Good morning. Â It’s another quiet morning in Flushing. Â There’s talk that the Mets are looking to acquire a SS, and I’m not going to speculate. Â I do notice an increasing number of “Life After Reyes” posts on the intertubes.
I’m a big fan of the TV series “Life After People” and maybe someday “Life After Reyes” will be a series.
10 Years After Reyes: Â in 2019, at a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the ’69 Mets, Bud Harrelson is named best SS in team history. Â A surprisingly old-looking Tom Seaver is there.
80 Years After Reyes: Â in the final season at Citi Field, the Mets lose the final game 3-2 to the Washington Nationals. Â A new MLB record of 103 years without a World Series is set.
100 Years After Reyes: Â a dusty wall with the signature of someone named “Doc Gooden” is found at a garage sale in New Jersey.
I digress…
I gotta tell you, I’m not out to complain (really) but I walked into Modell’s on Sunday and found the retro jerseys to be too yellow for my taste. Â These pictures won’t really do justice, which is why I snapped the one next to a snow white jersey from some other team, and I just wasn’t digging it. Â Trust me they look much yellowish in person.
For my vote, yellow with the black dropshadow should be a one and done. Â I don’t expect to see too many of them at Citi Field, and I’m super glad my cousin bought me a 2009 style white pinstripe jersey last year. Â Those are now rare.
I will continue to encourage the Mets to drop black and bring back early 80’s blues as the alternate. Â If this is about making money, why not cycle in a look that hasn’t been used in 25 years but seems traditional(ish) to us old folks.