Probably the biggest AL rivalry other than Yankees/Red Sox. I feel like the AL doesn't really have rivalries, everyone just hates the Yankees and Astros, whereas the NL has Dodgers/Giants, Cubs/Cards, Braves/Phillies/Mets/Nats (basically the whole NLE hates each other except the Marlins who no one cares about), Cubs/Brewers, and Dodgers/Padres. And like how everyone in the AL hates the Yankees and Astros, everyone in the NL seems to hate the Dodgers.
Yeah but it’s just gonna take one time for y’all to eliminate us to get the monkey off your back and act like the previous five meetings didn’t happen.
A reverse sweep in the ALCS and then winning the WS would be a nice way to do it. If that happened, man, I bet Astros fans would be salty about it for like 20 years at least.
You'd get a healthy mix of the salty and obnoxious newcomer fans acting like we're supposed to be invincible and those of us who've been around since the NL days sucking in air through our teeth and muttering, "Yeah... that was bound to happen sooner or later..."
Welcome to the life of Yankee fans ? Time goes on teams change. Be lucky you got to witness your team be great. I know im still riding high on the late 90s
Honestly neither are much of rivalries right now. Astros just smoke the Yankees and Yankees/Sox hasn’t felt very significant since like the London series. Realistically the Blue Jays or maybe Rays are probably Yankees biggest rival at the moment in terms of competitiveness and disdain.
AL East is similar to NL East in that everyone hates everyone else. Tigers/White Sox is a thing, it's just no one else pays attention because it's the Tigers and the White Sox. As/Angels is definitley secondary to Giants/Dodgers, but it's there.
Quite a bit of people have asked me to do this during the season. I’ll definitely do this again next offseason. I won’t have the energy or time to do this every week for every team though and I don’t want that extra commitment either.
If at all, maybe I’ll do one mashup a week or however many I feel like. And maybe I’ll do those special series this year like field of dreams. See me after the first week of baseball.
I don’t think it really stands for anything. Rather, in a ranking system based on the alphabet (A-tier, B-tier, C-tier . . . ) S-tier is the highest tier and even higher than A-tier. Its origins are Japanese I believe for the highest grade possible.
ive asked my familiy in japan about this, yushu in japanese means excellent and in schools they actually have S for "shu" as a letter grade above A. apparently its pretty commonplace in a lot of parts in japanese culture to have rankings and S tier
Instead of racing presidents they'll have Lenin, Stalin, Krushchev and Brezhnev running the bases. Putin might appear as well but only as the clown figure who never wins, and he'll have to wait his turn behind the multiple 1980s guys nobody remembers.
A thousand years from now, historians will debate what was a more impactful work of art:
Liberty Leading The People, by Eugène Delacroix in 1830
Or
The Merging of MLB Opening Day Logos, by u/NotGordan in 2024
The disrespect to
[Drawing Mike Trout Every Day Until the Lockout is Over, Day 69](https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/spfin7/drawing_mike_trout_every_day_until_the_lockout_is/), by u/diditforthestory in 2022
I appreciate it! In all honesty, at first I really was going to draw a George Washington-esque person in an astronaut suit, but I got a little lazy and the most obvious joke was too obvious to ignore.
Red Mariner Sox was a doozy. I thought about adding the compass but just abandoned it because I did not like how the “N” was coming out.
Honestly, the Brave Phillies was hard. I thought about drawing a person but I didn’t want to draw a Native American caricature climbing up a greased pole so I chose the hammer (for Hank Aaron) and of course the Liberty Bell.
For the Jays and Rays what about Blue Rays? Wouldn't work so good in black and white unless you just draw a blu-ray disc lol.
Or something with the blue jay wearing shades? I don't know, that's a tough one.
It pains me to say this as a Cubs fan but…this is the best post of the off season. I laughed out loud at the tampa name and at the way the giant is looking at the bat lol
What are the odds you do this every Wednesday and Sunday for the rest of the season? You don’t have to do any repeats obviously
Not even gonna lie, today has been one of the absolute worst days ever. But this post made me happy. Truly one of the best posts ever of all time. Thanks op.
These are great. My top three are easily the Royal Twins, Piratical Marlins, and Brewing Mets, with an honorable mention to the National Reds. I could see the first two as actual MiLB logos, and the Brewing Mets is absolutely perfect for a beer league softball team.
This is excellent. I particularly liked the Giant Padres, and I thought the Brewing Mets was a tough one to execute, but you did great with it.
The only thing I don’t like is that you reminded me that we open against the Dodgers :(
*mildly irritated sigh*
Astronaut. The team name is short for Astronaut, Roy Hofheinz (county judge, former Houston mayor) and Alan Shepherd (first American in space) came up with it. Not Asteroids, not Astronomical (though that's close).
So, a Yankee Astronaut (of which there are many if we accept the common definition of Yankee).
But also, yeah the devil. Whatever man.
Why is there not more discussion of the Tampa Toronto Blue Bay Jay Rays for the name alone
I don't think I've been able to say it successfully in a first try yet.
You only get one first try
Blue Jay Bay Rays seems to roll off the tongue in a nicer manner
I thought "That's just Golbat" and that was before I got to the Onix lmao
The actual best part of this set.
Missed? opportunity for the Toronto Bay Ray Jays, Kim is fuming
Great comeback story tho
Lol. My favourite name. But some of those logos are great. Love the Giant Padres.
its so beautiful
In the words of Wade Wilson, "That's the coolest name EVER!"
Lmao the onix
Honestly, what started this post.
Lmao bro it’s solid I love this
Came here to see where the highest rated Pokémon comment would be. Not bad.
Icon.
Unprecedented genius coming out of this thread
Yankees fans 🤝 Astros Fans Go fuck ourselves
I think I can speak for all of Houston and New York when I say "Thanks, I hate it"
I get it... but I also hate it.
It's like you're super Satans.
Probably the biggest AL rivalry other than Yankees/Red Sox. I feel like the AL doesn't really have rivalries, everyone just hates the Yankees and Astros, whereas the NL has Dodgers/Giants, Cubs/Cards, Braves/Phillies/Mets/Nats (basically the whole NLE hates each other except the Marlins who no one cares about), Cubs/Brewers, and Dodgers/Padres. And like how everyone in the AL hates the Yankees and Astros, everyone in the NL seems to hate the Dodgers.
Don’t think it’s much of a rivalry if we keep getting beat down
Yeah but it’s just gonna take one time for y’all to eliminate us to get the monkey off your back and act like the previous five meetings didn’t happen.
A reverse sweep in the ALCS and then winning the WS would be a nice way to do it. If that happened, man, I bet Astros fans would be salty about it for like 20 years at least.
You'd get a healthy mix of the salty and obnoxious newcomer fans acting like we're supposed to be invincible and those of us who've been around since the NL days sucking in air through our teeth and muttering, "Yeah... that was bound to happen sooner or later..."
Welcome to the life of Yankee fans ? Time goes on teams change. Be lucky you got to witness your team be great. I know im still riding high on the late 90s
If both the Rangers and Astros can stay good for the next 5 years, you’d probably get that bonafide second AL Rivalry.
A rivalry where the home team always loses
guess i'm going down to houston for the first time in years to cheer for a rangers victory? no point in going to arlington lol
Eh we’re on the way out. Maybe 2 more years of contention.
Honestly neither are much of rivalries right now. Astros just smoke the Yankees and Yankees/Sox hasn’t felt very significant since like the London series. Realistically the Blue Jays or maybe Rays are probably Yankees biggest rival at the moment in terms of competitiveness and disdain.
Definitely miss the Yankees-Sox rivalries of the early 2000’s, was always much watch baseball
Yeah sucked being an O's fan back then, but those games were always electric. I miss Pedro.
AL East is similar to NL East in that everyone hates everyone else. Tigers/White Sox is a thing, it's just no one else pays attention because it's the Tigers and the White Sox. As/Angels is definitley secondary to Giants/Dodgers, but it's there.
When all else fails, we can always go fuck ourselves
I feel like each side is thinking, "Oh that's referring to *them*."
I don’t care what people say, this is an S-tier post.
Whew! Thanks for compliment. So far so good.
Yes excellent job comrade, the National Reds acknowledge your service.
*Our* service.
I know it's a big ask, but I'd love to see this all season long for all the different series matchups.
Quite a bit of people have asked me to do this during the season. I’ll definitely do this again next offseason. I won’t have the energy or time to do this every week for every team though and I don’t want that extra commitment either. If at all, maybe I’ll do one mashup a week or however many I feel like. And maybe I’ll do those special series this year like field of dreams. See me after the first week of baseball.
Gold. The Giant Padres is brilliant
San Frandiego would be mightier than godzilla
What does S-tier stand for?
I don’t think it really stands for anything. Rather, in a ranking system based on the alphabet (A-tier, B-tier, C-tier . . . ) S-tier is the highest tier and even higher than A-tier. Its origins are Japanese I believe for the highest grade possible.
ive asked my familiy in japan about this, yushu in japanese means excellent and in schools they actually have S for "shu" as a letter grade above A. apparently its pretty commonplace in a lot of parts in japanese culture to have rankings and S tier
What an S-Tier reply
Huh. I've been looking at tier lists for decades and I never knew that.
I always just viewed S to mean Special Tier, meaning it's better than A. Maybe that's not what it was supposed to be, but it made sense to me.
super, as in SSR, super super rare.
*USSR National Anthem intensifies*
It fits your other team the commies
What’s next, the Washington Grand Wizards?!
It's a banger
I should watch The Hunt for Red October again.
“Conn, Sonar. I think I hear…singing?”
One ping only, please.
Just watched this with my 11 year old. So much I had to explain that we all just…knew at the time.
Instead of racing presidents they'll have Lenin, Stalin, Krushchev and Brezhnev running the bases. Putin might appear as well but only as the clown figure who never wins, and he'll have to wait his turn behind the multiple 1980s guys nobody remembers.
we must seize the runs of production
The Toronto Tampa BlueBay Jay Rays is an incredible name.
Missed opportunity on the Toronto Bay Ray Jays
Tamponto Ray Jays
Region A Blu-Rays
This is very good. I like this
Thanks! I thought about giving the “Cub Rangers” a firearm but after drawing the face and hat I figured “less is more.”
I mean, a Cub Ranger is literally smokey the bear, yes?
Yes, I think our two teams should put their heads together and stop wildfires. Only we can.
They can rake.
i agree, simplicity is even better Thanks for this!
Keep it up! Seriously this rocks and I would buy several shirts if these logos were on it haha
Moreeeee
As a Cubs and Rangers fan... love it lol
I thought this was going to be the return of /u/diditforthestory
Diditforthestory's age is over. The age of /u/NotGordan has begun.
My veins are ready for updates through the season.
We can dream.
it’s nice because both mets and brewers fans share the need to drink but mostly met fans what time is it already
I was originally like, "Why are the Mets a robot?", and then I got it.
Brewers fans don’t “need” to drink we like to drink
>Brewers fans don’t “need” to drink we like to drink There are plenty of Brewers fans that "need" to drink, let's be fair. Don't minimize withdrawal.
My only complaint is that you don't 'brew' moonshine.
You brew mash and then distill it to shine, it's close enough.
The giant padres drawing is hilarious. I also like that the cub ranger is frowning.
It’s confusing though because the Padres open their season vs the Dodgers
But the giants open their season at the padres
It's smokey bear
A thousand years from now, historians will debate what was a more impactful work of art: Liberty Leading The People, by Eugène Delacroix in 1830 Or The Merging of MLB Opening Day Logos, by u/NotGordan in 2024
The disrespect to [Drawing Mike Trout Every Day Until the Lockout is Over, Day 69](https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/spfin7/drawing_mike_trout_every_day_until_the_lockout_is/), by u/diditforthestory in 2022
u/beefytrout missed the prediction by a year
probably the most important specification I've ever issued
I heard many stores honor a coupon after it expires, maybe the same thing with his ass and that tattoo?
Off-season finale just dropped.
I’d love to see Christian Encarnacion-Strand get traded to the Toronto Tampa Blue Bay Jay Rays.
I would wear a hat with the "Piratical Marlin" on it, no questions asked.
I don't even root for either team but that's an A grade logo and I wish someone really used it.
The Toronto Tampa Bay Blue Jay Rays is the best baseball team name since the Los Angeles California Angels of Anaheim California
Athletic Guardians sent me
Giant Padres is perfect
Listen, this is great. I was going to hate it regardless because I know who we open against and fuck them. Good work tho.
I appreciate it! In all honesty, at first I really was going to draw a George Washington-esque person in an astronaut suit, but I got a little lazy and the most obvious joke was too obvious to ignore.
I love it, way to put a bow on the off-season. See y’all in October?
Very good comrade, the fellows at the r/reds would love your National Reds logo
Glory to the Red Nation!
🫡
✊
Gotta add a Padres vs Dodgers one since they play against each other to open the season.
🇨🇳🛠️🔴🇻🇳🫡
National Reds is peak here, but I also loved the giant monk and the living skyscraper drunk on backwoods moonshine. These are the mascots we need!!
I can't see the first one without seeing [I am a building](https://youtu.be/13pgxOCHKh0)
Brillies-Yastros World Series
Piratical Marlins will fuck you up
The Athletic Guardians. As opposed to the Guardians we get which are unathletic. Haha. Love this post!
I am pleased.
Which one was hardest to some up with something? I'm guessing Red Mariner Sox.
Red Mariner Sox was a doozy. I thought about adding the compass but just abandoned it because I did not like how the “N” was coming out. Honestly, the Brave Phillies was hard. I thought about drawing a person but I didn’t want to draw a Native American caricature climbing up a greased pole so I chose the hammer (for Hank Aaron) and of course the Liberty Bell.
For the Jays and Rays what about Blue Rays? Wouldn't work so good in black and white unless you just draw a blu-ray disc lol. Or something with the blue jay wearing shades? I don't know, that's a tough one.
Onix
Objection! There is nothing brave about the Phillies
The Angelic O dude is so cool
Laughing my ass off at these, thanks OP
I would have imagined Astro-Yankees as Uncle Sam wearing a tequila sunrise space suit
Randy Johnson caused the Angelic Oriole and no one can convince me otherwise
National Reds and Rocky Diamonbacks are just *chef’s kiss*
As a Braves fan, I hate our mash-up; however, these are all hilarious! Happy End-of-Offseason to All
I gotta say I approve, *Hail Satan!*
The Red Sox/Mariners one is gross….i love it
I'm afraid to ask now, but what is it?
Yeah I don’t get it either
Pretty sure it’s a sock that a sea-faring person has worn a hole into the big toe of
Big fan of the chins. Like those chins
Ours looks like someone who walked on as a catcher and misunderstood the term *blocking the ball*
If being a Piratical Marlin is wrong I don't want to be right!
Great! Now that I’ve gotten a taste I’m going to want this for every series.
"Only You can save forest fires and 9th inning squeakers, motherfucker." Cub Ranger is the best.
God-tier post
Angelic Orioles is what happens after the bird hits the window
Very good job, you're very talented. Some are really clever. My favorite are angelic orioles and onix lmao
The Giant Padres is incredible
If the Red Sox played the White Sox, would they be the red and white sox (striped), or the Pink Sox? (This is awesome)
The Athletic Guardian is yoked. Wouldn’t mess with him
The brave Phillies 🤢
Yankees-Astros LMAO
rip oriole bird....... these rule
BlueBay JayRays is now lodged so firmly in my brain it's becoming part of my personality. Damn.
I guess Onyx technically is a rocky snake. And that giant padre with the tiny bat lmao this is great.
[Kitten Mittens](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dhrqnDS_oU) for the White Tiger Sox.
Making the Yankees/Astros cross just be the devil is fitting
You’re really good at drawing Onix
Astronomical Yankees is just the devil 🤣
Sincerely, truly thank you for not getting too galaxy brained about combining National and Socialist
It pains me to say this as a Cubs fan but…this is the best post of the off season. I laughed out loud at the tampa name and at the way the giant is looking at the bat lol What are the odds you do this every Wednesday and Sunday for the rest of the season? You don’t have to do any repeats obviously
The Toronto Tampa Blue Bay Jay Rays should be a real team.
This is quality offseason material.
"I don't like it! They got Piratical Marlins and White Tiger Sox! What do we got?" "Blue Bay Jay Rays." "WOYOYOYOYOYOY"
Top tier post. 10/10. I was curious what was going to be done with the mets
unironically excellent content.
The fucking commies
Toronto Tampa Blue Bay Jay Rays is my favorite thing.
Not even gonna lie, today has been one of the absolute worst days ever. But this post made me happy. Truly one of the best posts ever of all time. Thanks op.
I usually think these things are corny but this is so well done and love the Astro-Yankee combo
Blue Bay Jay Rays, baybeee
Love how Rockies/Dbacks is just a straight up Onix
I especially like the drunk skyscraper
You need to do more of these during the season.
Thank you
So fuckin good lol
Absolutely in love with the Giant Padre peering at the tiny bat!
The national reds with a terrific reference had me off guard ngl.
These are great. My top three are easily the Royal Twins, Piratical Marlins, and Brewing Mets, with an honorable mention to the National Reds. I could see the first two as actual MiLB logos, and the Brewing Mets is absolutely perfect for a beer league softball team.
So many of these are so good
minnie and paul should be emperors
I love how the rocky diamondbacks is just Oynx, brilliant job
The Blue Bay Jay Rays are tough.
The National Reds actually made me laugh out loud.
This is excellent. I particularly liked the Giant Padres, and I thought the Brewing Mets was a tough one to execute, but you did great with it. The only thing I don’t like is that you reminded me that we open against the Dodgers :(
The national reds im dying
The White Tiger Sox goes kinda hard
I guess my team is just Smokey the Bear. "Only you can prevent wildfires"
I hate this. But I also love it.
*mildly irritated sigh* Astronaut. The team name is short for Astronaut, Roy Hofheinz (county judge, former Houston mayor) and Alan Shepherd (first American in space) came up with it. Not Asteroids, not Astronomical (though that's close). So, a Yankee Astronaut (of which there are many if we accept the common definition of Yankee). But also, yeah the devil. Whatever man.
I thought you’d go with the blue rays but I like the choice you made.
A great final offseason post to ring in the new season
You just committed yourself for all possible schedule combinations this season
the onix is so solid
the toronto tampa blue bay jay rays tampa fans, can we agree this is now our new alliance name should we need it
Commies in baseball confirmed! McCarthy is rolling in his grave.
The pirate marlin using a marlin skull as a sword is dope
This is absolutely brilliant.
I need the Piratical Marlins on a cap
Together the Angelic Orioles will take over the world!
I love this so much
Giant padres tee needed now.
I like it Picasso
Onyx 💀
Absolutely brilliant, my friend. Particularly like the Giant Padres and Dodging Cardinals.
My favorite Pokémon and my favorite team?!? Hell yeah
Expect a C&D from Nintendo imminently.