In an annual tradition, there’s nothing like a Mostly Rerun Post. The week got away from me so this is mainly a rerun…
As always, we begin with the Green Murph.
The one above is not mine, but actually Nick’s. Nick is not messing around. He also has the Kid 8 patch on his 28 who emailed me a few jersey pics.
Nick really brought his A game. Here is a 1985 version via Mitchell & Ness. If you don’t know who 18 was on the 1985 Mets then you are in the middle of the wrong post for your level of nerdiness.
This next one Nick says is late 1980’s, but MBTN shows Mark Carreon wearing 45 in 1990 – regardless, Lukas is gonna lose his mind when he sees the font.
The next one Nick says is early 1990’s. Hubie Brooks? D.J. Dozier?
Next, Nick shares his 2006 Joe Smith.
And finally Nick has this 2008 style. I think I boycotted these or wasn’t in jersey-mania mode yet. You know who #5 is right?
This next one wasn’t an on-field one, but it’s back from when the Mets did Player’s Choice jerseys (those were cool fun) and this is one of my favorite possessions which I got for $30 in the team shop the year Murph was out and you Ike Hypers thought we’d never see Murph again.
You can see the cool front here…
Here are some Mets caps from over the years. I find the third one “racist” (for this post lets just use the word to mean perpetuating a stereotype, and we can parse language some other day).
People get mad at me for calling out this cap. (It’s cool to be racist as long as its Mr. Met being racist or something.) I would like to point out that the Mets have not broken this out in a few years. Bravo Inclusive Mets.
The first one cap is boring and the middle one an abomination.
Again, good job by the Mets moving away from that ill-advised stunt cap.
This was the boring 2016 cap. Looks like this is a league wide template and everyone gets white on green. Zzzz. At least it doesn’t have a stereotype.
For 2017, this cap
And for 2018 which is not as nice as 2017’s.
Here’s my not-inexpensive Green Reds Seaver. I don’t think I have worn it, maybe once, because I am afraid to get it dirty.
Here’s a screen grab I took in 2015. There is that yucky racist Mr. O’Met. Again, for those of you who get mad why don’t you imagine what that cap would look like on say Cinco De Mayo or Chinese New Year and tell me it’s still cool.
Fortunately this cap seems to have disappeared as people become more aware of the issues. In general, I didn’t find too many offensive stereotype driven products this year. Good job everyone!
This is my old Original Irish Night cap I have from way back at Shea whenever they did Original Irish Night.
And here’s probably the best of the Irish caps. The Irish hybrid. And yeah that’s Regis Philbin!
And now the non-rerun part.
This is the 2019 cap.
And the 2020 and 2021 cap.
Here are, in order, the 2022, 2023 and 2024 caps, each worse than the one before
The best of the set is the “Regis Philbin” combo. The Mets should do this.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, and remember don’t embarrass my Irish ancestors by acting like a buffoon.
