Good morning Mets fans,
You may be asking yourself…what brings this on?
Well – an email from Ebbetts Field Flannels did. They are celebrating Latin Baseball Month. Shall we….
First we have Elefantes, a Cuban league team. Note that it does not say Los Elefantes.
Also from the Cuban League, how about those Tigres! Note it doesn’t say Los Tigres, much like Detroit doesn’t say The Tigers.
What about other leagues? Here are the San Juan Senadores. Once again notice no Los.
So it’s fairly obvious that adding a tiny Los is idiotic, right?
So you ask, “Shannon, don’t you want the Mets to have a snazzy jersey for whatever they call the occassion(s) when such a snazzy jersey would be appropriate?”
Sure. The answer lies in what to put on the jersey. There doesn’t seem to be a Spanish word for Mets other than Mets. Los Mets is as stupid as wearing a jersey that says The Mets. So why not do what the Knicks did…
Just wear NUEVA YORK road-style jerseys at home. Don’t let your brain get fried by worrying that they don’t wear the city name at home. They already wore Mercury jerseys and jerseys with tiny Los on it, not to mention like 15 years of looking like idiots in black so let’s not stress too much about a NUEVA YORK . It would look great in the traditional road font. Hell, make a white version – they’d probably sell a ton.
Dave, did you read that last sentence – you will sell a ton. White NUEVA YORK. Trust me.
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From what I have seen of the new NY Rangers third jersey it is blue which is the home color with New York going down the front just like the RANGERS would normally. So, if the rangers wear this at home there should be no problem for the mets to wear something like that too.
How about “Metropolitanos” across the front. Before you ask if that’s even a word, which it is, there is a Cuban baseball team by that name.
On a similar note on Anything Goes Fridays how about a jersey that says Metropolitans across the front. Will it look dumb? Maybe, but then again isn’t looking dumb the point of Anything Goes Fridays?
Frost I have personally resisted any use of Metropolitans since it is not the nickname of the club (why not Amazins then) but I agree that Metropolitanos would be way way way way cooler than Los and I would support it.
Isn’t it odd tat the Japan League uses English characters? I bring that up because I was wondering if there were other languages worth considering.
I also wish they’d publish a uniform schedule for the special days like the Cubans.
There must be a neat way to do it without an itty bitty Los. Milwaukee’s jersey looks cool, as does Gigantes.