Has It Been That Long?

When I was a kid we moved from California's Bay Area to Sacramento, a few months before the Kings made the move from KC to Sacramento. Essentially, we both made it to Sac at the same time. I've since left, but my brothers still live there, and I enjoy my visits.

I also still occasionally root for them. I mean, of course I root for the Kings, but they have given precious little to root for since the refs helped the Lakers back in the 2002 playoffs. As of now, June of 2015, it's easier to root for the Warriors as the de-facto Northern California basketball team.

Anyway, I came across the anniversary patch the Kings wore this season, fondly remembered the script work markings, and then found some of the other anniversary patches.

The first:

From the mid 2000s, after the sputtering of a possible dynasty, after Peja and C-Webb, Bibby and Vlade, the 20th anniversary logo had the current purple and black logo mixed with red and blue from the original Sac color scheme. Not great, not awful. Like the Kings...

The next one, the quarter-century mark, sees a nice doctored up skyline of our capitol city, with both the dome and the I-Street bridge:

And then the last one, the one that started me down a short rabbit hole. I'm not sure why, but I prefer this script lettering to the block one they use as a primary, and while I prefer blue and red to black and purple, that's mostly because I'm biased towards blue:

I would certainly rock this Boogie shirt:

It has the script while also using the black and purple. See? Not so bad...

Here's to hoping Vivek figures his shit out and becomes the owner we know he wants to be.

Mariners Take Cue from Own Past

I do like what the Mariners have done with an alternate home kit this season. Here is their normal home uniforms:

And here are the alternates about which I speak:

They've taken their current design but tweaked the color scheme to coincide with the beautiful gold-and-blue color scheme that was popularized with Ken Griffey's debut:

I'm an admitted sucker for blues and golds, and for the Pacific Northwest in general. I do think these alternates work. I also like their short-season Single-A affiliate Everett Aquasox homage to the Red-Sox for an alternate logo as well:

Everett is getting away with some stuff here, like the Mariners 80's Trident "M" as the "E":

And the entire bufotenin toad connection...love the twacked out eyes...