The Mets Police

The Mets shared a teaser for the City Connect jerseys.  Note the use of the Queensboro Bridge and the purple NY.

For years I have been goofing that the Mets City Connect jersey will be awful, joking that they will probably lean in on the Queens part and go with a subway graffiti font.

Well look at the purple.  That’s a 7 train purple.  (Maybe they just want to sell 850 of these to t-shirt enthusiasts)

And what do we think of when we think of subways in Queens?

GRAFFITTI.

Are these maniacs going to hang in purple jerseys (which MIGHT be ok) but with QUEENS in graffiti font?  Oof.

Something like this wouldn’t be atrocious (again here at Mets Police we think they should just wear the 2012 set forever.)

And don’t forget the Queens Kings already did purple/Queens motif…

So none of that is AWFUL, it’s not great but it’s not awful…..but what if we add GRAFFITI FONT

I can’t get the AI to generate graffiti font on a jersey but use your imagination.

I also don’t think this post below is crazy, as one of the reasons for the change in the black jersey was to match the black cap which was to match the city connect jersey.  So maybe something like this isn’t off the mark….

Another clue might be the white lettering in this teaser…let’s look again

That could be some legally distinct “Subway” font.

I don’t think MLB/Mets/Fanatics/Nike/The Communist Government would spend the money to have “subway circle” custom numbers for everyone.

Also, the more I think about it, maybe Graffiti Font is hard to execute on a jersey?  Easier to do individual block style letters?

I’m also not sure anyone looks at Subway Font and thinks…cool.  I think it would wind up looking something like this, but purple

AI won’t generate it for me, but the end goal would be QUEENS in white helvitica (or legally distinct similar) font

The MTA sells these…not sure that white subway font is all that exciting.

I think the Mets should wear this on Friday night.

What if the Mets had something like this, but in jersey.  By the way this is a $73 shirt.

Or how about this prototype?

It’s amazing that they somehow made the black jerseys even worse.  The orange and blue give off purple vibes…and everything is going to be hard to see if you’re more than 6 inches away.

Also isn’t that T leaning a bit much?

I’m sad to learn Pat Zachry passed away at age 71.

Pat is forever tied to Tom Seaver because of the infamous trade.

Pat had won 14 games in his rookie year with the Reds, so if you HAD to trade Tom Seaver, Pat was a good piece to get back.

Pat went 41-46 with the Mets, pitching for some awful teams.   Compare that to Matt Harvey, who was 34-37 as a Met, on some better teams – so give Pat some props.

10 seasons, finishing 69-67 with a 3.52 ERA

On December 28, 1982 he was traded to the   Dodgers for Jorge Orta. Shortly after acquiring Orta, the Mets traded him to the Toronto Blue Jays for pitcher Steve Senteney.

Senteney never pitched for the Mets.