Boring in Black

Players Weekend is coming up and you've forgotten what that is, it's where all the teams in MLB wear uniforms that kind of resemble what they usually where, but with different colors.

This year's theme is black and white. So on the weekend of Aug. 23-25, the Phillies will be wearing these babies, pictured above. The home teams will wear all white, while the visitors will wear black jerseys. And every player gets to put a nickname or something on the back. Yawn. It's not about the players. It's another shameless merchandising cash grab.

This year's look is borrowed from the Chicago White Sox, who look like this all the time. The only good thing about wearing black on the road in August is that the Phils will be in Miami playing inside.

As for the nicknames, Reds first baseman Joey Votto has already won Players Weekend. His uniform will say "WHO" on the back. I'm just a little disappointed he couldn't get the second baseman to use "WHAT" and the third baseman "I DON'T KNOW." At least Votto has a sense of humor about this.

The Phillies nicknames are as follows:
Jake Arrieta — Snake
Jay Bruce — Bruuuce
Corey Dickerson — CD
Zach Eflin — EF
Bryce Harper — Harp
Cesar Hernandez — Cesita
Rhys Hoskins — Big Fella
Gabe Kapler — Kap
Scott Kingery — JETPAX
Andrew Knapp — Knapp Time
Andrew McCutchen — Drusneeze
Adam Morgan — A-MO
Mike Morin — MOOSH
Hector Neris — Compa N
Juan Nicasio — Arenoso
Aaron Nola — Nols
Blake Parker — B-Easy
Nick Pivetta — Piv
Roman Quinn — PSJ
J.T. Realmuto — REAL
Sean Rodriguez — Chi Chi
Jean Segura — EL MAMBO
Drew Smyly — Smiles
Jason Vargas — Vargy
Vince Velasquez — V²

At least Velasquez is having fun with it. I'm disappointed in the lack of creativity. Instead of his nickname, Jetpax, Scott Kingery could have gone with "Not Sam," since that's his twin brother's name.