Old Unis, New Results?

You know it's a slow season when, in the last week of the season, a 40-word blurb in a local scribe's online "notepad" about a potential uniform change generates more interest than, you know, the team itself ever has in recent memory.

But what about that report! "The Mets plan to go retro with their pinstriped home uniforms... [which] will change to off-white, as they were in the 1960s, from their current bright white," writes beat reporter Adam Rubin. No word yet from Omar on whether Rubin wants Charlie Samuels' job.

Either way, this is an exciting enough development in a go-nowhere season. More exciting still is word found in other reports that the rise of the retro jersey has been linked with the phasing out of the black uniforms.

Like many others, I'm not a fan of the Mets' black unis. I will say that a hint of black in the background of a helmet or a jersey can look good. Take Mr. Glass' helmet in the below, for example.

A hint of black isn't a bad look, but when it's allowed to dominate the uniform, then it becomes a problem. The team's colors are blue and orange, that should be the starting point.

So while I've always liked the bright white/blue pinstripe combo, I'm not against changing the background color to eggshell if it means eliminating the black home jersey.

What I really want, as described in an earlier post, is a new uniform that uses the throwback uniform the Mets used that one weekend against the Giants as its inspiration.

To reiterate, the jersey should not feature the massive NY, but rather the standard Mets logo on top of that cream coloring and the minimalist blue striping/lettering. It was a crisp, clean look, one that would signal, if only in a small way, the start of a new era so desperately needed by Mets fans.

But at the end of the day this is just fashion. You can change the uniforms all you like, but if the Mets start playing like the 1960's teams their uniforms emulate, well, it's going to be a long year in 2010.

- A.F.O.M.G.