Who should sponsor the Mets?

[metirish]

As an aside for years NYP has had slogans like " Amazing things happen here " I'm sure both sides are giddy at the prospects for crossover ads

[Methead]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I can't stop thinking it looks like blood soaking through a hastily-applied bandage. I'll never stop seeing that now. Thanks!

"Coming up next on SNY Sportsnite, we're approaching the All-Star break and your New York Mets are currently mired in a hopeless 8 game losing streak. Can this team lean on Verlander try and stop the bleeding? But first a word from our sponsor."

[batmagadanleadoff]

Presbyterian! Sheesh! Whatever happened to separation of church and baseball?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

[metirish]

Steve likely saw what the fans were saying

[batmagadanleadoff]

=metirish post_id=121671 time=1680882863 user_id=72]
Steve likely saw what the fans were saying

[A Boy Named Seo]

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.

All of this.



Tying this back to soccer and their longstanding use of on-shirt sponsorships, I eyeballed my favorite league (USL Championship, second tier American soccer) and there are 8(!!!) health care companies as front-of-shirt sponsors. MLS (first tier of American soccer) has 7!



I checked the English Premier League and there are lots of airlines and online betting companies, but zero health care sponsors. Also zero in La Liga in Spain. Same goes for the Bundesliga in Germany and Ligue 1 in France, too. No health care sponsors in the top 4 soccer leagues in the world because heath care isn't the privatized, for-profit monster it tragically is in the US. Sickening is the pun I'm looking for.

[Edgy MD]

I appreciate Steve Cohen not doubling down on a bad choice, but how did this not come up before Opening Day?



Act, don't react.

[batmagadanleadoff]

So with these new sponsored patches hogging up the real estate on one sleeve, I wonder if this trend will lead to less of those one-year-only commemorative patches, like for example, stuff like this:



[FIMG=177]https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0330/9935/0060/products/new-york-mets-25th-anniversary-patch.jpg?v=1582835376&width=990[/FIMG] or this [FIMG=177]https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0330/9935/0060/products/new-york-mets-50th-anniversary-patch.jpg?v=1585068950&width=990[/FIMG]



Where would they put them?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: I appreciate Steve Cohen not doubling down on a bad choice, but how did this not come up before Opening Day?

Because maybe that was the preferred patch and they had a backup plan in case of a very bad fan reaction.

[A Boy Named Seo]

So with these new sponsored patches hogging up the real estate on one sleeve, I wonder if this trend will lead to less of those one-year-only commemorative patches, like for example, stuff like this: [FIMG=177]https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0330/9935/0060/products/new-york-mets-25th-anniversary-patch.jpg?v=1582835376&width=990[/FIMG] or this [FIMG=177]https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0330/9935/0060/products/new-york-mets-50th-anniversary-patch.jpg?v=1585068950&width=990[/FIMG] Where would they put them?

Some teams have been stacking two patches (club patch on the bottom, in-memoriam patch above, for example), but it looks predictably clunky.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

https://content.sportslogos.net/news/2023/02/FBM-Patch-Angels-2023-sportslogosnet.jpg>



The Mets should change the colors and the shape. The Angels did it better, with a rectangle logo in a rectangle patch.

[metirish]

[Edgy MD]

Edgy MD wrote: I appreciate Steve Cohen not doubling down on a bad choice, but how did this not come up before Opening Day? Because maybe that was the preferred patch and they had a backup plan in case of a very bad fan reaction.

That's still reacting.



Steve's this great art collector, I hear. The idea that this aesthetically inept rendering that damages multiple brands was considered and chosen among several options by design and branding professionals operating in a well functioning organization is ... not an encouraging thought.



I just think we live in a world without leadership. We're all toadies, and if any toady on the Mets or NYP payroll got the notion that somebody above him or herself was way off in patch design and deployment, he or she kept it to him- or herself.



Doing something we know sucks while hoping nobody cares, and then going with Plan B and hoping folks quickly forget, is certainly no less deflating.



I'd like to take a moment to apologize for everything I ever said, wrote, or thought about the Citi Field logo.

[Edgy MD]

Mets undefeated in the Blood-Soaking-Through-a-Hastily-Applied-Bandage Era.



[fimg=500]https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/12a6860aba4d4d74add6a6aa7eb43ea5/3000.jpeg[/fimg]

[batmagadanleadoff]

That patch is bigger than the Mets skyline logo patch. The team should change its name to the New York Presbyterians.

[Frayed Knot]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=121725 time=1680920425 user_id=68] The team should change its name to the New York Presbyterians.

[Edgy MD]

It's completely indecipherable from the center field camera. It looks like a mistake, which I guess is kinda what it is.

[metirish]

Funnily enough I am not noticing the awful NYPD patch on these uniforms as much as I am the ADT on the Marlins, I'm sure the NYP patch will stick out more on the road uni and the black uni

[batmagadanleadoff]

They should have velcro on the NYPresb patches. This way, the switch-hitters could switch-patch-sleeves when they switch batting sides in mid-game. Then viewers would always have a good view of the NYPresb patch.

[MFS62]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=122060 time=1681234788 user_id=68]
They should have velcro on the NYPresb patches. This way, the switch-hitters could switch-patch-sleeves when they switch batting sides in mid-game. Then viewers would always have a good view of the NYPresb patch.

[batmagadanleadoff]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=122060 time=1681234788 user_id=68]
They should have velcro on the NYPresb patches. This way, the switch-hitters could switch-patch-sleeves when they switch batting sides in mid-game. Then viewers would always have a good view of the NYPresb patch.

[stevejrogers]

=metirish post_id=121796 time=1680988995 user_id=72]
Funnily enough I am not noticing the awful NYPD patch on these uniforms as much as I am the ADT on the Marlins, I'm sure the NYP patch will stick out more on the road uni and the black uni

[metirish]

Ugh, it keeps auto correcting NYP to NYPD

[Benjamin Grimm]

Any word on when the new patches will be revealed?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Six years to go before the Citi Field naming rights contract ends. If Cohen's still around, he should do the right thing and name the stadium Mets Stadium. (If he really wants to be like the Dodgers. (And the Yankees, though he's smart enough not to openly admit that part.))

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Any word on when the new patches will be revealed?

No but I'm bidding on the old ones to replenish my beach towel supply

[whippoorwill]

Lol!

[batmagadanleadoff]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=122069 time=1681238040 user_id=68]
Six years to go before the Citi Field naming rights contract ends. If Cohen's still around, he should do the right thing and name the stadium Mets Stadium. (If he really wants to be like the Dodgers. (And the Yankees, though he's smart enough not to openly admit that part.))

[MFS62]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=122163 time=1681322714 user_id=68]
Citi Field looks like it was originally designed by a 10 year old.