In Saturday’s World Baseball Classic 6-2 loss to Team USA, Great Britain didn’t only fall short on the field. Their unfortunate style choices left a lot to be desired, too.
While teams like Cuba, South Korea, and the Dominican Republic have shown off wonderful uniforms for this international celebration of baseball, Britain wore jerseys that seemingly had minimal effort placed into their design aesthetic. And when I say “minimal,” I mean closer to “zero.”
It’d be one thing to show up and get hammered by the Americans while looking good. The British, while wearing all gray with the blandest font for “Great Britain” adorned across their chest, couldn’t even manage that extremely basic task:
They really opened a word document and typed Great Britain using Arial Black font and slapped it on a jersey pic.twitter.com/wPRZEPG4yF
— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) March 12, 2023
Naturally, given how bland Great Britain’s uniforms were, baseball fans were relentless with their jokes roasting them.
MLB:
“What do you want your jerseys to be for the WBC?”Great Britain: pic.twitter.com/2VvHJaIcmg
— Ben Bilotti (@BenBilotti) March 12, 2023
Big fan of the Great Britain jerseys going with the Times New Roman font on the front.
— DaddyDimmuTV (@DaddyDimmuTv) March 12, 2023
Great Britain’s WBC jerseys look like they missed the design deadline and had to resort to microsoft word 💀 pic.twitter.com/ac75cJHuH4
— Sarah (@awkwardd_lefty) March 12, 2023
Why do Great Britain’s jerseys look they forgot to order jerseys and had to improvise something in like the last 6 hours
— Brent Rooker (@Brent_Rooker12) March 12, 2023
Did Great Britain forget they needed jerseys? These look like they were made today
— Joey Copponi (@JoeyCopponi) March 12, 2023
these jerseys make it looks like Nike found out that Great Britain was playing in the World Baseball Classic, like, yesterday pic.twitter.com/2qfoEaU6M6
— Justin Ferguson (@JFergusonAU) March 12, 2023
So Great Britain’s real jerseys got lost by the airline right? Will they get their bags back in time for their next game? pic.twitter.com/zV9PGWkCno
— Grant Paulsen (@granthpaulsen) March 12, 2023
the great britain jerseys pic.twitter.com/NmdwoF5JQL
— tess (@philliestess) March 12, 2023
the jersey designer for Great Britain hit this button and was like, where's my cheque https://t.co/44dnbI7jTV pic.twitter.com/AbavD2h8Lo
— Eric Harvey (@ericdharvey) March 12, 2023
Selling authentic Great Britain WBC jerseys hit me up!!!! pic.twitter.com/CjQnLoHEkx
— MLB Deadline News (@MLBDeadlineNews) March 12, 2023
Team: Great Britain
Jersey: Not great, Britain https://t.co/Wx4mX5PP4E
— Darnay Tripp (@DarnayTripp) March 12, 2023
WBC: Please submit your final jersey designs by close of business.
Great Britain: THAT WAS TODAY?!?!
— Bird’s Eye View – O's Pod ⚾️ 🎙️ (@BirdsEyeViewBal) March 12, 2023
