{"id":866,"date":"2008-03-13T01:07:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T01:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=866"},"modified":"2013-12-01T01:08:52","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T01:08:52","slug":"shirts-and-ts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"Shirts and T&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/civilrights.jpg\" width=\"206\" height=\"268\" \/>When the Mets play the White Sox in the annual Civil Rights Game exhibition March 29 in Memphis, they will wear special uniforms to commemorate the event. According to a news item today on Paul Lukas&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uniwatchblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Uniwatch\u00a0<\/a>blog, they will look like the jersey pictured here (which, he reminds us, looked like the jerseys last year, when the Indians and Cardinals met).<\/p>\n<p>As chronicled by Paul for the founding event a year ago, MLB officials explained the jerseys were &#8220;inspired by the simplicity of the Negro Leagues uniforms,&#8221; but its tough to figure out their style decisions all the same.<\/p>\n<p>Good to see the Mets participating this season at any rate. I mean, it&#8217;s not Mercury Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Funnier stuff for sure is detailed on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/brooklynmetfan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Met Fan<\/a>, where an associate down in St. Lucie whose t-shirts proclaiming CHOOSE LIFE&#8230; um, I mean, GO BIG PELF have caused a minor sensation with some members of the Mets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Mets play the White Sox in the annual Civil Rights Game exhibition March 29 in Memphis, they will wear special uniforms to commemorate the event. According to a news item today on Paul Lukas&#8217;s\u00a0Uniwatch\u00a0blog, they will look like the jersey pictured here (which, he reminds us, looked like the jerseys last year, when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=866\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shirts and T&#8217;s&#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":[348],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uniforms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","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=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}