Hey, you’re right on da money with this one. Outstanding.

LMFAO

I love how you titled the pic “Dark Helmet”….

i thought it looked funny on dempster but holy shit hahahahahahahahah

THE HELMETS ARE HUGE!!!!!!!(like safeco)

HAHA!

It’s The Great Gazoo!

Mother of Christ, that’s the funniest fucking thing I’ve ever seen. Do the Mets even know how hilarious they are?

I can’t wait to see it from Google Earth.

http://i25.tinypic.com/2qs11ld.jpg

Luis Castillo doesn’t look as bad, but still pretty awesome.

Is he wearing Tom McCarthy’s giant baby head helmet?

Spaceballs.

he looks like a storm trooper from spaceballs. classic picture

Hello dum-dum

You just made me spit out beer. Dammit, it was worth it.

Haha. WillH- I think we all were thinking that when we saw it.

who else remembers RBI baseball for Nintendo

Hahahahahaha! If I were a pitcher, I’d be cracking up if a batter stepped up to the plate with that thing.

you guys do realize everyone in the mlb will be wearing this helmet in a year or two right?

Should also be tagged: ‘metsfail’

Apparently, these monstrosities are going to be mandatory in the minors next year.

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090831&content_id=6709576&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

Personally, I feel bad they didn’t let Placido Polanco wear this kind of helmet.

ZOMG! Does anyone think he looks like Dark Helmet from Spaceballs? ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!

Gonzo, I thought the EXACT same thing, probably about as intelligent as well. http://stylemens.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/03/22/dark_helmet_angry.jpg

wow honestly at first glance i thought this was just typical funny photoshop work by the fightins. actually too funny to be true

Juan Pierre’s gonna look like an umbrella if he puts one of those on. He ALREADY looks like that with normal helmets!

Haahah, poor Wright.

I like him a lot, if they had to send him onto the field like that why send him there at all at this point? Hello 18.5 games back.

@Al… LMFAO… short bus… OMG we are all so going to hell. But it is so fucking worth it. LOL. Wright was already a fucking retard before he got hit.

@Maine No one is laughing at the fact that David Wright got beaned. But we (and even his teammates, did you see the picture of Luis Castillo wearing the helmet?) can’t help but laugh at that thing. It’s like he has a VW Beetle on his head.

Shut the fuck up.

Again. The Philadelphia obsession with New York continues.

“Want to see what a stupid helmet looks like? THIS is what a stupid helmet looks like.”

http://www.nleastchatter.com/realdirtymets/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/shane-victorino.jpg

Imagine if Utley or Howard got knocked out the way Wright did, they would NEVER wear something like this right…because they’re super tough phillies, come on

Couldn’t agree with Tom W. any more. It’s sad really. As Wright said, he doesn’t care what he looks like, if the helmet is more protective, he’s all for it, which is the way a smart person thinks. Shane Victorino wears his goofy ass double-a helmet strictly because he’s a douche bag.

12 hours later and this is still just as funny. Thank you, God.

I hear ya meech. Considering I just had some (cancer) removed a couple of months ago.

As a Phils fan, it’s difficult to say the least to pull for a Mets player, but Wright fits the bill.

So a player puts his health (and the well being of the team) ahead of style and it’s a joke? I don’t understand the reaction to this at all.

I’m actually glad to see that Wright has the balls to wear it in a game and not listen to you fools. Others will follow and it will save concussions.

Grow up.

@STFU Idiots: No, THAT is what someone who is in the playoffs, about to win the pennant, on his way to becoming World Fucking Champion looks like.

of course, the reason for the influx of posts is because metsblog posted a link…yet, we are the ones obsessing…

http://www.metsblog.com/2009/09/02/note-david-wright-knows-its-all-in-good-fun/

Don’t bother trying to post over there, they don’t allow freedom of speech at their blog, just Pepsi ads.

I did like meech’s twitter, “I can’t wait to see it from Google Earth.”

Only Philly could morph having fun at a player’s expense sporting new safety equipment (and hey, I like a good laugh as much as the next person), into jabs at the handicapped and cancer victims.

Some of you are the reason the child proof cap should have never been invented….

Inferiority complex. I’m talking about the city, the people, the culture, the sports in general. Philly wishes it was more like New York, hence the anger towards the Mets. In fact, it explains Philly’s general anger towards everything. Philly sports fans are a classless group of people mainly due to this complex. I should know, after being pelted with dozens of beer BOTTLES while walking out of the parking lot into Citizen’s Bank Park wearing my David Wright jersey recently.

This general anger also explains how somebody could get murdered at your ballpark.

And yes, I did come over here from Metsblog and I find David Wright’s helmet histerical and was laughing quite a bit at the comments above (until the cancer comment… out of line).

However, to wrap things up: 1) Philly is classless 2) Philly has an inferiority complex to New York

Look, here’s the thing. No one is against David Wright or any player for that matter putting safety first. They absolutely should do so, considering all the danger involved. However, is it REALLY necessary for that helmet to look like a giant cooking pot? I mean, can’t they reinforce the current standard helmet with better material? Padding? SOMETHING? I’m no engineer, but it’s hard to support what looks like a practical joke on Wright’s head. What’s next, giant Mickey Mouse hands replace our gloves? Seriously, get the design right, and there will be no jokes or complaints from any baseball fan.

@Pizza
you’re right, we should probably moderate our comments so we only end up with ~12 replies per post like they do over at Metsblog. That would ensure no one gets offended.

what’s funny is that even over at sites like Uniwatch (which is run by a Mets fan who hates your jerseys by the way) they are also making fun of the helmet, just trying to find something positive to say about the aesthetics of it but having a hard time. keep jumping on the cancer comment though. Obviously the joke wasn’t funny, but every fanbase has their assholes.

Im hoping that Vicente Padilla tries to see how sturdy this new helmet really is. just not against us

Yay! Mets fans are here to compare cranium sizes.

Tell me, is David Wright “the helmet to beat” this year?

Not really…The mets will always be the underdog in NYC, look, we’ve won 2 WS in 47 years of existence, while the yanks have won 26. Most Mets fans are greatful for the good years because there’s been so many bad ones. The only thing that bothers me about yankees fans is their sense of entitlement, spoiled maybe? Anyway, it always rears its head when they get beat, they act like babies and blame everything and everyone else but the their team. You’ll hear this most at “the stadium”…its probably the result of those wonderful $12 stadium beers..

Can we all establish that no one here is against the self-preservation of David Wright? Every third comment is akin to “ooh you philly fans don’t care that he got hit in the head, no wonder someone got killed at your stadium!”

Please.

The humor isn’t derived from David Wright getting hit in the head, it’s derived from the fact that those helmets are look ridiculous. Are they safer? Of course. Will their inevitable integration into MLB be a good thing? Yes.

But here’s the thing: Even Wright’s teammates were laughing at him. So are they classless? Of course not, they are just in on the joke. But because this is a Phillies blog, and ostensibly rife with Phillies fans, the motivation behind this was sinister.

Also, there is this thing called “a joke.”

agreed…I tried not to laugh at it, but I did. I sort of laughed at Orlando Hudson when he started wearing the double earflap helmet..I thought little league WS, but I don’t even notice it now.
Believe it or not, in time, this helmet will be the norm

Hysterical. If this trend continues, the Mets might all look like this next year:

I apologize in advance if inline pictures are a faux pas. In that case, just point your browser to:
http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/oo21/tofoomeister/bighelmet.png

hahahaha you people are ridiculous. you’re like the media that takes a section of a quote out of context and exploit it to support your point. Because we are laughing at the ridiculousness that is that helmet, doesn’t mean we are laughing at the fact the dude got beaned in the dome. Then again, I am trying to reason with Mets fans……

and on a classier note, Suse, get fucked.

ugh, who let all the douchebags in today?

I thought this was a sports blog, not a class contest.

I don’t give a fuck that you came from a mets blog to to pretend that philly wants to be NY when you are trolling on a philly blog. Your idiocy is shown every post you make.

I looked at this picture, and I laughed. Simple as that. You suck and no one likes you. go pretend that your city is the greatest in the world and that everyone wants to be you. It seems to be working wonders.

Only thing funnier than seeing Wright in that helmet would be if Ryan Howard had to wear something to protect that shnoz of his.

If he wants to wear that helmet to get better protection, that’s great and he should do just that.

If I want to laugh the ridiculous look of it, that’s my choice.

@Muscles

That seems like an angry comment. Jealous?

Philly, New York, blah blah. No one cares. Phillies win, Mets lose. That’s the real topic.

Mench…that’s his name

LOFL, imagine the lid on him,

I’m pretty sure Wright’s lid doubles as a punch bowl, porta john, and GP bucket to carry batting practice balls etc.

Might also serve as luggage, a night stand, step stool…

with all the engineering and design capabilities that exist today, couldn’t Rawlings come up with a better design?

I’ve seen smaller motorcycle helmets

He should take another ball to the dome, really test it out. I’m not saying that as a want of hurt towards Wright, or anyone else in the league, but really, what are those helmets going to do from a 96 mph pitch? That wouldn’t have helped Ryan Church when he got cleated across the head last year. They should have just put a Beebe foam cap on the helmet.

@Todd
I agree we definitely have a rivalry…. now. Before you guys were good though there was no rivalry, but there was still plenty of Mets hatred spewing from Philly. I’ve been a Mets fan since 1990 and I can’t once remember Mets fans focusing on the Phillies the way that Philly fans CONSTANTLY focus on the Mets. That’s why I say there’s an inferiority complex.

And I will agree that there are some aspects of Metsblog that could be better, and that it used to be way way better before he partnered with SNY. However, the main reason I go there is to get Mets information, not necessarily to post. And even if I do post, I can get my point across without being censored by Cerrone; its not that hard to avoid dropping f-bombs all over the place. And contrary to popular belief, you can post an anti-Mets comment on there without being censored.

I agree though, Metsblog used to be better.

@illafifth

That was an honest mistake actually… i legitimately thought it said Filth. It was a funny mistake though

@Pizza
We sucked for years and we were all competing with the Braves in the 90s. No one else in the NL East mattered because we were all trying to keep up with the Braves. There is no inferiority complex right now, its just a change in power. After taking it for so long, it feels good for us to be on top, looking down at the rest of the field. Even if we win it all again this year, Mets fans will still think we have some sort of complex and can’t just enjoy being champs. Trust me, we enjoy it plenty. The Mets being nowhere close is just icing on the WFC cake.

y’know, as a regular contibutor to the comment portion of this blog, and as a diehard phils fan, i’ve never ONCE thought to check out a mets/yanks/ANY other team blog just to defend my team, let alone to start shit. you mets fans bitch about inferiority complexes, and you’re the ones jumping on a philly sports blog to bitch about how we make fun of your (awful) team. boo, mets fans, boo.

All you philly fans are morons, what if one of your boi’s get thrown at there head, they would prolly be wearing the same size helmets, however J-Roll’s ego I think is way to big to fit into this new helmets, how about the goodyear blimp helmet for him.

Leave New York out of this. The intelligent people are Yankee fans.

When Gary Cohen mentioned it on the broadcast last night, I had no idea who the great gazoo was.
I fell off my chair from laughter when I looked it up

SNY.TV’s Ted Berg suggests , “On Friday, the Mets should provide five minutes for everyone to point and laugh at Wright’s helmet, then we can all move on.”

Looks like people in New York are cracking wise about the helmet as well. Relax, Mets fans.

It only took 129 posts to get the Santa reference???? Wow, I don’t know if that’s progress or not.

I personally think these are WAY funnier:

http://www.thefightins.com/meechone/cole-hamels-carries-his-puppy-in-a-backpack/

http://enrico.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/25/bestofphilly2008.jpg

I thoroughly enjoyed posting on this website today with you all. Phillies fans are much more interesting and seemingly less violent and angry when posting on this site then in real life. In real life, I wouldn’t have said half the things I did today, because there’s a 75% chance I would’ve been violently attacked.

I’m looking forward to watching this rivalry for several years (excluding the rest of 2009). Go Rockies in the playoffs!

6th borough? I have never once heard that. Anywhere. And why would we need dump trucks at all? 3 aren’t good enough?

(Eds. note: I totally rode in a dump truck from City Hall to the Bank, and it was fantastic. That does not imply it was necessary though)

@tug haines, google ‘canyon of heroes’, thats a parade, not three trucks rolling down the street with foreigner on the speakers.

@shaggy, if you were at the parade you’d get my dump truck comment….

all i am saying is i expected more from a team who didnt win in forever. i could only imagine what an eagles parade would look like, i thinkt he city might actually implode.

haha the notion that philly would be jealous of ny is hilarious. that just brightened my day mets fans. thanks for reminding me that there’s a city FULL of people that im better than.

Maybe they should let Jose Reyes wear something like that. Maybe it could fit his ego

Yeah you already said that.

Then they think they HAVE TO keep bringing it up in some attempt to be treated like a victim in an unsympathetic arena.

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/32305315/ns/sports-baseball/

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-06-25-angels-stadium-shooting_N.htm

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/04/man-stabbed-after-dodger-stadium-home-opener.html

it happens

@Meech

There’s a difference between talking shit about the Mets and physically assaulting opposing fans. You should continue posting though, you’re proving my point about 1) Phillies fans are classless 2) Philly is a big inferiority complex. That’s the only explanation for thinking that you can treat other fans that way simply for wearing a different jersey. This is the only city in the country that feels that way, and the inferiority complex is the only logical reason I can come up with to explain it.

Cowbell Kid OUT, pussies.

You are so cute, lil kid.

I like how the Met fan who accuses us of having an inferiority complex says they don’t have superiority complexes up there by saying they never even give Philly and the Phillies a second thought. Really? So, you just proved that you think you’re better than Philly and therefore have a superiority complex. Definition right there.

As for inferiority complex, I’d say Philly has a touch of it, but it’s more national in nature–i.e. it doesn’t have to do with just NY. It’s NY and Washington. We used to be the capitol of the U.S. and now people ignore all the wonderful history here because all they see are cheesesteaks and wudder ice. It’s the bullshit lazy media.

Oh, and BTW, I’ve been to plenty other ballparks and have been harassed by lots of other fanbases just as horrible as you deem the Phillies fans. I’ve seen plenty of Mets fans fight other Met fans and Philly fans at Shea. I saw a Met fan give a toddler in a Phils jersey (not mine, b/c he’s still alive, the fan) the finger after a brutal loss. Don’t ride in here on your high horse just because you turn a blind eye to your own ignorant fans. I don’t defend ours and you shouldn’t defend yours as angels. And newsflash: we do not have a higher concentration of them than other fanbases. If it seems that way, it’s just because we have more fans these days.

ulysses: Well, when the media constantly shoves down your throat (even this year picked to go to the WS) that the NY teams are the best every year, when they lose, others will take great joy in that. Schaudenfreude is not exclusive to Philly. Plus, the Phillies and the Mets players have had a bit of a pissing match going on the last few years with calling each other out (choke artists, we’re the team to beat x3, etc.) so naturally, the fans will play along. Fans live for this kind of stuff, especially the college crowd, who are usually “rebels without a cause,” right?

Don’t make me bring up the fickle nature of the Giants fans who wanted Eli and Coughlin run out at the beginning of 2007 before the Giants won the SB. Just sayin’–we all have those knee-jerkers who take up too much airtime on WFAN or WIP(Philly) that just proves your point that I could provide an example.

The Phillies have lots of families and older people who attend games, so I can’t say I share your experience. Having been to dozens every year for over a decade, I’ve seen the gamut. We’ve got a lot of bandwagoners these days that didn’t exist pre-2008, but that’s cool. New fans have to start somewhere. My Dad has been a fan forever (since before 1964 and yes, he remembers the collapse well), but every time I take him to a game, the Phils lose. So you know I wasn’t about to waste a WS ticket on the old man, youknowwhatimsayin?

Lynnie: 25K? You overshot by 5,852. and there were PLENTY of Sox fans there. Kinda like Phils fans at a Mets home game.

Was this Cowbell Kid (who is 40 years old, by the by), calling us pussies during the Series last year? I don’t remember this bullshit chatter last year.

He reminds me of the guy who gets real tough after his friend grabs and pulls him away. “You’re lucky he’s holding me back man. You’re LUCKY!!!”

So a player puts his health (and the well being of the team) ahead of style and it’s a joke? I don’t understand the reaction to this at all.

I’m actually glad to see that Wright has the balls to wear it in a game and not listen to you fools. Others will follow and it will save concussions. ……

inferiority complex? that’s a laugh. i’m from philly at can’t stand new york. not b/c i’m jealous (i love boston and dc), but b/c i can’t stand that new york city. its a big fing mess up there. from stench of north jersey to the bowels of queens. overpopulated and overhyped. i think you guys are the ones with the complex. afterall, you need 2 baseball teams, 3 hockey teams, 2 football teams and 1 basketball team. so lets break it down… you’re 1 baseball team (the mets) suck. your one football team (the jets) suck. your 2 hockey teams (rangers and islanders) suck. and the knicks? isn’t that the worst franchise in all of sports? i’ll take philly any day of the week over new york shitty.

@doubleh

“I like how the Met fan who accuses us of having an inferiority complex says they don’t have superiority complexes up there by saying they never even give Philly and the Phillies a second thought. Really? So, you just proved that you think you’re better than Philly and therefore have a superiority complex. Definition right there.”

That’s not a superiority complex. It means that Philly has never been relevant enough to give New Yorkers a second thought. Even now you head up to New York and there’s no Philly hate; its all talk about the New York teams. I think the point he’s trying to make is that Philly focuses so much hate on New York, while New York simply ignores Philly and focuses on its own teams.

Wow, you are such a douche. This guy got beaned with a ball, suffered a concussion and you’re laughing at him for protecting himself from serious injury so he can continue to play major league baseball? Oh good thing your life is complete because you have a blog that all of 178 people in the world are reading.

@fan with class
How can you not see the humor!?!? Some people just lack a sense of humor.

still a double flapped massive megaman style helmet

Looks like something Ted Kennedy should have been buried in.

Doesn’t look much bigger than the helmet Shane normally wears.

How about victorino wearing it tonight?

PLEASE DON’T EVER STOP WEARING IT WHINING HAWAIIAN!! HHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Yes, we are still laughing. because it looks hilarious.

I’d rather look like that right now than look like Muhammad Ali in 20 years.

Are you losers kiddin me? You Philty People from the crap hole of a city are kiddin! Have one winning team a cebtury and you go nuts. Your city is a Shithole and your people are worse! Phill begins with P, as in Pig, and you are certainly a city of Pfrustrated Pilty Pigs!ai

I think he looks like chicken little!

wait a minute….

&*^*&^(*&^(*&^*&^(^(*&^&*(! It wouldn’t allow me to post two comments in a row-how come other people get that?! Oh well, you’re welcome Paaaaaaaay-dro.

I just now found out about this.. amazing