The Mets Police

I think for all of us, the 2006 World Series vs. the Tigers is unforgettable.  I still have my program!

I stumbled across this from the NY Times in 1998.  The bold is mine.

From the time he was 10, Jeff Wilpon has been eager — maybe too eager — to follow his father. At that age he carried a homemade business card identifying himself as Director of Construction. His father, Fred Wilpon, was an owner of Sterling Equities, a real estate conglomerate he founded with his brother-in-law Saul Katz. In 1980, when Jeff was a high school senior in Roslyn, N.Y., his father and uncle bought the Mets. Jeff was so gung-ho to join the front office that he gave up every boy’s dream — a potential career as a professional athlete. He had been drafted by the Montreal Expos out of college and believes he could have started at catcher in the major leagues, he said, but quit after one spring training session to join the family business.

”I always knew I wanted to do what my dad did,” he said, sitting, like his father, with legs crossed in Fred Wilpon’s office in Sterling Plaza, on Fifth Avenue at 47th Street. From time to time, his father glanced dotingly at him.

Source: Bringing a Son Up Right (Right Up to the Top) – The New York Times

 

Give me a bleepingbreak.  He could have made the majors but gave up so he could get a job with the Mets?  As if he couldn’t have bounced around the minors THEN got a job with the Mets?  As if he couldn’t have made Cooperstown and THEN got a job with the Mets?  As if even if he weren’t that good, the Mets wouldn’t throw him a bone and look at him?   Hell, Tommy Lasorda did that for his nephew Mike and it turned out OK.

Come on Times, you’re better than selling that story.

A respected colleague of mine isn’t enthusiastic of my use of “swoosh” to describe these, as swoosh is usually associated with Nike, but my buddy Osh41 (the Chuck Berry of Mets Police, I stole all his riffs and added some Brian Wilson magic to them) has always referred to them as Swoosh Jerseys going back to the beginning.

We always hated the home jersey…

…and they still look terrible, although writing this post makes me want to bust mine out…..

…but the road ones have grown on me over the years.  NOW LISTEN TO ME STEVE THE UNIFORM SET BETWEEN 2012 and 2020 WAS PERFECT BEFORE SOME IDIOT BROUGHT THE BLACK BACK…SO I AM IN NO WAY SUGGESTING YOU MESS WITH THE ROAD UNIFORM…….

Remember when you’d buy a magazine this time of year because you were excited for baseball!  23 years later I am rooting for lockouts to never end.  But once we were young, and we needed something to fill our dreams…

So at 9:43 I got an email telling me these go on sale at noon…..clicked thru and see they are Sold Out.  What is even going on in cap-land?

Also we need to stop side-patch madness.  Side patches are the Marcus Stroman of caps.