When it comes to new baseball ideologies, I tend to side with the blogging generation. I prefer Baseball Prospectus to Bill Plaschke. I love the White Sox, but if Ozzie Guillen talks about small ball one more time in one of the best hitter’s parks in baseball, I may wonder if it really is just a marketing gimmick.

But there is one new-school philosophy that I absolutely cannot stand, and it is this: the pants-over-cleats/pants-all-the-way down look, which players have really taken to the past few years:

Now, I would like to say that the newer, more innovative basketball jerseys that Ohio State and Syracuse rock are right up my alley. So, this isn’t some assault on any change to a basic jersey.

But, this has not been a change for the better. You can’t tell me you prefer that atrocious fashion look to the the classic pants-up-show-me-some-sock style lived on today by the likes of Eric Byrnes, can you? (OK, fine. You can. I just won’t agree with you.)

Anyway, it appears MLB is on my side here, because they are priming to fine players who decide to sport the newer look this year.

Major League Baseball is cracking down on players who pull the legs of their pants too far over their cleats — with a close eye on Twins outfielder Denard Span.

Span has been warned that he will be fined $1,000 by the league after he was caught with his pants over his shoes during a series in Baltimore last season.

In fact, Twins manager Ron Gardenhire had to read a letter to the players on Thursday about the crackdown — a letter that included a photo of Span in a take-out slide with the bottom of his pants looped over the back of his spikes.

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Two things that are fairly obvious about CC Sabathia:

1) Dude has great command, and can really bring it on the mound.

2) Dude is kind of rotund.

In baseball, unlike most sports, you can come in any shape and size. Hitting and pitching does not discriminate based on body type. That’s the beauty of the game.

But, now that Sabathia’s with the Yanks and the fact that he’s um, portly, will he have the most pinstripes on his Yankee jersey ever? Uni Watch raises the question:

Joba Chamberlain, for example, has at least 26 pinstripes on the front of his jersey (and presumably a similar number on the back), while the diminutive Phil Rizzuto had only about 20.

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It’s a trickier question than it might initially seem, full of complexity and nuance.

“You’re embarking on a new field of study here, so we have to make up our own rules and standards as we go,” he said. “For example, depending on how a jersey is tailored, the number of pinstripes at the top and at the bottom aren’t necessarily the same. Also, the space between the pinstripes has changed a bit over the years, and the pinstripes themselves are thinner today than in the old days.”

Uni Watch did some sleuthing, and stacked Sabathia’s projected stripe total against 12 large, former Yankees. He came out ahead in all contests. Congrats. I guess.

And now you know way more than you should about Yankee pinstripe uniforms.

Like ‘Duk over at the Stew, I am a big fan of the retro jerseys. Just take a gander at any of these White Sox prototype unis; if the Sox ever busted these out next year, I would be a very happy blogger.

Well, with the Twins spending their final season in the Metrodome in 2009, they’ve got plans to sport a similar jersey to what the rocked in 1982 at Saturday home games all season.

The uniforms are similar to the ones the Twins wore during the inaugural season of the Metrodome in 1982 — solid white with a red Twins script on the front and a red and blue stripe down the sides of the pants. But these uniforms feature a few tweaks, of course, such as belts and button-down jerseys, rather than the old elastic waistband Sansabelt pants and pullovers.

The Twins will also wear vintage red hats on throwback days, and just like in ‘82, these retro uniforms will not have the players’ names on the back. It’s the first time the club has donned jerseys without names since 2000, Twins president Dave St. Peter said.

Did you know that all the pants I own sport a Sansabelt? For real. Pants with buttons right over the crotch are for suckers.