"Our Team, Our Time"

[Guest cooby]

metirish wrote: ] You mean it wasn't Kevin Federline? It's now just K-Fed, cool huh?

Better than F-Ked

[Guest abogdan]

I'm in awe of how bad this song is.

[Willets Point]

]No one mentioned this was a rap song, and not just any rap song but an Old School circa 1985 rap song.

Edgy from page one:

]It's seriously old school, but the lyrics are offaly awful --- weaker than the "Get Metsmerized" lyrics. And it doesn't have any vocal solo by Teufel. It's no "Chocolate Strawberry," that's for sure. Now there was a song. I'm going to submit one of my own.

[Vic Sage]

There's a better song about this year's Mets with a similar title...

Our Time
by Stephen Sondheim
(from "Merrily We Roll Along")

Something is stirring,
Shifting ground �
It's just begun.
Edges are blurring
All around,
And yesterday is done.

Feel the flow,
Hear what's happening:
We're what's happening.
Don't you know?
We're the movers and we're the shapers.
We're the names in tomorrow's papers.
Up to us, man, to show 'em �

It's our time, breathe it in:
Worlds to change and worlds to win.
Our turn coming through,
Me and you, man,
Me and you!

Feel the flow,
Hear what's happening:
We're what's happening!
Long ago
All we had was that funny feeling,
Saying someday we'd send 'em reeling,
Now it looks like we can!
Someday just began �

It's our heads on the block.
Give us room and start the clock.
Our time coming through,
Me and you, pal,
Me and you!
Me and you!
Me and you!
Me and you!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/samples/B0000014VA/ref=dp_tracks_all_1/104-9990785-3285532?%5Fencoding=UTF8#disc_1

[G-Fafif]

I swear this dreck seems to have been derived from a relatively inoffensive ditty played at the Garden for the Liberty.


L!
I!
B-E-R-T-Y!

New York Liberty!


Something like that.

Then there's the obvious Go New York Go influence, though "the young guns who came to save us/like Greg Anthony and Hubert Davis" is freaking Kander & Ebb by comparison.

[Guest Rotblatt]

I was cringing as NY1 aired part of it this morning.

U-G-L-Y

If we're going to go hip-hop, why don't we get some real NY artists to crank one out for us? I bet the Wu could come up with something pretty sweet.

RZA & The Genius are from Brooklyn, I think Method Man's from Long Island & Ghostface is from Staten Island--all Mets strongholds.

And, in fact, they do reference the Mets in their track "Chrome Wheels" from 2001 (thank you Google).

]I love my brother to death, nigga p*ssy to the rest Shared a pair of Guess and an Eddie Bauer vest A b*tch named Celeste I met her when I was goin to cash a Def Jam check She had some big ass breasts I had to catch her like a shortstop on the Mets

Nice.

[Guest *62]

I actually made it through at least two seconds of the recording.


Even for hip-hop, it's awful.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

The problem also is, this is NOT a song. Lets Go Mets Go was a song, Go NY Go NY Go was a song.

This sounds like something cooked up by some local radio personel writing a bit for either a song parody or a self-penned tune.

Basically who ever did this is a poor man's Joey Salvia!

Salvia is Michael Kay's board op/engineer on 1050 ESPN Radio and is responsible for a lot of 1050's musical interludes (show theme songs, bits, some commercials for the stations, ect) Essentially songs that aren't meant for serious air play on a radio station the way the aforementioned ones (also Meet The Mets, the Yankees song from the same era, ect)

Steve

[Guest abogdan]

Go Ninja, Go Ninja Go

[Gwreck]

Speaking of Mets songs...does anyone have an MP3 out there of "Get Metsmerized?"

I'll be happy to trade my MP3 of the 12" remix of Let's Go Mets...

[RealityChuck]

="Vic Sage"]There's a better song about this year's Mets with a similar title... Our Time by Stephen Sondheim (from "Merrily We Roll Along")

Absolutely false. Anything is better than Sondheim, including "MacArthur Park" and its even more terrible cousin "Rosecrans Boulevard"

The song is trivial but not horrible. And, let's face it, as much as I like Meet the Mets, it's only real value is tradition. "Bring the kiddies, bring the wife" is as bad as any line in the new one, and if it were being adopted today, this forum would be saying pretty much the same thing they're saying about the "Our Team Our Time."

[Guest Edgy DC]

]Anything is better than Sondheim,

I'm going to disagree.

]including "MacArthur Park" and its even more terrible cousin "Rosecrans Boulevard"

No, and "MacArthur" gets too much shit as it is.

]The song is trivial but not horrible.

It's embarrassingly shallow and poorly worded. No cleverness. No romance. Nuttin' except the old-school beats. But lacking self-awareness, it doesn't sound retro so much as cheap.

]And, let's face it, as much as I like Meet the Mets, it's only real value is tradition.

This isn't true. Neither should tradition be poo-pooed.

]"Bring the kiddies, bring the wife" is as bad as any line in the new one,

Let's not judge it by a single dated lyric.

] and if it were being adopted today, this forum would be saying pretty much the same thing they're saying about the "Our Team Our Time."

Nah.

[Vic Sage]

I find myself in general disagreement with almost everything Chuck says, with comforting consistency.

If i'm ever unsure or confused about how i feel about a particular matter, its going to be valuable for me to hear Chuck's position. He is a nearly perfect reverse barometer for me. And i'm sure i can perform an equally valuable service for him.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Everything bad is happening because of this song.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Funny you should make that point.

E-mail From: edgydc@yahoo.com I'm not a crank, and I defend the Mets in so many ways, but it seems you have chosen to promote yourselves with a bad bad song. I guess I'm OK with the old-school rap sound, but its total lack of cleverness and self-awareness makes it not sound hip and retro, but rather dumb and cheap. I run a forum dedicated to appreciation of the Mets, and we're all --- young, old, and in between --- almost universally appalled at this song that you think we want to hear. Only a crazy man would point out that the streaking hot Mets have been 0-2 since the launch of this song, so I'm not going to suggest that.

Thank You Thank you for sending your questions or suggestions. Your experience is important to us! The New York Mets will review your email and get back to you very soon.

I figure Bannister's already read it --- they make the rookies go first in this sort of thing --- and right about now Xavier Nady is going over it and adding his comments in the margins.

[metirish]

Heilman will no doubt write you back on this, he seems the thoughtful type.

[Elster88]

"Only a crazy man would point out that the streaking hot Mets have been 0-2 since the launch of this song, so I'm not going to suggest that."


I thought they launched it the day of the first Atlanta game.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Elster88 wrote: "Only a crazy man would point out that the streaking hot Mets have been 0-2 since the launch of this song, so I'm not going to suggest that." I thought they launched it the day of the first Atlanta game.

Like Edgy said, only a crazy man would make such an A) erroneous claim and Make such a stupid correlation in a non-sarcastic forum as an email to the Mets complaint department

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Its now gone national on Colin Cowherd's national ESPN Radio talk show

Though he said its not as bad as Tower of Power's "Here We Go Steelers" but he did say "The 80's called, they want their Members Only jackets back!"

Sadly, Members Only I think is still a Mets sponsor!

[Vic Sage]

The correlation is not "stupid", its intentionally humorous.

That it was done in the "non-sarcastic forum" of the Mets complaint dept email is, in fact, what MAKES it humorous.

Explaining humor is as tedious as being repeatedly exposed to mlbaseballtalk's posts.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Vic Sage wrote: The correlation is not "stupid", its intentionally humorous. That it was done in the "non-sarcastic forum" of the Mets complaint dept email is, in fact, what MAKES it humorous. Explaining humor is as tedious as being repeatedly exposed to mlbaseballtalk's posts.

No it degrades your particular agrument sent to an organization that would value a more serious, professional sounding reason for ever using the song ever again, as oppossed to a knee jerk angry response correlating the song to negative Instant Karma that the organization has recently incurred. THOSE are the responses chucked into the circular file first.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I don't know that to be true. I certainly appreciate a fun and warm joke when I field e-mail from strangers writing about our site and our magazine. A display of self-awareness (I am, after all, the butt of my own joke) shows that it's somebody I can talk to or is worth listening to.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I'm with Edgy on this one. I think if I were reading comments on that song, I'd be more likely to throw away a letter from someone who was too passionate about it, someone who took it overly seriously.

I wouldn't be like that if it was a letter from a mother trying to get medicine for her sick child, but this is just about a gimmicky song. The dose of humor is an indication that we're dealing with a rational person.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: I'm with Edgy on this one. I think if I were reading comments on that song, I'd be more likely to throw away a letter from someone who was too passionate about it, someone who took it overly seriously. I wouldn't be like that if it was a letter from a mother trying to get medicine for her sick child, but this is just about a gimmicky song. The dose of humor is an indication that we're dealing with a rational person.

Yeah good points. Maybe I just went over the top due to Vic's swipe at me

[metirish]

This new theme song is being dumped apparently, people at tonights game will hear a jazzed up version of "Meet the Mets", fan complaints is the reason given for the change.

I read this in the Daily News but can't find a link online.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Things are going too well right now (except, of course, for Juan Samuel's face). The other shoe has to drop.