If you haven’t read THIS yet, go, leave this place…READ THIS then come back to discuss.
THIS is the most important Mets related article since..I dunno…June 16, 1977 (well maybe that one in October ’86).
THIS is the key to the universe.
Where to begin….
Great job by General Paul Lukas, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces To Ditch The Black. HERO
Let’s look at the other players…
This man Bob Halfacre (go read Lukas to follow along). He is the Oppenheimer of our story. Villain? Hero? Both?
What do we make of him?
He is the purveyor of the black. You can almost imagine him saying, “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Yet, as the story unfolds, he may have saved the Mets from even greater uniform foolishness.
Halfacre, bringer of the black, but protector of tradition. (Read the story). As bad as black is, what could have been is “big changes, where they really wanted to change the whole look.”
If Halfacre’s version of the story is correct, it seems that the villain is the long suspected villain. A man even the Real Police are at odds with. Even though I was told over and over that Charlie Samuels was not behind the black, by people who I believe believed they were dealing me straight, Halfacre outs Charlie. (Again, I don’t think it’s fair to excerpt at length – Paul deserves the pageviews).
The Mets could have had a halfway palatable cap with some dropshadow on a blue cap…”but Charlie ended up messing with that”…..instead we got hybrids.
Charlie started with the black undershirts etc. In Halfacre’s story, all the truly yucky aspects of black Mets uniforms come back to Charlie. Even Halfacre, Bringer of the Black, says the look clutters the pinstripes:
It’s a little cloudy-looking on the pinstriped jersey — that might be too much. I think it looks really good on the names and numbers, but the Mets logo kinda loses something.
There is so much to say about this article…as the days go by I am sure I will dive in more. In the meantime lets talk about it and give Paul his well earned praise and pageviews.
As for the Mets…I know you guys have seen or will see the article.
The 50th Anniversary looms. Mistakes were made. 50 gives you the perfect chance to clean your look. Retro is cool. Even the Bringer of Black sees the errors.
The man who allegedly stole from you has left the building. If Halfacre is right he led you down a dark path. 2012 provides you the way out. Take back control of your own image.