My Pinstripes Hopes Crushed

Rats. I was all excited that the Mets trotted out K-Rod and Putz in the almost traditional Mets pinstripes (I say almost because of the dopey black shading).

Unfortunately today's papers have an ad with Putz and Francisco (K-Rod is dumb and makes me think of certain people in the Bronx) and they are wearing the silly no-pins. At least the no-pins are white and not black.

Come on Mets, know your fans. We want the traditional uniforms. Why must you be difficult?

I re-offer the Mets Police compromise: wear pinstripes and blue hats at home, wear "1973" jerseys (with blue hats) on the road – no names on either – and on Sunday wear whatever you want to sell, market or just look awful in. If you want to have pink polka dot Sunday alternates fine.

Wear black, half black, green, white no-pins, Negro league throwbacks, Dodger uniforms, Citibank logos, whatever pleases you – but look like a baseball team the other 6 days.

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Pinstripes Again (For Putz)

I don’t have a pic I can share yet but the Mets introduced J.J. Putz in pinstripes and a blue hat. 
 
That’s two days in a row we haven’t been subjected to the black uniforms (although black shading remains).  
 
Hopefully the pins will be the main uniform once again.
 
 

Bobby Bonilla Wasn’t The Best Met of the 1990’s Was He??!!

Among my fellow Mets Policeman we were debating who was the best Met of the 1990’s.   (This followed a discussion of “Best 1990s Yankee” which I’ll save for another day).

Some really awful names came up.

Maybe it was Todd Hundley?   Maybe Edgardo Alfonzo?   Piazza wasn’t there for long in the 90’s….

Could it possibly be Bobby Bonilla?   That would be like finding out Superman was evil.

So I asked the good folks over at the excellent Mets Walkoffs blog to help out – they always amaze me with the ability to pull up random stats…so a big thank you to Walkoffs for the numbers below.

People like the long-ball.  Let’s start there.

Todd Hundley 124
Bobby Bonilla 95
Howard Johnson 75
The Despised Jeff Kent 67
John Olerud and Mike Piazza 63
Edgardo Alfonzo 62.

Uh oh…Bonilla’s up there….but so is good ol’ Hundley.
Walkoffs points out:

problem is hundley only hit .240 in the 1990s. bonilla hit .270. piazza hit .322, 2nd to lance johnson .326. olerud hit .315

Uh oh… 

piazza and olerud are 1-2 in OPS and its not close.

alfonzo led in runs created- 383

Whew.  So there’s no real case for a hitter.   Let’s take a look at the pitchers…again thanks to Walkoffs.

bobby jones 63-50, 4.00 era

gooden 57-46, 3.77

Well I wish we could pick Gooden, but he never turned out to be who we wanted…and 57 wins for a 10 year span seems a little week.    So we have our winner….

…..tomorrow!

Nice Job on The Bisons Logo!

Yeah I’m 16 hours behind all the cool blogs on this but sometimes I actually have to work at work, ya know.

Anyway – this is great.  Good job outta everyone!

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