The 1992 Mets apology letter

I struggled all day with how to follow the uniform news.  I have plenty of the usual normal posts but none seemed majestic enough.

Fortunately it rained on Monday and I cleaned the garage.  I found this.  And this is majestic.

Now I know that’s hard to read so I will transcribe it for you.  It’s dated October 5, 1992

 

Dear Mets Fans,

Our season wasn’t exactly one to remember.  We were just as dissapointed as we know you were. But what we won’t soon forget is all of you who came to Shea, despite our many injuries, despite the economy, despite even the bad weather.

They say when you’re down and out you find out who your true friends are. We were happy to discover we still had true friends, by the millions.

So thank you Mets fans and thank you New York.

Spring training is only four months away. We can hardly wait.

Let’s go Mets!

The New York Mets

At the bottom are lots of signatures…the first that catches my eye is player Willie Randolph.  There’s Jeff Torborg.  Doc Gooden.  Good old Jeff Kent (I would still rather have 48 year old David Cone), looks like that says Vince Coleman, Todd Hundley takes some blame, poor old Bob Mandt signed it, Jay Horwitz is there on the bottom, and I guess that squiggle between Torbog and Doubleday is Fred Wilpon.  I’m looking for one notable player but I don’t recognize his signature on here if he did sign it.

It’s funny to see the Mets blame the injuries – you might want to wonder how Gooden went 10-13 in 31 starts…and this team of course led to the book The Worst Team Money Could Buy

It’s nice to see the Mets ball logo still had the NY.

What’s great about this story is the line by Osh41.  He said they should have waited another year.  The 1993 Mets would go 59-103 and introduce these swoosh jerseys.  (This one from Mike, originally submitted for a You Own This post but I have decided to deploy it here. And he says it’s a 94,and even swoosh jerseys have the NY in the ball, but I digress).

So Mets fans, the next time you think you have it bad because Ike Davis misses most of the year or Dan Murphy drops a ball, just think back to the summer of 1992 where you were rooting for Bobby Bonilla, the team apologized and yet it got even worse.

If you are visiting from Uni Watch welcome!  You may get a kick out of the 1992 Mets Apology Letter

New Mets uniforms coming!!!!!!!

“And we had been hearing from fans — and observing on blogs and things like that — of people having a view that they’d like to see more of the blue and orange.”

“We are planning on actually doing some modifications to our uniform palette for next year as part of our 50th anniversary celebration,” Howard said. “That’s something we’ll announce, I think, after the season. The plan is to unveil it in November.”

They missed the cut-off to have blue in 2013 but will wear it from time to time in 2012…with some “1962” type unis next year.  Black ain’t dead but blue is back baby.

Full story on ESPN New York via Adam Rubin.

I am going to celebrate in Times Square and will comment at length later.  I have waited a long long time to post this image.

One last post about 1987 Seaver

Well I say that now but everytime I think we’ve gotten to the end of the 1987 Seaver saga more pops up.

Steve D turned me on to this article which is from Bill Simmons and the flip of yesterday’s discussion.  A quick excerpt..

one afternoon, right after I had gotten home from school, Gus gave me the call: “He’s coming over … right now.”

I shattered the land-speed record getting there in time for Seaver’s arrival; he seemed friendly enough when we were introduced, despite the fact I was staring at him with one of those “HOLY CRAP! IT’S TOM SEAVER!” expressions on my face. We made some small talk … and then it happened.

“Hey, why don’t you grab a bat and come outside with us?” Seaver asked me. “You can pretend you’re a batter. I want to gauge what it’s like to pitch with somebody standing there.”

Go read the rest.  Great great stuff.

 

Maybe Murph will ask me to drive him to the airport or something.  Not quite the same.

 

 

 

 

 

Who wants a Mr. O’Met hat?

If you’d like a Met hat that I have some issues with (let’s pick another nationality, any one, and make a themed hat – how do you think that would go over?) – but if stereotyping the Irish is your think (hell Notre Dame makes a mint doing it) here’s your chance!

 

 

Manufactured by the New Era cap company, this is a very unique professional model fitted cap manufactured specially for the Mets’ St. Patrick’s Day game this year in Port St. Lucie, Florida.  The Mets took the field on March 17th, 2011 wearing just about the most original looking caps they have ever worn (The Mercury Mets cap doesn’t even come close!)…

Unlike the usual Mets cap, this one is a solid kelly green cap with a kelly green bill, and features the face of Mr. Met on the front, transformed into a Leprechaun!  The familiar face of the Mets’ mascot is now seen with a bright orange beard, a kelly green baseball seam, and a traditional green Irish hat containing a shamrock.  In fact, the caps have been dubbed the “Mr. O’Met” caps.

The cap also contains a kelly green button and is a fitted size 7 1/8.  The side of the cap features a white embroidered New Era logo.  Inside the cap are all of the expected tags for a professional model cap — the size tag (7 1/8), the New Era tag and all of the 59 Fifty logo bands.

Tim Byrdak’s #40 is also written inside the cap in black sharpie.  The cap was issued to the Mets relief pitcher for the game.  It shows little to no game use and is being sold as a “team issued cap”.  Apart from a few broken threads, the number written inside, and a very slight curvature on the bill, the cap is like new.

As the Mets Game Used team has not made these caps available to the public for sale, and these caps also have not been for retail sale, this is as rare as it gets.  Whether you would want to buy this to wear or to simply add to your Mets collection, I don’t know that you will be able to find another.  Your chance to be one of very few to own the most unique cap the Mets have ever worn on field!!!

I’m not that wigged out about the cap but seriously…pick any other nationality and make a cap next season.  Let’s see how it plays out.

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