While everyone else rolls over and just goes with the flow, Paul Lukas has asked the right questions – especially this first one…
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If Cohen didn’t like the initial ad design, why did it end up on the uniforms to begin with? I mean, he presumably signed off on the original design, right?
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More specifically, if he wanted the ad to be rendered in Mets colors, why didn’t he insist on that in the first place? If he wanted the ad to be smaller, without all that extra space, why didn’t he insist on that in the first place? Was he involved in the initial process or wasn’t he?
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Was the initial ad patch a last-minute rush job that they scrambled to come up with in time for the home opener without actually thinking about the design? (via Uni Watch)
Amen. I can’t imagine an ad made it to the uniform with Steve approving it. Also, let’s keep in mind that the advertiser has a wing named after Mrs. Cohen….and Steve and the Mrs. have given the hospital $75,000,000. So if you think some random Mets exec just slapped that on a uniform and Steve found out about it in the second inning, you might be crazy.
Here’s the thing I can’t understand…and maybe it’s Baseball Accounting.
At one point Steve had an extra $75,000,000 and gave it to the hospital. Nice.
How much are the Mets getting for the ad? Is it a million dollars? A little weird that Steve just have kept the Mets ad-free for 75 years and not paid for a hospital wing? (To be fair, this notion dumbs down the part where there’s a hospital wing.)
Maybe the hospital is paying ten million a year to the Mets? Couldn’t Steve have kept the Mets ad-free for the rest of the decade?
It’s just confusing me that A gives B $75M but now B is giving Sort-of-A some amount of money for a patch….that to me seems like an amount of money that can’t possibly matter to Sort-of-A.
