Dodgers' World Series champions shirt contains absolute nightmare fuel error

Fairly or not, Nike and Fanatics have gotten a lot of ire from baseball fans in 2024 after the spectacularly botched rollout of the new uniforms that were partially see-through, apparently uncomfortable for players, and lacked the aesthetics fans preferred.

Los Angeles Dodgers fans likely had their own unique complaints in this department; there are plenty who have liked neither version of the Dodgers' City Connect jerseys and, if we are being honest, won't like future versions, either. The Dodgers are the only MLB team to get a second crack at a City Connect ahead of schedule and, uh ... yeah.

While Fanatics' role in the uniform fiasco is debatable (they blame Nike), there's no denying who was at fault for the latest snafu.

Fanatics was selling World Series t-shirts to celebrate the Dodgers' win and somehow they accidentally to put a bunch of Rangers signatures on the back of the shirts instead of the decidedly more correct Dodgers players' monikers. Note to Fanatics: the same team doesn't win the World Series year after year, actually (pending the Dodgers repeating, which is of course going to happen).

How did this Rangers-Dodgers World Series hybrid t-shirt come to be?

Aside from the fact that these mistake shirts are almost certainly going to be a collectors item now as fans send them back for refunds or replacement, this is truly embarrassing for the brand. It would be one thing if all of the signatures were illegible, because that could be an honest mistake by an uninformed t-shirt technician/expert/designer/whatever the title should be. However, guys like Aroldis Chapman, Jon Gray, and Austin Hedges are clear as day on the shirt and were, importantly, not members of the Dodgers' 2024 World Series-winning roster.

Next time, save the files on your computer featuring these signature images with the year and team in the file name. Clearly, "World Series signatures" is just not going to work. Fortunately, the shirts are not see-through, although that probably would have been better than getting the team's roster completely wrong.

Apparently the company has doing their level best to make things right with customers by replacing the shirt and giving a discount, which is pretty much the best they can do at this point. It would just be nice if Fanatics could get a win at some point soon, because having to complain about merch is pretty much the last thing Dodgers fans want to do right now.

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