Should the Mets go political and wear Los Mets jerseys in Arizona?

I stand by my ground that I can’t stand the Los Mets jerseys.  Why?  They make no sense.  It would be like wearing jerseys that say “The Mets.”  The teams in the Mexican League have jerseys that say “Tigres” not “Los Tigres” so I’ll use that as my argument.

However, JMP threw out something very interesting in the comments yesterday:

I think that it was a reasonable level of protest for the Suns to wear their Los Suns jerseys last night, and I think that it would make sense for the Mets to use their Los Mets jerseys when playing the Diamondbacks as a quiet protest that wouldn’t disrupt the games. (I hate them as much as you do, but as a means of protest, I’d give them a pass.)

Before we get all political, Los Suns is even stupider than Los Mets.  I know that there’s a Spanish word for sun (“Sol”) and although I’m no Spanish expert I bet there’s a way to pluralize it.

However, we can argue that another time.

I also don’t want to debate politics, immigration, law, or any “hot-button” issues.  This is just a dopey blog written by a fat guy who has a man crush on Lee Mazzilli and wants the Mets to wear blue caps – let’s keep it that way and take the Arizona argument elsewhere.

What is interesting is JMP’s suggestion.

The Mets don’t play the Diamondbacks until July 19th but wouldn’t it be mighty interesting if they took the field in Los Mets jerseys.

I can’t figure out who decides what the team wears, but what if a few prominent players asked if they could wear Los Mets?

Of course, it would be the black road jersey which stupidly says Mets on a normal day, otherwise they’d have to make up some Nueva York jerseys (which makes sense and would actually be cool civilian wear).

Wouldn’t that be mighty interesting?  I bet it would get noticed.

Again, let’s keep this discussion to whether or not baseball should be political, this is not the forum for a political debate.

Mets Police Tumblr

I added a Tumblr link to the main page.  I don’t know too much about Tumblr but it seems like it will make my life easier in some ways.

For example, the other night I was walking through Target and saw some stuff, so I did what I always do and took some photos.

Normally, I’d have to come home, connect the phone to my computer (or email myself), “shrink” the photo (large photos slow down the site), hope Mrs. Mets Police stops talking  and then write a post.  Tumblr should allow me to walk around anywhere (even games) and snap off pictures or video or audio comments and just post them off my iphone.

You will also be able to submit pictures or articles – which could speed things up for all of us.

I still have to figure out how to set it up to allow you to comment on the main metspolice.com, since the back and forth discussion is what I’m interested in.   If anyone knows or has an idea, please let me know.

The other thing on my mind is that the page is starting to look busy and I may drop some elements but not sure what.  I’m open that I make a few bucks off the Stubhub ad so that won’t be going.

I was a bit of a comments slacker today – will try to catch up tomorrow.

The Tumblr is just www.metspolice.tumblr.com

I’m also @metspolice.com on twitter

Anyway, I thought I’d try it out the Tumblr for a week or so and see how it works, or if it siphoning from the site.  The goal is to make the experience better for you and for me.   Bed time.

Tom Seaver for Sears

I really should save this for Silly Saturday, or at least another day where I don’t have six articles already loaded (and nothing for next week) – but this is so awesome and I’d hate for some other Mets blogger to check their Tom Seaver Google Alert and beat me to the punch.   Found this here.

I’d wear it.   Look at Tom flashing the wedding ring.

Speaking of Seaver, I met Tommy from TheKnicksBlog yesterday and he told me an awesome Seaver story.  I have to convince him to write it up.   Very cool, but not my story to tell.

I do have one to tell and I think I will use it for Father’s Day since it combines the two times I met Seaver, 35 years apart.

Anyone else got Seaver stories?  I know Osh41 does…

Fan-designed Mets blue road jersey

Here’s a note from Brian who has the same real job problem I have.  Can’t we all just sit around and talk about what the Mets should wear and somehow get people to pay us?  Surely that’s a marketable skill.   As you read, when Brian says “yesterday” that’s now two days ago in your world because in your “yesterday” I had real job problems.  Enough with the time paradoxes…here’s Brian.

Shannon,

Wanted to get this to you yesterday, but the REAL job got in the way…LAME!

Here’s a mock up I thought you might enjoy. This picture of Mike Piazza always makes me go, “Damn! That’s a nice looking jersey!” I’m assuming it was their road BP jersey in 1998. I think now is the perfect time to introduce a blue AWAY jersey. Since the black road one has been eliminated (and the Mets script on the road looks terrible), I thought this would be a perfect solution. We get a blue alternate, the Mets brass gets to keep their black alternate for home games and this would give the Mets a nice bump in merchandising sales. For the record, I would have the players’ names on the back, but I really need to get stuff done today and re-coloring the word “PLAYER” is not on the agenda. I also included a new alternate hat. Same crown as the blues just with an orange brim. I think THAT’S a sharp hybrid cap! Let me know what you think!

Hmmm….as you will see me mention in several posts today, I’m actually writing on Wednesday night and quite sleepy.  My brain doesn’t have the capacity to ponder this properly.   I love blue jerseys…I will revisit this one when I am awake.  In the meantime, you guys discuss.   More DIY stuff coming as the day progresses (and yes UniWatch owns this and this is copycat, more on that later – I think – I can’t even remember what order I have things scheduled.)

Uniwatch rocks today

Y’all should head over to Uniwatch this morning for a great discussion of the Mets logo.

It must be destiny that today is about uniforms. As the day goes on you’ll see me mention Uniwatch in almost every post, and I wrote those last night not knowing how awesome Uniwatch would be today.

I’m going to go study the article and click the links.

Unrelated, I found the most awesome Seaver thing ever. I really should save it for Saturday but I think I won’t be able to control myself. Coming up as soon as I get near a real computer.

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