Weird Mets Fonts explained

Steve posted the below as a comment.  My fact-checking service today is a fat guy on a deck eating a footlong sandwich from a place that could advertise, much like that donut chain that shall go unnamed…here’s either some good info or today’s winner of Creative Writing:

Shannon,
The weird font you see on the Reyes jerseys was the standard font used by Majestic on all their replica jerseys pre-2009. They used a generic font, sewn on the jersey in a single layer of twill, for both the name and number. So regardless of whether you got a “Reyes – 7″ on a Mets jersey or a “Drew – 7″ on a Red Sox jersey, the fonts were exactly the same. The only difference was in color. For the home/road/snow, they used blue and for the loathsome black jerseys, they used white. Last year Majestic switched to what they advertised as the “All New Replica”. They replaced the generic name/number fonts with a single layer of twill, that had the different colors screen-printed on, to make it look like the two-or-three layers most teams use. They also switched to team-specific fonts and a team specific jock tag on the front. So, an improvement but still nowhere near the quality of an authentic jersey.

Steve

That 7 with the bottom cross-bar drives me nuts.  As someone who is inherently cheap I can’t kill people too badly for not buying top of the line stuff.  If I ever let Osh41 nitpick the stuff in my closet he’d throw most of it away.

Speaking of closets – Mrs. Mets Police has yet to comment on there being an orange jersey and a green jersey and a new cap floating around…she’s not that dumb, I guess she figures it’s better than dropping $75 on booze.   My green Murphy jersey is dumb today but will be awesome in a few years.  The orange one is waiting for Osh41’s BBQ…when is that again?

This Steve fellow seems to know his stuff.  We will have to pick his brain some more.

Once again I am amazed at the amount of stuff this site can talk about without ever getting into talking about the actual game.   Earlier today I was daydreaming about the Mets announcing no-black for 2011 (they haven’t announced that, it’s just a fantasy I was having) and how I’d just post a giant picture of the VJ Day celebration in Times Square.

You think Paul Lukas from UniWatch ever looks at this site and rolls his eyes the way I do when my kids try to explain Star Wars to me?  Yeah, I know about Anakin…