Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

Shannon Shark is the founder of MetsPolice.com, tweets as @metspolice, is an avid fan of Lee Mazzilli and Daniel Murphy, hates black uniforms and is the author of "Send The Beer Guy" available at Amazon.com. #imwith28
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Are these new Mets 2017 caps? (Yes) Are these the Mets Spring Training Jerseys?

Good morning.  I have only had one sip of coffee, and I will wait for Paul @UniWatch Lukas to tell us what’s official or not, but here’s what I am waking up to.

First, Michael Baron reportedly says these are new caps, and that the orange brim caps are gone.

 

And @nikometsplus tweeted some images of what he says are the Spring Training uniforms.

 

Again, I don’t know what’s official or not.  Let’s assume they are.

The white outline cap confuses me.  Why?  Might this be a road cap?  Why the white outline?  They messed with white outlines a little in the mid-90s, which then led to black drop shadow…..so this worries me.  Leave the uniforms alone Metsies.

As for the spring jerseys, I don’t know who likes those underarm color patches (which probably have an official terminology).  Does anyone like them?  Does anyone actually like Carpool Karaoke?  I haven’t met anyone, and yet that’s a thing, so maybe someone does prefer their jerseys with orange underpits.

Anyway, I will see what the blogosphere reveals today, and you can ask Michael Baron Himself and you can attend the Uni Watch Panel with Paul Lukas and friends- yes you can – both will be at Saturday’s Queens Baseball Convention.  Get your tickets before they sell out!

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Update – Uni Watch says the below and has more about the cap.

This new cap is one of several issues we’ll be discussing on Saturday at the Queens Baseball Convention’s uniform panel, which I’ll be chairing. Panel participants include uniform designer/historian Todd Radom; Mets uniform number savant Jon Springer; Mets stitcher Russ Gompers; Mets game-used jersey collector Nick DiSalvo; and our own Phil Hecken.

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is the Golden Age of buying Mets jerseys over?

Before we begin, don’t gloss over that $332.99 price tag.

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Interesting paragraph in Uni Watch the other day about NBA jersey retailers.

If I am good at reading comprehension (and I may not be) it sounds like NBA jerseys will soon be available from a smaller circle of retailers.

As you may have noticed, the folks at Fanatics have done deals with may of the sports leagues, including MLB, and the Uni Watch piece makes me wonder if Mets jerseys might become more rare in stores.

You may have experienced, as I have, that the shipping reliability at the Official MLB Shop, now run by Fanatics, is not what it once was (as an example, the Mets playoff merch coming after the playoffs).  I’ve also experienced the Phantom Jersey – where something was advertised, in my experience some sort of throwback, and then weeks and weeks later I wad told the jersey order is canceled (I speculate because they didn’t sell many thus didn’t make them.)

Along the way, there has been price creep and price CREEP.  I’ve seen jerseys in the $300s.  The cheaper jerseys are now seem to be more in the $119 range than the $99 range.

And…there’s the Diaper Jersey which makes those less expensive jerseys completely unappealing.

I bought A LOT of jerseys in the 2010s.  I think I bought one all of 2016 (a Murphy All Star Game jersey).

Has the Golden Age of jersey buying ended?  And is that a bad thing?