Who should sponsor the Mets?

[Edgy MD]

The Cardinals feed I'm watching here has the Bally B as a watermark in the corner of the screen.

[Frayed Knot]

The Cardinals feed I'm watching here has the Bally B as a watermark in the corner of the screen.

But that's for the network, not the team.
Bally's (a division of somebody, I can't remember now) bought out the regional FOX sports network contracts two seasons back
and so now have the local broadcasting rights to around half of all MLB teams.

[Edgy MD]

Wow. That just makes me want to develop a gambling addiction and renew my gym membership all at once.

[MFS62]

Either GE, Siemens or Phillips, the three primary manufacturers of MRI equipment, would be logical sponsors for the Mets.
Think of all the player testimonials they could use in their commercials.

Later

[nymr83]

Maybe somebody could make a large donation to put the Ukrainian flag on the unis?

As much as I like this specific idea, I don't like the precedent of getting 'political' on uniforms.

[roger_that]

Maybe somebody could make a large donation to put the Ukrainian flag on the unis?

As much as I like this specific idea, I don't like the precedent of getting 'political' on uniforms.

You got some kind of problem with red "Mets Are Great Again!" caps with white lettering?

[whippoorwill]

Either GE, Siemens or Phillips, the three primary manufacturers of MRI equipment, would be logical sponsors for the Mets.
Think of all the player testimonials they could use in their commercials.

Later

Awesome idea!

[Frayed Knot]

The Cardinals feed I'm watching here has the Bally B as a watermark in the corner of the screen.

But that's for the network, not the team.
Bally's (a division of somebody, I can't remember now) bought out the regional FOX sports network contracts two seasons back
and so now have the local broadcasting rights to around half of all MLB teams.

When FOX decided to get out of the regional cable sports business Disney was to be the original buyer. But that was negated when it was decided that all those regional
channels plus the ESPN monster would represent too much of a monopoly. So when that divesture was ordered 'Sinclair Broadcast Group' and 'Entertainment Studios'
became the co-owners of the regional chain of sports networks formerly known as FOX Sports [your area here]. Bally's, it turns out, jumped in as a naming rights partner,
something the buyers needed to alleviate debt taken on with the purchase and I'm sure Bally's wanted it for the growing gambling/sports connections.
15 MLB teams (plus a similar percentage of NBA & NHL teams) are broadcast locally by stations* owned and operated by this network while others have outlets that are affiliates.



* not SNY, or YES, or NESN. MSG+ & MASN are affiliates

[A Boy Named Seo]

The Padres are the first (I think?) to announce a uni advertiser. It is predictably garish and uggo.

[Benjamin Grimm]

That video seems to imply that we should be excited about seeing a Motorola patch on the Padres' sleeves.

I suppose that's a better place than the front of the jersey, but it takes up real estate typically used for memorials and commemorations. What happens if Nate Colbert dies? Does he get squeezed under the Motorola patch?

[Edgy MD]

Motorola US needs to fix their Twitter handle before getting on the Padres uniform. I was trying to figure out if Motorolaus was some sort of German syndicate.

[Edgy MD]

Whoah! They'll be able to see that from space.

[Fman99]

That patch sucks almost as much as the virtual ad on the Citi Field mound. Seriously, fuck JustWorks

[Edgy MD]

It always looked to me like a mid-century modern logo for a European national airline. Looking it up, I'm not that far off, as it was introduced in 1955.

What it represents — and I wouldn't have guessed this — is a highly stylized M. I think it looks more like a stylized bird's-eye view of someone's cleavage in a cone bra.

In the design biz, it's referred to as "the bat-wing logo," which probably pisses Batman off to no end.

[Fman99]

In the design biz, it's referred to as "the bat-wing logo," which probably pisses Batman off to no end.

Also offensive to people whose nutsacks are stuck to the side of their leg, I would think.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I've always been able to clearly see the M in that logo. I don't think the patch itself is ugly (although it could certainly be smaller) the main problem is the fact of it. We're on the slippery slope.

[Lefty Specialist]

They'll look like English soccer uniforms before long.

[MFS62]

I think it looks more like a stylized bird's-eye view of someone's cleavage in a cone bra.

You must have some really fun answers when you take a Rorschach Test.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

They'll look like English soccer uniforms before long.

At least they won't be the same sponsors since MLB would never get in bed with betting sites ... oh wait!

[Centerfield]

Hey Mets fans! You're used to getting fucked!

[kcmets]

I hope whatever the Mets choose is 1/3 the size and three-times more tasteful.
That Padres Moto-logo is butt ugly and an eyesore.

[Willets Point]

[Willets Point]

[Edgy MD]

Unfortunately, a lot of the images from this thread have move on, but it's a good starting point.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Maybe the Mets can go with a portrait of Joseph P. Guryeb or Giuseppe Franco.

We seem to have nostalgia for the Mets sponsors of yore, at least to a degree. Manufacturers Hanover. Dairylea. Schaefer. Rheingold. Garcia y Vega cigars.

Will future generations feel the same way about current sponsors? I'm not even sure who they are anymore, since my MLB.tv feed of SNY telecasts overrides the local ads. From what I can tell, the only Mets sponsor seems to be Limu Emu and Doug.