Hmmm…Cerrone linked to Rubin’s article and write his own: Mets will ditch the black drop-shadow in 2012 | MetsBlog.com.
I feel like I should address this since it’s something I often write about.
Let me put it this way….assuming Adam has the story right, I am very excited.
Keep reading Mets Police every day. You never know when you’ll find a very happy post up on the site.
There’s also a little mention about a certain comeback of the day that fans walk around holding banners….
Any mention on improving the TEAM?
It will last three years and then, to boost sales, they’ll do a new hybrid approach, … that’s my prediction. They’ll go back to black.
The fact is their cap is such an intensely bright blue, esp with the burnt orange logo, that as fun and distinctive and edgy and NY as it is, it’s a potential disaster for wearing with civilian clothes. The market will dictate that they either dial down the bright blue, and get with something like Dodger blue, or they need some other alternate.
I don’t wait for current ownership to change back to the true Met uniform…I just received my new hat yeaterday and it is a true throwback. Green underbrim…no MLB logo…blue button…a logo that is not puffed out on steroids…and a nice shade of royal blue. I feel like it is 1969 again.
http://www.mickeysplace.com/york-mets-1969-cooperstown-collection-p-2762.html
Is it the same blue as what they have currently?
Greg,
The Mets have had different color hats over the years…based on my research, they started out with a royal blue…then in the late 60’s went to a darker blue with a slight purplish tinge…then in the 1986 WS, changed from the green underbrim to gray and went back to a royal. Now they have a brighter blue.
I would say that the retro hat is very similar to the 1986 WS royal blue. I placed it against my 1986 vintage Starter dugout jacket and it was freakin awesome…a perfect color match. So for the same price as this ugly polyester hat you get a beautiful 100% wool throwback.
The only issue I have, is that like all New Era on field caps, it is now made in China…something is not right about that.
This shows the difference from 1969 to the change made in the 1986 WS:
http://cbsnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/casey-stengel-gil-hodges-davey-johnson.jpg?w=300
The retro hat is actually closer to a 1962 than a 1969, due to the royal color and green brim.
I find it hard to see the difference, w different lighting. I’d have to see them side by side in the same lighting. Some people say the Mets and Dodgers have the same blue today, but it’s easy to see by checking them out in the same room that the Dodgers have a cool darker blue that goes great with ‘normal’ clothes, whereas the Mets have a beacon bright blue. I used to have some old Roman Pro Brooklyn Dodger hats which were also a darker royal blue, like the Dodgers’ current ones.
Mets Police sees things differently from me. The way I see it, there are dysfunctional Mets fans with emotional issues (like myself) who like to own the real professional Mets cap and simultaneously wear it around w/o making the clash so obvious, so as to reveal my impulsive dysfunction. And, for the Mets, there are dollars to be made in selling those caps to exactly those kinds of people.
So, I say, Dodger blue is the way to go, and maybe an alt hat as well with gray rather than orange logo.
very happy to hear this …. hopefully the mets will ditch all black from their uniforms … never liked the black or drop shadow