Love that look, but I agree with Ender. We need to maintain our own color scheme. The Rangers are blue, white, and gray. I think we need to maintain the red.
you don't see the orange in those unis? I still love the old navy-and-orange Astros colors. I like the mud-n-blood, too, mind you. But those "new" old colors wouldn't bother me in the least. As far as grays, doesn't pretty much every team wear grays on the road?
yes, teams wear gray on the road. the astros currently wear gray on the road. not sure how that became a Ranger exclusive, but I'm sure Nolan was behind it somehow.
My main issue with these uniforms is the same issue that I have with the current uniforms, is that we basically lose the orange. I like that Astros use orange as a major color, making them 1 of only 3 teams league wide that use the color (Orioles & Giants). Now say they were to make those accent lines across the chest say twice as wide for the white and blue ones. Then for the true road uniform, they make the shirt orange and keep the pants gray. Now we would be taking.
we're not orange now. this is a return to orange. blue as primary..orange as secondary. right now we're black and red. look at our saturday home whites and tell me those hats are orange. they're just a muted red.
I like the Star-H, but I can also appreciate the open star. Both are iconic for the Astros. When they went to the new scheme in 2000 I wasn't a big fan, but I got used to it. Still not thrilled with the script font and the dark navy (or pinstripes), but it has been around for a while. I did grow to like the new open star, thus a redesigned open star could work, depending on execution (lighter shade of orange for instance). Overall, if a redesign were to occur, I'd love to see "HOUSTON" on the road uniforms in a block font, sans serif (or slightly block serif). And some form of the Star-H (would open Star-H work?) would be good. But an AL team...that still might be too much.
I know that. I pointing out that they went away from orange, and I want them to go back to it and use it for more than than just accents.
Here are larger versions of the unis I posted earlier, you can see the colors better. White Blue Grey
Good lord, those are beautiful. I LOVE the "H" superimposed on the open star -- bridging the very recent past with the retro past. Beautiful. I love the return to the original Navy and Orange color scheme. I love the Serif, all-caps, "HOUSTON" on the road jersey. Verrah, verrah nice. That would be a huge win IMO if they'd do that.
When I first saw those designs, I thought of a slightly modified version of the San Diego Padres' color scheme (minus the camo option, of course!): I like the simple, non-distracting design along with the combo of the open star and the old "H." I think the design can be more clean and timeless than the current iteration (which is meant to be a throwback or vintage, IIRC).
Didn't notice that the star was open from the small pictures. I like it. White H on white uniform looks ugly. I'd make it orange, move the logo to the sleeve, go with "Astros" and "Houston" across the chest, and drop the front number.
