Twitter really hated the 2021 MLB All-Star Game uniforms. Of course it did. People sending tweets are legally obligated to hate any sort of change. But seriously, who f’n cares about this? We’re talking about an exhibition baseball game literally no one will remember a day from now. I watched all nine innings and couldn’t tell you much about it apart from Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hitting a home run.
Look, the 2021 MLB All-Star Game uniforms sucked. There is no reason to debate that. This is what Nike does. They outfitted the Boston Red Sox to look like the UCLA Bruins earlier in the year. A team with red in its name were dressed head-to-toe in gold and UCLA Blue. Of course, they were going to bungle the Midsummer Classic.
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The faux outrage is the troubling trend thing here. People are getting pissed about what players are wearing during a completely meaningless game. The 2021 MLB All-Star Game uniforms will be a complete afterthought once the regular season resumes. No one will mention it ever again because that is how this works.
Only two moments in MLB All-Star Game history are universally remembered. There is Pete Rose trucking Ray Fosse at home plate during the 1970 contest and the 2002 game ending in a tie. That’s it. Now, there are people who have personal memories from specific years, but those aren’t iconic.
That is why it is so freaking stupid to hate on the MLB All-Star Game uniforms. If this truly mattered, the event wouldn’t be such an unimportant blip in history. And now people want to bitch on Twitter because it doesn’t look like how they remembered things in the 1970s and 80s.
Worst of all is the fact these Twitter zingers about how bad the 2021 MLB All-Star Game uniforms aren’t even funny. The only thing lamer than the jerseys are the plethora of one-liners about how they looked like softball tops or could have been designed better in a video game. Seriously, that’s the best you could come up with?
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