RUSTY CYCLONES
After 4 weeks off, the Cyclones were not ready for Opening Day

Mar 16, 2026 - There was n't any aspect of the Cyclones game yesterday afternoon that seemed ready for the season. Starting pitcher Dean Cosme was ineffective, lasting only 3 innings. The offense seemed out of sync and in need of finding a rhythm. And the worst culprit of the day, the defense, seemed to be sleep walking with errant throws and lackadaisical glove work.  Hopefully the Cyclones can find their rhythm quick as the season is in full swing and a double header looms on the horizon.

In the meantime, Sunday's game resulted in a 15-8 loss to the Houston Royals, a team that is finding it's way in the league and has struggled mightily in the past. Sunday however, was a different story. They hit the ball well and their defense, while suspect. held up better than the Cyclones.

BJ Galvan is about ready to snag a line drive vs. Houston Royals March 15, 2023

CHANGE IN THE AIR?
As the Spring 2026 Season quickly approached, are the Cyclones ready for change?

Feb 23, 2026 - When the Houston Cyclones take the field next month, in early March, the one thing that will look familiar will be the faces on the team. What won't look familiar will be their uniforms.  It's well known that Cyclones manager Dean Cosme is a big New York Mets fan.  The team's uniforms have been modeled after their New York counterparts for several seasons now, as well their color scheme has always been orange and blue except for their first 3 seasons where the color scheme was taken from the Brooklyn Cyclones, hence the name.

Not wanting to be too obvious about the origins of the colors, Cosme chose to make the blue a more neutral blue. Not so navy, not so royal. That would last until the Fall 2015 season when after managing the team as the Houston Cardinals for 1 season, the original name of Spring Cyclones was restarted and the colors now were an ode to the Mets, royal and orange. Through a variety of iterations, the color scheme had remained that way until the Spring 2025 season where after creating a few mock ups for a new uniform, the team chose the 2000 Mets color scheme of black, blue, orange and white. Fire!

Shortly before the end of the Spring 2025 season, the Cyclones were gifted a surprise set of new uniforms which were replica style uniforms of the new Mets away uniforms, what I like to refer to as the blue on blue outline uniforms. Those jerseys were used for the entirety of the Fall 2025 season that just ended. Now, for 2026, the Cyclones are once again going to sport new jerseys and use a set for home and away. See the mock ups below. With a few new faces, one returning face and a couple of departures, the Houston Cyclones have gone through this before, but the core remains and that's why the Cyclones will be a force of nature to reckon with for quite some time. See you on the field!