Astros remove gun from Colt .45s throwback uniforms

[Big Bid'Ness]

From:hardballtalk.com

The Astros are celebrating their 50th anniversary this season, so they plan to honor their past by wearing a different throwback uniform at every Friday home game. The first “Flashback Friday” will feature the Colt .45s, which was the name of the franchise for the first three years of its existence.

Sweet. Those were some pretty awesome uniforms. The only problem is, MLB nixed including the gun in the logo.

According to Paul Lukas of the Uni Watch blog, Astros fan James Crabtree wrote a letter to commissioner Bud Selig about the issue and this is the response he got from Mike Acosta, the Astros’ authentication manager:

“During our discussion with Major League Baseball, it was expressed to us that we could wear the uniform as long as the pistol was removed. We realize this changes the original design, but we still want to honor the Colt .45s. We are also under an obligation to follow Major League Baseball’s requests.”

Oof. The weird thing about this is that when the Astros originally announced plans for “Flashback Friday” last September, they had the old Colt .45s uni featured front and center. Apparently something changed over the past few months.

There was some discussion about whether the Colt .45s was appropriate back when new Astros owner Jim Crane mentioned that they had considered changing the team’s name. The world is a very different place now than it was when the franchise debuted in 1962, so obviously the same name and logo wouldn’t work today, but completely altering the design for one game is a bit overboard.

SMH :spideypalm:

 

[Mexi]

so dumb

the gun is necessary. the C in the old logo was made to look like smoke

without it, looks empty

 

[Teagz]

Might as well have not even brought them back. SMH.

 

[jarrod2323]

understand the need to not to promote guns, but just don't freaking merchandise the gun unis.. Allow the logo to represent 50 years for pete's sake

 

[Mexi]

that gun jersey would have sold a lot of jerseys too

 

[Giantmetfan07]

Agree, just let them wear the jersey.

Seriously I'm starting to really hate this country. We're so overprotecting people its not even funny.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

smh

 

[RipCity32]

Why is the world such a vagina these days.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

i kind of want to start up a minor league team and call them "The Sluts" just for the hell of it.

 

[elcheato]

Agree, just let them wear the jersey.

Seriously I'm starting to really hate this country. We're so overprotecting people its not even funny.

Overprotecting? Semi-auto pistols designed for killing are legal in this country.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

Um, yeah thats exactly the problem. It's legal in the country so there should be no reason to take it off, but nowadays everyone acts like we have to protect kids from every little thing, that if they see a gun on a jersey its bad for them. Its total crap.

 

[RipCity32]

Guns don't kill people. People kill people.

 

[NV]

Guns don't kill people. People kill people.

 

[Lake Louise]

That's what I thought about when I read that too NV lol



As for this, not sure why you'd even bring them back if your going to alter them. Especially when it's just for one game.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

 

[cruzg24]

Kind of interesting how the "conservative" viewpoint on guns is that every citizen should be allowed to bear arms. That sounds a little asinine to me....

Its stupid that they are removing the gun, its part of baseball history and they are basically removing it. I dont know what exact message they are trying to convey to the public, its not like this is going to stop people from killing each other.

 

[elcheato]

Since conservatives value old traditions over everything, it's not that asinine to believe.

 

[cruzg24]

Since conservatives value old traditions over everything, it's not that asinine to believe.

I understand that, but times change and history has shown us that as a society one must constantly adapt to a changing way of life. And in this case gun control is one of them, not every idiot in this country should have the right to own a gun.

I just find it hypocritical that most conservatives are also very religious and yet they think that owning a gun is the right thing to do. Im not against people owning guns, I just feel that the privilege to own one should be much more stringent.