One thing that strikes me as I watch games at Yankee Stadium is that everyone is dressed the same. If you’re a Yankees fan you know what to wear. Gran a Yankees cap and on a night like last night you grab your Yankees jacket. They are all the same color. Looks nice. Everyone in a group.
Over in Flushing we’re a mishmosh. You have the crusty old guys from the 80’s or before who will only wear blue jackets, hats or sweatshirts (I treasure the blue sweatshirt I found at Modell’s last spring – no black).
Then there’s all these Mike Piazza-era kids who only know about Bobby Valentine and black uniforms. Even as a group they don’t know how to dress. Do they wear the blue jacket with the black sleeves? The all black? Which cap goes with what. It’s a mess.
Can we just get back to wearing blue? Once again I offer “the Treaty of Flushing” – I will meet the Mets half-way. They wear blue hats and white tops and I won’t whine that the tops don’t have pinstripes. Paint the fence while you’re at it.
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Funny, I noticed the same thing yesterday at Dodgers Stadium. Everyone was wearing blue. Looked classy and uniform! Unfortunetely, the cats out of the bag. People have bought their gear and you are never going to impose restrictions on fans.
Shannon—
I wish we could go all Orange and Blue with pinstripes, get rid of the black, and dump the 'gangsta variants' of 1,458 garish hat designs so that the average citizen knows the guy on the corner with the 5-inch big Mets logo on the side of his cap sells better crank than the guy in the paisley Mets cap 'round the corner, but I'd much rather see intelligent and talented players in any Mets uniform at this point.
However, I have to admit wearing my awful black-and-blue cap this fall is perfectly symbolic of the 2009 farce.
the Mets created this mess. Changing your look with the times is good (think back to what they wore in the late 70s and try to picture it being worn today, and the same with those 1980s jerseys which I know looked good at the time). But it creates a mishmosh. So does having many colors. The Yankees have 3 color – white, gray (road games), and their shade of dark arrogant blue, and aside from BP jerseys, they only wear one at home and one on the road. Fans really only wear the ones for home games. What do we have with the Mets (even just the current jerseys)? White, Gray (you just don't see fans wearing those much), Black, Blue, Pinstriped. It's a mess. Then you have a few different styles of Whites from their history (I don't consider vintage Seaver 1969 jerseys a bad thing at all), and if they make changes, it means more variety. Everything but the Ctii Field (security) green and maroon.
Oh yeah, I'll give up my black Mike Piazza jersey I bought as a junior in HS because some blog told me to.
Oh no. They also make people stay in their seats during some stupid patriotic song in Yankee Stadium. I can't stand Yankee Stadium, every baseball game is like a Nuremberg rally. Don't want to be like them.
Great point, Theresa, but the Wilpons are equally fascistic. Shea and Wilpons Folly are besotted with Faux News ads, there's Faux News Day where Scientologist loon Greta van Sustren gets to lob out the first pitch, I've been to games where Gitmo guards are honored, and the Mets openly advertise military recruitment for the poor, albeit for a war for the oligarchs that none of the players are (wisely) enlisting for.
Its retarded how they dont care what the fans do! In philly, they ALL wear red. In yankee Stadium the navy and dark blue. With us you rarely get a section at Citi Field with a Mets Cap
Theresa's comment is even more inapropriately funny given this weeks stories about Ronan Tynan and his anti-semetic remark.
As for the black, I love the pinstripes, but I also love the black jersey. Black works with both the orange and blue colors. The Mets colors and NY logo were formed from the National League teams that proceeded them in NY. Black being included in the color scheme is one of the few Giants references left. Plus, if there is one color NYers wear a lot, it's black.
Ditch the black! Christ, it's not 1997 anymore! It is infuriating to root for a team that dresses like a softball team.