Who should sponsor the Mets?

[A Boy Named Seo]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Teams have now been moving the club sleeve logo to the player's non-dominant arm so it's always facing front when they're batting (right-handed hitters have the sponsor patch on their left arm and lefties vice-versa). Really? I did not know that. So the same team will have its logo on both the right and left sleeves, depending on the player? Which teams did that?

Per Uniwatch:

To make matters worse, the positioning of the uniform ads will be non-uniform. In order to maximize TV exposure, some players will wear the ads on the left sleeve and others on the right, depending on whether they bat or pitch left-handed or right-handed. (Switch-hitters will apparently be issued two jerseys and wear the appropriate one based on the opposing team's starting pitcher.)

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[Frayed Knot]

The price for sponsor shoulder patches in tennis were always different for each side with the non-dominant shoulder, the one facing the camera during serves, being more expensive.

[metirish]

I noticed this in the Marlins series, the ADT was always seen on TV with the pitcher or the hitter ... EPL teams started doing this a few seasons back too

[G-Fafif]

Both the Mets and MFYs have played home games at the Polo Grounds, at Shea Stadium and at Citi Field. Now they both have a Hilltop Park connection.



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[Edgy MD]

I guess the logo can be rendered in a Met color or colors, but I would guess it won't.



Kinda stinks to have a nightly reminder of how we have commodified health care.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

If it's red I'm going to die. Also they better not eff up Lazy Mary but it looks like they want to

[Fman99]

These patches should all be spots to sell Ipecac because they make me wanna retch

[bmfc1]

If you can prove that you are a Presbyterian that lives in New York you get in free.

[G-Fafif]

[A Boy Named Seo]

That is so so bad. I'm happy it's not red? But why can't it be a rectangle that just borders the stupid logo and not that huge square.



BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[metirish]

That looks awful, wow , epic fail

[Gwreck]

What is wrong with the people approving this?



How much revenue could this possibly generate such that they needed to desecrate the jerseys?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

The price for these is something like a stadium naming rights deal, is what I was told.



It is awful and ugly

[batmagadanleadoff]

https://twitter.com/mets/status/1644092809920610304

That patch -- on a Mets jersey -- is like Wilpons' Citi Field scoreboards level of ugly. Are the Yankees the only fucking team out there that knows how to name its stadium and what to with these sponsored uni patches? Jeez. What's the point of having 17 billion dollars if you're gonna tacky it up?

[whippoorwill]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: The price for these is something like a stadium naming rights deal, is what I was told. It is awful and ugly

Are you saying what I think you're saying?

[Edgy MD]

It's awful ugly.



You don't want to overthink these things, but you sure want somebody else to, and those inches of empty real estate makes both partners look indifferent.

[Fman99]

https://twitter.com/mets/status/1644092809920610304

It's not even that it's ghastly, which it is. It's that they're proud to announce it. I get it that they're proud partners, and why wouldn't you be. I'm sure they do amazing work at NYP. But they should not be proud that someone smeared a red polygon of shit on their classic blue and orange jerseys. That's the travesty.

[Frayed Knot]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: But why can't it be a rectangle that just borders the stupid logo and not that huge square.

No doubt because a maximum size limit was put on these things (y'know, to keep them from looking gaudy and ugly) but, as often happens

in these deals, 'maximum' gets translated into 'minimum' so extra vertical space is needed to fill out the very horizontal looking logo.

[Fman99]

Someone should take that logo to NYP and give it gastric bypass surgery because it's bloated to an unhealthy size and no one wants to look at it.

[Methead]

I can't stop thinking it looks like blood soaking through a hastily-applied bandage.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Strange that 1,800 people loved it. I guess in the New York metropolitan area, and in the wider universe of Mets fans, you can find 1,800 people with no taste.



I bet most of the 2,000 replies are negative.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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I can't stop thinking it looks like blood soaking through a hastily-applied bandage.

[Edgy MD]

We're so excited by this patch that we couldn't find a single person willing to model it.

[G-Fafif]

I can't stop thinking it looks like blood soaking through a hastily-applied bandage.

In 2005, MLB supported Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts with a Red Cross symbol on its batting helmets. Well-intentioned as it was, it gave me the sense that every hitter was injured in World War I.



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[kcmets]

It's not a patch, it's a freakin' billboard.



If I have a heart attack at home this holiday weekend my local medical

facility is a NYP hospital. If I'm conscience, I'm asking the ambulance to

cart me down the line a Northwell Health affiliate in protest.



So there.

[Gwreck]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: The price for these is something like a stadium naming rights deal, is what I was told. It is awful and ugly

Side note, why does a hospital (1) need to pay millions of dollars a year to advertise and (2) could that money be used to, you know, treat sick people?



This is awful all around.

[metirish]

Ugh, let's make sure we get the awful patch in

[kcmets]

They didn't waste much time!

[Edgy MD]

That's a new number for Álvarez.



I can tell because it's almost as big as the New York Presbyterian patch.

[G-Fafif]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: The price for these is something like a stadium naming rights deal, is what I was told. It is awful and ugly Side note, why does a hospital (1) need to pay millions of dollars a year to advertise and (2) could that money be used to, you know, treat sick people? This is awful all around.

Was thinking about this last night, specifically how many NYP patients could get treatment on the house if the ad rights fee was applied as such.



Then again, if we're all doing sponsored jumping jacks during the 7th inning stretch, our cardiovascular systems won't require medical care.