What about Bob? Glauber's NFL Blog

I can't swear to this, and maybe Best can get the transcript from the Today Show on NBC this morning to confirm.

But Matt Lauer was in Amsterdam, riding up and down a canal, and noted that he was wearing a blue jacket and orange pants. Apparently, they are the two most important colors in the Netherlands.

Lauer then mentioned that the Mets' uniforms are orange and blue in deference to Manhattan's earliest settlers. I could swear Lauer described it as "a tip of the cap" New York's Dutch heritage. Delgado never did tip his cap to Mets' fans who wanted a curtain call after his two homers the other day at Shea.

Memo to Best: please follow up. Maybe I'm reading too much into it. But if Lauer's a Mets fan, maybe not. I wonder if Seinfeld was pissed Delgado dissed the fans.

I was in Amsterdam in 1983, riding up and down those same canals with a buddy from my days at the Gannett Westchester-Rockland Newspapers. We were on one of those rides that offered free beer, wine and cheese. I kept my alcohol consumption to a reasonable level, but my buddy did not. Thus, if you were in downtown Amsterdam in early August, 1983, and heard a very loud American singing songs, it was my buddy.

He is in the newspaper business and is somewhat famous, so I will not mention his name here.

UPDATE: Yes, the colors are significant. The colors of the flag of the City of New York are the blue, white and orange of the Dutch flag. Those colors are also seen in the Nassau County flag, as well as the uniforms of the Mets and Knicks.

I really do think that was Lauer's way of giving a shot to Delgado.

(I guess I should have known that stuff about the colors, but I didn't. I grew up a Yankee fan, so I was more interested in Mickey Mantle and World Series championships. My younger brother Mickey was named after Mickey Mantle. Mickey Glauber is a Mets fan. I will check to see if he knows anything about the uniform colors, and whether he is ticked that Delgado didn't come out for the curtain call.)