The Mets’ announcement of the return of 1987 emergency starting pitcher Don Schulze to the organization as a special Spring Training instructor was undermined when the team’s new clubhouse manager, Kevin Kierst, could rustle up only the H and the U for Schulze’s pinstriped No. 25 jersey. In light of the Mets ownership group’s recently revealed financial straits, observers wonder if the team will have the necessary resources to purchase enough letters to dress its players and coaches in accordance with strictly enforced National League uniform standards in 2011.
A Mets spokesman denied the missing S, C, L, Z and E in SCHULZE are related to the Bernie Madoff affair, citing instead former Mets clubhouse manager Charlie Samuels’s penchant for “gambling the shirts off our backs, including many of their alphanumeric elements.” The spokesman added, “We’ll have almost every letter at our disposal — and multiples of each vowel — by the beginning of our exhibition schedule…our season opener in Miami at the latest.”
However it came about, the letter shortfall would explain the presence of a so-called “mystery player” spotted working out around third base this past weekend in Port St. Lucie. One local resident visiting the Mets’ training complex to take in informal early fielding drills was heard to wonder, “Who the hell is IG 5?”
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HY – LARIOUS!
People are also baffled by EVANS 6. Minor-league rosters are being scoured in an effort to figure out who this guy is. Wasn’t there someone with St. Lucie named, um, Blevanski? All very puzzling.
Vanna, the Mets would like to buy some vowels, cheap!
Vintage uniforms recently seen in the Mets shop:
#31 PIZZA
#16 GOOD
#7 KRAP
#18 AWRY
#41 SAVER
Rumor has them changing stadium name to ‘CITIPEPSIDELTAHEBREWNATIONALFIELD’.
I think it’s pretty obvious:
HU’s ON FIRST.
I slipped on the ice this evening, hit my head, and momentarily envisioned that George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States, is scheming to buy that 25% chunk of our beloved New York Mets, the team co-founded by his great-uncle, George Herbert Walker. That would be the reason why the former president recently declared he is “done with interviews and politics”.
Not on topic, perhaps, but fitting under a FAFIF posting entitled “First Sign of Trouble”.