The New Old Uniforms Are Here

[ashie62]

I'm trying to see how those differ so greatly from last year's pinstripes. I know they say the color is "natural", but that pic makes it look nothing close to the beautiful cream-colored tops the 69'ers wore.

Disappointed as of now.[/quote:tbrh8cmz]


They look fine to me..They will look GREAT when the Mets are in first place.

[Centerfield]

nothing to see here.

[soupcan]

Its very simple.



Bam. Done.


As to black unis selling well - I see plenty of yellow and green Yankee hats flying around everywhere but last I knew the Yankees didn't wear those in games.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Mercury Mets unis not only rank behind any combo of white, black, pinstripe, plus the various retros that pop up from time to time, but also trail Scottish kilts, bunny outfits, Payne Stewart-style golf knickers, and most of the combined wardrobes of Lady Ga-Ga, Amy Winehouse, and Bjork.[/quote:txliral2]

When I "joined" the Uniwatch club last year, I was thisclose to having Paul put my name/number on the back in the style of the Mercury Mets, just for gits and shiggles.

I'm with Irish-- road gray is my jam (and camouflages stains better than whites).

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I think the snow whites are nice uniforms, but when I picture Mets in my mind, I picture the pinstripes. I see Seaver and Koosman and Mays and Grote and Stearns and Hundley and Roger Craig and Rusty and Nino Espinosa and they're all wearing the pinstripes.

That said, I own a black Santana home jersey with the Shea patch and a black Ventura road jersey. I found them on eBay for prices I couldn't pass up while looking for pinstripe jerseys. I don't hate the black because I don't hate anything about the Mets except for events in and around June 15, 1977. But I like the pinstripes better.

If I ran the team, the pinstripes would be the main uniforms and the snow whites would be the alts.

I do have a Mercury Mets jersey, just because it's fun.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I do have a Mercury Mets jersey, just because it's fun.[/quote:5eloqae9]

Ebay? How much, if I may ask? And is there a NOB?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I do have a Mercury Mets jersey, just because it's fun.[/quote:2myo14ok]

Ebay? How much, if I may ask? And is there a NOB?[/quote:2myo14ok]


No NOB, and it was a while ago. It was a good buy, around $30 I think. It was a couple years after the game, before they kind of took on a cult status. Got the cap from Starstruck, and that was on clearance.

[ashie62]

Mets uniforms with black never had any cache when they came into the picture

The 2 imaged above look nice for 162+ games

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The Mercury Mets were more NOS (Name on Side) than Name on Back.

[ashie62]

No Mercury Mets for sale anywhere

but pictures..http://www.metspolice.com/2009/07/10th-anniversary-of-mercury-mets.html

[Piggiestomatoes]

Its very simple.



Bam. Done.


As to black unis selling well - I see plenty of yellow and green Yankee hats flying around everywhere but last I knew the Yankees didn't wear those in games.

[nymr83]

...I'm wondering again why the Mets didn't dress like that on some semi-regular basis in 2009, which was the 40th anniversary of 1969 -- or even once, the night the '69ers were there.[/quote:32c7btjz]

I'm guessing because it didn't occur to them until too late. It didn't occur to any of us.[/quote:32c7btjz]

we don't get paid to have these ideas, someone does and we can blame them for dropping the ball!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Sometimes good ideas aren't obvious until they're obvious.

Somtimes bad ideas also.

I don't know. I don't think anybody ever thought of the Mets of the sixties wearing a different color of "white" until the the cruel and bitter final day of 2008. That happened because of (1) someone having the good idea of dressing the returning Mets in the uniforms from the various players' eras, which I never saw them do before with returning retirees, and (2) someone (else?) having the good idea of saying, "You know, back in the flannel days "white" wasn't white as we think of it today. Let me try something. It'll make the oldest players' clothing different from the newest players, instead of having sameness at the beginning and end with an ugly sandwich of the seventies and eighties in between."

They (1) did something creative, and (2) listened to people. Yeah, it worked at the end of 2008, so they should have gotten their act together in 2009. Yeah, these don't seem to match very as well as you might have hoped for. (Some folks disagree.) But you wouldn't have a clue that did these things "wrong" if they hadn't done something right --- something not a one of us had been clamoring for. It's the Credit-Where-Due Department.

[G-Fafif]

Times breaks the story that front runners like to be associated with winners, not losers...and that the Mets are asking an absurd amount for "embroidered lettering" and "finer material".

Guy quoted at the Mets store is a Mets blogger, FYI. Can't say we don't get out of our mothers' basements on occasion.

November 28, 2009 At a Yankees Shop, Buzz; At a Mets Store, a Hush By KEN BELSON It was a tale of two Black Fridays for New York�s baseball teams. The Yankees Clubhouse on 42nd Street, still basking in the glow of the team�s 27th World Series championship, was flooded with customers elbowing through racks of commemorative T-shirts, hats and jackets. Pedestrians stopped to snap photographs of the storefront. Two blocks east, the Mets Clubhouse hosted a handful of passers-by who gazed at the rows of jerseys and sweatshirts, many 50 percent off. The store seemed to be as quiet as Shea Stadium was after Carlos Beltran looked at Adam Wainwright�s called third strike to end the 2006 season. The retail foot traffic largely mirrored the team�s on-field performances this year. The Yankees added another piece of armor to their gold-plated reputation as winners. The Mets sank in the standings early before fading into comical irrelevance. The stores on 42nd Street were yet more evidence that winning sells. Aoi Niwa, for instance, breezily spent $203 on a World Series hat, T-shirt and sweatshirt at the Yankees Clubhouse. Her father in Japan is a big fan of Hideki Matsui, she said. During their last phone conversation, he asked Niwa to pick up some items to commemorate the team�s championship and Matsui�s World Series Most Valuable Player award. �It�s a little pricey, but it�s worth it,� said Niwa, who lives in Portland, Ore., and was visiting a friend in New York for Thanksgiving. Across the street at Modell�s, the front of the store was wall-to-wall Yankees merchandise. Jeter replica jerseys were being sold for $120, Yankee fleece jackets for $60 and sweatshirts for $55. Yankee hats with the World Series logo were $36. It is hard to gauge the success of an entire shopping season on one day�s foot traffic. But Peter Augustine, the president of New Era Cap, the market leader in baseball caps, said that he expected sales to be unchanged this holiday season compared with last year despite the victory by the Yankees, the No. 1 selling team. �While the Yankees always outsell the Mets, their win did not provide the kind of bump in sales that we would normally expect,� he said. �We blame that on the recession.� Of course, that has not stopped teams like the Mets and the Yankees from introducing merchandise. The Mets, for instance, unveiled new retro jerseys Friday, ones similar to those worn by the players on the 1969 championship team wore. The home uniform tops, which the players will wear next season, include pinstripes against a light cream background, similar to those the team wore starting in 1962, when the Mets set a modern-day record for losses in a season. There were no signs, however, to announce the arrival of the new uniform tops lined up against the wall at the Mets Clubhouse store. The jerseys, which have embroidered lettering and are made with a finer material, cost $266, nearly three times the cost of other replica jerseys. The retro jerseys sparked a debate among fans on various Mets-related blogs. Some thought the team should focus more on improving the team and less on marketing. Others thought that the jerseys were an effort to make fans feel good just as they receive their season-ticket renewal notices. In any case, $266 was too pricey for Ben Testa, a Mets fan who stopped in the store on his way to work. Testa asked an employee how many of the new jerseys he had sold so far. None, he was told, as of midafternoon Friday. Testa said he might have bought a jersey if it were less expensive, but said he was not in the mood to spend a lot on the Mets anyway. He was annoyed by the team�s performance the past three seasons and planned to give up his season tickets, which he has had since 1985. The jerseys are �all about marketing,� he said. �It�s no coincidence that they came out on Black Friday,� Testa said. �They know they�re going to take a hit with ticket renewals.�

FYI, mets.com lists new replica alternate jersey for $79.99. Don't know if the difference is a matter of name or customization or what. I'd think embroidered lettering would be worth two hundred smackers alone.

[Guest Edgy DC]

[quote name=The Times]The home uniform tops, which the players will wear next season, include pinstripes against a light cream background, similar to those the team wore starting in 1962, when the Mets set a modern-day record for losses in a season.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

[quote name=The Times]The home uniform tops, which the players will wear next season, include pinstripes against a light cream background, similar to those the team wore starting in 1962, when the Mets set a modern-day record for losses in a season.

[bmfc1]

And of course, this line: "The store seemed to be as quiet as Shea Stadium was after Carlos Beltran looked at Adam Wainwright�s called third strike to end the 2006 season."

Was the MFY store then "As jubilant as Yankee Stadium when the Yankees reclaimed the World Championship, their 27th, thus restoring all that is right and good in this world"?

[Frayed Knot]

I wonder if the Snooze had to pay royalties to Wallace Mathews to use that line about Beltran and the bat on the shoulder?
Or maybe 'ol Wally just realized that he's used it so often over the last three years that this was a good time to release the domestic rights on it.

[bmfc1]

FK: Sadly, that was the Times, not the News.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Mets Police reports a division in the Mets camp regarding the drop shadow.

http://www.metspolice.com/2009/12/interesting-story-about-new-mets.html

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Mets Police reports a division in the Mets camp regarding the drop shadow.

http://www.metspolice.com/2009/12/interesting-story-about-new-mets.html[/quote:ww8uqp08]

"The black edge... is edgy!"