We Believe in Comebacks? Please.

[Guest Kong76]

I just visited 12 random MLB team sites and no team has a silly
slogan del a�o like the Mets do. Year after year, they parade out
these one liners that are just embarrassing. Who writes this crap?
Who approves it? Who asks people to write it and then gets people
to approve it? Just pull the plug on this year's slogan while there's
still time. No one believes. No one.

[stevejrogers]

Okay, did someone from another board hack into Kase's account? =

I agree though, and it really does go all the way back to the start of the Doubleday/Wilpon reign with "The Magic Is Back."

Hell, now that I think of it, even before with "Bring Your Kids To See Our Kids" Wasn't that trotted out in either 78 or just after 6/15/77?

Granted no one really should give a crap about PR campaigns and slogans, but some of the Met ones through the years have been down right embarrassing. Though, IMHO, none more than the slogan for the 2007 Postseason ticket sale push, "Your Postseason Has Come" Yeah, we're still waiting guys, and I really don't think its gonna happen this October either!

Hell, why even have a slogan as a sales pitch?

[MFS62]

I dunno.
If they want a marketing slogan to sell tickets, well, that's the business they're in.
If I have any problem with it, it is semantic. (Is that an adjective?)
If someone believes, you don't have to tell them to.
If someone doesn't believe, I'm not sure you can exhort them to. (Although "You Gotta' Believe" was kinda' catchy. Then again, it came from a player, not a PR type.)

Maybe there would be a better choice?

Funny, the things you think about on a Sunday afternoon when there isn't a football game to watch.

Later

[stevejrogers]

I dunno.
If they want a marketing slogan to sell tickets, well, that's the business they're in.
If I have any problem with it, it is semantic. (Is that an adjective?)
If someone believes, you don't have to tell them to.
If someone doesn't believe, I'm not sure you can exhort them to. (Although "You Gotta' Believe" was kinda' catchy)

Maybe there would be a better choice?

Funny, the things you think about on a Sunday afternoon when there isn't a football game to watch.

Later[/quote:1z7hnth0]

You Gotta Believe was not a marketing campaign slogan though. Much like the Saints' "Who Dat" or even Mojo Risin' its an organic rallying cry that got started by the players and fans rather than something cooked up in a board room.

I agree on point with you, but at the end of the day they are silly marketing slogans that kind of feeds into the perception that Met haters have about how silly and "minor league" the franchise has been run since the Wilpons took full control.

[Guest Edgy DC]

If you don't like the slogan, that's fine. But I don't think the concept of a marketing campaign with a slogan is minor league.

It's annoying and corporate, but welcome to MLB.

[Guest Kong76]

It's much more than annoying and corporate and trying to paint
it as such is enabling them by saying it's ok. It must stop and it
must stop NOW!!! The team sucks, the last three seasons sucked,
and the new slogan sucks even more. We can all bury our heads
in talking about Greg Jefferies, which is entertaining this time of
year for me, but the whole franchise needs enemas in more than
a few orifices.

WE BELIEVE IN COMEBACKS!! Woohoo *purge and spit* !!!

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm certainly not saying it's OK.

[Guest Kong76]

I know what you said, you said welcome to MLB.

Did you check the other team sites? My guess is no team has
a lamer slogan (or more importantly, a history of lame slogans)
than our beloved Metsies. No other team.

[metirish]

But ,do you believe in comebacks Kase?

[batmagadanleadoff]

To me, it's an embarrassment. And forced and contrived, especially given that the franchise has been marketing a slogan every single year for over 30 years running. Considering that they finished in first place once in the last 21 years and have won just one World Series in the last 40, I'd recommend that they just shut up and get it done. If the team were listening to me, though, they'd surely defeat the purpose of my message by adopting it as a slogan --"This Year We're Going to Just Shut Up and Get it Done".

[G-Fafif]

I think it's a perfectly fine theme, playing off, as it does, both the reality of the situation (acknowledging a comeback is needed) and the historical equity of Believe.

But...

1) The ads themselves are cheap and amateurish, as if shot by high school students for extra credit.

2) When they first started airing them, Carlos Beltran was one of the Believers. I see he's been edited out for the time being. Can't decide whether that's truth in advertising or simply Orwellian.

[metirish]

A quick search on google brings back this from a WhiteSox forum.....team slogans from the 2006 season

Royals- "Your Team. Your Town."
Astros- "Believe the Buzz!"
A's- "A Different Brand of Baseball"
Cardinals- "Welcome to Baseball Heaven- Inagural Season 2006"
D-Rays- "We Come To PLAY"
Dodgers- "Think Blue"
D-backs- "A New Brand of Baseball" (The A is the D'backs logo)
Giants- "Your SF Giants"
Mets- "The Team. The Time."
Padres- "On A Mission"
Phillies- "Red Means Go"
Rangers- "Every Day Is Game Day"
Pirates- "We Will"
Reds- "The POWER of Tradition"
Rockies- "GenRation" (The R is the Rockies logo)
Tigers- "Who's Your Tiger?"
Twins- "Twins Territory"
Mets "The Team , The Time"

No idea if those are correct but they sure are funny...the Mets one sounds familiar


Padres for 2010 apparently have this

"SD stands for San Diego"

[A Boy Named Seo]

"Who's Your Tiger?" is hysterical.

[metirish]

The Pirates " We Will " is classic..how many games did they lose that season?...

[A Boy Named Seo]

The Pirates " We Will " is classic..how many games did they lose that season?...[/quote:39lsqr0z]

They didn't specify what is was they "will" do. Must've been lose an ass-load of games.

[metirish]

Thet lost 95

It's funny when they feel the need to tell you what the sloagan means

Rockies- "GenRation" (The R is the Rockies logo)

[metirish]

Found a site that has the 2010 slogans for some of the teams, I guess some are slower than others at getting them u.

Angels � Fan Strong
Astros � 45th Anniversary
A�s � 100% Athletics. 100% Baseball.
Braves � The Excitement of Turner Field
Dodgers � This is my town. Dodgertown USA (They announced it would be back for 2010)
Giants � Your Giants
Indians � Are You In the Tribe?
Marlins � It�s Where You Wanna Be!
Nationals � Get Your Red On. NatsTown
Orioles � This is Birdland
Pirates � Pride. Passion. Pittsburgh Pirates.
Tigers � Always a Tiger
Twins � Inaugural Season 2010
White Sox � There are Traditions. And There are White Sox Traditions.

http://rjsfro.com/2010/01/08/padres-new-marketing-campaign/

[A Boy Named Seo]

Those all suck in every way.

[metirish]

The Marlins one is funny because they don't even want to be there.

[Guest Kong76]

I looked at 12 official team sites run by MLB and powered by
Sun only and didn't find a slogan pasted on any of the front
pages. See yas in March.

[A Boy Named Seo]

He'll comeback in March. I believe it.

[ashie62]

All pretty corny...Those are just ad bites right?

My all-time player started slogan was 'Mr. Mojo Risin!"

[HahnSolo]

And here I was still waiting for my season to come.

[ashie62]

Mets slogan.."Our day will come"

[metirish]

Mets slogan.."Our day will come"[/quote:35jf4ppb]


I think factions of the Irish Republican movement are still using that...

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[Guest themetfairy]

"We Shall Overcome"

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"Adversity Builds Character. Come Build Some Character."

[Guest Edgy DC]

The Astros 2006 "Believe the Buzz" was pretty funny. Maybe it would have been more appropriate if they were called the Bees or something.

Anyhow, how can 2010 be thier 45th anniversary. Did they sit out a few years without telling the Mets?

[Guest themetfairy]

Perhaps it's the 45th anniversary under the moniker, "Houston Astros" (as opposed to the Colt 45s).

[metsmarathon]

ok, so i've been looking thru the mlb sites...

angels fan strong


astros 45th anniversary logo


a's... couldn't find anything... ditto blue jays

braves' the excitement of turner field


brewers 40th anniversary logo


cardinals are asking you to pledge allegiance to cardinals nation


cubs and dbacks dont seem to have anything, but the dodgers have dodgertown


the giants appear to be counting down to fanfest, which i hope isn't their slogan, while the indians are asking about your tribal affiliations


the mariners believe big


and the marlins are serious fun


the mets we know about, while the nats come out in commie red


the orioles you can see above, some ridiculous birdland thing. the padres have nothing, and the phils have some slilly nl champs logo that i needn't paste here...

the pirates need to do a better job of choosing colors, as their logo taks teh visual consistency of baby poop, of which i'm becoming rather experienced..


the rangers, rays, redsox, rockies, and royals all live sloganless lives

the tigers have always been so


the twins, in addition to opening a new stadium, are trying to mark out their territory


the white sox are proud of their traditions... like gambling... and losing...


and hte yankees suck. though last year, i swear they had one too.