Come next spring, the mark of the beast will be on the chest of all MLB jerseys - sigh. Last night’s game marked the end of the MLB’s Majestic uniform era and also the end of maker’s marks appearing on the sleeve.As usual, Nats shortstop and NC State alum Trea Turner wore Wolfpack headgear - two different kinds this time - for the clubhouse celebration and the postgame interview.The last team to win the title wearing white or grey? The Royals (2015). The Nats became the fourth consecutive champions to wear a solid-colored alternate jersey in the deciding game, following the Red Sox (2018), Astros (2017), and Cubs (2016).As noted last week in my World Series Preview, this is unusual but not unique. As expected, the Nationals wore their navy alternate jerseys for all seven games.The previous record for a visiting team winning streak at the start of a Series was five games. So much for home field advantage! All seven games of this World Series were won by the visiting team, something that’s never happened before.But hey, at least I didn’t cook the hot dog with mayonnaise.) World Series recap: I figured the last baseball game of the year called for a hot dog, and it was also the first use of my Uni Watch 20th-anniversary plate, whoop-whoop! (Yes, I know some of you think the capers look like rabbit turds or deer scat or whatever. (Big, big thanks to for getting this ball rolling, and also to for the official NBA court diagram.) But whatever - a fun rabbit hole! Let’s discuss. I don’t know nearly as much about basketball courts as I do about, say, baseball fields or football fields, so it’s entirely possible that I’m leaving out some relevant info here or even missing an important point entirely. (I’m not sure why college hoops doesn’t have jump balls at the ends of the court - but again, I assume someone out there will enlighten me, yes?) They don’t include the lower part of the circle, because the college game doesn’t have jump balls at the free throw line (click to enlarge): Meanwhile: College courts don’t have any dashes. Hmmmm.Īre six dashes and 10 dashes the only two configurations? Has there ever been an eight-dash semicircle? Seven? Nine? So that style has been around for a long time. Is this something that has changed over the years? Maybe 10 dashes was the old-school way and six is the newfangled style? I chose a random moment from NBA history - the 1970 Finals, when injured Knicks center Willis Reed famously started the game and scored the Knicks’ first four points of the game. So the mock-up doesn’t match the actual court. Mavs adding two silhouettes of Dirk Nowitzki to court design this season. Who’da thunk?Įven better: When the Mavs announced their new court design earlier this month, they released a mock-up with … wait for it … six dashes: In other words, the Mavs’ new 10-dash semicircles are right, and all the other courts, with their piddly six-dash semicircles, are wrong. Thanks in advance!)īut get this: If you go the NBA’s official court guidelines, their diagram shows … wait for it … 10 dashes (click to enlarge): But what does the part of the circle that’s in the lane need to be dashed? Why can’t it be a solid line? (I assume there’s a good reason for this, and that the more hoops-savvy among you are already scrolling down to the comments to enlighten me. The reason the circle is there, of course, is in case there’s a held ball that results in a jump ball at that end of court. When you think about it, the dashed line is kind of weird. One of the best things about Uni Watch is that it makes me (and I hope you) think about things that had never even occurred to me before. While I’m not the biggest basketball fan, I’ve been watching pro hoops for nearly half a century now and have never once thought about how many dashes are in the lower part of the circle. It’s hard to express how much I love this. In fact, the Mavs themselves had six dashes prior to this season: By going with 10 dashes, the Mavs are clearly breaking the mold. Six dashes is definitely the default design for the lower part of the circle. Here are some examples, all with six dashes (some of these pics aren’t from this season, but I’ve looked around and six dashes still appears to be the current standard for most of these, you can click to enlarge): If you look around the NBA, you’ll find that the standard format for the lower part of the circle is six dashes, not 10. Look at the lower part of the free throw circle - the part that’s in the lane. You can see one of them right in the center of the photo shown above.īut Twitter-er noticed something else about the Mavs’ new court design. As you may have heard or noticed, the Mavericks have added two silhouettes of Dirk Nowitzki to their court design this season.
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