Today I welcome back the real Howie Rose to the Mets Police.
This time last year I was quite frustrated with Mr. Rose as he would tell me every night that there were 40,000 people at Shea when there clearly weren’t (and no he wasn’t talking paid attendance.)
Yesterday, the real Howie Rose was back on the air. The Howie Rose of my youth. The Howie Rose that was such a thorn in the side of the Mets that they once had a rule where he couldn’t be on WFAN until a half hour after the game.
Yesterday Howie opened up the radio cast with a rip into the Mets. I’m paraphrasing but it was something along the lines of “the Mets are actually wearing blue! (sarcastically) Because when your official colors are blue and orange why would you wear blue? It’s the fifth home game and they finally got around to wearing their primary colors, although it’s with the snow whites, maybe one of these days they’ll wear their primary uniforms with the pinstripes.” (That’s pretty close, I wish I had a transcript.)
Look at the two pictures on the left. One looks like a baseball team, the other a softball team. If they want to have Black Uniform Sundays, fine – I’ll eat crow – but would it kill them to look like a baseball team the other six days? Lots of fans this week have sent notes agreeing.
Later in the game Howie took a preemptive strike about moving the fences in for 2010. If you’ve been to a game at Citi you’ll notice the ball doesn’t carry all that well. That’s fine with me, the Mets have always been about pitching. It’s fine with Howie too, and he chided the Mets in advance for even considering moving in the fences. This is our new home, let’s figure out how to play in it and use it to our advantage. We don’t need games decided by luck and winds like the Yankees will at Sammy Hagar Stadium in the Bronx. Pitching and defense.
Hopefully, the real Howie is back. If we can have the uncensored Howie Rose in the booth it will be a great listen.
Howie, I hereby appoint you leader of the No-Black Crusade. Please mention it every single day.
For you kids that know nothing about the Mets prior to Mike Piazza…read this, Howie used to be quite annoying to the Mets back in the day.
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Those black uniforms are absolutely horrible. They should take all traces of it out (including the shadowing around the numbers). I actually wrote Howie a letter the other day asking him to rail against the black every day during his broadcast…here’s hoping he keeps it up.
Is it Charlie Samuels who makes the daily uniform decisions? Someone needs to get after him as well
uniforms are something FANS care about The METs don’t want fans anymore just corp. sales
I can’t stand those black uniforms. The classic blue with pinstripes should be worn every home game. Can we start a petition or something???
I agree that they should wear the “all blue” classic caps more.
Can someone explain why they wear those ugly black-and-blue hats about 3 of every 4 games, and why they almost never wear the blue hats and pinstripes?
And why does one individual (Charlie Samuels) have so much influence over what thousands of fans see every day?
I hate the black uniforms, its amazing to me that they were them more than the original blues.
Lets start a petition for more games wearing blue
Couldn't agree more. All of the black needs to go. The reason I don't buy current Mets jerseys is because they ALL have the black shadow drop, and it makes them look tacky.
You know, why don't the Mets just take the field dressed as big styrofoam New Coke bottles? Yes, Jeffie, you can make them black New Coke bottles.
Will the Wilpons PLEASE just sell the team already!
The black uniforms are the worst! Why would a team ever have third jerseys that have nothing to do with their team colors? At least the Red Sox where third jerseys that are red. If you're going to have a third jersey how about blue or orange? But please let's just at least go back to basics…please get rid of the black and wear the white or pinstipes at home and the grays on the road…and all uniforms with blue hats!
The black garbage MUST go. It is just another example of how the Wilpons just don't "get it".
I like the black uniforms. I think they look pretty cool.
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