The 1992 Mets apology letter

I struggled all day with how to follow the uniform news.  I have plenty of the usual normal posts but none seemed majestic enough.

Fortunately it rained on Monday and I cleaned the garage.  I found this.  And this is majestic.

Now I know that’s hard to read so I will transcribe it for you.  It’s dated October 5, 1992

Dear Mets Fans,

Our season wasn’t exactly one to remember.  We were just as dissapointed as we know you were. But what we won’t soon forget is all of you who came to Shea, despite our many injuries, despite the economy, despite even the bad weather.

They say when you’re down and out you find out who your true friends are. We were happy to discover we still had true friends, by the millions.

So thank you Mets fans and thank you New York.

Spring training is only four months away. We can hardly wait.

Let’s go Mets!

The New York Mets

At the bottom are lots of signatures…the first that catches my eye is player Willie Randolph.  There’s Jeff Torborg.  Doc Gooden.  Good old Jeff Kent (I would still rather have 48 year old David Cone), looks like that says Vince Coleman, Todd Hundley takes some blame, poor old Bob Mandt signed it, Jay Horwitz is there on the bottom, and I guess that squiggle between Torbog and Doubleday is Fred Wilpon.  I’m looking for one notable player but I don’t recognize his signature on here if he did sign it.

It’s funny to see the Mets blame the injuries – you might want to wonder how Gooden went 10-13 in 31 starts…and this team of course led to the book The Worst Team Money Could Buy (if you buy through that link I get a commission – hey the book is only $6.78, what else are you reading?).

It’s nice to see the Mets ball logo still had the NY.

What’s great about this story is the line by Osh41.  He said they should have waited another year.  The 1993 Mets would go 59-103 and introduce these swoosh jerseys.  (This one from Mike, originally submitted for a You Own This post but I have decided to deploy it here. And he says it’s a 94,and even swoosh jerseys have the NY in the ball, but I digress).

So Mets fans, the next time you think you have it bad because Ike Davis misses most of the year or Dan Murphy drops a ball, just think back to the summer of 1992 where you were rooting for Bobby Bonilla, the team apologized and yet it got even worse.

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