The Yankees Want To Dress Like All The Other Baseball Teams

This is why the seemingly tossed-off story of the New York Yankees players who would like to wear the team's navy batting practice jerseys as the first alternate road kit in club history is so rife with idiotic promise. It's not the story itself. The Athletic's Brendan Kuty accurately (we presume) presented the facts as they exist, which are that players pitched the idea of alternate jerseys to the club. This is notable only because the Yankees are one of the last two teams in North American (and maybe any continent's) sports to eschew the idea of a third jersey. (The other holdout is the MinnesOakLAOakAgainVegas Raiders, who have only diverged from tradition with their silver-numerals-with-black-trim version on the road whites, which they originally trotted out in the early 1970s and quickly scratched.) The Yankees' singular fashion statement is based on the time-honored couture philosophy of No. The home jersey has pinstripes and an entwined NY on the left side of the chest, the road jersey is gray and has NEW YORK across the front, there are no names on the back except for that of the company that makes the shirts, and it's been that way with only the tiniest affectations since 1913. No changes, no alterations, not even advertisements until they inevitably cut an eleven-figure deal with some fly-by-night insurance operation. Every other team has not only embraced but actively become addicted to alternates, and as a result the certifiably insane Chris Creamer's SportsLogos web site has become a compendium of the weirdest color palettes devised by history's weirdest marketing experts, imagining the weirdest ideas for the weirdest teams' players.