Rangers T-Shirts - Any idea requests?
by DShep on Sep 5, 2009 6:01 PM CDT
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PrintSo I posted a T-Shirt design in one of the GDTs and a few people thought I should put it up for sale on cafepress or whatever.
I'm going to go ahead and do that just in case anyone might actually go through with a purchase since I spend half my freetime making rangers graphics stuff anyway.
So heres where I'm at right now.
click to here to see it its own window.
Anyway while I put that together, make some more and figure out some technical issues to make them work properly on a t-shirt....
Anyone have a request? I don't have that many other ideas (though I am working on a few more), if anyone has something clever they think would work and they would buy post the idea and if like it/ithink I can execute it it decently I'll try to make an attempt.
Obviously I don't have the mlb license heh so I can't include logos and such.
note: I'll be posting some additional possibilities later in the thread.
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How about this
Front: “Just win each series…”
Back: “…and sit at home for the playoffs.”
Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year
that is in fact a really nice shirt
Though it seems a little out there to call either an ace right now heh. then again elvis andrus doesn’t cover the earth and feliz isn’t in jail.
I don’t want to just straight up rip an exact design but I’ll see if I can come up with something.
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Fuck Ryan Sweeny
Hank is 7 runs below a zombie replacement at first base. Do you realize how terrible that is? Zombie’s can’t think, they’re slow, and they’re often ejected from the game for eating opposing baserunners’ brains. - Ben quantifies Hank Blalock
by LSJ on Sep 6, 2009 2:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Fuck the Angels
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
In the interest of quicker games Ron should just tell the ump he's pulling the Feliz card and the ump should rule the inning over.--Sherman McCoy on Sept. 4, 2009
I'd be down to buying one
any idea on price range?? i know HH did this one time and it was like $10 ish
After Fuentes blows a save and an Angels loss to the Indians:
"Angels still in first place" - UCI Halo
"Hey you know who would have gotten those 3 outs in the 9th?
Darren O’Day." - FirebatM3
LOL
well that was a walking advertisement with halosheaven.com printed on the back
printed locally and shipped out personally.
unrealistic for just random custom t-shirts unless AJM wants some lonestarball branding or something heh.
i would just put them on cafepress or something, the cheapest they go is around 16 dollars for the cheapest white t-shirt. Add money for colored or darker shirts, or high quality etc. Not to mention any extra money at all that would go back to me, which is only 10% of the price by default.
Looking at them they get pretty expensive.
Operating under the assumption only a handful would actually be sold of various designs I don’t think theres anything I can really do price wise. It would take a commitment of lots of orders of one to buy them in bulk to get a discount and i doubt there are enough interested people to do that.
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its already in the mail!
Although im looking at some more specific sites now that may be cheaper.
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1 Design
Why not do a poll the pick the favorite? Produce just this one shirt, which would hopefully keep costs down a bit. I’d imagine quite a few people here would buy one. I sure would.
by Excel Hearts Choi on Sep 6, 2009 8:09 AM CDT up reply actions
agreed
a poll would make things probably alot easier. Plus, I’’m sure alot of people would be down with any of the types :)
After Fuentes blows a save and an Angels loss to the Indians:
"Angels still in first place" - UCI Halo
"Hey you know who would have gotten those 3 outs in the 9th?
Darren O’Day." - FirebatM3
LOL
I'm in.
Those are great designs, sir.
Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers. - Homer Simpson
by SarasotaRanger on Sep 7, 2009 8:03 AM CDT up reply actions
very nice DShep...
I love the one with Elvis and the globe.
Could you do one with Feliz smiling firing a baseball on one side with “Feliz” above him and then on the other side have a batter frowning maybe wearing an angels hat holding a broken bat and “No Feliz” above him. Just an idea…
HH is that a sock in your puppet or are you happy to see me?
heh i like the idea
though Its kind of hard to visualize the exact look/style. I’ll toy around with anything though.
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Nice, sir.
That’s a good one.
Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers. - Homer Simpson
by SarasotaRanger on Sep 7, 2009 8:04 AM CDT up reply actions
That would sell like hell.
TBIA would be a ghost town in no time.
Hank is the elephant in the room. When will he disappear?
by inactive lsb user on Sep 7, 2009 11:09 AM CDT up reply actions
id buy it just for the humor
Feliz says his greatest thrill was striking out Boston Red Sox DH David Ortiz, one of his heroes. Yet, when he called to tell his parents, his mother had a request: Strike out New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, too.
"So when I did that," Feliz says, "I told my mom, 'There you go. There's your present. Don't ask me to strike anyone else out, OK?'
How about something with a Cruz Missile
Or Wack-a-Ranger – I definitely buy that.
"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."
by NorCalRangersFan on Sep 6, 2009 12:15 AM CDT reply actions
cruz missile is on my list
whack-a-ranger sounds complicated, hmm. kind of like the thought but it needs some kind of larger theme to make sense, or at least as im thinking out loud here. got to think on that but thanks for the ideas.
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I'd buy a couple of them.
The Andrus one and the Feliz speed limit one.
i’d def want them in Rangers RED, too!
yep
The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...
by Kinslerhomer on Sep 6, 2009 10:24 AM CDT up reply actions
Concur...
love that one.
I also like the one with Feliz and Holland on the front and the Feliz speed limit one too.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
i agree
that’s the best one
"Elvis Andrus has just preformed a MIRACLE!"
-Eric Nadel, 5/4/09
by Jason Brynsvold on Sep 6, 2009 3:20 PM CDT up reply actions
Gagree.
"...like some Russian priest fresh off a bottle of potato vodka and a box of cigars." -t ball
sounds like thats the winner of any cheap printing right now..
gets an edge over feliz/jail since its only one sided and thus i assume cheaper.
still some more ideas to put together first though.
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Andrus t-shirt
can you put the globe on the front and his name/number on the back?
"You can probably stick a fork in the Rangers' playoff chances for 2009." - AJM on 7/26 with the team 4.5 games out
awesome, awesome t-shirt
Feliz says his greatest thrill was striking out Boston Red Sox DH David Ortiz, one of his heroes. Yet, when he called to tell his parents, his mother had a request: Strike out New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, too.
"So when I did that," Feliz says, "I told my mom, 'There you go. There's your present. Don't ask me to strike anyone else out, OK?'
Again DShep
I’ll gladly purchase one of the Holland-Feliz ones. That shirt is sweet
She say she are the manager.
Burning through some concepts for the next few hours.
nothing thats going to unseat the elvis as the favorite but hey I’ve got a fanpost why not post them
First one doesn’t apply quite yet.
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When you put these on Cafepress
I’m going to go broke buying them all.
"You got a guy coming up there who can’t hit water if he fell out of a boat." - Tom Grieve on Richie Sexson, 5.8.2008
"I’ve been a Rangers fan all my life and I can tell you there’s been plenty of fucking crying in baseball…" - WhipSmart, 6.3.08
"When it comes to Jeff Mathis, the story ends with us putting one in his earhole." - AJM, 7.7.08
"Not the Damned Yankees again!"
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. If they get mad, you're a mile away AND you have their shoes.
Another thought D Shep...
perhaps you should come up with some kind of a small LSB logo to put on one of the sleeves. Then a small logo for yourself on the other sleeve.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
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Good job DShep!
HH is that a sock in your puppet or are you happy to see me?
How about
picture of Holland with giant Windmill behind him.
DUTCH above both
I'd do that one in Spanish...
not that I know how to say that in Spanish…
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~Bryant Gumbel, 1981
Senor Bruce? Is that you?
"...like some Russian priest fresh off a bottle of potato vodka and a box of cigars." -t ball
by rangerdanger on Sep 11, 2009 1:59 PM CDT up reply actions
haha well done DShep ...love it!!
I bet you could sell a lot of those if ya wanted to.
Thank god I like football or I’d really be screwed, since I don’t care much for hockey or basketball.
HH is that a sock in your puppet or are you happy to see me?
That's a great quote...
there are a lot of those type of baseball quotes out there too!
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
I found an online store site that would let me do the back of the feliz shirt as originally intended
compared to
Price: $27 because it uses 3 graphics, but a normal dark t-shirt would be ~18$ with only a front graphic, more reasonable than cafe press’s 22+ for dark (less for white/light).
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Now I get it!
Very clever. You have to do it with the hands down low and life-sized.
This is not a T-shirt you can tuck in.
"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."
by NorCalRangersFan on Sep 8, 2009 7:21 PM CDT up reply actions
I understood that it was hands in handcuffs
I didn’t make the connection that it was the wearer’s hands because they were so small and high up on the shirt. When they are larger and lower down (in the place where your hands would be if you were cuffed), I made the connections. Sometimes I’m slow, but I eventually make it to the finish line.
"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."
by NorCalRangersFan on Sep 13, 2009 11:34 PM CDT up reply actions
ha
Feliz says his greatest thrill was striking out Boston Red Sox DH David Ortiz, one of his heroes. Yet, when he called to tell his parents, his mother had a request: Strike out New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, too.
"So when I did that," Feliz says, "I told my mom, 'There you go. There's your present. Don't ask me to strike anyone else out, OK?'
man, i wish i had money
can you customize colors if i buy this online at one of those t-shirt sites
Feliz says his greatest thrill was striking out Boston Red Sox DH David Ortiz, one of his heroes. Yet, when he called to tell his parents, his mother had a request: Strike out New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, too.
"So when I did that," Feliz says, "I told my mom, 'There you go. There's your present. Don't ask me to strike anyone else out, OK?'
yeah theres like 10 colors on those sites
although some of them have a light blue to match the blue.. i might have to change that to grey so it can be used on anything.
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I love that idea...
get a pic of Wash with either “he do what he do” or “he’s a baseball player” on it.
Greatness.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
“Dat da way it go, sometimes.”
Hank is the elephant in the room. When will he disappear?
by inactive lsb user on Sep 9, 2009 5:53 PM CDT up reply actions
Is pickin' machine within this realm or are we going vaguely insulting only =p
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I swear im going back to the rangers now
but when i saw king felix was pitching tonight i felt like making a quick concept on that
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awesome, i love the text
you need to get a part time job designing t-shirts
Feliz says his greatest thrill was striking out Boston Red Sox DH David Ortiz, one of his heroes. Yet, when he called to tell his parents, his mother had a request: Strike out New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, too.
"So when I did that," Feliz says, "I told my mom, 'There you go. There's your present. Don't ask me to strike anyone else out, OK?'
yes he is opening a t-shirt store...
We’re gonna call it Shepplers …i.Orange is working the counter
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HH is that a sock in your puppet or are you happy to see me?
I like!!
Feliz says his greatest thrill was striking out Boston Red Sox DH David Ortiz, one of his heroes. Yet, when he called to tell his parents, his mother had a request: Strike out New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, too.
"So when I did that," Feliz says, "I told my mom, 'There you go. There's your present. Don't ask me to strike anyone else out, OK?'
Can I get one that says King Tomko or King Hochevar?
I thought it be all warm and shitty, but it just tasted like normal beer. It was still cold.
Not that i think the rangers would jump on me for sending out a few t-shirts to LSB members
but hmm, I was doing some quick research into what you can fully legally sell copyright wise and it appears its even less than I thought. damn, the empire crushed already!
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Can you make a Ttshirt of Hank's nuts bouncing off Josey's chin?
Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100. - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
by Cecilio's Guante on Sep 9, 2009 8:42 AM CDT reply actions
OOOOOOOOOOOHHHH!!!!
SNAP!
She say she are the manager.
by rockin_rangers on Sep 9, 2009 9:20 AM CDT up reply actions
I like them all
Especially Elvis and Neftali’s. Let us know when they’re available.
Remember Red, hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.
general update
Bulk t-shirt: I’ve looked up a couple local t-shirt printing places I’m going to check out this weekend to get exact prices. I’m still doing some other designs and requests, but i think its clear the Andrus T-shirt is the favorite so sometime this weekend or early next week I’ll make a post taking exact requests for a single printing of it.
I’ve got my cafepress and zazzle.com stores mostly set up (personalized) but now have to finish and optimize the designs to put on there + see if I can figure out exactly whats legal to sell (even though I don’t think I would get in trouble, best to be safe) and at least not do anything too brazenly wrong. I figure all that will take a week or so, I don’t want to like put 2 up now and friday and such.
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so you're not down with Josey design?
:(
Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100. - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
by Cecilio's Guante on Sep 9, 2009 10:03 PM CDT up reply actions
Which part of Hanks balls on Joseys chin is PG-13?
HH is that a sock in your puppet or are you happy to see me?
great point.
Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100. - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
by Cecilio's Guante on Sep 10, 2009 8:19 AM CDT up reply actions
i swear i just had a stroke of genius...
on how to avoid mlb/player copyright completely for the online store..
hmm.. empire back on… tune in during the coming weeks!
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by the way im trying to think of a name..
online baseball teeshirt name in general, not specific to my name or anything.
suggest a name I use and you get a free shirt of your choice in the future..
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Shepp's Place?
Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100. - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
by Cecilio's Guante on Sep 10, 2009 8:17 AM CDT up reply actions
Shepp's innovative ideas
"He do what he do" - Ron Washington
by dustinvandeman on Sep 10, 2009 10:43 AM CDT up reply actions
online baseball t-shirt shop
Win Column Graphics or Win Column Creations.
You could also set it up so that a small portion of proceeds go to the Kuster’s charity, which could be a symbiotic thing for both you and them.
Other ideas would be variations of baseball catchphrases like:
Winning Streak T-shirts
Slump Buster Graphics
Bases Juiced Inc.
Light Tower Power Co.
High Heat Creations
etc, etc
Also, I’d strongly suggest that you come up with a logo for your brand (with website listed in fine print) and put that somewhere on all shirts that you sell. Serves as great advertising and when you start making and selling lots of shirts, people will start recognizing that several cool shirts that they are seeing around are coming from the same spot.
"You can probably stick a fork in the Rangers' playoff chances for 2009." - AJM on 7/26 with the team 4.5 games out
Also
I’d love to help you with this in any way that I can. You may remember that I sent you an email several months back wondering if you had an interest in starting up something like this. I think there is potential for you to do pretty well with something that you obviously enjoy.
"You can probably stick a fork in the Rangers' playoff chances for 2009." - AJM on 7/26 with the team 4.5 games out
I don't remember an email
I remember you asking for my address but not an email back.. maybe I missed it in spam or something, I’ll go search my history heh.
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Lots of good advice
Thanks for the thought.
I had thought about putting a website url on anything but have to have a website/name first heh, but yeah thats a good idea.
I like your names too, one I was thinking of involved the term hardball which is in that same direction. Thanks for the suggestions.
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I'm not sure i'm going to use it
but in a partial t-shirt design I made a possible light tower logo.
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I think that looks great
very similar to what I had in my mind’s eye, except yours is better.
"You can probably stick a fork in the Rangers' playoff chances for 2009." - AJM on 7/26 with the team 4.5 games out
thanks for all the ideas
although not to many picked up on the “not specific to my name” part, although the only reason I care about that is because I’m making some non-ranger general baseball shirts and noone but LSB cares about the name dsheppard =p
But yeah thanks of course, still some interesting thoughts mixed in. Gonna have to think on all this.
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I'm lame, so I'm just discovering this post
I loooove all these shirts.
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
I'm an Andrus-caliber catch. :-)
by The Best Micah on Sep 10, 2009 12:11 AM CDT reply actions
I'm lame, too
but these are awesome. I’d buy a few.
You came here in that? You're braver than I thought!
holy cow.
Awesome shirts & designs dshepp..I’d be happy to help too if I could in any way possible
Could you sell these outside the park? (Maybe not YOU but someone?)— could be a goodway to make some $$ with more fans coming to the park/before the games. I’d invest some in it…
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Sep 11, 2009 11:59 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
pretty sure they'd kick anyone out who tried to sell something on their property heh.
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well i meant like on areas around the stadium
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Sep 12, 2009 8:34 AM CDT up reply actions
but i see your point
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Sep 12, 2009 8:35 AM CDT up reply actions
the parking lot at Sherlock's
There is a bus that will take you to the game there and a bunch of people park in that lot and ride the bus to the game, as well as a decent before and after the game crowd. I think Lewin’s band plays there occasionally. I bet you could sell a few dozen shirts there on a homestand wkend.
And speaking of Lewin, if there is any way you get somebody (oc would seem to be the perfect guy) to get themselves on camera with Lewin’s mic on them and give a shout-out to your website that would be pretty sweet for ya.
"You can probably stick a fork in the Rangers' playoff chances for 2009." - AJM on 7/26 with the team 4.5 games out
I meant Knox's mic
As many times as they cut to him in the stands, I bet it ain’t that difficult to get some air time.
"You can probably stick a fork in the Rangers' playoff chances for 2009." - AJM on 7/26 with the team 4.5 games out
oh yea
or even better, maybe just send a shirt to TAG and Josh (or see if you can get knox to wear one while on camera? — would work well if you gave a percentaeg of sales to hello win column? or maybe see if JN would put it in the report or something? – doubt that would happen though)
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Sep 12, 2009 11:42 AM CDT up reply actions
one more thing
Do you mind shooting me a quick email? Couldn’t find yours on your profile & am on bberry for time being…
My email is in my profile…
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Sep 12, 2009 12:05 AM CDT via mobile reply actions
and yes i will eventually do something rangers related again
its all on a big list right now. a looong list.
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How about a skeleton
Like the cartoon version of someone sitting at a computer, but at the Ballpark. Include the Rangers logo and the bones wearing a T cap. Maybe the text could be “The Texas Rangers will be the death of me”
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Sep 16, 2009 7:31 PM CDT reply actions
I like that
or a headstone with “Cause of death: Texas Rangers”
"I think I'm going to name my new car Scooter, because it dominates on the road." - mikeyoungfuturehof, 9.10.09
"I’ve been a Rangers fan all my life and I can tell you there’s been plenty of fucking crying in baseball…" - WhipSmart, 6.3.08
Or a shirt with that Jamey quote
“My tombstone will read: cause of death, world series” (I’m paraphrasing, I don’t quite remember the exact wording).
Hank is 7 runs below a zombie replacement at first base. Do you realize how terrible that is? Zombie’s can’t think, they’re slow, and they’re often ejected from the game for eating opposing baserunners’ brains. - Ben quantifies Hank Blalock
Nice
A pessimistic t-shirt is just what we need =p
Another one on the list.
The rangers destroying the season annoying me + some real life stuff has stopped me from messing with getting the one local printing going(although I got a couple price quotes that were a little higher than expected), but I guess there isn’t really a rush anymore, no need to capitalize on the rangers great playoff run =(
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