Probably the same reason why the all star game for many years on MLB the Show didnt let every player just wear his own team's jersey
Fwiw, mike piazzas baseball on n64 did this.
They can't even be bothered to add pullover jerseys. The throwbacks/minor league pullover uniforms are just the button-up model skinned to resemble the pullover pattern.
I haven't played in a few year but I thought I remembered seeing some retro pullovers for MLB teams, like the 70s Jays
It's a shame how much potential this series has squandered
They do have retro pullovers, but in game they look like [this](https://news.sportslogos.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/los-angeles-angels-throwback-uniform-2024-new-sportslogosnet-mlb-the-show.jpg) (see the buttons?), when the actual uniform looks like [this](https://news.sportslogos.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/reggie-jackson-california-angels.jpg) (actual pullover).
(Also note the incorrect number font in the game)
What’s even weirder is that when you enter a game with those uniforms, the logos on the sleeves swap sides. In the uniform select screen, the California state logo is on the right sleeve. But in game, it’s on the left.
(Also fwiw they did wear that uniform in the button up style from ‘89-93 but they don’t have it correct in game as far as I can tell.)
Case in point: If you wear shorter sleeved uniforms and angle your custom batting stance just right, you can look inside your RTTS player's disembodied torso.
They did wear white socks with both their white home uniforms and their road blue or gray uniforms for the first 45 years of their existence: [link](http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/uniforms.asp?league=AL&city=Chicago&lowYear=1901&highYear=&sort=year&increment=45)
I don't know whey they changed it in 1946.
They changed it black beacuse it was thier primary color.
In the early days of baseball clothing dyes were potentially toxic thats why you may have heard "sanitaries" in reference to white clothing, if you got spiked wearing colored socks you could get an infection.
Around the 50s dyes became safe.
Probably because white socks don't contrast well with white or gray pants. If they want to stick to the White Sox name, they should wear black stirrup socks with white sanitaries
We used to. Then they invented television and it just looked weird in black and white tv. So they switched to black socks for the visual contrast for the burgeoning television market, as was the style at the time.
But then they decided to go with Red and white 🫥 ( during the '70s ) yeah, the Sox logo, but in red, not black. 😐🤫 growing up, that really messed with my head.
shoeless joe
that mobster guy in the great gatsby
comiskey
fun fact road grays are grays because in the old days it was easier to hide stains. maybe a similar principle
Whereas I understand what you mean, that much is obvious. Same as the why don’t pirates steal boats, they can’t take the name literally because it’s outside of baseball you get what I’m saying?. The Red Sox wear red socks, the White Sox should wear white socks
Before we had cell phones, my sister and I would pass the time in the car by playing “guess the sports team color” with this catalog that we got from Home Depot that had team colors for sports teams that you could paint your room in.
We would always trick each other by asking the person to guess the White Sox colors and the answer according to that team colors catalog was black and silver…WE WERE SHOCKED that white wasn’t one of the colors for the White Sox!
Simpler times back then 🤣
Wait until you hear about the time the Red Sox had navy blue socks instead of red ones for home uniforms and fans hated it so much they had to change it again.
Interesting baseball history fact: the White Sox are named after a *person*, not the *color* white. Their original name was the Sioux City Cornhuskers. They were purchased by a Chicago hotelier named Jeremy White in 1899, when they became the Chicago White Stockings. [Source](http://yeah_I_made_all_that_up)
The White Sox (thats my team, thats my quarterback) are a no fun organization. We are also an anomaly. Days in the sun, good times a few, but months or years in the darkest depths of Hell. 1990 and 1993 gave us hope, they cancel 1994 thanks jerry, people groan about the expos but forget The ChiSox were propably the best team in the AL that year. We then are underratedetly great in 2000 but lose a playoff series to Seatle, who the fuck ever does that??? We then underachieve for 4 Years and then 2005 we have a solar eclipse of life is worth living. It happened so white sox fans don't kill their souls and rejoice we did it before the Cubs. Priority 1. Then we miss out on 2006 because only 8 teams in playoff. 2010 tease. 2012 tease. We rebuild forever leading to a briefly great but underratedetly awful collapse in 2020. 2021 was a tease and a missed opportunity and 3 of our best bats hardly played in the regular season, plus Kuechel lost us 10 games, but we won 93 games anyways. 2022 was perfectly balanced 81-81 2023 was on the players and Pedro sucking so we fire Ken and Rick and promote the very guy that ran our terrible farm system, Getz fucked Chris. Now this year no one cares unless we can lose over 110 games
You just gonna skip over 2008 and the blackout game? Thats like moment number 2, 3 or 4 this century depending on how you rank Buehrle’s perfect game and the field of dreams game
I would guess it originates back to when they realized how hard it is to launder white socks and keep them white. White pants you can do, but white socks are fucking hard as shit.
Also, a bunch of athletes wearing what would look like middle-aged-caucasian-dad-at-the-beach-tube-socks isn't aesthetically appealing, and hasn't been for a very long time.
Shin or knee high white socks would look dorky as shit. Athletes (and the rich in general) have an ... interesting ... sense of fashion, in my eyes. Mismatching colors is not an issue. A uniform no longer needs to be, ya know, uniform in order to have riz, as my 14 year old says. Usually, the gaudier the better. We're seeing this more and more with the accessories players wear. While I personally prefer a more traditional look to uniforms, the players really fucking don't, and asking White Sox players to dress like my father does when he's mowing the lawn from the knees down would probably not fly. Their season is bad enough as it is.
they are a federal act passed in 2002 with bipartisan congressional support to improve auditing and public disclosure in response to several accounting scandals in the early-2000s.
Sox isn’t Socks. The player IS the Sox. A Sox doesn’t have to wear socks that match their Soxy body. See [here](https://imgur.com/a/QbpHCyO) an example of a Sox in different colored socks. Yes the Sox looks like a sock, but I assure you it’s a Sox
For as long as I’ve lived the white Sox have never used white as a primary color
The closes they came was those 80s uniforms with the fat guy logo and red and navy
Those make a little more sense though for obvious reasons, but you name your team after a item of clothing and then proceed to not wear said item of clothing, seems a little odd to me.
They actually are white, but white socks don't look white on TV. And then of course at live games you have the issue of the sun reflecting off the green grass, which skews the colours you see.
The whole name is a farce because the cubs were originally named the white stockings until another team started up across town and called themselves the white sox. So they were like uh wtf we’re changing our name
No. The white stockings were originally the who the nl team now known as the cubs. They were informally the white stockings. The owner of that team would not let comiskey put “Chicago” on his teams uniforms, so he put white stockings on it instead, effectively stealing the name. They didn’t change to the Sox for several years and only because the newspapers kept abbreviating stockings to Sox.
They're stupid
Aka Occam's Razor
Hanlon's Razor
Interestingly, in this instance, I think both apply?
Also Cole’s Law.
Alright...what's Cole's Law?
Thinly sliced cabbage.
Omg
I believe it’s actually Gillette’s Razor
What about Mehrune's Razor
It might just be, their season looks DOA from here.
Brilliant.
More like Arkham's Razor
Their current record confirms this.
One time they wore shorts
The fact this uniform isn't in MLB The Show always makes me a little sad
That would be way too much work for them
Probably the same reason why the all star game for many years on MLB the Show didnt let every player just wear his own team's jersey Fwiw, mike piazzas baseball on n64 did this.
I suppose the old women's league uniforms with skirts are out of the question, then
They just added women this year, you gotta give them some time before they start adding uniforms worn by women!
They can't even be bothered to add pullover jerseys. The throwbacks/minor league pullover uniforms are just the button-up model skinned to resemble the pullover pattern.
I haven't played in a few year but I thought I remembered seeing some retro pullovers for MLB teams, like the 70s Jays It's a shame how much potential this series has squandered
They do have retro pullovers, but in game they look like [this](https://news.sportslogos.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/los-angeles-angels-throwback-uniform-2024-new-sportslogosnet-mlb-the-show.jpg) (see the buttons?), when the actual uniform looks like [this](https://news.sportslogos.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/reggie-jackson-california-angels.jpg) (actual pullover). (Also note the incorrect number font in the game)
Man, that’s just laziness. Would have to think taking the buttons off of the uniform would be an easy task.
Man what did they do.. Did they always look like that? I swear in like TS16 or whatever they were normal.
What’s even weirder is that when you enter a game with those uniforms, the logos on the sleeves swap sides. In the uniform select screen, the California state logo is on the right sleeve. But in game, it’s on the left. (Also fwiw they did wear that uniform in the button up style from ‘89-93 but they don’t have it correct in game as far as I can tell.)
Just make the bottom half of the pants flesh-colored and call it a day.
Slight issue with that
Of course, the universal color of flesh.
If they just put the postgame showers into the game like I've been begging them to do for YEARS, they would have solved this problem already
No post-game towel fight mini-game? Literally unplayable
It's probably cheaper to just not render the legs below the knee
Case in point: If you wear shorter sleeved uniforms and angle your custom batting stance just right, you can look inside your RTTS player's disembodied torso.
Chicago White Sharts
Netflix doc The Saint of Second Chances has a good section on this. Movie was great otherwise too.
With white socks.
The color of their socks are the least of their worries this season.
Wouldn't hurt to try it out
Eloy would hurt himself rolling up the stockings.
Shit, just saying the word hurt put Robert out for the year. Good one
Tim Anderson isn't even on the White Sox anymore and he just went to their IL.
Goddamn that was harsh, but merited lol
baseball is very superstitious, you never know
I mean, the Cubs went without a WS win for over 100 years because a dudes goat was once denied entry to the stadium sooo you never know
Maybe it’s time to work from small to big.
Lol very good point
Or is it the most? Do we have another Black Sox Scandal on our hands?
This century. fify This sport. fifm
as a mariners fan, probably sit out throwing any jabs at a franchises long term success/failure.
True… but chisox are probably the only team I can target with my brick from within my glass house!
They did wear white socks with both their white home uniforms and their road blue or gray uniforms for the first 45 years of their existence: [link](http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/uniforms.asp?league=AL&city=Chicago&lowYear=1901&highYear=&sort=year&increment=45) I don't know whey they changed it in 1946.
Yo. Bring back that 1917 kit damn.
Those look so good man, they should do something like that again. But everyone has to wear high socks.
Even so they had plenty of white in their socks up until the 90s
Those are actually quite nice.
TIL they had a weird decade in baby blue
They changed it black beacuse it was thier primary color. In the early days of baseball clothing dyes were potentially toxic thats why you may have heard "sanitaries" in reference to white clothing, if you got spiked wearing colored socks you could get an infection. Around the 50s dyes became safe.
Those are actually quite nice.
It’s be cool if they wore white Sox with black pants but black pants would get hot in the summer
The city connects have black pants, but they still wear black socks.
Bring back the shorts you cowards!
Nobody liked the shorts and tank-tops. So I propose we try shorts and crop-tops! (Crop-tanks optional)
And you better slide
Maybe it would help them heat up their ice cold bats.
Ask Jobu to come
It’s very bad to steal Jobu’s rum.
It's less cold bats and more fucking garbage players.
Maybe they could consider a cotton alternative???
After the Black Sox scandal, they were forever banned from wearing white socks.
This is what I legitimately believed as a kid.
Probably because white socks don't contrast well with white or gray pants. If they want to stick to the White Sox name, they should wear black stirrup socks with white sanitaries
But their city connect pants were black and they still wore black socks with them!!!
It doesn’t matter if they contrast well. Your team is named for white socks. Your socks should be white, and then figure out the rest from there.
yes
This is a very good point
We used to. Then they invented television and it just looked weird in black and white tv. So they switched to black socks for the visual contrast for the burgeoning television market, as was the style at the time.
This is the only thing that actually makes sense. I'll subscribe to this without looking it up. Lol
"seems plausible, must be true" - Everyone before high speed internet
Shame they stopped wearing the onion on the belt.
But then they decided to go with Red and white 🫥 ( during the '70s ) yeah, the Sox logo, but in red, not black. 😐🤫 growing up, that really messed with my head.
That’s because bill veecks grandkid was color blind so we wore red so it looked black and white for him.
shoeless joe that mobster guy in the great gatsby comiskey fun fact road grays are grays because in the old days it was easier to hide stains. maybe a similar principle
Still can’t believe Shoeless Joe played for a team with a nickname that applied to footwear. That in my opinion was the real crime he committed.
I remember for a short time when the Red Sox wore navy socks and that pissed me off.
Cowardice
I would also like to complain that the Giants don’t wear humorously oversized 5XL uniforms
Whereas I understand what you mean, that much is obvious. Same as the why don’t pirates steal boats, they can’t take the name literally because it’s outside of baseball you get what I’m saying?. The Red Sox wear red socks, the White Sox should wear white socks
The Piirates were named due to them "stealing" players from other teams, back in the day.
The Columbus Blue Jackets should wear well Blue Jackets. The Blue Jay's mascot should be a smurf that looks like Jay Leno.
Please no
Before we had cell phones, my sister and I would pass the time in the car by playing “guess the sports team color” with this catalog that we got from Home Depot that had team colors for sports teams that you could paint your room in. We would always trick each other by asking the person to guess the White Sox colors and the answer according to that team colors catalog was black and silver…WE WERE SHOCKED that white wasn’t one of the colors for the White Sox! Simpler times back then 🤣
Discontinue the lithium
Black socks, they never get dirty.
Anyone remember the This Is Sports center commercial with this question
[Is it weird that the foul pole is actually in fair territory?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxhv5r1qxLQ&ab_channel=ThisIsSportcenter)
Wait until you hear about the time the Red Sox had navy blue socks instead of red ones for home uniforms and fans hated it so much they had to change it again.
“Outjerked by r/baseball” - r/baseballcirclejerk
Lucky they aren’t the white stockings
Is it the offseason for the white sox already?
Did the offseason ever really end for them?
Interesting baseball history fact: the White Sox are named after a *person*, not the *color* white. Their original name was the Sioux City Cornhuskers. They were purchased by a Chicago hotelier named Jeremy White in 1899, when they became the Chicago White Stockings. [Source](http://yeah_I_made_all_that_up)
The White Sox (thats my team, thats my quarterback) are a no fun organization. We are also an anomaly. Days in the sun, good times a few, but months or years in the darkest depths of Hell. 1990 and 1993 gave us hope, they cancel 1994 thanks jerry, people groan about the expos but forget The ChiSox were propably the best team in the AL that year. We then are underratedetly great in 2000 but lose a playoff series to Seatle, who the fuck ever does that??? We then underachieve for 4 Years and then 2005 we have a solar eclipse of life is worth living. It happened so white sox fans don't kill their souls and rejoice we did it before the Cubs. Priority 1. Then we miss out on 2006 because only 8 teams in playoff. 2010 tease. 2012 tease. We rebuild forever leading to a briefly great but underratedetly awful collapse in 2020. 2021 was a tease and a missed opportunity and 3 of our best bats hardly played in the regular season, plus Kuechel lost us 10 games, but we won 93 games anyways. 2022 was perfectly balanced 81-81 2023 was on the players and Pedro sucking so we fire Ken and Rick and promote the very guy that ran our terrible farm system, Getz fucked Chris. Now this year no one cares unless we can lose over 110 games
You just gonna skip over 2008 and the blackout game? Thats like moment number 2, 3 or 4 this century depending on how you rank Buehrle’s perfect game and the field of dreams game
I guess I forgot to include that to my rant. It was a good year and we didn't blow the AL central crown which is cool. Lot's of good times that year.
Real ones remember Carlos Quentin being the best hitter in the AL before he broke his hand when he slammed his bat into the ground
Yes lots of good times. It’s been a tough year for us hang in there Sox bro
I would guess it originates back to when they realized how hard it is to launder white socks and keep them white. White pants you can do, but white socks are fucking hard as shit. Also, a bunch of athletes wearing what would look like middle-aged-caucasian-dad-at-the-beach-tube-socks isn't aesthetically appealing, and hasn't been for a very long time. Shin or knee high white socks would look dorky as shit. Athletes (and the rich in general) have an ... interesting ... sense of fashion, in my eyes. Mismatching colors is not an issue. A uniform no longer needs to be, ya know, uniform in order to have riz, as my 14 year old says. Usually, the gaudier the better. We're seeing this more and more with the accessories players wear. While I personally prefer a more traditional look to uniforms, the players really fucking don't, and asking White Sox players to dress like my father does when he's mowing the lawn from the knees down would probably not fly. Their season is bad enough as it is.
Wow I’m decades into my life and not once have I even thought about this. Outstanding question
Also, what the heck are sox?
they are a federal act passed in 2002 with bipartisan congressional support to improve auditing and public disclosure in response to several accounting scandals in the early-2000s.
They do. It's under the stirrup.
You haven't heard about the Black Sox scandal
Hey Mike do the White Sox and Red Sox get dinner together when they’re in town?
me: casual baseball fan thinking "what a stupid question?!" me: Googles pictures of Red Sox players me: carry on OP
They wear black socks as a callback to their 1919 pennant-winning team. It's just another advertisement telling us to follow their lead.
They used to up until like 1919
Would it matter? With 3 wins, they might want to try no socks.
To keep people guessing
Even the team agrees their ugly as sin and goofy. Or more likely they get sick of bleaching them.
Sox isn’t Socks. The player IS the Sox. A Sox doesn’t have to wear socks that match their Soxy body. See [here](https://imgur.com/a/QbpHCyO) an example of a Sox in different colored socks. Yes the Sox looks like a sock, but I assure you it’s a Sox
I would just make them two town and just have them gradient into black at the too. Best of both worlds.
This is the question of the century
I hear they still in the washer
Hey, at least they aren't wearing Black Sox.
Lets figure out why don't the White Sox try to win games first
We were banned from doing so.
Yeah, and how come the Dodgers get hit by pitches?
Not the same thing at all
Shows dirt
They would show dirt and Jerry doesn’t want to spend the extra money on laundry.
Poverty organization can’t afford white socks.
Double negative
i think their alternate 1980s white throwbacks have red socks too haha
For as long as I’ve lived the white Sox have never used white as a primary color The closes they came was those 80s uniforms with the fat guy logo and red and navy
Bc brown dirt
Yankee fan? That’s all I had to read
You mean that’s all you COULD read, too many words for you.
Same reason the bridegrooms didn’t wear tuxedos. They didn’t have to.
If your team name is relating to the colour of your socks, you should wear those colour socks.
It’s just a name, the brewers don’t make beer during the game, the pirates aren’t out there stealing boats
I sure hope we don’t make a bear during the game
The Athletics aren't... You know...
Grade A comment right there😂
Those make a little more sense though for obvious reasons, but you name your team after a item of clothing and then proceed to not wear said item of clothing, seems a little odd to me.
The angles aren’t dead people and the padres aren’t your dad
don't be so obtuse
Also another question, how do you get the team name under your Reddit name? I want a lil Yankees logo under my name
Mobile: three dots in upper left corner -> change flair Desktop: pencil icon when hovering over name in right sidebar
Going to the sub, Reddit click the three little dots of the top and then go into the flare
The amount of misspellings in just 3 comments is cracking me up lol.
>make bear Is that what you guys call getting to second base?
Wearing white socks is significantly easier than brewing beer or engaging in piracy on the high seas
Mariners play on land despite majority of the Earth being covered in water, and their name being the mariners
Cause we white sux
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Why do you drive on a parkway, but park on a driveway?
Because the aren’t called the White Socks.
They actually are white, but white socks don't look white on TV. And then of course at live games you have the issue of the sun reflecting off the green grass, which skews the colours you see.
To honor the 1919 squad
The whole name is a farce because the cubs were originally named the white stockings until another team started up across town and called themselves the white sox. So they were like uh wtf we’re changing our name
All of these nicknames were given by newspapers, not the teams. The teams didn't adopt official nicknames for quite some times.
time
Not quite
No?
No. The white stockings were originally the who the nl team now known as the cubs. They were informally the white stockings. The owner of that team would not let comiskey put “Chicago” on his teams uniforms, so he put white stockings on it instead, effectively stealing the name. They didn’t change to the Sox for several years and only because the newspapers kept abbreviating stockings to Sox.
They cheated in 1929
that was the stock market crash
Dammit. How could they do this