Texas Rangers Broadcasters Go Viral For Ripping Seattle Mariners' Uniforms

In the midst of a playoff race, the Texas Rangers broadcasters elected to spend time ripping the uniforms of the Seattle Mariners.

In the midst of a critical game with playoff implications on Friday night, the Texas Rangers broadcast crew elected to spend time ripping the uniforms of the opponent: The Seattle Mariners.

"Awful Announcing" had the story, which centered on the fact that the Rangers' broadcast team didn't like the way the letters were spaced out on the Mariners' alternate blue jerseys.

Dave Raymond and C.J. Nitkowski are the broadcasters involved and you can hear their thoughts from the tweet below:

"The distance between letters, like, the font, right?" pic.twitter.com/P6tas08tGT

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) September 23, 2023

Awful Announcing put up a transcription of their comments as well:

“One issue with Seattle, there’s this thing, called kerneling?” “Say it again?” “The distance between letters, like, the font, right?” “What’s it called?” “Kerning, kerning.” “That’s right. …I learned a handful of new words from you in our seven years, put that one down.” “Yeah, kerning, it’s that space between letters? It should be uniform, right? When you look at Haggerty’s name on the back, the H to the A, there’s too big a gap. And they do that, they have this problem, maybe it’s their schtick, maybe it’s a Seattle bit that they do, where they like to make the back, the jersey looks so goofy. The names are just laid out terribly. And frankly, it drives me nuts.”

For what it's worth, the broadcasters are right: The uniform lettering is off and weird, but in a playoff race, that might not be the first thing that comes to mind.

The Rangers beat the Mariners 8-5 and now hold a 1.0 game lead on Seattle in the race for the American League West. The Houston Astros are sandwiched in-between them at 0.5 games back of Texas.

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