Kissing Snow White Good Night « Faith and Fear in Flushing

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From earlier in the week, but great stuff on uniforms.

And yet, I won’t miss the snow whites. Something always seemed wrong about them. They were the first alternate home uniform the Mets ever unveiled. In the late 1990s, almost everybody had figured out a way to sell more jerseys by making more jerseys. Why shouldn’t the Mets get in on the action? Besides, what could be more special than the night 42 was retired at Shea? Why shouldn’t the Mets play the Dodgers wearing something vaguely Dodgerish in nature? Why must the Mets cling to pinstripes at a moment when pinstripes in New York implied something decidedly unMetsian?

So the Mets ran away from their own uniforms. They pre-empted the pinstripes now and then in ’97 (two years after reviving their most classic iteration) and gave the snow whites ever greater priority as the ’90s became the next century. The pinstriped uniform that was the one constant of Mets home games from 1962 through 1996 was relegated to sporadic use. When the Mets played in their only World Series to date since 1986, they wore white jerseys with white pants and they worn black jerseys with white pants, but they never wore pinstriped jerseys and they never wore blue caps.

via Kissing Snow White Good Night « Faith and Fear in Flushing.

41 More Amazin’ Ideas for The Mets $14: partial plan downloadable calendars

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We are crowdsourcing ideas for the Mets.  The ideas can be big or they can be small.  The Mets can use them or not.  Send your idea to [email protected]

Today’s idea is from James…

A downloadable calendar of the full season and the partial plan ticket schedules to iPhones and other smart phones. Would be a nice bonus for us partial plan holders and less painful than putting it into my iPhone manually.

Thanks!
James

I know the full schedule exists as an iCal and Google Calendar. I have used these for years.

I don’t believe a partial plan version exists, and would be a great addition. I always had to punch mine in manually, and I mentioned I had a phantom game on my calendar this week!

While we’re at it, I’d love a nice easy “post my whole plan to Stubhub” function.