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7 minutes ago, Krona said:

Not saying they wear Dodgers throwbacks, just use the pattern, which 99% of fans wouldn't connect to the Dodgers unless it was pointed out. As for the being about the city, that's the point. Use a subway tile inspired design with the windowpane as the architecture. And also, half of these teams are misunderstanding the assignment of "CITY". It's a dumb program that could be marginally better if they lifted a dumb name that doesn't mean anything.

no, i mean...you're definitely right. i'm just saying from a PR perspective, it's probably why they wouldn't even touch anything dodger related. honestly, they could have just done something inspired by the neon on the outside of shea stadium and everyone would have loved it. but again, it's for the dude walking through times square going, "oh cool NYC jersey! i'll buy that!"

just curious if this does anything for anyone. super quick removal of the bridge from the cap and changing the outlines on the jersey and hat to purple.

7 minutes ago, Krona said:

The Mets really blew the opportunity to use the old windowpane plaid the Dodgers had. Ties in with the city's history and gives the perfect backdrop to a subway tile mosaic treatment. This doesn't have to be that hard.

 

during the wilpon ownership, the mets got (justifiably)murdered for caring more about the brooklyn dodgers than their own history. don't think they would have ever gone in that direction. but even so, that's not what the CC program is about. it's about the city, not the baseball history (obviously, as a baseball fan, that stinks, but it is what it is). look at this excerpt from the athletic. bunch of great nuggets in this article, by the way, including that player feedback to nike about colored pants has been that they get too hot, they thought about doing 'QUEENS' but thought it was too narrow for a fan base that is spread out:

For the Mets, the process with Nike started after the 2021 season. Nike issued a brief on what goes into a City Connect uniform, and Goldberg and Benesh filled out a 12-page questionnaire posing queries such as, “What does New York mean?” Nike sent five design concepts based on the answers, and the team gave notes or directions to scrap whatever look altogether; five more designs would follow.

think some of the critiques of the mets CC uni are a little too extreme.

i can't believe i'm saying this, but i agree that it needs more purple. maybe that'll happen on the undersleeves.  the NY on the cap should have been purple, and without the bridge.

i don't mind the pants being white. on a player that wears a more tailored uni like lindor, charcoal pinstripe pants probably would have been great. but on the bigger guys, especially when they go pants down, it would have looked drab, like the rest of the CC's.

yes, "queens" would have been better on the front. it is what it is.

overall, it's probably in the 6/7 out of 10 range for me. considering the CC program's propensity to produce absolute nonsense, i'm perfectly okay with these being my team's version.

14 hours ago, Silent Wind of Doom said:

 

"For the Lou"?  Is that a thing?

let nelly design a backwards jersey. you cowards!

1 hour ago, MCM0313 said:

Really? One of the articles (mothership maybe?) specifically said the Jets would NOT have a third helmet this year. 

i'm sure they're retailers are prepping for it. giving it space to breath after the redesign is the way to go.

i’ll reserve all judgment until i see the full look (and then see it on the field), but i’m not going to lie: if it looks like the NYC version, it might be kind of good?

Just now, NYCdog said:

Another possible Mets leak. 
 

 

hmmmm. the fact that the cap is a subway token design is intriguing since we know they're going purple in a nod to the 7 train. but the bridge being in the official teaser matching the first cap leak leads me to lean toward the first one being legit. i don't know. this one i wouldn't hate. but i'm skeptical.

18 minutes ago, coco1997 said:

And a possible Tigers leak, too:

 

 

if the mets use the new york city script, it could be decent. i just don't like the tone they're setting with that bridge embroidery on the cap. borders on gas station cap design.

looks like we have a mets city connect cap leak:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5tDIQzRlFB/?igsh=MWFram96eTMxbmlpbg==

by visibility, they mean on merchandising, because why do you need more brand visibility on a product that you're already watching.

nevermind the fact that the batterman wasn't even in that spot until the year 2000.

not going to lie, even with all the pearl clutching about the nike template, i kinda figured it wouldn’t matter once i turned on the tv. of course us uni nerds would care, but i figured the jerseys would be close enough that most people would just forget about it. 

watched the mets today and my goodness these jerseys look like absolute dog. it’s abysmal.  i don’t understand how they figured these player names would be okay. 

8 hours ago, adsarebad said:

Eric Hosmer talking about the jerseys: 

 

"look like knock offs" but believe they will have it fixed by opening day! 

 

https://www.tmz.com/2024/02/23/eric-hosmer-new-mlb-jerseys-knockoffs-theyll-fix/

everyone keeps saying the jerseys look like knockoffs, but i think they look more like youth replicas.

a thought randomly occurred to me over the weekend: you think the mets changed their black uniform because they (team or nike or both) knew that a tri-color with dropshadow name and number would look horrible in the smaller font size? may have just been to sell a new batch of jerseys, but it could explain the change.

welp, the mets one sucks:

yeah, IMO, i think they really only wore the black pants with the previous set of white jerseys to give the players some say in not looking as terrible. don't think they'd do that again anytime soon.

i know paul at uni watch always talks about "coke" vs. "pepsi" teams. jets just re-entered the coke realm. hope they never leave again.

that's a great mockup set by jake. hopefully the black unis A) look like that, and B ) have contrasting socks. i have my doubts on both, but we'll see.

after 18 years on this board, it's clear that this jets move will follow the usual patterns of nitpicks, discussions of different jets looks that specific people would prefer they went back to, concepts about how they could modernize it (always with a weak-looking logo that incorporates a jet), etc. and we should, because we're logo and uniform lovers and that's what we do. but let's be honest: the jets are going to look like a football team again. whatever jets uniform you prefer, this is a MAJOR win for both us jets fans and the general aesthetics of the game.

wouldn’t shock me to see the mets put out two versions: one that’s blue dominant, one black.  have zero insight on that. still super weird it’s the only one that hasn’t leaked. 

9 minutes ago, coco1997 said:

 

Uni-Watch just posted all of them:

2024 MLB Batting Practice Cap Collection Appears Online (uni-watch.com)

all of them...except the ONE TEAM i want to see lol

the breezers and helmet thing may be where lou does his lou thing and they just do something traditional.

i'm an islanders die-hard, and i get where we sort of stack up in terms of legacy franchises and national attention, so it's really disappointing to see the half-assed effort both stadium series designs have gotten. it's probably the closest thing we'll get to a winter classic, and the uniforms are always abysmal. unbelievable that this franchise just can't hit on an alternate jersey.

i, too, am not a fan of the islanders stadium series jersey, but let's not pretend that their first black alternate wasn't the worst jersey in franchise history (and among the worst in NHL history).

23 hours ago, Anubis2051 said:

 

I'm betting neon. The neon ballplayers have been all over their in stadium graphics the last 2 seasons. 

agree, i think this is the most likely.

so what are we thinking for the mets CC uni? skyline? neon? some goofy "GOTHAM" thing? a jersey with a bunch of chop shop signs?

53 minutes ago, Carolingian Steamroller said:

It's not really accurate anymore to say the Namath-era because the Jets wore those uniforms for longer in the 90's and 21st Century than they did in the 60's and 70's.

 

That design breaks down to a contrasting sleeve cap with an added, spaced stripe. I think it's still possible to make it look good. Or at least a version of it.

I don't like the idea of trying to combine eras. I think that's how you wind up with nobody feeling satisfied.

That being said, I wouldn't complain about a straight return to the Sack Exchange. Fit the current tailoring of the jersey well. Helmet color is great, especially in a division with the Dolphins and Bills wearing white helmets. Maybe add some simple green pants (I always liked the white over green in the 00's design). Definitely use a white collar on the green jersey. People would dig it.

i'd love green pants for the sack exchange roads, but honestly? i'd be okay without them just to avoid the chance that they'd go green-over-green. 

1 hour ago, TBGKon said:

Let's be honest, those Namath era unis weren't the best since the Starter version.  Every other version was shoehorned to a template and didnt look the best.

 

 

bingo. if you could assure me the 1998 version of the modern namath era could return, i'd be into it. but we'll never get that again, so c'est la vie.