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Edgy DC Dec 19 2005 03:19 PM

Uni Watch this week created an imaginary Isle of Misfit Uniforms --- populated by not necessarily bad choices in uniforms and parts of uniforms, but choices that exist only technically, but have no place in the current order. the Mets made the list, and his investigations leaves the fans in the regrettable position of having to side with one institution (the blue lids) or another (Charlie Samuels). ]6. The Mets' blue cap. Here we have the island's lone non-football resident. According to the Major League Baseball Style Guide, this is the Mets' official home cap. But you'd never know that from watching them -- they usually wear this design at home (even though it's officially designated as their road cap), and occasionally this one. The blue lid makes just a few token appearances per year. Why? Because equipment manager Charlie Samuels, who decides what the team wears each day, thinks the blue cap would clash with the club's black dugout jacket. So he only breaks out the blue caps during a few sweltering games in July and August, when nobody's wearing a jacket. This is complicated by the fact that pitching coach Rick Peterson always wears a jacket, no matter how hot it is, which gives Samuels an excuse to keep the blue caps in mothballs. Rescue-worthy? It's hard to know which is stupider -- letting a dugout jacket determine which cap the players will be wearing, or letting black overtake blue as the team's dominant color. Airlift the blue cap off of the island and stick Charlie Samuels there instead. And get a blue dugout jacket, while you're at it.

sharpie Dec 19 2005 03:23 PM

Blue jackets were better than the black jackets anyway.

Yancy Street Gang Dec 19 2005 03:23 PM

I like the proposed solution: get a blue dugout jacket. Maybe it will make all the black go away. But if it comes to a choice between the blue caps and Charlie Samuels, I wouldn't hesitate to send Mr. Trump andn his new catch phrase after Charlie Samuels.

Elster88 Dec 19 2005 03:25 PM

I could be wrong on this...I thought black wasn't, technically, a color?

metirish Dec 19 2005 03:27 PM

I could fix this problem in less than ten minutes, Mr. Peterson stop wearing the black jacket all the time,or order a new blue one.

seawolf17 Dec 19 2005 03:37 PM

I loved the old 80's blue satin jackets. Bring those back. A few years ago, when we were at Shea the morning tickets went on sale, one of the players (I think it was Lenny Harris) came out to meet & greet wearing Anthony Young's old blue satin jacket.

martin Dec 19 2005 03:43 PM

call me crazy, but i wouldnt mind seeing the orange jerseys once in a while. the spring training ones from a couple years ago were a bit gaudy, but i bet they could make orange ones that arent so bad. maybe not though.

sharpie Dec 19 2005 03:45 PM

Stop the madness. No orange jerseys.

Edgy DC Dec 19 2005 03:46 PM

martin=crazy

ScarletKnight41 Dec 19 2005 03:47 PM

NO MORE ORANGE JERSEYS!!!!!!!

Yancy Street Gang Dec 19 2005 03:48 PM

Here's how the jerseys should be: white with pinstripes. And grey for road games. Use the black jerseys for Sunday night games, or some other such infrequent occasion. I know they won't be eliminated, and I'm okay with them showing up once in a while in order to entice merchandise sales. But they should be the exception, not the rule. And if Charlie Samuels doesn't get with the program, it might be clobberin' time.

metsmarathon Dec 19 2005 03:58 PM

Elster88 wrote: I could be wrong on this...I thought black wasn't, technically, a color? depends on wether you're talking color of light or color pf pigment... black is the absence of light, or, conversely, the totality of color absorption, meaning the totality of pigment. the black jackets absorb all light that strikes them, or most of it, and as such reflect none back to the eye, thus resulting in a black color.

ScarletKnight41 Dec 19 2005 04:05 PM

Black is beautiful, baby!

martin Dec 19 2005 04:37 PM

i'm tellin ya, it would be a sweet trick if they could make good-looking orange jerseys. i think it could be done. they would have to keep em simple with the logos and whatnot, it could work. i wouldnt mind blue jerseys either. of course black orange and blue should all be rare. like the old school funky fit jerseys you see maybe once a year. the rest of the time grey and white is all you need.

soupcan Dec 19 2005 04:51 PM

Watching the playoffs this past year I became smitten with this item of apparel... And I thought 'Wow, that's very cool, I'm definitly getting a Mets one." So I logged on and went mlb.com. When I got to the Mets version of the jacket THIS is what was offered... ICK. No effin' way. Why, why, why couldn't they make a friggin. blue one? Huh? That so much to ask?

HahnSolo Dec 19 2005 05:30 PM

Am I the only one who has a hard time with Charlie Samuels being the one who makes this decision? Now supposedly the reasoning behind the black jerseys and hats that the media gives you is the always-easy-to-fall-back-on excuse that it "helps with merchandising." But is there any actual evidence anywhere that Met fans willl spend more on black or any other "alternate" jersey over the traditional blue with pinstripes? I know about 4 years ago I wanted to get my then 2-year old daughter a Met outfit so I went to the clubhouse shop. The only choices in her size were pink (okay, maybe I can see that for a 2-y-o girl, but I wanted something more traditional) or black. I walked out with nothing, and was really bummed.

DocTee Dec 19 2005 11:53 PM

]Am I the only one who has a hard time with Charlie Samuels being the one who makes this decision? Me too-- I always thought the starting pitcher made that determination.

cooby Dec 20 2005 07:41 AM

Are those sleeves butter yellow?

Nymr83 Dec 20 2005 11:09 AM

the blue hat rules, get rid of that other shit and the black jerseys too.