During the 2013 MLB season, I was working for Comcast SportsNet Bay Area. While reading the postgame coverage written by our beat reporter Andrew Baggarly, I came across this part of the story:
“He was thinking I was going to do it from second base and I did it,” he said, smiling. “It’s synergy. That’s what it is – synergy
“Put it on a shirt. I want to see it on a shirt.”
Pence was wearing a shirt that someone sent to him with “TOGETHER” on the front, with the G in the shape of the Giants’ logo. It had the text of his speech in Cincinnati on the back. Pence wasn’t so comfortable about that part – he isn’t a self promoter – but he liked the message on the front.
Now Belt wants one, too.
(via CSNBayArea.com)
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I decided that I needed to design this shirt for Brandon Belt. I spent the next few hours putting together the first version of the shirt and then presented it to the marketing department at CSN-BA. They loved it and cleared it with the San Francisco Giants (because I used the "G" from their logotype), eventually mass producing 5000 units and giving them away for free outside of AT&T Park as part of the station's "Say Hey Tuesday" segment.
SF Giants sideline reporter Amy Gutierrez brought a shirt to Brandon Belt and took the following picture:
