I don’t make a lot of sweeping declarative statements, here or anywhere.

But here’s one: The front of all Major and Minor League road uniforms should feature the team’s city name, and decidedly not the team’s nickname.

For some reason I cannot determine, this bothered me in particular on Sunday when the Mets, in Philadelphia, showed up at Citizen’s Bank Park with “Mets” on their shirts.

This is culled from baseball history, or something: The Mets represent New York. They have traveled to Philadelphia to measure their talents against the team that plays in that city, and so should be obligated to the Philadelphia fans to make clear, via uniform top, where they’ve come from.

Maybe this isn’t the best example, because I don’t believe anyone owes Philadelphia fans anything. But other fans, maybe.

Even as our allegiances to baseball teams become less necessarily dictated by geography, the league should dictate that teams prominently display their own. I could care less if a team has three regular home jerseys and two alternates and seven varieties of road uniforms as long as all the road jerseys say the city name.

And I recognize there’s no actual good reason. I’m just sayin’s all.