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Check out the Texas Rangers' colorful new uniforms for the 2020 season

That powder-blue is certainly eye-catching.

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In sports fashion news, the Texas Rangers have a new set of uniforms in anticipation of their move to Globe Life Field for the 2020 season.

Globe Life Field is their new stadium, and is scheduled to open in March 2020. So no wonder there are new uniforms. It's like when you go to a new school.

The 2020 uniforms mark the first changes in the Rangers' uniforms since 2014. Prior to that change, the last uniform alteration was in 2009.

The uniforms were unveiled on December 4 at Live! by Loews-Arlington with Rangers manager Chris Woodward and five players — Willie Calhoun, Shin-Soo Choo, Delino DeShields, Joey Gallo, and Jose Trevino — modeling the new looks.

The complete lineup includes:

three home jerseys
two road jerseys
a new spring training jersey

Even a jersey for spring training? Remember when there used to be "home" and "away"? Life was so simple then.

The primary home white jersey will feature the return of the script "Rangers" on the front for the first time since 1993, and is also the first time that "Rangers" has appeared on the home jersey front in any font since 2008.

In addition, the club is introducing a powder blue alternate home uniform that will be worn for Sunday games in 2020, which also features the script "Rangers" on the front. The only prior time the club has ever worn powder blue jerseys and pants was as its primary road uniform from 1975-82.

The new secondary logo features a white block "TX" outlined with the State of Texas. It will appear on the front of that new blue spring training jersey, as well as other "branding applications." The Rangers' primary circle T logo remains unchanged.

Here's all the details on each of the new uniforms:

Primary Home: White jersey with blue and red piping on sleeves. "Rangers" in blue script lettering with red outline on front of jersey. Player name in block lettering and number in blue with red outline on back of jersey. White pants with blue and red piping. Can be worn with all blue cap with white block T and red outline and blue belts/socks OR all red cap with white block T and blue outline and red belts/socks.

Alternate Home (to be worn on Friday games): Red jersey with blue and red piping on sleeves. "TEXAS" in white block lettering with blue outline on front of jersey. Player name in block lettering and number in white with blue outline on back of jersey. White pants with blue and red piping. Red cap with TX in white block lettering and blue outline and blue bill and button. Red belts and socks (TX logo).

Alternate Home (to be worn on Sunday games): Powder blue jersey with blue and red piping on sleeves. "Rangers" in white script lettering with red outline on front of jersey. Player name in block lettering and number in white with red outline on back of jersey. Powder blue pants with blue, white, and red piping. Powder blue cap with “T” in white block lettering and red outline and blue bill and button. Blue belts and socks.

Primary Road: Gray jersey with blue, white, and red piping on sleeves. "TEXAS" in blue block lettering with red and white outline on front of jersey. Player name in block lettering and number in blue with red and white outline on back of jersey. Gray pants with blue, white, and red piping. All blue cap with white block T and red outline. Blue belts and socks.

Alternate Road: Blue jersey with powder blue, white, and red piping on sleeves. "TEXAS" in white block lettering with red outline on front of jersey. Player name in block lettering and number in blue with red and white outline on back of jersey. Gray pants with blue, white and red piping. All blue cap with white block T and red outline. Blue belts and socks (TX logo).

Spring Training: Blue jersey with powder blue, white, and red piping on sleeves. New secondary TX logo on left front of jersey. Player name in block lettering and number in white with red outline on back of jersey. White pants with blue and red piping. Blue cap with block T containing red, white, and blue design with red bill and button. Blue belts and socks.

All six jerseys will feature the Texas flag patch on the left sleeve. All five regular season jerseys also include the Globe Life Field Inaugural Season patch on the right sleeve.

The Rangers have also updated the outline for the names and numbers on the back of each jersey to a drop shadow design. Nike will be the official manufacturer of Major League Baseball uniforms for the first time in 2020.

And here's the important part: Merchandise with the new uniform designs, including jerseys and caps, is now on sale at the Grand Slam Gift Shop at Globe Life Park in Arlington.

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Movie Review

Korean film No Other Choice uses dark comedy to tell deeper story

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Lee Byung-hun in No Other Choice.

When Parasite won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2020, it signaled a shift in how international feature films were viewed not only by Academy voters, but also American filmgoers, who made it the fifth-highest grossing non-English language film of all time. Extra attention has been paid to other international films in the intervening years, including the new South Korean film, No Other Choice.

Starring Lee Byung-hun of Squid Game fame, the dark comedy chronicles the increasingly desperate actions of Man-su, a middle manager at a paper factory who is laid off due to automation. After months of trying to find a job at another paper company, he finally finds a good prospect only to learn that several other men may be better candidates. Man-su decides that the only solution is to eliminate the competition.

The only problem is Man-su is a bit of a coward; an early plan at standing up to his company in the face of the lay-offs meets an anticlimactic end. His wishy-washy ways seem to permeate his life, from putting off treatment on a painful tooth to not communicating with his more willful wife to actually going through with his vengeful ideas. He bumbles his way through every aspect of his life, virtually daring anyone to call him out on his poor decision-making.

Written and directed by Park Chan-wook, and co-written by Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, and Jahye Lee, the film initially seems to be another approach toward telling the class division story that’s at the center of Parasite and Squid Game. And it is that to a degree, as those in charge of the paper companies and the hiring committees are either indifferent or unsympathetic to the plight of those who have been forced out of work.

But the more we see of Man-su, the more it becomes clear that his is a story all its own, one where a man claims there is “no other choice” when in fact there are plenty of other options. The men in the film in general don’t come across well, with many of them reacting to stress by turning into whiners who believe the world is out to get them. Some situations turn violent as the film goes along, events that most of the time could have been avoided if the people involved actually took the time to think things through.

The film features a somewhat confusing story made even more puzzling if you don’t speak Korean. On first viewing, it’s initially unclear why Man-su is doing what he’s doing, or why he’s going after certain people in particular. The plot becomes more understandable as the film progresses, but Chan-wook includes several side plots that muddle things further even as they broaden certain characters. There are also a couple of visual text jokes that can easily be missed if you don’t know where to look.

Byung-hun is great as a man who can’t seem to get out of his own way. The role is almost in direct contrast to the one he played on Squid Game, making it easy to see how well he can adapt to different stories. Son Ye-jin as Man-su’s wife Miri and Lee Sung-min as Bummo, one of Man-su’s intended victims, are also highly engaging.

Like any film not in English, No Other Choice requires viewers to pay strict attention to the screen to get full enjoyment of the actors and their dialogue. While it doesn’t hit as hard as a comedy because of this factor, it’s still a greatly entertaining film whose underlying message makes it become a little deeper.

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No Other Choice is now playing in theaters.

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