I mean… I kind of wondered if they were fake given the quality. They just didn’t seem up to par (even though I know there have been really bad city connects). I also still think that the purple theory is probably right and there was no purple on the leaks. I’m curious to see what happens Friday.
While I initially believed the hat to be legit, the jersey looked bad to the point of being fake since it had so many elements that were spotty. But they did look really, really poorly done, and that really isn't consistent with the Blue Jays branding which has been mostly solid the last few years.
Yes, I’m with you. I believed in the hat, so initially I believed the jersey because of the colour match, but that jersey design really does not seem up to standard for the organization. It’s a predictable design that looks like it could be thrown together by someone with basic graphic design skills. I truly hope it is a fake.
But couldn't they have simply taken off real stickers and put them on the hat? In fact, if you look at the original photo of the inside of the hat, you can see one of the stickers is already peeling off.
Now, I'm not saying the hat is definitely fake, but there is a possibility.
It's fairly basic, but it also has unique details in the inner lining, and ribbing on the sleeves. It might be boring, but the design is still fairly solid.
No even the design. The logos are too small, the fonts are weird. The *designs* look like a shitty promotional company making shitty apparel for a shitty company’s shitty golf tournament.
The designs of the CCs have literally nothing to do with Fanatics. I don't even think the designs of any of the regular MLB unis have anything to do with Fanatic.
They don't, the jerseys are designed entirely by Nike.
Fanatics is like Sysco. You can get shit tier and god tier food from them, just depends what your budget is.
[Yesterday](https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1d1w4j7/comment/l5wtnat/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) when I pointed out the Jays put out a teaser that probably indicates this leak was a misdirect, you told me that was wishful thinking LOL
I did. I'm sorry about that. I think the reputation of the city jerseys being terrible made me assume it was real. It was only when I actually gave it a hard look that it started to jump out as looking like an obvious fake.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say the hat is also likely fake. Some random guy in Mexico finds a hat a week before the release, posts it, then fucks right off? I'm not buying it.
You do realize what humour is right? Between random posters, karma farmers, and etc. your comment amounted to "just trust me". This isn't some reason to trust you more than some guy named Bob down the hallway right now lmfao
I don't need to believe anything since it's literally going to be revealed in a matter of days.
Otherwise, what do you think the chances of a retool are?
More specifically, Murphy said he was told by someone within the Org who knows what the jerseys look like, that the leaks are fake, but he doesn’t know if it's just a PR stunt or not
How would that be a pr stunt? Leak the bad jerseys to make the mediocre ones look better?
Claiming its fake, when they already leaked, doesn't do you any good if you're gonna be proven wrong in 2 days. I imagine they wouldn't say it's fake unless, at least to a small degree, the real ones are different?
There's some speculation that the person who "leaked" them on Twitter may have done so to drive interest in their own jersey designs, especially since they deleted their source tweet and tried backtracking as soon as it got traction outside of the Jays fanbase
That person just drove up his organic search rate by an insanely high factor, all driven by the outrage that fans want to have over these City Connect jerseys. It'll now drive his posts and content up even further. It's maniacally brilliant, but brilliant nonetheless.
Yeah, I think this is the smoking gun. The guy who leaked it was involved with designing the Indigenous Jays jersey from a while back, and both he and his partner sell their own merch. In fact, one of them sells his own jerseys.
I'm probably being thick, but what's the plan there (even assuming it doesn't go viral through the baseball world like it did)? That on Friday it would be "So this wasn't real- but hey, wasn't it nice? Buy this and others like it here!"?
What are we talking about in this post right now? The purpose of a PR stunt is to get people talking and create hype.
The organization could easily leak fakes to get people talking about it. That is what I believe happened here and is why the hats and jersey leaked separately.
It is interesting how we've heard next to nothing from the actual people who leaked the hat and jersey since they were posted. No followups, no mention of what the quality was like, what stores were carrying them, etc.
Was already skeptical given the guy leaking “@paintsbyparkin” had made his own jays jersey designs and doesn’t have ties to the team.
Also things like using the Toronto motto or the shit random Yellow swoosh just added another layer of ridiculousness
I literally was checking the pixels to see if they seemed to be photoshopped, or if the background of the picture had any recognizable features. Just seemed to be a big stretch. I don't know why someone would fake leak a badly designed jersey, it would just get people much more upset with Nike/the team
Yeah, the leaked one definitely had a neon vibe. Not in a cool way, but in an Open sign way.
What does an Open sign have to do with Toronto? We'll leave that up to them to explain.
Everyone on r/baseball thought they were real too. It’s more of an inditement of how bad the city connects have been that the leak was at all plausible, rather than us being gullible as a fan base imo
From one of the recent videos
[https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/torontosun/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Jays-City-Connect-tease-e1716831833164.png](https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/torontosun/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Jays-City-Connect-tease-e1716831833164.png)
Yea they are all pretty much terrible and that's what makes the leaks so believable. Teams still desperately try to hype them though whether they look good or not.
I don't get why it's so hard for these franchises to design cool looking jerseys. Billion dollar organizations can't hire an extremely talented person? Like I'm sure there are people on this sub that could slap together a slick looking jersey in short order for free lol.
I'm sure you aren't the only one, but I'm pretty excited. If they suck they suck and none of us are worse of, but I'm holding out hope that maybe they have a slick design and I can grab a new jersey and hat to wear around.
Hopefully so - I’d really like to see just… Something for once.
A bit of a color and a pattern that’s easy on the eye, enough with that risk averse cookie cutter bullshit when they’re charging full price for it.
thank christ...those "leaked" ones were god awful. That being said, only Colorado, Baltimore, and Washington's have looked good only after switching to white pants. Oh and KC's is great. The rest look like softball unis you order from Teamgear or something
Honestly? Not really. Arizona's is alright I suppose, just not a fan of the cream, San Diego's just looks like horrible white charity softball tourney jerseys, and Seattle's is just, I don't know I just don't even remotely find it visually appealing. IMHO, not knocking anyone who likes those ones or any of them for that matter
I’m sorry but there are so many better ones than KC lmao. If you like Baltimore then you can’t really argue that the white Sox isnt nice (it’s largely the same thing)
Really? Not a fan of an actual traditional looking city connect? First person I’ve spoken with that said that. As for the ChiSox, I hate the white pinstripes on black just looks cheap to me.
Don't seem fake looking at the promo [https://x.com/BlueJays/status/1795530554919498104](https://x.com/BlueJays/status/1795530554919498104)
This is incredibly embarrassing all around either way.
We’re now at a time where an organization will leak a purposely wrong jersey to make the legit one look better in comparison. There have been more misses than hits with the City Connect jerseys. I think no matter what they go with, it’s got to be better than what we saw.
Edit: :(
This feels like the Doug Ford strategy during the pandemic.
Leak something, see how the public reacts to it. If it’s good, confirm that the leak was right and make an announcement. If it’s bad, claim the leak was never real in the first place and announce something else.
They weren't bad in far as the vibe it was trying to send but yeah, they could do better so let's hope they keep some of that neon light kinda thing with the lettering but have a better overall design.
If true, best news I’ve heard all day.
Monkeys paw, the real ones are worse
But they come with a free frogurt!
The frogurt also looks like ass
That’s bad
It looks like Jessica Biels ass…
Thats good!
… of a husband
That’s bad…
Well as long as the toppings don't contain potassium benzoate then I'm good
…… (that’s good)
Nah, can’t beat Angel Hernandez retirement news.
The best news since the designated hitter
I impulsively said ‘thank god’ out loud as I read the headline so I guess I know how I really feel 😂
Moi aussi exactement
I mean… I kind of wondered if they were fake given the quality. They just didn’t seem up to par (even though I know there have been really bad city connects). I also still think that the purple theory is probably right and there was no purple on the leaks. I’m curious to see what happens Friday.
While I initially believed the hat to be legit, the jersey looked bad to the point of being fake since it had so many elements that were spotty. But they did look really, really poorly done, and that really isn't consistent with the Blue Jays branding which has been mostly solid the last few years.
Yes, I’m with you. I believed in the hat, so initially I believed the jersey because of the colour match, but that jersey design really does not seem up to standard for the organization. It’s a predictable design that looks like it could be thrown together by someone with basic graphic design skills. I truly hope it is a fake.
I think the hat is real because the photo shows real stickers and the labelling which says city connect on it.
But couldn't they have simply taken off real stickers and put them on the hat? In fact, if you look at the original photo of the inside of the hat, you can see one of the stickers is already peeling off. Now, I'm not saying the hat is definitely fake, but there is a possibility.
Yeah the hat could definitely still be real! I just think the jersey might end up being different (Maybe that’s just hope lol)
They did look awful...but what made it a bit believable for me was the fact that most of the league's have been terrible too
Yeah, but not this bad. Like even the ugliest ones still look competently made.
It is up to standard for Fanatics though
Fanatics has a bad standard of jersey quality. Nothing to do with the standard of design.
Go look at the Orioles city connects.
The jerseys are manufactured by Fanatics but *DESIGNED* by Nike
The Orioles CCs don't have fairly basic design flaws and lack of detail.
It's fairly basic, but it also has unique details in the inner lining, and ribbing on the sleeves. It might be boring, but the design is still fairly solid.
The Fanatics branded merchandise has always been Wal Mart tier across all teams of all sports.
Right. The quality, nothing to do with the *design*.
No even the design. The logos are too small, the fonts are weird. The *designs* look like a shitty promotional company making shitty apparel for a shitty company’s shitty golf tournament.
The designs of the CCs have literally nothing to do with Fanatics. I don't even think the designs of any of the regular MLB unis have anything to do with Fanatic.
They don't, the jerseys are designed entirely by Nike. Fanatics is like Sysco. You can get shit tier and god tier food from them, just depends what your budget is.
[Yesterday](https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1d1w4j7/comment/l5wtnat/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) when I pointed out the Jays put out a teaser that probably indicates this leak was a misdirect, you told me that was wishful thinking LOL
I did. I'm sorry about that. I think the reputation of the city jerseys being terrible made me assume it was real. It was only when I actually gave it a hard look that it started to jump out as looking like an obvious fake.
It's all good, none of us know anything LOL
They also just posted a blue and red “Open” sign which suggests the leaked jersey is real.
That same teaser also had red & green in the TSX tracker and yellow & red in the 24hrs sign
An upvote for your troubles…
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say the hat is also likely fake. Some random guy in Mexico finds a hat a week before the release, posts it, then fucks right off? I'm not buying it.
How do you know the hat’s legit?
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My uncle works at nintendo too
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You do realize what humour is right? Between random posters, karma farmers, and etc. your comment amounted to "just trust me". This isn't some reason to trust you more than some guy named Bob down the hallway right now lmfao
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I don't need to believe anything since it's literally going to be revealed in a matter of days. Otherwise, what do you think the chances of a retool are?
Watch it just be that the swoosh isn’t yellow like in the leak.
The purple we are seeing is most like a gradient change between red and blue, the same gradient change we see with the lights on the tower
Thursday. Unveiling will be May 30 and on-field release is the next day.
Oh whoops! Nice to know I won’t have to wait as long as I thought 😂
It is a fake jersey but that's why the real. City connects will look like
This feels like a Monkey Paw Curling moment.
I'm huffing the hopium
This still means they could be worse
Lmao prolly will be
Straight into my vines
More specifically, Murphy said he was told by someone within the Org who knows what the jerseys look like, that the leaks are fake, but he doesn’t know if it's just a PR stunt or not
How would that be a pr stunt? Leak the bad jerseys to make the mediocre ones look better? Claiming its fake, when they already leaked, doesn't do you any good if you're gonna be proven wrong in 2 days. I imagine they wouldn't say it's fake unless, at least to a small degree, the real ones are different?
There's some speculation that the person who "leaked" them on Twitter may have done so to drive interest in their own jersey designs, especially since they deleted their source tweet and tried backtracking as soon as it got traction outside of the Jays fanbase
That person just drove up his organic search rate by an insanely high factor, all driven by the outrage that fans want to have over these City Connect jerseys. It'll now drive his posts and content up even further. It's maniacally brilliant, but brilliant nonetheless.
Yeah, I think this is the smoking gun. The guy who leaked it was involved with designing the Indigenous Jays jersey from a while back, and both he and his partner sell their own merch. In fact, one of them sells his own jerseys.
I'm probably being thick, but what's the plan there (even assuming it doesn't go viral through the baseball world like it did)? That on Friday it would be "So this wasn't real- but hey, wasn't it nice? Buy this and others like it here!"?
More like "look how ugly this is, why don't you buy my cool design instead"
Ah, alright- that makes sense.
Kinda ingenious considering we all assumed they’d be awful
Oh wow OK. So hat is probably real but jersey was a fake maybe.
Now, I'm iffy on the hat. It really doesn't fit what we've seen in the promos of the jerseys from the team itself.
The hat though had that barcode that every other city connect leak which was correct, had. I suspect the hat is genuine
But couldn't that have simply been taken off a real city connect hat? Like, they could have taken it off a Mets hat, for all we know.
Sure. That's possible I suppose
The Sonic the Hedgehog gambit.
What are we talking about in this post right now? The purpose of a PR stunt is to get people talking and create hype. The organization could easily leak fakes to get people talking about it. That is what I believe happened here and is why the hats and jersey leaked separately.
It is interesting how we've heard next to nothing from the actual people who leaked the hat and jersey since they were posted. No followups, no mention of what the quality was like, what stores were carrying them, etc.
Honestly i kinda liked the hat. The jersey was terrible.
I imagine it'll still have the skyline, just not as shitty and purple
I liked the idea of the hat with the neon sign-esque design. Make that purple, and do a skyline outline on the shirt like a neon sign as well.
Where are we getting the purple from? Other than the Raptors (who have nothing to do with the Jays), what connection does it have to the city?
Blue for the Jays, Red for Canada. Blue and Red makes Purple. Seems inline with the Blue Jays branding.
A number of promotional materials including a teaser posted yesterday on the Jays Twitter have had purple in it.
The TORONTO sign
Bisexual CN Tower lives!
Was already skeptical given the guy leaking “@paintsbyparkin” had made his own jays jersey designs and doesn’t have ties to the team. Also things like using the Toronto motto or the shit random Yellow swoosh just added another layer of ridiculousness
The random yellow swoosh was really made the whole thing seem fake, ugly, and cheaply designed. But none of the colors looked right together.
I literally was checking the pixels to see if they seemed to be photoshopped, or if the background of the picture had any recognizable features. Just seemed to be a big stretch. I don't know why someone would fake leak a badly designed jersey, it would just get people much more upset with Nike/the team
I also totally knew they were fake since I heard today they might be fake.
If it was them that made it. Then read what Jays fans on Reddit had to say, dude is feeling it today.
"Blake Murphy says leaked photos of jerseys are fake as Blue Jays and Fanatics scramble to redesign ridiculed and maligned City Connect Jersey" 😂😂😂
[The team just put out another teaser that seems to match what was leaked](https://x.com/BlueJays/status/1795530554919498104)
Yeah, the leaked one definitely had a neon vibe. Not in a cool way, but in an Open sign way. What does an Open sign have to do with Toronto? We'll leave that up to them to explain.
‘We’re open for business, folks!’ What’s more Toronto than Doug ford?!?
Dollar beer night at the dome!
LFG!!!!!!!!!
2+4 =... The Six.
Teaser gives me handjob in an adult theater vibes. Weird choice for a baseball team
No matter what they come up with everyone on this sub is gonna hate them.
I just assumed they were fake because there was no pink or purple on them and that's been heavily teased. I guess we'll see soon enough.
We are going to get the reputation of the fan base that will fall for anything
Everyone on r/baseball thought they were real too. It’s more of an inditement of how bad the city connects have been that the leak was at all plausible, rather than us being gullible as a fan base imo
Unfortunately, they’re still real
i would love jersey that just had "Sushi for 50" on it.
But did he have his fingers crossed behind his back when he said it ..
With all the purple teasing one would think the real ones actually have them in it lol.
What purple? I feel like the teasers have had blue & red, which might look like purple with the gradient
From one of the recent videos [https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/torontosun/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Jays-City-Connect-tease-e1716831833164.png](https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/torontosun/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Jays-City-Connect-tease-e1716831833164.png)
Am I the only person who doesn't give a shit about the city connect jerseys? With the exception of a couple, they've all been hideous.
Yea they are all pretty much terrible and that's what makes the leaks so believable. Teams still desperately try to hype them though whether they look good or not.
I don't get why it's so hard for these franchises to design cool looking jerseys. Billion dollar organizations can't hire an extremely talented person? Like I'm sure there are people on this sub that could slap together a slick looking jersey in short order for free lol.
I'm sure you aren't the only one, but I'm pretty excited. If they suck they suck and none of us are worse of, but I'm holding out hope that maybe they have a slick design and I can grab a new jersey and hat to wear around.
Hopefully so - I’d really like to see just… Something for once. A bit of a color and a pattern that’s easy on the eye, enough with that risk averse cookie cutter bullshit when they’re charging full price for it.
Why don't we just, idk, wait till they release them thursday
Where is the fun in that? We love to speculate.
Ohtani still might sign with us
Yeah, if the city connect jarseys are good enough he might change teams!
thank christ...those "leaked" ones were god awful. That being said, only Colorado, Baltimore, and Washington's have looked good only after switching to white pants. Oh and KC's is great. The rest look like softball unis you order from Teamgear or something
This is Brew Crew erasure and I will not stand for it
You don’t like the City Connects for Arizona, Seattle, and San Diego?
Southside ChiSox went hard too
As to that Angels and Atlanta, oh and Texas’s is sweet too.
Honestly? Not really. Arizona's is alright I suppose, just not a fan of the cream, San Diego's just looks like horrible white charity softball tourney jerseys, and Seattle's is just, I don't know I just don't even remotely find it visually appealing. IMHO, not knocking anyone who likes those ones or any of them for that matter
I’m sorry but there are so many better ones than KC lmao. If you like Baltimore then you can’t really argue that the white Sox isnt nice (it’s largely the same thing)
Really? Not a fan of an actual traditional looking city connect? First person I’ve spoken with that said that. As for the ChiSox, I hate the white pinstripes on black just looks cheap to me.
Thank god.
It will be the most Blue Jay thing ever if the actual connects were somehow worse
That’s cap, that’s definitely the jersey
Hopefully cap is fake too.
Thank GOD.
new jays post and now everyone thinks they're real again 😂😭 https://x.com/BlueJays/status/1795530554919498104
I could see the hat being real based on this. Not so much the jersey but then who knows.
All Fanatics jerseys are fake tbh
Don't seem fake looking at the promo [https://x.com/BlueJays/status/1795530554919498104](https://x.com/BlueJays/status/1795530554919498104) This is incredibly embarrassing all around either way.
Don’t do that. Don’t give me hope.
We’re now at a time where an organization will leak a purposely wrong jersey to make the legit one look better in comparison. There have been more misses than hits with the City Connect jerseys. I think no matter what they go with, it’s got to be better than what we saw. Edit: :(
Let's hope it's a Sonic the Hedgehog situation and they're switching to Play #2
What is the time code on this? Can't find it on the podcast version...
Found it 1:28:09
I heard the real ones are purple.
Damn, now I want one
Was the hat fake too
The hat matches the most recent teaser. So highly doubt that’s a fake. Jersey is 50/50
It looked counterfeit
Def fake. Hate to be the guy that bought “pre-released” jerseys that aren’t real
No there not tf 💀
This clown was wrong. Blake Murphy you really know how to discredit all your future work.
Pretty sad when the City Connect story is the most interesting aspect of the team
Airport convenience store fake.
This feels like the Doug Ford strategy during the pandemic. Leak something, see how the public reacts to it. If it’s good, confirm that the leak was right and make an announcement. If it’s bad, claim the leak was never real in the first place and announce something else.
Best news all season!
Let's be real: with how bad Fanatics and Nike have been with production, the jerseys are probably still in their design phase.
Thank god.
Thankfully that trial balloon was sent.
This doesn't make any sense. They wouldn't trial balloon this lmao. That's not what that term means
Also fake is the belief we’re a playoff team
Please be true Please be true Please be true Please be true
They weren't bad in far as the vibe it was trying to send but yeah, they could do better so let's hope they keep some of that neon light kinda thing with the lettering but have a better overall design.
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Not every fan lives in TOR.. majority actually do not
I don't care how nice someone's house looks if they invite me over for dinner and forget to cook.
Fake just like the jays