The New Miami Marlins Uniforms, Feature Colorful Combinations (Photo)

Considering the Miami Marlins cap photo that leaked to the Internet in September turns out to be the real deal, these uniform sketches featuring a veritable (and literal) rainbow of colors seem legit. Leaked to the Jock Talk Blog at Outsports (yes, that's "out" as in LGBT), the drawings purport to show the new Marlins threads.

To borrow a theme: if they are real, these clothes might want to go back in the closet. Although ... the orange in particular kind of recalls the University of Miami baseball uniforms. The Fish could associate themselves with worse teams.

The uniforms could be bogus, or just an educated guess. Earlier in the evening, I happened upon a post by Dayn Perry at NotGraphs which purports to show different, but similar, Marlins uniforms:

Today, the Marlins fan site "Marlin Maniac" has uncovered evidence of the Marlins' new uniforms. "Garish" doesn't begin to describe them:

Those might not seem too radical, but check out the alternate suggestions below. Orange jerseys and orange caps? At least the black uniform looks OK.

Below is a picture of white home and grey road uniforms, complete with black and blue caps, courtesy of the blog Marlin Maniac.


Maybe this is the Marlins' plan -- to blind their opponents with garish uniforms and that silly home run celebration thing. One thing we should be happy about is that the Marlins have not gone all the way back to the 1970s and had matching shirt-and-pants outfits like this one