There was a time when that would have been an immediate red alert and immediate blogging. But Steve Cohen has completely destroyed any affinity I had for the Mets so I walked my dog for an hour.  Then I went to Tropical Smoothie Cafe.  Then I watched some soccer and THEN I remembered about the manager thing.

Andy Green?  Who is Andy Green?  I wondered if I was so disconnected that maybe I didn’t know this guy was the bench coach or something. I’m still not sure. I also don’t care.

I googled “Who is Andy Green” and learned he had managed the Padres without me noticing.

Anyway, he’s the interim manager and I still won’t bother watching any Mets games and won’t be spending any money on the Nets until Lindor is gone.

I look forward to the off-season press conference where Steve and the new manager tell us about the new culture

As for Mendoza, you guys sure loved him the summer of the gimmick team.  He was no better or worse than he was in 2024   This is all on David Stearns, as David Stearns is on Steve Cohen

Now if 700 Mets fans attend a soccer game in Norway, then I will be impressed.

Now, I checked and the Mets were HOME at Citi Field.  They played as the HOME team (this wasn’t a wierdo makeup-game or something like when the Rays had to play in NYC).

The Mets, at home.

They are wearing jerseys that say NEW YORK.

Two questions.

1.  Why are the Mets wearing road jerseys, regularly, at home?
2.  And this is the more important question, one that should have been asked decades ago – Why don’t the Mets like their own uniforms?

Shouldn’t the Mets like to look like, you know, the Mets?  Why not wear the traditional Mets uniform.

Aside from all the other points – you can’t see what it actually says because the New York isn’t colored in, or that it’s a road jersey – why don’t the Mets want to look like the Mets?

As for wearing a road jersey at home – or at least a city name jersey – they did do it ONCE in 2021 for the anniversary of 9/11.  These were cool, for that occasion, and I don’t believe they ever sold a consumer version or i’d own one.

This is also a reminder that drop shadow sucks, and that the current road jerseys need the piping back.

As for the blue jerseys…..hey if you wanna wear blue, figure this out with Nike…

Or maybe this…

While I am logged in, I will explain why I don’t post much these days.  There is of course the Mets current team being a combination of unlikable players (Lindor) and losing.  That said, losing usually doesn’t bother me.  I love the 2012 Mets because I liked the people that were Mets in 2012.  David Stearns’ Band Of Randoms That Suck At Baseball….I have other things to do.

I enjoyed being a Casual Bandwagon Knicks Frontrunner and not worrying about what they wore, or a gimmick court, or if Taylor Swift is a “real fan.”  Don’t know, don’t care.  Casual.

The Knicks, unlike the Mets, also had likable players.

Now I am into the World Cup.

As I mentioned in April, the Knicks would give Steve Cohen a LOT of cover for this disaster.  The WC might give him another month, especially uf USA goes deep.

But beyond all that, let’s talk about the reality of the modern internet.

15 years ago you went to a website, maybe Uni Watch, maybe this one.  You could promote yourself on Facebook and Twitter.

Then Facebook gated posts unless you paid.  But if you worked Twitter you could be seen.

Social ate the web, and people stopped going to websites.

Twitter became X and taht site got ruined.  Posts don’t get seen.

And now even Google is focused on AI summarizing info rather than linking  So say you wanted to know”what years did the Mets wear black” – instead of a link to Uni Watch or here, they will just summarize it.

So at some point…there’s no reason to write if things won’t be seen.

That allowed me to free myself.  I write when I want, and I don’t when I don’t feel like I have anything to say.  Today I want to tell you to read Uni Watch.

As for the lowercase.  It’s stupid and it’s a gimmick.  Which is the story of the 2020’s Steve Cohen Era Mets.

These would look a million times better with the piping.  See below.

Howie Rose has had a HOF career but he HAS said two stupid things.  One of course was the infamous “Hodges Moment” but the other was when he said the road jerseys look better without the piping.  That’s probably when Howie knew it was time to retire once he realized what he had said.

The $56 caps suck.

I will just bust into my closet and wear this one from many years ago – a Stars and Stripes fashion jersey.  Which of course has piping.  Come on Howie, take that one back before you retire.