Who should sponsor the Mets?

[Edgy MD]

It's awful ugly.

You don't want to overthink these things, but you sure want somebody else to, and those inches of empty real estate makes both partners look indifferent.

[Fman99]

It's not even that it's ghastly, which it is. It's that they're proud to announce it. I get it that they're proud partners, and why wouldn't you be. I'm sure they do amazing work at NYP. But they should not be proud that someone smeared a red polygon of shit on their classic blue and orange jerseys. That's the travesty.

[Frayed Knot]

But why can't it be a rectangle that just borders the stupid logo and not that huge square.

No doubt because a maximum size limit was put on these things (y'know, to keep them from looking gaudy and ugly) but, as often happens
in these deals, 'maximum' gets translated into 'minimum' so extra vertical space is needed to fill out the very horizontal looking logo.

[Fman99]

Someone should take that logo to NYP and give it gastric bypass surgery because it's bloated to an unhealthy size and no one wants to look at it.

[Methead]

I can't stop thinking it looks like blood soaking through a hastily-applied bandage.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Strange that 1,800 people loved it. I guess in the New York metropolitan area, and in the wider universe of Mets fans, you can find 1,800 people with no taste.

I bet most of the 2,000 replies are negative.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I can't stop thinking it looks like blood soaking through a hastily-applied bandage.

I'll never stop seeing that now. Thanks!

[Edgy MD]

We're so excited by this patch that we couldn't find a single person willing to model it.

[G-Fafif]

I can't stop thinking it looks like blood soaking through a hastily-applied bandage.

In 2005, MLB supported Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts with a Red Cross symbol on its batting helmets. Well-intentioned as it was, it gave me the sense that every hitter was injured in World War I.

[kcmets]

It's not a patch, it's a freakin' billboard.

If I have a heart attack at home this holiday weekend my local medical
facility is a NYP hospital. If I'm conscience, I'm asking the ambulance to
cart me down the line a Northwell Health affiliate in protest.

So there.

[Gwreck]

The price for these is something like a stadium naming rights deal, is what I was told.

It is awful and ugly

Side note, why does a hospital (1) need to pay millions of dollars a year to advertise and (2) could that money be used to, you know, treat sick people?

This is awful all around.

[metirish]

Ugh, let's make sure we get the awful patch in

[kcmets]

They didn't waste much time!

[Edgy MD]

That's a new number for Álvarez.

I can tell because it's almost as big as the New York Presbyterian patch.

[G-Fafif]

The price for these is something like a stadium naming rights deal, is what I was told.

It is awful and ugly

Side note, why does a hospital (1) need to pay millions of dollars a year to advertise and (2) could that money be used to, you know, treat sick people?

This is awful all around.

Was thinking about this last night, specifically how many NYP patients could get treatment on the house if the ad rights fee was applied as such.

Then again, if we're all doing sponsored jumping jacks during the 7th inning stretch, our cardiovascular systems won't require medical care.

[metirish]

As an aside for years NYP has had slogans like " Amazing things happen here " I'm sure both sides are giddy at the prospects for crossover ads

[Methead]

I can't stop thinking it looks like blood soaking through a hastily-applied bandage.

I'll never stop seeing that now. Thanks!

"Coming up next on SNY Sportsnite, we're approaching the All-Star break and your New York Mets are currently mired in a hopeless 8 game losing streak. Can this team lean on Verlander try and stop the bleeding? But first a word from our sponsor."

[batmagadanleadoff]

Presbyterian! Sheesh! Whatever happened to separation of church and baseball?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

[metirish]

Steve likely saw what the fans were saying

[batmagadanleadoff]

Steve likely saw what the fans were saying

I had a strong feeling yeseterday that something like this would happen.

[A Boy Named Seo]

The price for these is something like a stadium naming rights deal, is what I was told.

It is awful and ugly

Side note, why does a hospital (1) need to pay millions of dollars a year to advertise and (2) could that money be used to, you know, treat sick people?

This is awful all around.

Was thinking about this last night, specifically how many NYP patients could get treatment on the house if the ad rights fee was applied as such.

Then again, if we're all doing sponsored jumping jacks during the 7th inning stretch, our cardiovascular systems won't require medical care.

All of this.

Tying this back to soccer and their longstanding use of on-shirt sponsorships, I eyeballed my favorite league (USL Championship, second tier American soccer) and there are 8(!!!) health care companies as front-of-shirt sponsors. MLS (first tier of American soccer) has 7!

I checked the English Premier League and there are lots of airlines and online betting companies, but zero health care sponsors. Also zero in La Liga in Spain. Same goes for the Bundesliga in Germany and Ligue 1 in France, too. No health care sponsors in the top 4 soccer leagues in the world because heath care isn't the privatized, for-profit monster it tragically is in the US. Sickening is the pun I'm looking for.

[Edgy MD]

I appreciate Steve Cohen not doubling down on a bad choice, but how did this not come up before Opening Day?

Act, don't react.

[batmagadanleadoff]

So with these new sponsored patches hogging up the real estate on one sleeve, I wonder if this trend will lead to less of those one-year-only commemorative patches, like for example, stuff like this:

or this

Where would they put them?

[batmagadanleadoff]

I appreciate Steve Cohen not doubling down on a bad choice, but how did this not come up before Opening Day?

Because maybe that was the preferred patch and they had a backup plan in case of a very bad fan reaction.