MLB.com is pushing their 2011 Authentic Collection now, because well that seems to be what the MLB does. I used to have a really jaded opinion about it, but I'm starting to cross over to indifferent about the entire situation. Anyway, for those you who don't pay attention to these things, because there is no reason to pay attention to these things, the authentic line refers to anything a player wants to wear on the field. It then gets an MLB/Team logo, usually gets an authentic patch (if it is actually clothing) and then gets marked up and sold for a lot of money to consumers.
This covers Jerseys and hats (obvious) but also covers those “magic” bracelets and necklaces (no scientific proof they work). That range includes T-shirts, sweatshirts, before game items, spring training items, various jackets, other weather hats, etc.
Anyway, for some reason, the Mets actually have two jackets. Which means they get to sell two different jackets. Now, it isn't like one jacket is for cold weather and the other is luke-warm weather (although that exists as well). No these jackets are just inverses of each other.
One jacket is the team jacket, the other is the team road jacket. Yep. We have home and away jackets. It just begs for us to rehire Rick Peterson so he can wear more than one jacket.
So yes, the New York Mets. Home to money scandals, off the field issues, and two official winter jackets in the authentic collection (at least we aren't one of those teams that have home
and away
batting practice caps).
