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Wright's on second with two outs. Tie game. Extra innings. Maybe Randolph'll sacrifice here.

Why oh why oh why does Randolph love to sacrifice with the meat of the order coming up?

Triple Dee wrote: The manufacturers wanted to issue a road grey [Mets] jersey in Coolmax too, but apparently the Mets refused because it was two shades lighter than the grey road trousers, and presumably made them look like dorks playing in two-tone grey. Didn't the Mets wear Coolmax road grays in their season opener against the Marlins? I'm pretty sure I saw pictures of Johan Santana in a coolmax circulating on the web.

="Triple Dee"]The manufacturers wanted to issue a road grey jersey in Coolmax too, but apparently the Mets refused because it was two shades lighter than the grey road trousers, and presumably made them look like dorks playing in two-tone grey. Yeah. As opposed to the Mets looking like dorks in black tops and white pants. Hey! - I'm not calling for black tops and black pants.

Triple Dee wrote: Isn't the black jersey the second-best selling after the Pinstripes? If so, no chance they'll be ditched. Here's something else to consider: Do black Mets jerseys sell well because the particular style is popular? Or do successful sales figure merely reflect the fact that fans will buy whatever jersey the team happens to wear, in part because the Mets have one of the larger fan bases and because the team is located in New York City? And if it's more of the latter, wouldn't fans then purchase in large numbers whatever new Mets jersey ultimately and hopefully replaces the blacks? Doesn't Met merchandise generally sell more than that of most other MLB teams? Is it the black or is it the Mets?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: But home jerseys should be bright white. They should gleam against the green grass and make the visiting team look drab in comparison. Good point. I agree with you there. Dark, or even alternate home jerseys are sacrilegious to me. Unfortunately, dark home jerseys isn't just a Met thing.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I fear that the new uniform will be brick red and teal. (Or whatever the currently hip colors may be.) Maybe the Mets could have a Lindsey Nelson day and wear psychedelic plaids.

="Triple Dee"] We are talking about Mets jerseys, yeah? Just making sure. And when you say black jerseys, are you talking about the Mets roads, Mets homes or all blacks combined? The Mets black may be the 2nd best selling Mets jersey but don't forget that the Mets also have two styles of the black jersey - a home and a road version that in combination, allows the Mets to wear black shirts on any given day. - and that the Mets have by far, worn their black shirts more often than any other shirt since 1998. This is also free publicity, free advertising. And then there's the domino effect. Every time the Mets appear in black just increases the number of publicity shots, internet photos, baseball cards you name it that will eventually appear depicting a Met in black. Given all of this, one could argue that sales of black jerseys are disappointing, maybe not in the raw # of sales, but when looking at the relation between sales figures and the # of times the black jersey was worn. It says more that the pinstripes remain the best seller even though that shirt is by far the least worn Mets shirt since the black unis were introduced. Unfortunately, pinstriped Mets are a rare sighting these days.

Triple Dee wrote: Isn't the black jersey the second-best selling after the Pinstripes? If so, no chance they'll be ditched. What do you mean by "pinstripes"? Mets pinstripes? Yankees pinstripes? Something else?

Triple Dee wrote: Isn't the black jersey the second-best selling after the Pinstripes? If so, no chance they'll be ditched. What do you mean by "pinstripes"; Mets pinstripes? Yankees Pinstripes? Soemthing else?

Rant! SteveJRogers wrote: There have been rumblings that they were planning on dialing it down, so while the black with blue brim caps are still the official road cap and occasional home cap, it has seemed the black is close to being ditched. If the Mets are planning a uniform change for next season, we will soon find out. I think that teams have until sometime next month to notify the league if they intend to change their uniforms for next season. While I would certainly welcome a change, (and I've been hoping for one ever since I first saw the new black unis before the '98 season started) especially one that eliminates the color black from every single element of the Mets uniform, I'm not so confident that the Mets will do the right thing, the tasteful thing. I think that the Mets have no boundaries here and are capable of doing just about anything to their uniforms. Maybe they'll bring back the tail from 1993-94 and make their front uniform number the color red. Maybe Wilpon will petition the league to have the word "Dodgers' on the front. The New York Dodgers. Or the word Dodgers after the word Mets. The New York Mets hyphen Dodgers. Hey - is Tom Seaver getting a statute in front of Citi Field? Or is it not enough to be the greatest player ever in the history of the franchise and the best pitcher of your generation?

Has anyone else noticed that the Mets have now now gone seven straight games without wearing their black uniforms? Must be some record-breaking streak. I'm sorta new to the CPF so I don't know what the general mood is here concerning those unis - but I'll go on the record and write that to me, the black Mets shirts are an absolute embarrasment . I never imagined that a team's uniforms could diminish my ability to enjoy a game but yeah, that's what those hideous shirts do for me.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Click the "quote" icon that appears alongside the post that you want to quote.

metirish writes: "Will pay you to stick around." _______________________ OK by me. And then I'll pay you back some but not all of what you pay me to teach me how to get other poster's quotes inside of that neat quote box and also, to tell me what a Bordick reference is because I looked but did not find the answer to that one. Thanks to everyone for all the welcomes coming my way here.

Benjamin Grimm writes: Welcome! (Be prepared for a few Mike Bordick references.) __________________ Hey! Wait a second! That can't be good because Mike Bordick sucked and I hated Mike Bordick and I'd explain fully but this would require another lengthy post seguing into how I absolutely loved Melvin Mora at short before there was ever a Bordick Met and so did Bobby Valentine and that's one of the reasons why I loved Bobby V is because I think that Bobby thinks like me and how I hated Rey Ordonez and not just because Rey offended the fans but how I hated Rey for years before that and how I think Bobby V hated Ordonez also and so I loved Bobby V even more just for that and come to think of it how Rey is one of my most despised Mets ever and doesn't every Met fan have their own personal list of most depised Mets and if the Mets hadda wait for Rey to offend some fans before finally deciding that Rey didn't deserve no 500 plate appearances every single season that something was seriously wrong in Met town and what the hay is a Bordick reference. Help.

Well, thanks for the welcome. Of course I can't reply intelligently without revealing just how much of a newbie I am here. What the hell is all that lingo? Somebody get me a CPF dictionary.

TripleDee asks: "Does anybody remember the date of the "Amazing Mess" issue?" __________________________________ The "Amazing Mets" (That's "Mets, not "Mess") SI issue cited above featuring Darryl Strawberry on the cover is really both a play on words and a response to an earlier SI issue from the month before, dated June 11, 1990. The June 11, 1990 issue (NBA Playoffs cover featuring Isiah Thomas on the cover -- and isn't Isiah another NY mess, really?) included an article on the Mets entitled "Amazing Mess". The June article reported on the apparent demise of the Davey Johnson era powerhouse Mets that began practically every single season under Johnson as the NL favorites to get to the World Series. By the time of that June issue, the Mets were floundering; Johnson having been recently relieved of his managerial duties. Most of Johnson's core players were going or gone; Keith and Gary's careers were on their last legs; Gooden was good, but no longer great; Kevin Mitchell was the defending NL MVP, but for the SF Giants, Lenny Dyk$tra was playing like the league's next MVP as a member of the division rival Philadelphia Phillies and Randy Myers had emerged as one of baseball's best relievers and a Nasty Boy - a key member of that season's eventual World Series Champ Cincinnati Reds. Apparently, the Mets were the only team not benefitting from the fruits of their very own fabulous farm system of the previous decade. SI was covering the end of a wonderful Mets era, certainly the team's best ever when based purely on the Mets' competitiveness. As soon as the June 11, 1990 magazine hit the newstands, the Mets got hot. Very hot. If you remember, the Mets won 20 out of their next 22 games, beginning with three out of four wins in a weekday series in Wrigley Field where the Mets simply pounded the Cubs into submission. I believe that Dave Magadan, the inspiration for my username here, finally secured an every day spot in the lineup for himself there and then in Chicago and set a Met record which still stands today for most hits by a Met in a four game road series. Of course, 1990 would be Magadan's best Met year ever and in many ways, one of the best singular seasons turned in by any Met batter. Darryl Strawberry, in what would be his last year as a Met, probably played the best ball of his Met career during this - and there's really no other word for it - amazing stretch of Mets baseball. Perhaps the cause and effect relationship between a player's walk year and his higher than expected performance in that same year is true - Strawberry certainly didn't disprove that theory in the Summer of 1990. The Mets were too unbelievably torrid over the next month following the June 11, 1990 SI issue, for the sports world not to take notice. And so one month later, SI ran a follow-up story on the suddenly back in contention Mets featuring its' best and hottest player on the cover. The word "Mess" appears on that cover, but crossed out and replaced by the word "Mets". So the July cover reads: "The Amazing Mets", SI's play on words and an obvious reference to their earlier "Amazing Mess" article. Anyway, perhaps it is the June issue that you remembered. In any event, now you can access both SI issues. BTW, this is my first post here. I have been following the MBTN and UltMDB web sites over the past few years, and recently, I have dipped into the blog/forum web site universe. P.S. Nice avatar. Where'dja get it.?