The Mets Police

New Era needs help.  They seem to be feel pressured to introduce a new terrible cap almost every day.  It’s OK guys, you really don’t need to.

This design from earlier in the week.

Mets Police has learned..

The New York Mets are partnering with facial recognition software Wicket to expand optional facial-ticketing at Citi Field. Beginning with Opening Day of the 2022 MLB season, all main entry gates at Citi Field will have Wicket machines to scan a fan’s face to confirm their ticket info upon entering the ballpark.

The partnership is an expansion upon the opt-in Mets Entry Express trial program that saw select lanes at Citi Field offer Wicket’s facial ticket entry last season. With Wicket, users upload an image of their face and ticket’s barcode before a game. Wicket’s computer vision software scans their face to allow entry without the fan having to show a printed or mobile ticket, enabling lines to move faster.   (via Sport Techie)

The Mets just want you safe because they want you back.  You think they are going to secretly track your movements through the park and your purchasing behavior and sell that information to Big Data?  The Mets would never do that.

Besides, you’ll get into the park 5 seconds faster.  Don’t you want to get into the park five seconds faster?

I mean so what if we’ve tied your face to your purchased ticket.  You’ll get in five seconds faster!

Just keep this in the back of your mind.  This sort of information comes in handy down the road when we find out something random like the Mets want to store nuclear waste where the Seaver statue was supposed to go….and we’re all like WHAT and then you just follow the money.

You never know when you might want to build a casino on parkland.

Some of the top donors to the @ericadamsfornyc transition: Mets owner and hedge fund manager Steve Cohen, Fred Wilpon, former mayoral candidate Bo Dietl, the Winklevoss twins and at least one Rockefeller

— Gloria Pazmino (@GloriaPazmino) December 8, 2021

The folks at New Era are begging us to help them.  Almost every day they release a cap design that gets worse and worse by the day.  This is the split font cap.  I think they have admitted their problem and it’s time we send them help.

It’s OK guys, you don’t have to make a cap every day.

 

UPDATE: I am being told this is a split FRONT cap with an R.

Steve, if someone walked into your office at Point72 and said, “Hey there’s this kid from Tampa.  Really smart, really full of energy, let’s put him in charge of the biggest fund” wouldn’t you throw the guy out of your office?

You’ve assembled a professional veteran baseball team.

Why would you not hire an known quantity, professional manager, with experience.

I’m hearing you’re looking at guys like Quataro from Tampa.  I’m sure he’s groovy and all but…

Veteran Teams need veteran managers.

Don’t make the same mistake three times in a row.  We just came off Mickey Hodges and Rojas.  Both were young and exciting and blah blah – they won nothing.  They were inexperienced.  Why would you do that again?

You bring in the new exciting manager when you’re trying to hype the fans on a rebuild  This is not that.   You have veterans at every position.  Just get someone in here to keep the ship steady.

You don’t need to squeeze 0.4 WAR out of someone.  Just play baseball.

AND – you personally really need a hire that won’t embarrass the franchise.  2021 didn’t go so well.

So hire a professional.  Buck Showalter. Someone like that.  It’s not time to mess around and make the same mistake for the third straight time.