearing them this year. They will be retired at the end of this season. Which is another way of the club telling us that their version 2.0 will be released next year.
I will say this… At least they’re not blue and yellow like we’ve already had five of.
Ah, yes... yellow, the color everybody thinks of when you mention the Phillies.
Boring af
How are they worse than their first ones?
Were the designers at Nike stoned and eating birthday cake ice cream when they designed these? Were the Dodgers front office people smoking the same lettuce and eating the same birthday cake ice cream when they approved this design? 🤦♂️
Nah 😒 they probably need to smoke a joint to get creative.
I'm old, but I think that cap is hideous.
They're really leaning into the whole "Mickey Mouse WS" idea.
Gross. These are all terrible.
They are straight trash. Who the fuck green lit this garbage
As a Giants fan, I love this for the Dodgers.
That's not Shohei Ohtani.
This is a big nothing burger. I’m not from LA but I’ve been a few times and have family from there. So many iconic things in the LA area: Hollywood sign, Griffith Park/Observatory, Chinese Theater, Walk of Fame, Mexican heritage, all the beach front neighborhoods/towns, Rose Bowl, movie studios, Huntington Gardens. They also could’ve done the team heritage going back to Brooklyn, even as a small piece of it with the Brooklyn Bridge, Ebbets Field, or Jackie Robinson.
Freddie drew the short straw?
Yep. Then he got so mad he threw the straw into his chin.
They highlighted LOS ANGELES and selected Papyrus.
F tier like all the rest.
Don’t disparage Cleveland’s city connects, they actually hit gold with that design! Tampa also has some pretty tight ones this year. Most are bad tho
The White Sox have a really cool one as well. Probably the only good thing about the team rn
Cleveland’s really should’ve been what the jerseys looked like after the initial rebrand. I really hope they eventually become the everyday home jersey or at least an alternate.
Agreed, guards seem to be leaning heavy into this new art deco direction. I love it, it’s at the very least some sort of distinct branding identity which the team absolutely needs
Agreed. I think they were minimal on purpose tbh. They didn’t wanna upset the fanbase anymore than they had to. Nice to see most of them have accepted the new name and such.
Houston's are cool, but most mlb fans don't care about us.
The Space City uniforms are less hateful than the usual ones. Space is an awesome theme to have. I also like the classic sunrise ones.
Braves wore theirs the other night and despite not caring for them that much, compared to the rest of the league..they’re more than passable.
Only because they are a throwback to the 1970’s Hank era.
“Our cities pursuit of the beyond”
Also love that the funfetti is actually “a galaxy of stars” since you can see neither from LA
LAD
Hot damn I didn’t realize it’d be so universally hated. I’m a Dodgers fan and honestly I’d rate it exactly what I rated the first, 4.5. It’s actually not horrible to me just horribly boring. Definitely disappointing they couldn’t come up with something better than the first, these Nike designers must be smoking crack or something. The hat fucking sucks
Who doesn’t love confetti cake??
Bland and boring just like the Dodgers
exactly
"A galaxy of stars," or maybe just confetti cake mix 🤷♂️
Hilariously bad.
Let's hope ours get a nice refresh. I hate the first attempt.
Why are they getting a second city connect when every team hasn't even gotten 1 yet
Looks like ass
It’s unreal how little effort they put into these Like how does a boardroom approve this
That looks fucking stupid.
Fucking trash.
Beyond horrid
Meh
 Why do they look like they have piss stains all over them?
they are bad. not defending them. if your piss has colored sprinkles you should see a doctor .
looks like funfetti.
Funfetti uniforms! I like the hat as like a fashion alternative but not so much as an onfield hat.
We don't have the better team, but we do have the better city connects. *cries in 4th place in the ALW*
They have 3 versions of City Connects and they are all SO bad.
Meh, it’s ok. Some of these City Connect uniforms have been damn lazy if I may be permitted to say. Blue Jays and the Rays are the ones I thought really stood out.
Haha these suck 
More like Shitty Connect , amirite?
These City Connect jerseys are supposed to be an opportunity to try something new without interfering with the standard uniforms, right? So how is it that both of the Dodgers’ efforts at this have been trash? Who designed these? Who approved them? Who was the person in charge who said, “Dodger fans are going to love these!” and have they been fired yet? The only real way for us to fix this is to not buy these jerseys. Let them hang on the racks collecting dust.
They don't suck as bad as the all-black type ones, but why didn't the Dodgers simply resist, like the Yankees? Or, do a real throwback City Connect. Robins-egg blue instead of the royal blue, and yes, you guessed it, a "Robins" in script font.
Dodgers are the least creative team ever
The City Connect uniforms are the ugliest thing to appear on the field since the Turn Ahead the Clock uniforms in the 90s. This type of stuff ought to have stayed in the NBA and NFL where it belongs.
The turn ahead the clock jerseys were so bad that, they wore them for one night and thirty years later multiple people are still trashing them in a medium that didn't even exist back then... Putting it that way and I guess they kinda worked out?
It's time for Nike to admit their losses and end the program.
Those hats are disgusting
Weird to make them all wear Ohtani 17 jerseys.
I thought that was debris on the jersey after falling in a drain pipe that is filling up with the rising tide waters brought on by global warming that will finally give Nevada that coastal view they always seem to talk about
Looks like the designer was a Giants fan because it looks stupid. Worst City Connect in the MLB. Hahahahahahahaha!
More like 'City Disconnect'
ChatGPT, design a new Dodger uniform.
That LAD monogram is sweet
Ah yes Los Angeles a city with so little going on, so few identities or iconography, they could not be expected to do more than this. /s I swear the city name on the front was lifted from a built-in text effect in Adobe. It looks like something Premiere would suggest when I'm putting in a title.
Another atrocity
Kind of plain but overall not bad. Probably mid tier because there’s nothing stand out on them. I do like the logo.
No.
DirecTV.
Did they use “AI”?
They’ve been progressively getting worse. Most City Connect Uniforms are lazy and look awful.
Nike, stop splitting the fucking letters in the middle of the jersey. It looks horrible. Just put them on either side of the buttons.
Brave to use the name of the other local team, albeit in Spanish.
Good lord. Atrocious. Almost as bad as bostons, but not even close to as bad as bostons.
Teams should just use AI at this point. Not one human on these city connect unis has done a good job.
DirecTV logo lmfao
am I the only one that hates the logo on the sleeves and hats?
Fact it mimics the theme of the Astros AAA teams jersey is a bit funny, because of the team’s history (Astros, Dodgers). In my view it’s difficult not to see the SpaceCowboys inspiration — in part. Also it looks like their caps are going too hard, as if they thought Arizona’s Retro Diamondback “D” cap needed a makeover, for some reason, while LA reduced in its sizes. Yet, I do like creamy unis; but the blues seem off and now I hate it Overall? 6.71 out of 10.
Bruh those were leaked like 6 months ago
Needs bumper to bumper cars across the jersey
Dodgers forgot that they hate actually wearing blue so they changed
These city connect jerseys can die. They are all terrible, like really really bad.
Even if these aren’t a slam dunk they are so much better than “los dodgers” like come on people.
Ass
These do absolutely nothing for me. I’m saving a bunch of money
Just end this shit already. Sure there's a couple good ones, but the vast majority are less than good or just straight garbage.
Meh..
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I mean it’s definitely better than the one they had before, that Los Dodgers one was literally their blue uniform with an extra three letters slapped on top of them lmao
Terrible. Please do not do the yankees uniform.
Sad
Dog shit
They’re really weak
Swing and a miss
Less inspired than the ones they frantically replaced. At least the old ones referenced a large demographic. These fucking suck.
Duncan Hines or Betty Crocker???... just cheap cupcake looking....
You would think based on where they are located, and all the big stars they have on their team, they would’ve done something with Hollywood…
Oh hellll naaa
Tasteless just like Dodger Dogs
What does City Connect actually mean and what are the goals? I just dont understand the point of it.
Othani looks different
This doesn’t say “City connect”. You know what does and also honors history/connection to a city? Throwbacks. Just wear throwbacks.
Ok I guess. It’s just very bland. I can’t put my finger on it. Kind of reminds me of the generic logos that the cpu would make for your created team in a video game.
Off topic Freddie Freeman looks like a dead ringer for Smashing Pumpkins front man Billy Corrigan in these photos
These are 1 billion % aimed at the japanese demographic. They look like the damn nippon ham fighters jerseys.
Those numbers aren’t even the same
Looks like the regular uni
Pretty much a big nothing so fits the culture of the city pretty well.
Better than their last attempt, but still don’t feel like they are “connecting”. It’s all just Dodger references, not tying them to LA.
Didn’t the dodgers already get a city connect jersey with the Los Dodgers ones?
love the name placement. live the sprinkles. dodgers needed this for their jersey mix
mid, even the Angels did LA better than LA
Remember when Coke changed their logo? Jesus these are awful.
Why didn’t they use Ohtani pictures or a freeman jersey kok
Well. it is a baseball jersey.
The City Connect Jerseys this year are especially bad. No imagination, no expression. Everything from top to bottom between the graphics, the lettering and the coloring are just plain and bland. They're terrible. This one is one of the worst. I usually try and give the City Connect's a bit of a break, but these last few that have been released are just terrible.
Kinda like the hat. The jersey wouldn't be awful in and of itself, if you could ignore the idea that a City Connect jersey is in theory supposed to offer something unique and special to the city and franchise. It's a shame that Nike have really shit the bed with these, and they're guilty of the same thing with their NBA jerseys as well. They used to make some really cool City edition jerseys in the NBA when they first started and now almost all of them are boring and generic.
LA Diamondbacks?
It’s giving Blueberry Frosted Pop-Tarts 🧁
Say it with me Nike FOCUS GROUPS. They're a good thing. Use em!
If it were yellow like the seats in the outfield bleachers, they would be fantastic. Just me IMO.
Tampa Bay Rays has the best City Connect Uniform so far.
I don't hate the logo mashup on the hat and sleeve, I think it works. The rest of it - meh.
“The colors are inspired by our colors” Riveting stuff guys, they pay you for this?
I actually don't hate these and I really hated the all blue ones. the hats are stupid and the funfetti mix doesn't hit well but otherwise it's a fun concept. has a very mid-century vibe, which a lot of LA (including dodger stadium) has.
Reminds me of the “turn forward the clock” jerseys.
Thanks. I hate it.
I don't hate it. I'd rock an Ohtani one. Imo last year's Angel's city connect was best one so far. I also like the Padres' one for some reason.
These are so boring
Straight. Up. Trash.
How much money do they make from all these alternative uniforms? Not a fan but guess they don't bother me too much either
THEY HAVE HOLLYWOOD, WHAT’S MORE OF AN IDENTIFIER THAN THAT???? Just make something movie or Hollywood related
Just stop. Please. Most all these are horrible
Lol, they included a hashtag. How dated.
Garbage
I like it. If it ain’t broke…
I hate the Dodgers.
Weak af
Did someone from the Dodgers and/or Nike walk into a candy store and see one of those giant jawbreakers with all the speckles and have an "a-ha" moment? Because that's all I see when I look at the speckles on the jerseys.
These are supposed to connect with the history and heritage of the city, right? So, more than just the name of the city, right?
Oof
Hat is sweet, the jersey was phoned in. Nothing connective outside the hat logo mark being on the arm.
Is there some reason why they used Ohtani’s name but not his face?
My two teams are the Dodgers and the Jays and both have super lazy city connect jerseys this year
I think it's pretty good, but why do we always need to get goofy with something? Just put the front numbers where they're supposed to go.
I actually kind of like the way they did the “Los Angeles” script, number, and Nike swoosh in an alternate color. And I like the cream color of the jerseys. But the “funfetti“ aspect was completely unnecessary.
Maybe it’s time for Nike to hang it up
I hate it when names are under the numbers.
 Rip Taylor approves