So in the last week the MFY shelled out about enough money to bail out the auto industry between the seven year, $161M contract for CC, and the five year, $82M contract for Burnett, but all Red Sox nation wants to talk about is the new jerseys. OK, I’ll bite: they’re ugly. The new road uniforms look like the 1986 jerseys, but to make sure you don’t just go on ebay to buy one for $20 from the 80s they added the hanging sox patch on the sleeve to make sure you have to spend $250. That’s one expensive patch. (On a side note, while browsing ebay and I saw somebody selling a 4XL Pedroia jersey. Does that seem wrong to anybody else?) Plus, what was wrong with the old road jersey? They matched the home jersey nicely, and the Sox did win two World Series with those road greys. Hard to compete against that.

The alternate road jersey is about as lame as it gets. “What about if we take the batting practice jersey and have the players wear it during a game?” Brilliant Larry, why not just have them wear their underwear on the field? I bet that’ll sell well too and you don’t even need to spend any money on R&D.

The alternate hat is another story. While the B has been a classic on the hat for generations now, the current version of the B is less than original. The exact same B is used as the logo for UCLA (the Bruins), in navy/white/gold instead of navy/white/red, which means that the Sox can’t make 37 different colored versions of the same hat. Since this new uniform thing is clearly all about selling more merchandise, and I’ve always liked the hanging socks logo more than the B, I’d say the Sox did a nice job with this one. My only problem with it is the red top. I know the Sox unveiled these just in time for Christmas shopping, but letting Rudolph design the hat was not the brightest idea.

Holy crap, when did this blog turn into Project Runway? Please Theo, can you just sign Teixeira already so we can get back to the important things on the field instead of whether Youk’s shoes clash with his socks.