Adapting Northwestern Basketball’s “Make Shots” Shirt to Baseball
ESPN college basketball blogger Eamonn Brennan described this shirt last season:
Speaking of Northwestern fans, this year’s Northwestern fan and team slogan is incredibly funny. It is, simply, “Make Shots.” Usually team t-shirt slogans are something inspirational or ostensibly full of deep basketball insight. Not this. “Make Shots” might be the least inspirational, and therefore the most honest, team slogan of all-time. I love it.
Uninspirational? Honest? I can totally do that. At least that first thing. Here’s how I adapted this shirt idea to baseball. First, this generic one can work for every team.
That’s not terribly creative, though. It’s much more fun to try to adapt these to individual teams, maybe like this.
(More after the jump)
This one is pretty self explanatory.
This is my personal favorite.
Perhaps I’m starting to stray away from the intent of the original shirt a bit…
This idea comes courtesy of Tigers blogger Mike Rogers.
This is just plain cruel, but I had to do it.
Here are some other ideas that I haven’t made into images yet.
SAVE MONEY: Marlins Baseball (credit: Peter Hjort)
BUY PLAYERS: Yankees Baseball
RUSH PROSPECTS: Mets Baseball (credit: Joel Goodbody)
PRAISE JESUS: Rockies Baseball (credit: Joel Goodbody)
BLOW SAVES: Diamondbacks Baseball
TRADE PROSPECTS: Dodgers Baseball (credit: Peter Hjort)
That obviously leaves us with quite a few teams left to fill! If you have any good ideas for those teams or any of the teams seen above, I’d love to see them in the comments section!
The Yankees and Dbacks ones are definitely the best, time to make those $15 t-shirts.
STRIKE OUT: Diamondbacks Baseball
GET OUTS: Mariners Baseball
REMEMBER CAL: Orioles Baseball
SCORE MORE: Phillies Baseball
THROW HARD: Tigers Baseball
TALK CRAZY: White Sox Baseball
SIGN RELIEVERS: Astros Baseball
STAY HEALTHY: Mets Baseball
GET LUCKY: Giants Baseball
SIGN VETERANS: Giants Baseball
Hah, I was so posting that if you hadn’t done it already. Only mine was going to be
OVREPAY VETERANS
Giants Baseball
MISSPELL WORDS
My posts
OBP’S BAD = Royals Baseball
THEO’S GOD = Red Sox Baseball
MAD PROSPECTS = Rays Baseball
ALBERT PUJOLS = Cardinals Baseball
I agree with Albert, that some of those above should immediately be made into t-shirts.
BE WHITE = Red Sox Baseball
LESS ENGLISH: Mets Baseball
TRUST PROCESS or MORE BRAVES: Royals Baseball
DRAFT LOCALS: Braves Baseball
MORE DEFENSE: Mariners Baseball
ALWAYS SUCK = Pirates Baseball
NO FUTURE = Astros Baseball
COMING SOON = Royals Baseball
Hilarious. The T-shirt idea is great, but MLB would be all over that like a fat kid on cake. If some of the ZooWithRoy shirts got the axe…
My friend Parker has been doing pretty well with his “Thome is my Homey” t-shirts, along with some other Twins-related shirts.
LIVE ARMS: Giants Baseball
PERFECT WEATHER FANS: Rays Baseball
LOSE IN THE PLAYOFFS: Braves Baseball
Isn’t the Royals shirt just JEFF FRANCEOUR? Or must we wait til it’s official?
Hey, leave our t-shirt’s alone! The phrase is Carmody’s mantra.
(Seriously though, some of these are pretty funny)>
Great, great, great post Jack. Loved the Athletics t-shirt.
Like the Cubs one
SHOW HUSTLE: Twins Baseball
Bottom line on all this: Go Cats! We’re finally making the damn tournament!
DO… SOMETHING
Mariners Baseball
OVERUSE THE PEN: Braves baseball
@$#% &*$#% = White Sox
So many choices for the Mariners:
LOSE LESS
SCORE A RUN
STOP OVERPAYING
WIN 70
TRADE FOR RAPISTS
FENCE IS THAT WAY
IT’S CALLED A GLOVE SHORTSTOP
WIN THE PCL
BOO A-ROD
MANAGE ANGER
SLEEP AT HOME
1995 WAS GOOD ENOUGH
CURSE OFF-AIR
BLAME THE JAPS
BLAME THE VENEZUELANS
BLAME Z
BLAME EVERYONE BUT YOURSELF
…Mariners Baseball
WHAT BULLPEN? Whitesox Baseball
BELIEVE BIG: Mariners Baseball
Laughed pretty hard at the A’s.. Good work Jack.
PAY MORE Phillies Baseball
GET IN YOUR OWN WAY Mets Baseball
BE UNDERWHELMING Indians Baseball
READ LESS Braves Baseball
BE BETTER ON PAPER Mariners Baseball
These definitely need to be made! Since they’re pure and not using logos / trademarks, no one should be able to stop you. I’d suggest Zazzle, or similar site, where you can design and the person buying can pick the size & style of t-shirt they want. I’ve got to come up with something for the Cubs that a *fan* would wear :)
Good work, this was funny. Based on last year…
MAKE OUTS Mariners Baseball
Mariners: Warning Track Power
The Mets “Rush Prospects” would have been good for the past few years but has now been replaced with “Get Smart”
Since we’re piling on my Mariners:
WASTE
RESOURCES
FELIX
ICHIRO
19
95
EVERYBODY
OUT
I’d like to pass this one on from LetsGoTribe reader emd2k3 …
SELL HIGH: Indians Baseball
DON’T WIN
Pittsburgh Pirates
D-BACKS:
CLOSE EYES, THEN SWING HARD
LEADS ARE ONLY TEMPORARY
OVERDRAFT INJURED PLAYERS
FROM BUNT HOMERUNS TO BALK-OFFS
METS:
BLAME CITI FIELD
ROCKIES:
TINKER WITH HUMIDORS
#6 ORG: Mariners Baseball
Hi :)
thanks a lot – this is so great…
I just wish I could design a tee grafix like here: http://justfaces.spreadshirt.com/aa-long-sleeve-hooded-tee-face-chantal-A5531459
Do you have any idea how to create such a design? or is there a cheap – cant find anything on bing about it –
Thanks xox