Comments on: Pittsburgh Pirates to Have New Logo in 2014

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:26:03 +0000

About time. They’ve never accomplished one winning season with their current logo. Change it. It must go.

By: Thomas O'Grady

Thomas O'Grady — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:23:35 +0000

I would hate to see the Pirates put such an organically sophisticated shape like the Pirates head into a circle and trap all that lovely positive/negative space. Personally, the “P” ligature is so strong and recognizable that I’d switch their cap mark to their primary logo and let that be a true icon in the sports team branding landscape.

By: Max

Max — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 06:55:32 +0000

I hate the “since 1887” circle design in the logo

By: madpanda

madpanda — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 03:45:16 +0000

In reply to thomas. It's the Pirates, Thomas...they always wait another year.

By: thomas

thomas — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:14:40 +0000

should have done it for the 2013 season allready………..why wait another year…..smh

By: Brian Castner

Brian Castner — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:54:59 +0000

As a Pirates fan of 30-ish years I’m a bit sad to see this logo go away. It’s by far my favorite of all their logos. But I’ll wait and see what they come up with. My big fear is they end up jumping on the retro trend and we see a logo/uniform set that looks like it belongs in the 70’s come back.
If I have to watch bad baseball year after year they can at least look good while they get beat. I’ll be upset if they drop the red and go back to just black & gold as well. I always thought the addition of the red was a nice nod to the team’s blue & red days.

By: Marcus Jackson

Marcus Jackson — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:36:19 +0000

I’m glad to see that the “P” logo will still be used. As long as its future logo doesn’t have a circle like I’ve seen other franchises switch to, that would be a good thing.

By: Rob Carlson

Rob Carlson — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:49:34 +0000

As much as I love the old circle-with-words style of baseball logo, there are a lot of them now. (My beloved Nats are indeed offenders, but I don’t want ours to change 😛 )

I actually like the skull-and-crossbone style bats that the Pirates use in the foundation for their current logo. Whether they go with a portrait, a letter, or words in the center, I think they should use either a diamond or bats as the frame. Now that the Orioles have gotten rid of theirs, I think only the Rays and the Phillies use diamonds/ballfields.

By: Snakay

Snakay — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:10:19 +0000

In reply to ExileInDC. I agree 100% with that comment. Two additional comments on the current logo, I dont like red trim around the Pirates word, and i dont like the Red on the bandana. the Pirates should stick to a 2 colour scheme, black and yellow (or gold depeding on how you look at it).

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:12:33 +0000

In reply to 1434. I agree. It always seems weird to me to have a human being's face as part of a logo (Indians, Pirates, Blackhawks, Senators, Vikings, Patriots, Redskins, Celtics). It comes off as too cartooney.

By: ExileInDC

ExileInDC — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:10:19 +0000

The current logo looks like a road rage butch biker. You would hate that guy if you met him, on every level.

A grinning skull and cross bones is the way to go, you see non-licensed versions all over the ballpark because it is a) simple, b) looks cool, and c) belongs on the Jolly Roger. So Raise the Jolly Roger and ditch the angry doorag dude.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:34:56 +0000

In reply to John 'Jamie' Myers. And the Blue Jays (well, at least the new/old logo got them to spend...)

By: Yancy

Yancy — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:25:38 +0000

In reply to Bryan. I always like that logo too but they rarely ever used it.

By: 1434

1434 — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:32:58 +0000

Do they really need to have a cartoony drawing of a literal pirate to get across the point that the ball club is named “The Pirates”?

Looking over every generation of pirate cartoon mascot, they all give me the queasy feeling I’m about to eat some really crappy fish and chips at a buccaneer themed restaurant for children.

Ahoy matey!
Baaaarf.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:53:50 +0000

Just ditch the red….their current is not a bad logo overall.

By: Dina Bonnevie

Dina Bonnevie — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:40:07 +0000

SINO ANG BAGONG LOGO?!

By: Michael Q.

Michael Q. — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:40:46 +0000

In reply to Jimmy Kemp. So they have never had a winning season with their current logo? Ouch!

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:17:34 +0000

They would most likely unveil the new logo at PirateFest in December but that’s just me guessing from the timeline you gave. Also I like the idea of a new logo, with the team starting to really turn around this gives pirate fans, like myself, something to really get excited about. And I wouldn’t care nor think they would make it the roundel type logo. They’ve always had a pirates head and that’s the way it should stay. Just modernize a old classic ie: 1987 or the one before

By: madpanda

madpanda — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:57:03 +0000

Like what you did, Chris! I’m a fan of the treasure map..although it does need a tougher-looking pirate. In fact, if they do go with a roundel (please no!), then I’d love to see them do an alternate/shoulder patch with Pennsylvania in drawn on a treasure map with an “X” where Pittsburgh sits.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:39:13 +0000

In reply to Bryan.

New primary should be:
http://www.sportslogos.net/logos/view/midx8sd4tayhy12tmuwch6mjn/Pittsburgh_Pirates/1997/Alternate_Logo

Who’s with me?