Listen, I’m a silly sports fan.

Sometimes I think what I wear has an effect on the product on the field.

I know it’s ridiculous…and I deep down know it’s (probably) not true.

But it makes me feel like maybe I have a little control over something that’s entirely out of my control? I don’t know. I’ll save all that for the doctors.

I have not yet employed any lucky shirt strategy in 2025.

Maybe that’s why the Mets have had such an unimpressive last couple of months?

I can’t prove that’s the reason. But no one can prove that’s not the reason.

I did note that when I wore my David Wright #5 shirt the Mets played poorly.

Anyway, it’s September, and I feel like I have to do something.

Recently something crossed one of my social media feeds - a great visual. Somebody wore a different Mariners hat every day of a recent season. If they won, the fan kept the same hat. If they lost, new hat. I think the person cycled through a set of 5 or 6 hats. It’s not like they had 100 of them. But I thought that resulted in a cool visual representation of the season.

So I’m going to try to employ that strategy in September, except with t-shirts.

If they win, I keep wearing the same shirt.

If they lose, I switch shirts.

We’ll see if I rotate among a few shirts or just go new shirt every time. I have a lot of Mets shirts.

I started on Monday with my City Connect shirt.

There are some flaws to this experiment.

First and foremost, I won’t be able to watch every game in September - there’s at the very least the Friday I’ll be doing the Reach the Beach relay, probably the Saturday too. Some of the weekday day games when I’m at work will pose a problem. So I’ll have to think about what to do those days - of course, it could just be ‘shirts I wore during games I watch.’

And then there’s the final result - I have the image in my head, similar to that Mariners fan’s final image - but I’m not sure I have the technology to display that many pictures like that. I might have to play around with some of the picture settings here on the ol’ website.

But I figure it’s worth a shot.

And then, if all goes well, maybe it’s a strategy worth keeping as the Mets play into October.