Twins uniform rotation: my vote
June 19th, 2009 2:07 pm by DJ DThe subject divides the Twins clubhouse. Kevin Slowey has strong feelings on the issue. Glen Perkins reserves the right to change his mind. The position players look at those pitchers and roll their eyes. “I give them grief all the time,” outfielder Michael Cuddyer said. There’s only one subject that could cause such rancor in the clubhouse: uniforms. The starting pitcher gets to choose which top to wear, and it has some Twins players shaking their heads.
First, the history. Since teams began wearing alternate uniforms, pitchers had options. The Twins began wearing alternate tops in 1997, when they wore blue and the infamous red. Red tops were worn twice — with the Twins getting clobbered both times — before being banished.
The Twins have four different home tops: the standard white, blue, a sleeveless white and a throwback white worn every Saturday home game (pitchers can’t choose those days). Pitchers choose between grey and blue on the road. Scott Baker is the only starter to have consistently worn the standard white tops.
I move to insert the option of the 1980s powder blue uniforms. Tacky? Perhaps, but they would at least allow fans to be sentimental for a period when the Metrodome was a state-of-the-art facility, and not an inflated concrete eyesore.
Hell, what do I know? I was just a toddler!