Well, a few people did notice such as Peter who everytime he checks in hits a home run:
Hey Shannon,
The Los Mets blue jerseys were such a beautiful sight that I actually think I would be ok with officially changing the name of the team to Los Mets if it would mean permanently replacing our black jerseys with those gems!
But I will point out that this idea must have at the very least been kicked around by the Mets before. Maybe they gave it a trial run as an alernate in retail locations to see what the response would be and my impression is that at that point (approximately 3 years ago) the consumer response was pretty weak. I know this because just over 2 years ago I saw this design pop up in the clearance section of the online team store. There were 4 or 5 player jerseys for sale in this design and they were absurdly cheap. I debated at first because generally if something ends up in clearance land there is very good reason and you don’t want it. But ultimately I decided the combination of a Met I liked very much- that at that point was already gone- the jersey I had previously seen only in my dreams as the obvious solution to our black woes and a cheap price tag made it a ‘no brainer.’
So here it is. Look familiar?
LGM!
The photos are quite large (yes I shrunk them) so I am putting them up as a gallery – click on one for a bigger image.
And if you missed it, here’s a collection of screengrabs from Friday night if you’d like to see the Los Mets jerseys in action. They looked great.
Come back at 10am, we have a great Ralph Kiner video that Goon took.