The Mets Police

The latest from Mookie Wilson’s blog.  Very interesting.

Controlled arrogance, championship teams have confidence in their abilities but awareness of situation that may force them to change their approach or strategy.

A championship team wins in spite of flawed coaching not because of good coaching.

via Mookie’s View: A Winning Team.

Meant to ask you guys, what did my dream mean?: Hojo was the RFer for the 2011 Mets and was misplaying balls.

There is a feeling I am really starting to get. Seems to me that a lot more blue and orange is being used and less and less black in a lot of the Mets materials. I just received my 15 game plan ticket book and it looked very classic to me.

Here is the front cover of the ticket book:

Blue,orange, and white for the slogan. I am not a fan of the slogan but everything can’t be about me. Some of you (Shannon) can nitpick about the use of the black binding if you want though.

Upon opening the book and getting to the tickets, you see:

Classic looking. I like the orange box makes the text stand out more. One hat and three jerseys.Nice.

Let’s take closer look:

Classic blue hat. No hybrid. No all black.Just classic blue. People it might be a sign. I think it might be time for the Blue Cap Army to make a comeback.

Mets patch no black in it.Looks to me like it’s the sleeve of the pinless home jerseys. Again the logo looks classic. Yes, I know Shannon it’s missing the little NY.

The cream colored home alternate jersey. Nice jersey. Black drop shadow not so nice. Only “black” included in these tickets.

This seems to be the throwback NY jersey from a couple of years ago. Look at that smiling Mr Met that is on the sleeve of that jersey.

I might be totally wrong but it does seem that the Mets look like they are trying to build upon their tradition. I just love the look of these tickets. Mock me if you guys want, but I am having a really good feeling about the start of the regime change.It seems that it is infiltrating the whole organization with more classiness.

The Mets really sent out a nice package for us 15 game plan holders.I figured it would be way different then the season plan holders. From what I have seen in pictures they look to be the exact same package.

When I opened my UPS box I was shocked to see this:

I know a lot of you are going to complain about the Mets blowing money on this packaging and I don’t blame you. But like in the past this is where I figure our extra fees go that the flex plan holders had waived.

I proceeded to open the blue (not black) box with the silver Mets logo to reveal this:

Blue and orange tissue paper wrapped around my ticket book and what looks to be the my plan holder gift on the right.Also, the inside of the box has the Mets game calendar printed on the bottom of the cover.

I pull out my gift to see yes the Mets did slip something black into this well done package:

Well played Mets. Well played indeed sneaking the block box in.

Here’s a pic of what is in said box:

I wonder how Shannon feels about the face color on this watch. I am just impressed that it’s a better gift the the “Injoy the floating feeling” gift that we got last year.

Thank you to the Mets for a well thought out boutique packaging that was sent out to us. I appreciate it. Classy looking packaging, classy looking gift, and it seems a GM who is trying to make the franchise classier as a whole.

I am going to get into the look of the tickets in a later post today.

The Supreme Commander of Allied Forces To Ditch The Black, Paul Lukas on Uni Watch has the story of the first Mets uniform, who wore it, how it came to be, and even a link to the 1962 prototype “swoosh” jersey (as Osh41 calls it).

Most importantly, the Mets got the uniform right in 1962 and 1962 + 50 = 2012 in case anyone in marketing needs any ideas for next season.

I’ll be over at the BJ’s Clubhouse looking for David Cone if you need me.