I was catching up on the always awesome Uni Watch when they mentioned this.
Say you’re a Penguins fan and want to wear your snazzy blue jersey. When should you wear it? On October 15th of course. Against the Islanders. (An aside – if I wanted to buy a fishermans jersey, and I am not saying I do, are they for sale?)
Yep, the Penguins will let you know when they will wear their various jerseys.
Imagine if this concept were applied to a National League Baseball Team.
Now, I know it’s a birthright that RA Dickey and Jon Niese should be allowed to decide what a billion dollar company uses as its image, but lets open our minds…..
…if fans knew what the National League Baseball Team was going to wear, then they could dress accordingly. (In a perfect world this wouldn’t be an issue, we’d all know to wear blue).
I still think the Treaty of Flushing is a solid idea….look nice most of the time, have your dopey Black Friday or whatever, and Anything Goes Sundays. It’s a reasonable compromise Jeff. Build a brand. Stop being all over the place.
In the spirit of compromise, how about if the Mets wear blue caps like these (http://shop.mlb.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2208340&cp=717873.2777238.2776287) or these (substituting, of course, orange for red) http://shop.mlb.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1823452&cp=717873.2777238.2776287) for home games (great with Snow Whites or even with the home uniform shown here(http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/detail_page.asp?fileName=nl_1936_newyork.gif&Entryid=577) that could easily be altered for the Mets- wait, that pretty much is the Snow Whites!) and black caps like these (http://shop.mlb.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1869693&cp=717873.2777238.2776287 ;to go along with their road uniforms that strongly resemble these – http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/detail_page.asp?fileName=nl_1956_newyork.gif&Entryid=899) for road games?
As I keep saying, have one uni set for night games, an alt for getaway or holiday day games, and if there is to be a 3rd jersey, wear it on a designated day of the week like Friday night or Sunday.
The only other rules are: 1) at most, there is a home cap, a road cap, and the Sunday/Friday cap, with 2) no mixing and matching of caps, socks, and sleeves. Whatever combination you decide each uni is, that’s it. No wearing Sunday caps with the weeknight uni, road caps at home, or similar nonsense.
“In a perfect world this wouldn’t be an issue, we’d all know to wear blue”
As I was reading the article I was thinking the same thing because when they all wear Red in St Louis it looks sick. Too bad there’s way too many suits at the games that will compromise their team spirit for the chance to look dapper on TV.