High End Fashion

A few random thoughts...

Sergio Garcia's bad day began long before his disgraceful, Roy McAvoy-esque performance at the famed 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass. His 1st major blunder occurred even prior to his first practice shot on the range.



Sergio rocks the Adidas ClimaLite Players Golf Polo

Shirt also shown below:

Full-Frontal
 

Just a truly awful look. Not gonna give Sergio a pass for his cursory effort to participate in "Pink Out Day" at the Players Championship. There were many other players who donned various (solid) shades of pink as a tribute to Mother"s Day and breast cancer awareness, a nice gesture which also didn't prompt any calls to the fashion police.

Oh well Serg...at least you were "true to yourself."


During a commercial break, I happened upon a college baseball game between St. Johns and Notre Dame. Not sure why I chose to look-in, but when I did I was appalled to see the Red Storm wearing a jersey that was probably the "Home" version of this:

Half the Man I used to be...

Not sure what the concept is here, and at a loss as to why the lower half of the letters and numbers are sporadically colored in dark gray? This look plays even worse from the center field cam, as the numbers just look faded/torn-away. Props to the Johnnies for wearing the Rawlings "Coolflo" pro-style batting helmet, which was worn by most MLB players prior to the 2013 season. The casual version of this type of helmet-jersey ensemble would be a New Era 59-50 wool Yankees cap with an Ed Hardy tee.


On the subject of batting helmets, another disturbing trend that has fortunately not yet in vogue in MLB is the flat-colored batting helmet. Not a good look. Very military and kinda cheap looking.

2 Cal Student Athletes look "Unsmart" in their Blue and Gold

One last random thought. This has nothing to do with sports fashion, but I think I have a solution to the problem of NBA Centers/Big Men that can't make free throws. I guess you can call my approach "scared straight."  It's very simple. I would inform any bigman that shoots less than 65% from the foul line that he will have to change his free throw shooting style to under-hand. The under-hand technique will of course be taught by this man, NBA Hall of Famer, Rick Barry.

Rick "The Famer" Barry (hair courtesy of Dr. Rosanelli)

It was reported that Shaquille O'Neal would not shoot his free throws under-hand because he thought that the stroke was too wimpy, or effeminate. Shaq preserved his masculinity and didn't relinquish his "street-cred" while making 5,935 free throws during 11,252 attempts, for a career percentage of 52.7, which is about 23 percentage points below the 2010 NBA average of 76%.

Hard to understand where Shaq could have been coming from, because this doesn't look wimpy or effeminate at all:

The 6th best NBA Foul Shooter of All-Time (89.31%)

For those of you not fortunate to be from the San Francisco Bay Area, you might not be aware that "The Famer" has some less than desirable personality traits/characteristics (see Gary Radnich for details.) These small character flaws have (despite his best efforts) prevented an otherwise intelligent, articulate, Hall of Fame player from holding down any job relating to sports media since his retirement in 1980. To cut to the chase, Rick's not too much fun to be around.

So, in summary, you hit 65% of your free throws, or you shoot them under-hand and spend lots of "quality time" with "The Famer."



Back to "High End Fashion."  We all know that high end/designer brand fashion garments and accessories are very expensive (I once tried on a special order $50,000 alligator bomber jacket while working at Giorgio Armani - good fit.) I bet most of you didn't know that this Nike ensemble can cost up to $10,500.00 - see below:

Frank Gore looks comfy at a 49ers Practice

 

 

 

Doesn't look like much right? Well, let me explain. The same pants and socks, when (improperly) worn during an NFL game, can result in a fine of $5,250 for a 1st time offense. A second violation can result in a $10,500 fine.

 

Gore stays comfy at the 2012 NFC Championship Game in Hotlanta

 

 

 



Looks a lot like the same get-up, save the cool Visa patch in the practice uni pictured above (Gore recently confided to an associate/friend of mine that he likes to wear his 'practice' pants during games.) When asked why he does so given the hefty fine he potentially could incur, Gore just casually shrugged as if he hadn't given it much, if any previous thought.

 

Gore was not the only 49er that had some uniform issues this season. Also fined were defensive backs Dashon Goldson and Tarell Brown, pictured below:

 

Brown wears Red

 

 

 

Can you name Brown's violation by looking at the pic? Hint: check any old pic of Joe Montana. Goldson's ($17,750) in uniform-related fines on the other hand, had him asking (perhaps a higher-power) what he has to do in order to avoid the wrath of (ex 49er and current NFL VP of Football Operations) Merton Hanks.

Goldson requests an intervention from above


 

Watching a Youtube video of a favorite 80's band of mine, entitled "Ending on a High Note" has inspired me to end this post accordingly.

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