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...


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From J Soul (My Personal Blog):

Last night, I finally got a look at the new logo for CitiField (The new stadium for the New York Mets opening in 2009). Before I make any obscene gestures, let me say that I was really disappointed when I saw the logo. The only way to logo relates to the Mets, in my own opinion, is the orange and blue color scheme. Other than that, it looks pretty terrible. Can anyone tell me who created the logo? Who do I have to hunt down and yell at? Now, while I made some obscene gestures at my computer screen, make your own gestures at the logo of the new stadium of the New York Mets.

Isn’t it lovely?… (Insert groans and whines here)

You know, it reminds me of another logo that I see all over the place… hmm… what could it be… Maybe it’s a ticket stub? Maybe it’s a Domino?… Wait! A domino! That’s why it looks like…

I’m proud to be a Mets fan, but I’m certainly no fan of Citifield… yet.
I’m gonna miss Shea Stadium...

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One of our most frequent topics of discussion over at the facebook group is the home run apple at Shea, and the mets future plans for the apple in the new stadium.

The home run apple made it's debut at Shea in 1980, and for the past 27 years, it arises out of the hat that hides it every time a mets player hits a home run. At 10 feet tall, 9 feet wide and weighing in at 582 pounds, the home run apple has become a symbol of the new york mets and their fans. The apple has undergone some changes over the years, including adding fireworks, changing the leaf design, and has been repainted many times, but the basic idea of the "big apple" emerging from a top hat every time a met hits a home run has remained.

The Mets will be moving to Citifield in 2009, and one of the most asked questions by all mets fan has been "What's gonna happen to the apple?" The Designs for Citifield all seem to include a drawing of a black top hat and an apple in center field, leading many fans to believe the tradition will be carried on to the new stadium.

There are a number of different theories on what might happen
- The other day, beat reporter Marty Noble indicated in the latest edition of Mets Mailbag that the home run apple would become a thing of the past.

"I suspect the venerable apple is fruit of the doom. I've never particularly liked it, thought it was a tad hokey. But it's grown on me. Just the same, I won't miss it."

- Earlier this month Metsblog author Matt Cerrone had indicated that he believed the apple would be auctioned off for charity, and a new more modern apple would be built for the new stadium. To me this seems like the most logical decision.

- There is however a lot of support from the diehard fans to keep the old apple and move it to the new stadium as a way to honor the past. A website called Savetheapple.com has taken this position. This idea is the sentimental play for the Mets, there is no question the apple is loved by the fans, and keeping the old one would be an important way to honor the past.

As of now, no official decision has been made on what to do with the apple.

We shall wait and see
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Shea has 56,000 seats, Citifield will only have about 45,000... the mets claim they did this so that fans could have more comfortable seats that are closer to the action.

This claim by the mets that they have less seats so that the fans can be closer to the action is completely false and stupid...

first of all, look at the height on the new stadium... it's considerable shorter than shea... the upper deck in citifield is the same height as the mezzanine in shea.

now think about it... that means that the seats that currently exist behind home plate in the upper deck dont exist in citifield... but meanwhile, citifield has seats comparable to fair territiry in the mezzanine!!!

anyone who has ever sat in the upper deck at shea knows that sections 1-20 are great seats, (even if you're in row U) it's much better than sitting in section 32 of the mezzanine, which is in fair territory... if the mets were really concerned about the fans, they would build a third deck behind home plate that would be equivalent to the current upper deck at shea... thats easily an extra 10,000 seats.

here's why the mets are building a smaller stadium

less seats=more sellouts, and even if they don't sell out, the stadium looks very full... if all the seats in the stadium are filled... they can justify raising ticket prices, and turn a greater profit.

for a simplified example... if all tickets at shea were $10, 55,000 x $10 = $550,000

now if the tickets at citifield are all $13,
$45,000 x $13 = $585,000

now... in order to justify raising the ticket price at shea, they need to sell 50,000+ tickets to every game

whereas, to raise the ticket price at citifield, they only have to sell 40,000+ tickets to every game

therefore, it's easier to sell 45,000 tickets at $13
than it is to sell 55,000 tickets at $10, and at the same time, you make a greater profit...

all i know is, it's gonna be harder to get tickets, and it's gonna cost more

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