Catching up on comments…this one came in and deserves to be a post. I touched on it yesterday but the variant Lets Go Mets chant really troubles me.
I was at today’s Father’s Day Game, and while there seems to be an organ, or a computer organ, and maybe in a way the noise today was toned down, it’s still sooooooooooo nice when the visiting team is up.
If the Mets get a hint of a rally, get one guy on base, forget it, Vito and Make NOISE Department goes beserk.
When the Mets have a man on base, we are prodded between almost EVERY pitch to make noise or cheer. And as state previously, I find that the Make Noise Meter cheeers end up with a thud of dud or are just duds, they leave everyone flat.
On a separate note, today’s game was great (except for the outcome), and I even got to taste Shake Shack at the end of the rain delay, very cool, of course my Shake-Cago hot dog was slightly warm, but that’s what happens when the concessions put everything under the heat lamp, everything is already made waiting for a buyer, and Shake Shack is not the only place where this happens, I’ve had to ask for hot dogs made within the last hour several times, as they sit and sit, but what does that have to with noise? Uh, nothing.
Finally, today I realized that many fans focus on the following, free fleece blankets, launched t-shirts, and balls tossed by third base coaches, and waves…
Get off the phone, stop with the damned t-shirts from Pepsi (which will get sued eventually when someone goes overboard trying to catch the mediocre t-shirts which used to promote 718- mets -tixx) and finally…
I heard a new intonation of Let’s Go Mets, was rather upsetting.
Used to be Let’s Go Mets! Today I heard Let’s go meh-ehts. Hard to recreate it here, but it was giving mets two syllables, a la Let’s Go Yankees, two syllables…
BEWARE!
By the way, today was a great FAther’s Day for me at the game with my daughter, priceless!
A few readers have mentioned this Vito and the Make Noise Department. Does anyone have any more info about him/them? I think we will make it a point around here to regularly call them out.
Someone else wrote in:
That singsong Yankee chant is tough to eradicate, but eradicated it must be. It’s the same chant as “Let’s Go Rangers” basically. The cant and intonation bled across to the “Let’s Go Islanders” chant years ago. Now they’re infected too. There was a time when the Islanders chant would NEVER be confused with the Rangers one.
Let’s Go Mets is sacred in my house. Three sylables, not four. It was bad enough when the extra “Hoo!” was added during the silent beat at the end. The Wilpons had better get on this fast. Oh wait… they’re probably behind it.
How could this happen? Who are these people? Yankees fans visiting? Idiot Ranger fans?
Howie Rose this is another one for you to police on the radio.
One last comment on “Of Noise And Mets“:
Glad you fathers who went had a nice day.
They’re trying to gimmick up the whole operation now. From PA ads to ‘How Bout Some Noise?’ to alternate uniforms for no reason other than to sell jerseys. The BASEBALL has taken a back seat. Makes you wonder if Fred and Paris even care about the Met fans. I think they care about the dollars in the fans’ wallets and how many of them they can extract. Aside from that I think the Wilpons actually disdain the fans. I really do.
So I feel like I’m cheating on my girlfriend by saying nice things about Wrigley, but boy I wish someone from Flushing could do some research. I’m going to start sharing the pics on the site once i catch up.
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Let's Go Mets is sacred in my house. Three sylables, not four. It was bad enough when the extra "Hoo!" was added during the silent beat at the end. The Wilpons had better get on this fast. Oh wait… they're probably behind it.
Yes that "Hoo" thing done by guys who don't like to say Let's Go Mets. I always think, 10,000 people are saying Let's go Mets and 10,000 are saying "Hoo", and wouldn't it be twice as loud and cool if 20,000 were just saying Let's go Mets?