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: