Posted on by Shannon Shark @metspolice

Mets depression: hiding on the blackstreets

I know most of you will just decide I’m an idiot and I’ll hear from the “who cares?” crowd today but since this blog is so much about viewing the Mets through my eyes, I don’t have it in me to fake it this morning.

This return to black annoys me.

If you follow the site you’ll notice I have been pretty cheery, pretty positive.  I’ve been on twitter during just about every game and enjoying the hang-out.  There have been lots of posts.

Even though they sucked, I felt like MY Mets were back.

Last night, even though they won I felt like I was staring at the Jeff Wilpon Mets that hijacked my team.  They might as well have started Tom Glavine last night and let a Yankees captain manage.  I felt so distant.

I know most of you are excited about the win.  I’m not.  I’m not even being stubbornly defiant…I’m being honest, I feel empty.

This was supposed to be the soft infested summer me and Terry became friends.  Now he’s just Colactus: returner of the black.  An outsider.  Not one of us.

I know this is dumb, but this is about me.

Maybe I should just let Media Goon take the lead today or maybe I’ll just post a lot of pictures.

I’m kind of done with this subject for a while and I’m sure you’re all bored with it, so I’m gonna let it go and let General Lukas fight this one while I regroup.

I know we’ll see the dopey black tonight.  Only more losses get rid of it, and I can’t root for that either.

But the desperate Mets also tried to alter their recent karma by going back to the uniform patterns they used during spring training – donning white tops with black undershirts, caps and socks for the series finale.

“The unis might’ve worked,” Terry Collins, who was ejected in the first inning, said afterward. “I don’t know. I know one thing: We played pretty good in spring training in this outfit.” (via Daily News)

True.  Hopefully the rest of the major leagues will start their AAA lineups on the road like they did all spring.

32,819 saw the Mets climb into a second place tie for “most wins at Citi Field” with two.

Dressing in lucky black undershirts is not enough (also via Daily News)

 

7 Replies to “Mets depression: hiding on the blackstreets”

  1. It’s always nice to see a fellow Mets fan who’s also obviously a big fan of the Boss!

  2. Hate the black uniforms as much as you, but last night’s didn’t urk me as much. I guess because it wasnt the black top and more black outer gear. I could live with that, especially if were winning.

  3. I totally understand how you feel I have commented here before that I die a little inside when I see the black. I don’t like the uni combo from last night mainly because I am an unwaivering admirer of the pinstrips, but the pinless with black and blue hat just looks confused like they couldn’t pick one. I truly wish they would all go away and just keep the classics. My wife will tell ya that i’m in a much better mood when they wear the pins.

  4. That’s the problem with METS fans in general, living in the past and not tying to deal with the present or future. The black accented uniforms look sharp and the hats are popular. I understand the orange and blue heritage but those two teams exist still in the league. It’s time for the METS to establish their own identity and stop paying homage to teams that left the city and still play in the league. I enjoy the black accented uniforms and think the pinstripes look more confusing than the the plain white which look sharp. Maybe they should drop the orange and/or blue from the team colors all together and come up with a new color scheme to signal real change and a beginning of a new error.

  5. Took me forever to get to this due to work today, but I’m not even going to bother being diplomatic about it. With the team on a “Quest for .500” the rest of the season, I will gladly trade a brief losing streak if it means never seeing this butt-ugly, confused uniform combination again.

    I fully expected to see the black alts at any moment in an attempt to change the mojo, but I really thought we were done with this stupid look. Your effing jerseys are white with blue writing and braiding; the pants are white with a blue stripe. Who even THINKS to pair them up with black socks, belts, and sleeves? No other team in the history of baseball has ever been so mis-matched. Letting them take the field looking like that just proves how little self-respect this franchise has.

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