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If black doesn’t sell, change the product

With yesterday’s news that no Mets jersey was in the top 20 sellers, I thought it might help the marketing department to consider that perhaps their product has gone stale.

A 20 year old man in 1998 is now in his 30’s. Perhaps his closet is filled with Black Franco and Piazza jerseys.

Why not offer him a new product?

Why not use the upcoming 50th anniversary to offer retro jerseys? Actual retro style jerseys, not the fake creams with dropshadow.

A nice pinstriped white jersey. No black. No black dropshadow. Like Casey wore.

Pair that up with a nice dark blue (Fred, that’s Brooklyn Dodger blue btw) cap with a blue button on top.

Offer a nice new road jersey in a similar scheme.

Put a nice patch on the sleeve.

And…if black sells, except for the pesky part where it isn’t selling, you can still sell black! Under the terms of the Treaty of Flushing you can wear black every Friday, and you can even have “Anything Goes” Sunday where the team wears whatever you can dream of.

Imagine….tradition AND products to sell. A brand. An identity. Seems to work just fine uptown.

You tell me which of the following pictures looks stupid?


Come on guys…take a look. Fred, how can you say no to Dodger Blue?

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If black sells why does nobody wear it when hanging with Mr. Met?

The Mets sent this out to remind you about Mr. Met’s landing, but it raises some questions.


I thought black sells? The Mets fans in this photo all seem to prefer the original colors (except the one dope matching a hybrid with pinstripes).

What a statistical anomaly that these fans left their Franco jerseys home.

Also, what’s with the kid on the bottom right? Did they Photoshop his cap in?

On the bottom left there’s another blue cap. Is there even a person attached to it?

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The Dugout Bar where every day is Banner Day

(reposting because it is cool and got knocked off the front page kinda quickly)

Another hookup from who says Ron Swoboda and Ed Kranepool owned this place…


I love the “Every Day is Banner Day” slogan. There’s a place called Dave’s that uses the opposite slogan but I hear the owner is a nice guy.

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Ollie Perez to the Nationals

First Castillo to the Phillies and now Ollie Perez signs with the Nationals. I am really hoping Commander Adama, um, I mean Sandy Alderson reprogrammed them to destroy those two teams from the inside. Okay enough with the inside sci-fi jokes.

On twitter Jon Heyman reported that Ollie signed a minor league deal. Heyman also said,”nationals minor league pitching coach spin williams, who had ollie in pitt, thinks his mechanics are off and velocity should return.”

Adam Rubin reported Terry “Colactus” Collins had this to say about Perez:

“I’m not surprised,” Terry Collins said. “I’m surprised there wasn’t a couple of other clubs. Left-handed. A guy with his experience and with his background of getting left-handed hitters out, I’m not surprised he got a shot. And I wish him all the luck.”