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[Guest d'Kong76]

Have the Mets announced what number Scoreboard will be wearing?

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

SteveJRogers wrote: I love the idea that you are completely no selling the fact that a social media staff, Twitter to be specific, blunder (to say nothing about the social meida viral sharing of Buress' comments) was a key factor in taking down an entertainment icon. Stop acting like social media and/or the interwebs is something that organizations should be flat out ignoring, or treating as simply "haters gonna hate." I understand the idea that it is the ones making the most noise that "you still have them" but no one is rage quitting over getting a new scoreboard. Its simply saying that it is yet another example of the Mets staff being in denial about how angry the fanbase has been for decades now. I mean there is a Kickstarter campaign for a "Sell The Team Now" billboard outside Citi Field!

I would never say to ignore Twitter and social media. But you also can't put too much stock in it, either. It's the great equalizer, because anybody can grab the megaphone share their thoughts to the world. The downside is that anyone can grab a megaphone and share their message to the world.

An educator once told me about how he once assigned students to write a report about a particular person, and he'd get back 20 slightly re-written versions of the same World Book Encyclopedia entry. Today, he pointed out that students can Google the same name and get hundreds of thousands of articles about that person.

The challenge of teaching these days is to help people become critical consumers of information. Getting information isn't the problem any more. It's determining which information is good information.

So, just because a bunch of people are ranting about something on Twitter doesn't necessarily mean that their rants are something you or the Mets should pay attention to. It's realizing which ranters are worth caring about and taking seriously.

There are worse things than fans being angry -- fans not giving a rat's ass at all. (See 1978-1982)

And, again, winning makes a lot of that anger go away.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'll admit that I haven't been reading this thread too carefully, which is why I'm unclear about what the Mets new scoreboard has to do with Bill Cosby.

[Edgy MD]

If we don't have the moral courage to attack the Mets for issuing a press release about the scoreboard, we support serial rape.

[stevejrogers]

*bangs head on desk*

No. The example was of the use of social media, Twitter specifically with the whole hashtag and "meme me" thing, spreading something like wildfire that most likely would have stayed in the innuendo and "wasn't that years ago case settled or something" category of celebrity scandals. One of the early accusers in the newest round that came out around that time justified coming out with her story by saying the groundswell on social media was so great, that the time was right to tell the story.

Right, one has not a damn thing to do with the other, nor am I suggesting that people being pissed off about a dopey press release about the new scoreboards is going to affect that kind of change, but I'm saying that you can't easily dismiss the vocal minority with the "haters gonna hate" mentality that you've been giving to blogs, social media communities, etc.

[Edgy MD]

1) I didn't dismiss the vocal minority. I said that they're wrong and that they don't seem to care about reason. They are and they don't. Nor has the team dismissed them. You put "haters gonna hate" in quotes, but I didn't write this. You seem to be confusing me with Taylor Swift (not the first time this has happened).

2) The Mets' press office didn't put out a "Meme me" tweet. They issued a press release. This is their job. The only alternative for them and for all of Mets management is to cease to exist. To cease to exist because of hostile and irrational nonsense. What a terrible way to live.

This why I find this analogy to be specious.

How's your head?

[Vic Sage]

If the Mets PR deptartment is ignoring the twitterverse, it's one of the few things Mets management has done with which i totally agree.
I think i just heard Captain Rogers bang his head again. Louder, Steve. You've got to hit it harder so it makes a loud echoing pop. You want to be heard in the balcony, you've got to project.

[A Boy Named Seo]

[HahnSolo]

I don't consider this a huge marketing misstep, but I also don't think the change in the scoreboard is dramatic enough to warrant a major announcement from the team.

[Ceetar]

HahnSolo wrote: I don't consider this a huge marketing misstep, but I also don't think the change in the scoreboard is dramatic enough to warrant a major announcement from the team.

They emailed a newsgroup. Isn't not like they held a press conference.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Vic Sage wrote: If the Mets PR deptartment is ignoring the twitterverse, it's one of the few things Mets management has done with which i totally agree. I think i just heard Captain Rogers bang his head again. Louder, Steve. You've got to hit it harder so it makes a loud echoing pop. You want to be heard in the balcony, you've got to project.

LOL.

Of course, what Rogers and the rest of the rest of the lunatic fringe are too frothy to comprehend is the fact the Mets PR Department has way too often been way too concerned about other people will say and as a result have lacked the courage of their convictions for years.

[Zvon]

It might not help the team but imagine having 1.5 million pixels to work with.

[Edgy MD]

Ceetar wrote: I don't consider this a huge marketing misstep, but I also don't think the change in the scoreboard is dramatic enough to warrant a major announcement from the team. They emailed a newsgroup. Isn't not like they held a press conference.

This couldn't have been a softer launch unless they wrote it on looseleaf, crumbled it up, and threw it out the window. It hasn't even been one of the 11 stories on their rotator.

Could you imagine them signing the final papers with the Daktronics?

>> "OK, is Tuesday good to talk about the marketing of this thing?"

>>>> "You know what? Let's just do it and not tell anybody. Everybody hates us."

>> "We're trying to get to the top of the industry. We get a contract to build in a New York stadium and you want to keep it a secret?!"

>>>> "Trust us. You don't want to be associated with us. It's better this way."

>> "You're quite serious?"

>>>> "Just check out the Twitter feed on my tablet here."

>> "GOOD GOD!!"

The only thing major has been the damage to Rogers' poor head.

[Lefty Specialist]

d'Kong76 wrote: Have the Mets announced what number Scoreboard will be wearing?

Well, with this offense, it'll be wearing lots of zeroes.

[Zvon]

Lefty Specialist wrote: d'Kong76 wrote: Have the Mets announced what number Scoreboard will be wearing? Well, with this offense, it'll be wearing lots of zeroes.

swish

[Edgy MD]

zvon enbiggens his blog.