What's your favorite Padres logo? The pictures are in the same order as the years in the poll in case you weren't sure.
I don't want to influence your vote at all, but I love that original logo. The old Swinging Friar is to the new Swinging Friar, as Steamboat Willy is to Mickey Mouse.
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we gotta reincorporate that old logo
and phase out the shampoo bottle. what’s the focus group that gave the thumbs up on our current logo?
“I love that logo. It makes me want to buy conditioner.”
Dex - June 10, 2008
Dunno why you dislike it so much
I think it’s a nice and fresh way to brand the team. It’s a complete break from tradition, which is appropriate with Petco Park and all. It’s also a fairly unique logo (the new Brewers logos look conspiciously like the old Padres logo).
I like a logo that matches the team. I think our logo (and colors) are fantastic.
Phantom - June 10, 2008
Just saying it looks Nice and Fresh
sounds like you are talking about shampoo. The new logo is pleasant but doesn’t have anything to do with baseball. It looks very generic to me.
jbox - June 10, 2008
Nice and Fresh
Delivering bounce and swing you could only previously get in a salon!
/sorry
Axion - June 10, 2008
our current logo
The colors are good, but the font looks like a shampoo bottle and the wave below it highlights the shampoo/soap effect. Also, for a team that has trouble establishing a die-hard fan base, breaking from tradition would seem to me to be the last thing they’d want to do. It references San Diego while completely ignoring the “Padres”. At least with the brown, it touches on the fact that our mascot is a monk. Sky and sand makes me think of how many Padres fans would rather be at the beach on any given day.
Dex - June 10, 2008
That's a foolish
argument. Several teams don’t have logos that incorporate their team name. Where is the logo with a Giant, Yankee, Brewer (I’ll give you that they have wheat chaffs), Dodger, Ranger, Astro, etc? Hell, even the Tigers’ main logo doesn’t include an actual tiger.
The color matches the city. What the hell does orange and black have to do with San Francisco? And it’s not like our old logos really incorproate a baseball theme (outside of the “baseball club” printed on them).
And for a team that has historically had a hard time drawing fans, breaking from the less-than-stellar tradition is probably NOT a bad idea. When people see many of the brown Padres logos, they think of the years in the ‘70s and ‘80s when we didn’t exactly have a lot to get excited about.
Phantom - June 10, 2008
Point taken, but...
The Tigers also don’t have a logo with, say, snow falling, or a Ford car, either. And the Giants don’t have a logo with Alcatraz or Coit Tower in the background. SD is known for the beach, but are the Padres?
Bip Roberts - June 10, 2008
"Baseball Club" always bothered me
It’s like they’re not even a real team, just a bunch of hobbyists.
I would love to see the Dodgers incorporate a trainyard hobo into their logo.
Axion - June 10, 2008
Is it foolish because you disagree?
because that sounds foolish to me.
jbox - June 10, 2008
How is that a foolish argument?
The colors were fine the way they were. Brown, white and orange make for a terrific distinctive look. Changing the colors around so drastically is yet another attempt at “marketing” the team and another reason why San Diego is the home of the fairweather fan.
We shouldn’t use the colors because we sucked back then? Thanks a lot Ollie Brown, Nate Colbert, Dave Winfield, Randy Jones… We’d sooner just forget you guys ever existed because in San Diego, we like to remind ourselves that even if the team isn’t doing good, we still have the beach.
Dex - June 10, 2008
Distinctive
Probably not the right word.
When I was a kid, the Giants were “The Other Padres” to the neighborhood kids.
Axion - June 10, 2008
And speaking of fair-weather fans
Padre fans came out of the woodwork to heckle the Mets fan here at work. It wasn’t even fun for me by lunch.
The proverbial “out of the woodwork” number is up from the 3 (including myself) that were here and in gear on Friday.
Axion - June 10, 2008
But the colors
were changed long before 2004. You seem to be suggesting that the Padres made a drastic jump to these new colors when they opened Petco. There was no brown in the 1998 team. There hasn’t been any brown in their coloring for several years. Hell, even in the early 2000s, we lost the orange in all but the road jerseys.
If you have a problem with the current colors, then you should blame the administration that changed colors in the 90s. To try to pretend that 2004 constituted a drastic recoloring of the team isn’t exactly honest. It was just another step in the modernization of the Padres brand.
And I didn’t say we shouldn’t use the colors because we sucked. I said that it’s probably not a bad idea to change the branding of the team to get away from crappy years. Yes, we had good players. But a few good players don’t make up for the dozens of losing seasons in our history.
Phantom - June 10, 2008
When I see blue in the uniforms
I still think of Tom Werner and it pisses me off.
Give me brown, yellow and orange any day.
Winfield's Ghost - June 10, 2008
Colors
They did change the colors in 2004 because of Petco. Why should I blame people in the 90s for the color change that happened in 2004? Just to be clear, I don’t think they should’ve changed the colors at all from the brown, yellow, white. If they’re gonna change the colors once because they want to get away from the loser image, that’s one thing. The new color change really just seemed to me to be a ploy to sell new jerseys.
Dex - June 10, 2008
I think it was mostly SOP
for anytime a team gets a new home.
Furthermore, I’ve been told that all licensed merchandise revenue is funnelled directly to MLB and then evenly redistributed. I have no idea if this is true, but if it is, it kinda renders the point moot.
Phantom - June 10, 2008
not entirely
anything the padres sell at the ballpark, they keep a larger share of.
Dex - June 10, 2008
So Sand and Sky
were colors in the 90’s?
Totally disagree with you concerning changing the colors to forget the clubs history.
jbox - June 10, 2008
You're certainly entitled to
but the color changes in Petco weren’t exactly the first time the team changed its colors. That’s all I’m saying.
Phantom - June 10, 2008
You were saying
things about foolishness and dishonesty too.
jbox - June 10, 2008
I certainly was
because it seems dumb to blame the Padres for:
a) not having a logo related to their mascot when many other teams do this
b) The recent color change was not the first time that the team changed its colors. Crapping all over the Petco colors and yet not complaining about the mid 90s to early 2000 colors is incongruous.
Look, I know you guys don’t usually have people argue with you, but this is just my opinion.
Phantom - June 10, 2008
now i know you're just being contentious
you know that nobody EVER agrees with us, except winfield’s ghost and he’s just being sarcastic.
Dex - June 10, 2008
Please
nobody here ever has substantive arguments with you. Everyone’s afriad of another half naked Caminiti/Hoffman post.
Phantom - June 10, 2008
That's right
You guys are ALWAAAAYS “right.”
Winfield's Ghost - June 10, 2008
I disagree.
Axion - June 10, 2008
New friar > old friar
Old friar has that lobotomy scar going on, not cool.
I would get new friar as a tattoo if I did that sort of thing
Axion - June 10, 2008
Narrowly
I picked the present one over the 98 era.
Axion - June 10, 2008
Looks like the original logo wins
by a large margin!
Sam (sdsuaztec4) - June 10, 2008
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