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Texas Rangers new uniforms for the 2020 season boast a pop of color

That powder-blue is certainly eye-catching.

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In sports fashion news, the Texas Rangers have a new set of uniforms in anticipation of their move to Globe Life Field for the 2020 season.

Globe Life Field is their new stadium, and is scheduled to open in March 2020. So no wonder there are new uniforms. It's like when you go to a new school.

The 2020 uniforms mark the first changes in the Rangers' uniforms since 2014. Prior to that change, the last uniform alteration was in 2009.

The uniforms were unveiled on December 4 at Live! by Loews-Arlington with Rangers manager Chris Woodward and five players — Willie Calhoun, Shin-Soo Choo, Delino DeShields, Joey Gallo, and Jose Trevino — modeling the new looks.

The complete lineup includes:

three home jerseys
two road jerseys
a new spring training jersey

Even a jersey for spring training? Remember when there used to be "home" and "away"? Life was so simple then.

The primary home white jersey will feature the return of the script "Rangers" on the front for the first time since 1993, and is also the first time that "Rangers" has appeared on the home jersey front in any font since 2008.

In addition, the club is introducing a powder blue alternate home uniform that will be worn for Sunday games in 2020, which also features the script "Rangers" on the front. The only prior time the club has ever worn powder blue jerseys and pants was as its primary road uniform from 1975-82.

The new secondary logo features a white block "TX" outlined with the State of Texas. It will appear on the front of that new blue spring training jersey, as well as other "branding applications." The Rangers' primary circle T logo remains unchanged.

Here's all the details on each of the new uniforms:

Primary Home: White jersey with blue and red piping on sleeves. "Rangers" in blue script lettering with red outline on front of jersey. Player name in block lettering and number in blue with red outline on back of jersey. White pants with blue and red piping. Can be worn with all blue cap with white block T and red outline and blue belts/socks OR all red cap with white block T and blue outline and red belts/socks.

Alternate Home (to be worn on Friday games): Red jersey with blue and red piping on sleeves. "TEXAS" in white block lettering with blue outline on front of jersey. Player name in block lettering and number in white with blue outline on back of jersey. White pants with blue and red piping. Red cap with TX in white block lettering and blue outline and blue bill and button. Red belts and socks (TX logo).

Alternate Home (to be worn on Sunday games): Powder blue jersey with blue and red piping on sleeves. "Rangers" in white script lettering with red outline on front of jersey. Player name in block lettering and number in white with red outline on back of jersey. Powder blue pants with blue, white, and red piping. Powder blue cap with “T” in white block lettering and red outline and blue bill and button. Blue belts and socks.

Primary Road: Gray jersey with blue, white, and red piping on sleeves. "TEXAS" in blue block lettering with red and white outline on front of jersey. Player name in block lettering and number in blue with red and white outline on back of jersey. Gray pants with blue, white, and red piping. All blue cap with white block T and red outline. Blue belts and socks.

Alternate Road: Blue jersey with powder blue, white, and red piping on sleeves. "TEXAS" in white block lettering with red outline on front of jersey. Player name in block lettering and number in blue with red and white outline on back of jersey. Gray pants with blue, white and red piping. All blue cap with white block T and red outline. Blue belts and socks (TX logo).

Spring Training: Blue jersey with powder blue, white, and red piping on sleeves. New secondary TX logo on left front of jersey. Player name in block lettering and number in white with red outline on back of jersey. White pants with blue and red piping. Blue cap with block T containing red, white, and blue design with red bill and button. Blue belts and socks.

All six jerseys will feature the Texas flag patch on the left sleeve. All five regular season jerseys also include the Globe Life Field Inaugural Season patch on the right sleeve.

The Rangers have also updated the outline for the names and numbers on the back of each jersey to a drop shadow design. Nike will be the official manufacturer of Major League Baseball uniforms for the first time in 2020.

And here's the important part: Merchandise with the new uniform designs, including jerseys and caps, is now on sale at the Grand Slam Gift Shop at Globe Life Park in Arlington.

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Movie Review

Oscar-worthy film A Complete Unknown digs deeply into Bob Dylan

Photo courtesy of Searchlight Pictures

Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown.

Music biopics never seem to go out of style, although they’re rarely very good because most of them tend to tell the same story. A musician/band gets discovered, rises to popularity, experiences trouble at their peak due to (insert sex/drugs/alcohol/ego), and either finds a measure of redemption once they’ve been sufficiently humbled or dies due to their lack of control.

Paradoxically, what few music biopics fail to do is properly showcase the music that made the person popular in the first place, a mistake that A Complete Unknown doesn’t repeat, becoming a smashing success in the process. The film follows Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) over a roughly four-year period from when he first arrived in New York City in 1961 to his then-revolutionary electric set at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

Dylan seeks out well-known folk singers Pete Seeger (Edward Norton) and an ailing Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy) when he first arrives, with Seeger taking him under his wing. Dylan starts to establish himself in the local club scene with his unique songwriting voice, meeting fellow singer Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro), with whom he starts an on-and-off relationship. As his popularity grows, his reaction is antithetical to what’s expected, as he rarely engages with fans and focuses on his next song(s) instead of the ones for which he became known.

Directed by James Mangold (Walk the Line) and written by Mangold and Jay Cocks, the film may not be much of a revelation for Dylan superfans, but for casual fans or those who know nothing about him, it is one of the most effective music biopics in recent memory, if not ever. Not only does Mangold track the musical evolution of Dylan, but he gives the full context of the people who influenced him most, including Guthrie, Seeger, Baez, and more.

The film is not a musical in the traditional sense, but the amount of music in it makes it the next best thing. Rarely does more than a few minutes go by before someone is singing, either on stage, for someone close to them, or as part of the songwriting process. Whether you’re a folk music fan or not, the way the genre is showcased in the film will make you believe in its power and why it was so popular at that particular point in time.

Dylan is famous for his enigmatic personality, and Mangold does a great job of maintaining that elusiveness while still exploring what drove Dylan early in his career. His relationships with Baez and the fictional Sylvie Russo (Elle Fanning) give him some dimension, but why he continually went back-and-forth between them (or why they put up with him) is only lightly explored. The film keeps most of the drama focused on the music, and it’s this decision that makes it as compelling as it is.

Chalamet has been “The Next Big Thing” since his Oscar nomination for Call Me By Your Name, but the combination of the Duneseries, Wonka, and now this has firmly established him as the star he is. His Dylan impersonation (including singing) is subtle-yet-clear, and he has the cool factor that makes him completely believable in the role. The supporting cast is also off-the-charts good, with Norton and Barbaro making the best cases for awards notice.

While 2024 has had its fair share of great movies, A Complete Unknown - in this critic’s opinion - should now be the favorite to win Best Picture at next year’s Oscars. It bucks the trend of mediocre music biopics by giving moviegoers the transporting feeling of what it was like to experience Dylan’s meteoric rise, and why his early songs remain so indelible.

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A Complete Unknown opens in theaters on December 25.

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