The Mets Police

To promote City Connect, the Mets have been using this

Hey guys – we can’t see it.

Here’s what it looks like in line

Kind of a big nothing.  I don’t get it.  Do you think having a logo nobody can see is going to excite people?

Also, if you know New York, you know it’s the 7 TRAIN.

 

Uni Watch has details of the Armed Forced Day caps for this year.  Here’s a look at the horribly cluttered Mets design.

By the way, while I have a free moment….

WHY I DON’T POST AS MUCH

A huge reason is the changes Elon Musk made to twitter.  Posts don’t get the reach they once did.  This also contributed to why I stopped watching games.  I used to hold court on twitter during games and interact with many fans and it was a good community hang.  You don’t see that sort of thing nowadays.  Even people I actively interact with (say @mediagoon) for an example) – I often don’t see their posts unless I actively look for them.

Elon also castrated a lot of the apps you could use to recycle posts.  Maybe you didn’t see my post at 10am but I could auto-set things to recycle on twitter several hours later.   That can still be done, but it’s more of a manual task than it used to be.

Facebook only surfaces your posts to a portion of the people who follow you – even though they follow you they might not see the post, unless you pay to boost it.

Then there is the way people consume media.  In olden times you would go TO a blog.  You might come here, or go TO MetsBlog or TO Uniwatch or TO ESPN New York….but now people don’t really do that.  Everyone’s traffic is down, in all media.

So, that’s why I don’t pos as much.  I used to feed the east up to 7x a day, now I mainly do one, and often just a “cap post” so I don’t miss a day.

I appreciate you reading and I hope you still do read (you are apparently still here if you’re reading this sentence) – but that’s why.  Blame Elon.  There’s no sense in doing 7 posts if nobody is going to see them.

ESPN wrote about The Plan (version 63), but I haven’t had time to digest it.

This caught my eye.

Cohen assumed controlling interest of his favorite team in 2020. When that happened, Cohen set the tone of his early stewardship with an answer to a question about which franchise he’d like to see his team emulate: “I like what the Dodgers are doing,” Cohen said before elaborating on the various methods he hoped the Mets could adopt.

Which is weird, because that’s not what the Mets did this season.  But maybe I need to read the thing.  I’m busy today.

Nitpick about the City Connect descriptions…

The 7-Line: In the City’s most diverse borough, there is one train that represents all New Yorkers equally and brings you to our home. We weave purple throughout this uniform as an homage to the ultimate connector – The 7-Line.

Here’s the thing.  Nobody calls it The 7 Line.  The 7 Line is an apparel company founded by Darren Meenan (who I am mad at because his brand is using a vulgarized version of LGM and Darren knows better.)

The subway which you are seeking to emote is known as  the 7 Train.  I grew up half a block from Roosevelt Avenue.  Ut’s the 7 Train.  I took the 7 Train to high school.  I took the 7 Train to Mets games.

Its the 7 train.

Is it the D Line?  No.  It’s the “D” or the D Train.

Is there a famous song about Take The A Line?  No there is not.  You take the A Train.

Do you transfer to the E Line at 74th?  No you do not. You take the E Train to Manhattan.

So, I get the narrative, but a lot of out of owners are in power in Queens these days and they don’t know what they are talking about, and they definitely don’t take the subway.

7 TRAIN.  Get the lore right.

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Now if you want to use LINE – Flushing Line would have been OK.  The 7 Train runs on the Flushing Line.  Hypothetically you could have an 11 Train run express on the Flushing Line.

There is a Lexington Avenue Line.  It has the 4, 5 and 6.  The 4, 5, and 6 trains run on the Lexington Avenue LINE.

Understand?

Clean up the lore Mets.

And Darren, cut it out.  You can sell shirts without playing to he vulgar idiots.  Remember, what built your brand wasn’t Sell The Team, it was tapping into the emotion of Gary Carter’s passing.    #LGM

With everything going right for Steve this week – City Connect, beating Yamamoto – I figured we should go back to making fun of things, and what’s an easier target than the Queens Crew.

You remember the Queens Crew? They were hyped up before the season and since Opening Day I don’t think they’ve been mentioned.  NBC has profiled them, in which we learn

Auditions to join The Queens Crew were held in January, which brought in hundreds of local contestants. According to an expired job posting found on Backstage, the dance team is meant to reflect “the diverse culture, edgy style, and vibrant spirit of Queens” with compensation of up to $255 per day.

Welcome to the blog Trisha!

This seemed like an obvious opportunity, and we wanted to bring something that was really going to bridge generations,” said Trisha Donlin .