Front Office Sports has a must-read/watch with Mets president of business operations Scott Havens, whose work I will say I am not at all a fan of, It has inspired this opinion piece.
The team has embraced infielder Jose Iglesias’s song “OMG” as an anthem. When 97-year-old veteran Seymour Weiner was honored at a game and went viral for his name, the team didn’t shy away. It had Weiner promote Dollar Dog night. Another breakout sensation has been Max Wiener, the “Rally Pimp.”(via Front Office Sports)
Here’s a quote. LITTLE BROTHER SYNDROME MUCH????: “By the way, this would never have happened in the Bronx. Never, ever have happened in the Bronx, because 27 world titles, ‘we’re the Yankees.’ … When things pop up that can be loosely correlated to a winning streak, Mets fans jump on this. … With the social media team that we’re investing in, we jumped on it very quickly. We most certainly didn’t start the fire, but we put gasoline on it.”
Here’s a video of Scott explaining how his philosophy at a conference at the Hamptons, a relatable thing to any Mets fan.
I like when he says “The MLB” a few times.
Another highlight is when the host asks “how many people know about Grimace” and they get a few hands. I guess its not that viral Scott.
Another note – he talks about how “they” were losing in May, but then “we” were winning after Grimace. Fascinating.
At the 21 minute mark he tries to spin the proposes casino area as “former ash dump” which yeah sure, but that’s like calling Washington DC a former swamp. Accurate, but really irrelevant to the present day. Manhattan, that former forest. Anyway Scott, it’s a park. A casino is not a park. A park is a park.
He also seriously said imagine flying into LGA and taking an underground tunnel (name checking The Boring Company) to Willets Point. Yeah OK. Also, we’re building a tunnel on that water table??? Yeah???
So there ya have it. Rally Pimps and Weiner Jokes and now the nice young lady from the other day. Gotta go viral, because you don’t want to be like those Yankees.
Well Scott, this must all be working. Let’s check in on the attendance as reported by ESPN. Boy those Yankees are stupid not doing this cool viral stuff the youths like.
What’s the plan here – show up at Citi Field because you never know who might throw out the first pitch?
Here’s how you get the city talking about the Mets. Win baseball games.
Here’s how you get attendance to go up. Win baseball games.
Anyway this explains why the Mets social media accounts are not what they once were. Oh, and Scott, is that Youtube Show/Podcast that gets 1000 views part of the virality? Under 600 views for the manager?
Yesterday’s “Seinfeld” was way more accurate than I realized!
