At the start of tonight’s broadcast Howie Rose observed that the Mets are wearing blue for the 4th straight home game, used a phrase along the lines of “as they should” and said that the new equipment manager (Kevin Kierst) plans to mostly keep it that way.
In 2010 I was told by the actual Mets that the starting pitcher chooses the uniform. I don’t know if the policy has changed, but my fantasy of the 2010 scenario was always something like this…
Charlie: Hey I’m gonna lay out the blacks
Barely Listening Pitcher X: whatever bro
It’s like being married. If I wake up in the morning and my wife has laid out a pink shirt, guess what I will wear to work. If she doesn’t lay out clothes I grab a Mets jersey.
Kevin, I think we’re gonna be friends.
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Interesting that Gary Cohen just pointed out the Mets haven’t run a wheel play in like 6 years. Now that he says it…he’s right. Wow.
Also..does anyone else have to reach for their reading glasses before blogging? I made it one sentence into this post before squinting. Kirk said it best when he said, “Damn.” And can you believe Kirstie Alley was once super cute?
Now everyone go buy some blue merch and reinforce the Mets’ behavior!