Play Ball!

Hey guys!

Well Spring Training is in full swing (Pun most definitely intended) and opening day is only a couple of weeks away! So today's post will be 95% baseball related. With that, posts are probably gonna be a little bit more scarce or might involve less concepts since I just got a job working concessions for the New Britain Rock Cats, the Eastern League (AA) affiliate of the Minnesota Twins! This post will also be involving the Rock Cats since I will share the Eastern League All Star Game logos (Hosted this season by the Rock Cats) and All Star Jersey concepts for the game.

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 As I said, The Rock Cats will be hosting the Eastern League All Star Game at New Britain Stadium. This will be the second time the Rock Cats will be hosting it, with the first being in 2003. I for one am excited about it because I did not attend the on in 03' but will have the opportunity to work the game this year! When the time comes later this summer, I may have a post about it, but I most likely wont have pictures of my own to go along with it...

So here are the event logos for the game!

(Alternate Version)

Although the Rock Cats colors are red, black, gold, white, gray and tan, they included blue in the event logo to sort of give a nod to the franchises past.

Before being know as the Rock Cats/ Twins affiliate since 1995, they were the New Britain Red Sox and affiliated with, you guessed it!, the Boston Red Sox.

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 Here are the jersey concepts I came up with for the event...

Although these are concept jerseys for the event, they would not be worn during the actual game (Players regular uniforms will be worn). These jerseys would be worn for the All Star events the day before the game. The Eastern division would be the home team since the Rock Cats are in the East. Everything else is pretty much self explanatory.

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Now here's the non-baseball part of the post...

The American Hockey League today posted this years Calder Cup Playoffs logo on Facebook & Twitter and I wanted to share it with all of you!

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That about sums it up for today's post!

-Scott

Merry Christmas Eve!

What's going on guys? I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday with their families and want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to those who don't celebrate Christmas. Tonight, every one will be dreaming of what they will get from Santa in the morning, but for us hockey fans, the dreams of an NHL season might have to stay a dream.

Anyway, today I have a couple of hockey concepts as well as my first baseball concept for the blog! As well as a new layout for my concepts. The blog is still going to be mostly hockey concepts but as I've said for a while, I want to incorporate more sports into the mix. So here's to another year for SMC!

Now, onto the concepts...

Over the summer, the UConn Huskies men's hockey team announced that they will be joining Hockey East in 2014 and play games at the XL Center (Formerly the Hartford Civic Center). And being from Connecticut, this is really exciting news! Seeing that Hartford's professional hockey future is in serious doubt with the CT Whale's lease being up at the end of this season as well as AEG's agreement to run the building. Anyway, the Huskies introduced these uniforms a few years ago for an anniversary season and I made some minor modifications.

The Peterborough Petes are one of the most iconic teams in the CHL/OHL. Their uniforms now are similar to those that the Colorado Avalanche wear, but here, I returned them to the style they had before they switched to the Edge system.

Now here is my first baseball concept on the blog...This is a Sandy Hook Elementary tribute jersey concept for the New Britain Rock Cats of the Eastern League (AA), my home town team. It features Sandy Hook's school colors, the Town of Newtown, CT seal as well as the names of the twenty-six victims. Here's a close up:

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That's all I've got for today. Also, Ryan from HockeyJerseyConcepts.com announced yesterday that he will be taking a hiatus from the blog for the rest of 2012 since Blogger bots thought HJC was a spam blog.

I doubt I'll get another post done before the new year but in case I don't, I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year!

-Scott