The Mets officially unveiled their City Connect jerseys Friday, featuring New York City-inspired elements.
The jerseys will be worn every for each Saturday home game beginning April 27 against the Cardinals, save for a June 1 game against the Diamondbacks.
“Our new City Connect uniforms are an homage to everything that makes NYC the greatest city in the world. We wanted to honor different parts of the city that connect to our home in Queens.” Mets Chief Marketing Officer Andy Goldberg said in the team’s release.
“From the bridges to the trains to the streets, Mets fans across New York and beyond can wear this streetwear style look with pride.”
The jerseys feature several Big Apple elements, including:
- Circles and diamonds from the subway system
- A sleeve patch designed to represent a New York City subway token
- The color purple in homage to the 7-Line train that goes directly to Citi Field
- An inscription of “The World’s City” to highlight New York’s diversity
- An outline of the Queensboro bridge on the front of the cap
- “New York City” written on the inside of the cap alongside lines designed to represent the New York City subway system.
The Mets released a hype video that features the players showing off the new threads and relies on the IYKYK acronym — “If you know, you know” — with the Mets logo between the first K and the second Y.
A second video features, per the Mets, BMX rider Nigel Sylvester, rapper Large Professor, graffiti artist Futura 2000, New York jeweler Greg Yuna, and film producers/filmmakers Jaeki Cho and Mario Ramos, along with Edwin Diaz, Kodai Senga and Francisco Lindor, with Gang Starr’s “Work” playing.
“If you knew New York,” Diaz says, before Senga follows with “You know it’s the World’s City,” and Lindor closes with: “If you know New York, you know how much of it went into this jersey.”
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