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Yesterday, UniWatch devoted much of its post to the Washington Nationals uniforms<\/strong><\/a>. Scott Rogers<\/strong>, a former Nats blogger described the cap logo the Nats almost had — a big, beveled W<\/strong><\/a>. The funny thing about it was that it did not match the beveled W on the original Nats road uniforms<\/a>. I find that kind of amusing because one of the complaints that have been made about the Nats uniforms over the years was that the curly W was out of place with the beveled-block lettering on the jerseys. Had that hat been used, it would not have matched either. I’ve been in the tank for the curly W<\/strong><\/a> since its debut.<\/p>\n

\"Curly<\/a><\/p>\n

Frankly, I never cared that much that the curly W was out of place with the beveled block lettering, but when the Nats changed to the script-Washington — a curly W followed by “ashington” in the same font, I was ecstatic. While more generic, the script Washington was a great improvement over the beveled-block. In fact, I had been trying to get a t-shirt (without a name on back) of the road script since it came out. For some reason, they had been pretty hard to find. Two days ago, I finally got one — I won a Notes from Nats Town contest last year<\/a> (Fun Bunch 2.0 was my entry) and I finally followed through when I saw the script Washington giveaway from last month. Thanks for Nats PR for making that happen.<\/p>\n

\"Nats<\/a><\/p>\n

By the way, in the run up for the team, I was on board with an interlocking DC insignia on the cap. That lasted until I saw the beautiful curly W caps. The DC insignia certainly had cache, but is too clunky to look good on a cap. I like it on the sleeve of the Nats uniforms though. Having a first name that starts with “W” probably doesn’t hurt my like of the curly W.<\/p>\n

Another facilitating aspect of the curly W is that it was apparently a last minute change to the uniforms ordered by commissioner Bud Selig<\/strong>. Part of the reason is probably the city council wearing the curly W caps at the September 2004 “Baseball is back!” press conference<\/strong><\/a>. Well done, Selig, for once (twice?) your meddling worked out. This, along with the putting a team here are the best two things you have ever done. Of course, doing a half-assed job (*cough* MASN) of the latter tempers my enthusiasm for your body of work.<\/p>\n

There are indications that the beveled block is on the way out of the home uniform, to be replaced by “Nationals” in script. The N would be a big looping one like the Natstown logo<\/strong><\/a> we see on the team Web site<\/strong><\/a> and elsewhere. The sticking point seems to be the use of the beveled-block NATIONALS on the scoreboard. I don’t have strong feelings on this one but I almost lean towards keeping the beveled-block because it is unique and looks good. A script Nationals would look good too, but be less unique.<\/p>\n

By the way, Rogers made some good points about throwbacks on Wednesday’s UniWatch<\/strong><\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

Back to the present, the Nats got shut-out by the Florida Marlins<\/strong><\/a> (The Post<\/em>)who completed a 3-game sweep last night. Liv\u00e1n Hern\u00e1ndez gave up 3 runs over 6 1\/3 innings to take the loss and even his record at 8-8. The Nats are now 13-34 against the Marlins since 2008<\/strong><\/a> (Nats Insider<\/em>).<\/p>\n

LF Josh Willingham is continuing the Nats tradition of playing hurt<\/strong><\/a> (CSN Washington<\/em>) which explains his performance of late. He probably has a torn meniscus in his left knee. Once again we are left to ponder whether the Nats have adequate trainers and\/or have a clubhouse culture that demands playing hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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