When Black Friday Comes

Just like the Mets to have a solid game against the league’s best team on the same day that stories suggesting the org whack the manager (New York Sun) and pitching coach (Daily News) appear. But that’s the Mets.

Part of it could be a lift from the return of Moises Alou to the lineup, though I’d argue that the drag of anticipating his return was every bit as bad. They activated Alou by the way, by demoting Gustavo Molina while Brian Schneidershowed up in an emergency mode.

And don’t get me wrong — it’s great to see Jose Reyes driving the ball again, and I want to see a cycle as much as the next guy, maybe more, but Sandy Alomar Sr. is a horse’s ass for sending Reyes after the inside-the-parker with no outs. Not only was he out by a mile but he could have gotten hurt. And he certainly would have scored given the three bats in the lineup to follow him. Alomar got away with the same kinda boneheaded calls all last year and was never held accountable.

Worth noticing in the game was the fact they were in their black jerseys again… a get-up that to this point has been worn on each Friday of the season and only on Friday. A friend pointed out these jerseys do not include the Shea Stadium patch as their white ones do. Not sure offhand is that is peculiar only to the black jerseys or to black road jerseys. Do you know? Let us know.

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One comment

  1. Jon Springer says:

    Looks like it’s either a

    Submitted by SteveJRogers (not verified) on Sat, 05/03/2008 – 12:23am.
    Looks like it’s either a road thing, or someone forgot something! [img]http://www.nydailynews.com/img/2008/04/12/amd_mets-delgado.jpg[/img]
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    Not only that, but it looks

    Submitted by stevejrogers (not verified) on Sat, 05/03/2008 – 12:28am.
    Not only that, but it looks like the road greys are also sans patch [img]http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080419/capt.098fb4c329154cb0a17fdcd7c6b2ce60.mets_phillies_baseball_patm102.jpg[/img]
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    I’m pretty sure they only

    Submitted by Stormy (not verified) on Sat, 05/03/2008 – 12:47am.
    I’m pretty sure they only wear the Shea patch at home & not on the road.
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    According to the official

    Submitted by Dave Mackey (not verified) on Sat, 05/03/2008 – 5:45am.
    According to the official press release, the patch is worn only on home unis.
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    Thanks! Thought I was onto

    Submitted by Jon Springer on Sat, 05/03/2008 – 6:23am.
    Thanks! Thought I was onto something there for a minute. We’re 3-1 in black this year, but it’s early.
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    Mets wearing the black today

    Submitted by metirish on Sun, 05/04/2008 – 3:31pm.
    Mets wearing the black today , Samuels must be reading the site.
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    By the time many of you see

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