The Mets Police

Well, I am confident that Steve truly does want to improve the neighborhood, so I imagine he will build bike lanes and art installations and all the other non-casino stuff that the “visioning session” suggested because ABC7 reports…

Community members rallied against potential plans to build a casino near Citi Field in Queens.

Protesters say building a casino in the area would “devastate the Flushing community.”

There are no two ways about it,” said Rebecca Pryor, Executive Director of the Guardians of Flushing Bay, “privatizing 50 acres of public parkland in the middle of low and middle income communities of color is environmental injustice. This is not the time to sit back and enable a 50-acre, public park land grab. Our neighbors have been flooded in their homes, our waterways are soaked in sewage and our local park is one of the most prone to flooding in NYC. Communities from Flushing to Corona to East Elmhurst are in the 95th percentile for toxic air quality and proximity to traffic. We do not need a backroom deal casino. We need transparently planned, community-generated neighborhood projects that absorb rainfall, reduce air pollution, protect our public parkland and prioritize-rather than prey upon-our environmental justice communities. We call on local community organizations, NYC parkland advocates and elected officials to oppose the Citi Field casino license, protect parkland and stand with us as we fight for an environmentally just future for our northern Queens watershed.” (via ABC7)

Swoosh is back baby!

It’s terrible/not terrible.  Like the underline was terrible, but if you showed up in this I’d say “cool”

Hello friends. I cannot encourage you highly enough to check out today’s Uni Watch Substack.

The background here….I was googling one day, something like “Mets new executive brand extension” trying to refresh my brian about some new suit the Mets hired to extend their brand or something.  I still can’t find whatever the original article was.

As part of the search, I found this cool PDF related to…well let’s let Paul Lukas describe it.

When you watch a baseball game, whether in person or on TV, you’re exposed to a lot of advertising — ads on the outfield walls, in the dugout, on the scoreboard, and a lot more. Did you ever think about how the team sells those ads, and how it approaches potential advertisers?……….

……..a PowerPoint presentation called “Where Brands Meet Amazin’: 2023 Marketing Partnership Opportunities.” It’s the pitch deck that the Mets are using this season to approach potential advertisers for TV broadcasts and in-stadium signage.

Paul then discusses the slide show, I mean presentation, with an advertising expert, and what follows is a really SMART thought out look at what the Mets are presenting to potential advertisers.

I am so happy Paul did the intelligent version of this, as my version would have been Zing The Slides, which is kind of what I do, right?

Of particular interest to me – an idea involving replacing The Apple with….wait for it….a BANANA.  After reading the article, I think it’s actually a good idea even though if the Mets had floated it I would have lost my mind and been the one leading the charge to stop it lol.   (The banana is not the Mets’ idea.  Read the article, it will all make sense.  It’s called a TEASER folks.)

The article can be found here.

Yes it’s behind a paywall, but it’s 2023 man, surely you have a few subscriptions to things you like.  Even I do, and I am notoriously cheap!!!   Sign up for the Substack already.

I assure you this is well worth your time…and it’s a lengthy meaty well thought out read.  I’m not sending you to a two paragraph article, or some dopey post about a cap because a blogger has a consecutive days streak he tries not to snap but somedays has nothing to say.  This is a GREAT piece.  It has even inspired me to work on an article ranking the Greatest Uni Watch Mets Related Articles of all time.  Remember the one about the Wilpon Script?  Or Original Mrs. Met?

I’m more excited about this article than I am about the actual baseball season (well, to be fair, I am not excited about the baseball season in the least…ok I am more excited about the article than the 1985 baseball season.)

Seriously, I am so glad Paul grabbed this one. I have read it twice so far, and I keep imagining what a hack job my version would have been just slinging the zings.  Nice job Paul and Ben (he’s teh advertising professional).

DO IT

It’s too quiet. I miss the circus. We need a ridiculous controversy.

Anyway here the Mets Roses Cap since nothing is going on It’s $55.

Wow this picture is everything.

Looks like Matt and Mike are ready to overthrow the natural order of things in baseball and help Italy become the World Champions of the World Baseball Classic which does not make them the World Champions of Baseball which really doesn’t make sense if you think about it.  Can these two Make Italy Great At Baseball Again?  Time will tell!

By the way, some of you were asking if the I is for Insurrection.  It is not, it is for Italy.  Mike Piazza is the manager of the Italian team.