If you ask me, the Westchester in White Plains might be the world’s most obnoxious shopping mall. Its anchor stores are Nieman Marcus and Nordstrom, and its architects have pretty clearly taken measures to hide its food court from the rest of the shopping areas, so upscale consumers can shop undeterred by the smells of delicious Master Wok or the sight of disgusting plebes chowing down on chicken-in-goo, the specialty of every mall food court.

But, as a native Long Islander — as I’ve discussed before — I’m drawn to malls for reasons I don’t fully understand. Plus, it’s got an Anthropologie, a store that apparently understands my wife’s tastes far better than I do, and tomorrow is Valentine’s Day.

Anyway, that’s a lengthy setup for this picture of a t-shirt I spotted hanging in the window of The Athlete’s Foot on the third floor of The Westchester today:

Bold.

I suppose I should add, for those who don’t know the area, that Westchester is decidedly Yankee territory. In fact, this was the only Mets shirt selling in the store in question.

I went inside to check the front of the shirt to see if maybe it said something clever like, “It’s Opposite Day!”, but no. Just a plain white front, with this on the back.

There was no logo anywhere to be found, so I’m guessing there’s a very real possibility that one gung-ho and disgruntled Mets fan who works at The Athlete’s Foot in the Westchester got fed up spending so much time in a store that only sold Yankees gear, printed a bunch of these up and put them on the racks himself, throwing caution and grammar to the wind.

I really have to stress the juxtaposition here, again. This isn’t at some random shop on that weird stretch of storefronts on Broadway in the 20s or anything, this is in the fanciest mall imaginable, right next to a Teavana and a L’Occitane. And it’s proudly displayed in the window:

“I Predict, The METS Will Win The 2010 World Series !”

I can’t say who’s responsible, but I respect his optimism.

Of course, if you’re that bullish about the Mets’ chances this year, you could pretty much say the same thing with this gem, available for $19.97 from Mets.com:

According to Matt Cerrone’s spidey sense, the Mets might incorporate a New York-centric on-field race at Citi Field next season, like the Presidents Race in Washington or the much-lauded Sausage Race in Milwaukee.

Cerrone’s looking for suggestions for what the Mets should have race. Here are some:

The last four mayors of New York: Is it me, or do Gotham’s mayors really lend themselves to caricature? If the Mets are going to borrow the on-field race idea from other teams, they might as well go all the way and use politicians, as the Nats do. And what better than blown-up foam likenesses of Ed Koch, David Dinkins, Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg? It’d be worth it to hear Koch constantly get booed, just like he used to whenever he showed up at Shea Stadium while he was still mayor.

(Incidentally, Ed Koch sat behind me at a showing of Synechdoche, New York a couple years ago. He appeared to be in really good shape for a man of his age, so maybe he could hold his own in the Citi Field Mayoral Race. Afterwards, Ed Koch looked like he needed some more time to process the movie, just like I did.)

Big apples: New York is the Big Apple, so why not? Milwaukee uses its local delicacy — the sausage — but New York has too many local delicacies to settle on any one for an on-field race. They could have Granny Smith as an old-lady apple, Macintosh as a Scotsman, Fuji as a Japanese person, and Gala as a fop.

And finally:

Copy machines: Think of the sponsorship opportunity for Xerox: Anthropomorphic copiers racing around the warning track. It’d be a great way for the company to promote its fastest models, plus, could anything be more meta? What better way to celebrate a copied idea than with, you know, copiers? Besides, New York has always been a commercial and marketing hub, and one that probably uses a whole ton of copy machines. It’s perfect. Do it.