Two toned helmets

[JQK]

If it was all metallic purple, that'd be cool.

Agreed.

[footballfiji]

Personally, I think all batting helmets should look the same as the cap. (like someone earlier said, a hardened version of the cap)

[hormone]

A little off topic, but it still bothers me when the helmet doesn't match the hat. When was the last time the D-Rays wore their black hat? They wear a black helmet all the time. That would be like a football team wearing different helmets for offense and defense.

Also, how long until the Mets make a hat out of their Wolverine designed helmets or the Pirates have a black and ketchup/mustard helmet?

[yh]

Those are whore-endous

Your remark in the context of describing those batting helmets is a terrible inslut to whores everywhere.

Of course I did it on purpose.

[Sport]

Black washes out purple, but purple doesn't wash out black. If purple were the primary color for the Rockies they would have a much better look, unique as well. Black is such a flat, stagnant color, You know? The road uniforms have it right with the purple lettering and numbers, but when they're at home they look like the white sox. I can't tell from the last row or on TV or in most pictures that those pinstripes are purple they look black to me.

[Gothamite]

Here's the Mets' helmet:

[Survival79]

A little off topic, but it still bothers me when the helmet doesn't match the hat. When was the last time the D-Rays wore their black hat? They wear a black helmet all the time. That would be like a football team wearing different helmets for offense and defense.

I could not agree with you more.

[VitaminD]

Here's the Mets' helmet:

And somewhere in America, a girls' softball team is looking for their missing helmets.

These are bah-roo-tal. I realize that the whole CoolFlo shape is a less-than-subtle attempt by Rawlings to lend some brand recognition to their product, but they overdid it. The design alone is ridiculous; what was wrong with a smooth, round helmet without giant vents and ridges? And they went ahead and made it worse with the metallic two-tone paint jobs. Batting helmets should be the hard plastic equivalents of the fielders' caps; these are an attempt at indirectly selling an equipment maker's name gone horribly awry.

If powder blue unis and pullover jerseys can go away, so too shall these monstrosities. Be patient.

[IronChefShark]

If those Rockies road uniforms had some corn (and somehow one green Skittle) on them, they'd look like the disaster I just left in my roommate's toilet.

Dude is gonna be pissssssed.

[powersurge]

Here's the Mets' helmet:

Take the ridiculous primarily black Mets logo off the helmet and replace it with the REAL Met logo and those helmets actually look great. I might be part of the minority here but I like batting helmets that look a bit different from the hat. There was a Japanese baseball team that actually had a helmet that looked like a big bird head. It looked great! I tried to find photos but was unsuccessful.

[dutyfree]

Here's the Mets' helmet:

Take the ridiculous primarily black Mets logo off the helmet and replace it with the REAL Met logo and those helmets actually look great. I might be part of the minority here but I like batting helmets that look a bit different from the hat. There was a Japanese baseball team that actually had a helmet that looked like a big bird head. It looked great! I tried to find photos but was unsuccessful.

No, in a few years we'll look back at these photos and say "What were they thinking?" Comically bad.

[Gothamite]

No, in a few years we'll look back at these photos and say "What were they thinking?" Comically bad.

Agreed.

Much in the way that we would look back on a batting helmet that looks like "a big bird head" and say "What were they thinking?"

[fkaKrock5cent]

Here's the Mets' helmet:

And somewhere in America, a girls' softball team is looking for their missing helmets.

These are bah-roo-tal. I realize that the whole CoolFlo shape is a less-than-subtle attempt by Rawlings to lend some brand recognition to their product, but they overdid it. The design alone is ridiculous; what was wrong with a smooth, round helmet without giant vents and ridges? And they went ahead and made it worse with the metallic two-tone paint jobs. Batting helmets should be the hard plastic equivalents of the fielders' caps; these are an attempt at indirectly selling an equipment maker's name gone horribly awry.

If powder blue unis and pullover jerseys can go away, so too shall these monstrosities. Be patient.

1. Are all the mets helmates CoolFlo because if not, Are the regular ones two-toned?

2. VitaminD, while your right, the CoolFlo design is a little too over stated. You don't care when its 80+ degrees, and your on deck!

[BBTV]

fkaKrok, I think the pic above your post shows a non-cool-flo two-toned helmet.

[josdin00]

I'm not convinced that the dodgers are using two shades of blue. It's hard to tell for sure in the various lighting.

[fkaKrock5cent]

fkaKrok, I think the pic above your post shows a non-cool-flo two-toned helmet.

Dyam, heres my sign

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8KGDTJ5Mtc

[Gothamite]

I'm not convinced that the dodgers are using two shades of blue. It's hard to tell for sure in the various lighting.

Looks like a solid color to me.

The Brewers are also using solid-color cool-flos with the Retro Friday uniforms:

[Frenchie]

Mwts really shows two different colours, but Dodgers seems to me like it's the different textures of the material that is causing the difference.

Either way, I'd like to see a scientific study on the actual spead gain either through aerodynamics or heat reduction on your average player's performance....

What's next? EDGE unis to cut down wind resistance?

[See Red]

Having seen the Dodgers play on TV the last few nights, I think they're metallic blue in the front and flat blue in the back. I could be wrong, though, that's just what it looks like to me.

[powersurge]

Here's the Mets' helmet:

Take the ridiculous primarily black Mets logo off the helmet and replace it with the REAL Met logo and those helmets actually look great. I might be part of the minority here but I like batting helmets that look a bit different from the hat. There was a Japanese baseball team that actually had a helmet that looked like a big bird head. It looked great! I tried to find photos but was unsuccessful.

No, in a few years we'll look back at these photos and say "What were they thinking?" Comically bad.

I'm pretty sure when we look back at the Met's uniform set of this era, their helmets won't the only thing that people might find "comically bad".