{"id":1739,"date":"2011-10-19T18:03:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T18:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2013-12-14T18:05:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T18:05:50","slug":"smells-like-teen-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1739","title":{"rendered":"Smells Like Teen Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/fernandez10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/fernandez10.jpg\" width=\"392\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi there.<\/p>\n<p>MBTN reader Steven this week found the above image out there in space, showing the Mets&#8217; starting rotation posing in Spring Training of 1987 with new uniforms: Not just the butt-ugly script New York road jerseys destined to be worn in\u00a01987\u00a0and 1987 alone, but the centerpiece,\u00a0Sid Fernandez, wearing\u00a0No. 10\u00a0and not\u00a0No. 50\u00a0that represented his home state of Hawaii and the cop show set there.<\/p>\n<p>Sid&#8217;s number change was to be part of a wholesale change in Met pitcher jerseys first suggested near the end of the 1986 season by teammate\u00a0Ron Darling\u00a0(right). Darling, who in 1985 switched from No. 44 to No. 12, suggested that fellow starters Fernandez and\u00a0Rick Aguilera\u00a0(left) join him,\u00a0Dwight Gooden\u00a0(16) and\u00a0Bob Ojeda\u00a0(19) with numbers in the teens. When they arrived for Spring Training in 1987, equipment manager Charlie Samuels was ready.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez famously chickened out of the experiment on the eve of the new season, but Aguilera stayed in 15, which was famously cashiered by\u00a0George Foster\u00a0the previous summer. It was one of several changes for the Mets that spring as\u00a0Kevin Elster\u00a0moved from 2 to 21;\u00a0Clint Hurdle\u00a0went from the 13 he as assigned in his last Met go-around in 1985 to 7 in 1987 (Lee Mazzilli\u00a0in the meantime was assigned 13); and\u00a0Ed Hearn\u00a0switched from 49 to 9. Hearn, like Fernandez, however, wouldn&#8217;t make it to the the start of the season in his ugly new assigned Mets jersey: He&#8217;d be traded to Kansas City for\u00a0David Cone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there. MBTN reader Steven this week found the above image out there in space, showing the Mets&#8217; starting rotation posing in Spring Training of 1987 with new uniforms: Not just the butt-ugly script New York road jerseys destined to be worn in\u00a01987\u00a0and 1987 alone, but the centerpiece,\u00a0Sid Fernandez, wearing\u00a0No. 10\u00a0and not\u00a0No. 50\u00a0that represented his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1739\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Smells Like Teen Spirit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[188,566],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ed-hearn","tag-sid-fernandez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}