The Mets new "inaugural season" patch has officially become the laughing stock of baseball the last few days. Mets Police points out that Yahoo Sports' mockery of the patch was the second hottest URL according to Alexa.com yesterday.

All this pretty much started last Friday (although Metsblog, as usual, was on top of it before national sources caught wind) when ESPN Page 2 contributor Paul Lukas of Uniwatch blog called the patch "the worst sleeve patch in MLB history". Honestly, how could anyone in their right mind disagree with this statement.

Obviously the new patch is a play off of the original crappy Citifield patch, which the Mets have plastered all around "taxpayer field" for the past year. But even that design was mocked when it was first introduced.

Seriously what designer collected a nice fat check for designing this worthless piece of crap? Can I have that job? I'm certainly no logo designer, but in 5 minutes I'm sure I could come up with something better... like this...


I'd sell this logo to the Mets for 1/10 of whatever they payed the designer of the patch, the fans probably wouldn't bitch about it, and the rest of the world would laugh at it.