The Mets have come up with our slogan for the year.
Your Season Has Come. No.
Come? In the sense of having arrived? That makes it sound like something a butler announces. Who’s announcing this? The team? To whom? To us? Are they like telling us that our season has now arrived? What were those other seasons all about? Were they not our seasons? Were they someone else’s seasons? Were they their seasons? What makes this one ours?
There’s a fake grandeur to this. Like, here it is, you fans you, on this platter. We bring this to you. You be happy. Oh Mets, this one is for us? Oh, you shouldn’t have! Now you bring us this. Why not before? Was it waiting here for us, all along, waiting for us to get to 2007, so it could come to us? Here it comes.
Here comes our season.
Come is not good in a slogan. It’s too easy to think something inappropriate. It’s too easy to make a joke. Don’t make it too easy for Yankees fans.
Is it too late to come back to the drawing board?
In a business filled with stupid slogans, this one deserves a special gold star. I’ve written this on other boards….why the hell don’t the Mets just stick with “YA GOTTA BELIEVE”? That one works whether the Mets are playing great or are dedicated to sucking. Who is the head of marketing for the Mets…that monkey from the prior blog entry? Do they really think fans are gonna say “WOW! What a terrific slogan! I’m gonna buy me some seats for a Wed. night game against the Rockies in May! In the rain!” Ridiculous. They got a great slogan, so they are taking a whizzz on it. Just a variant on the “new uniform of the day” crap that makes the organization reek of being synthetic and fake and manufactured too often.
I’d say the Mets new slogan has come….prematurely. (cymbal & snare drum)
good one JD. I have to admit, I can’t even remember what last year’s slogan was. I will never forget “Ya Gotta Believe” though. I think you got something there. What if they gave a slogan and nobody came?
The head of marketing must have come over from the Red Sox organization. The Red Sox sell 4 paks with one premiun game and three other games mostly mid week. They also sell their Red Sox/Yankees tickets via lottery system. The Mets are doing the same thing only their 4 pak is a 7 pak. I want to go to opening day as much as everyone else but I refuse to spend my money on 6 other games I can’t attend to do so just for them to seat in in some upper reserved outfield crappy seats.
I think last year’s slogan was the Time is Now or something like that. Your Season is Now would be better then Your Season Has Come. But Ya Gotta Believe will alway be my favorite.
Guess I’m kind of old school…why the hell does a season need a slogan (especially before it’s even begun, and the team’s character has yet to emerge)?
Wasn’t last year’s something like “Our Team, Our Time”? Which gave rise to that horrendous song?
Shelley has a hell of a good point. Keep in mind the Mets decided to start playing Sweet Caroline in the 7th inning — a Red Sox tradition.
When the did we all supposedly become Red Sox fans???
No offense to those who like ‘em, but I hate the Sox. Except for Schiraldi, Buckner, Stanley, and McNamara, who I cherish. Unless it affects the Os, I usually root for the Yankees to crush the Red Sox into a fine paste.
It’s really offensive that opening day has become lottery only. That’s fine for playoffs, but to extend it to opening day ruins tradition. I have a friend who has gone every year since I can remember. It was an annual ritual for her to go to Shea in February and wait on line with the other die hards. She goes by herself if no one else can take the day off. She’s a season ticket holder. But this year she’ll either have to skip it or pay a ticket broker.
and by the way, you all proved my point. No one remembers last year’s slogan. “The team, the time, the now?”
I agree with JD and Subie that Ya Gotta Believe is a timeless slogan. With so many veterans on the team, it seems appropriate to bring out the old slogan, or maybe add to it Ya Gotta Believe This Is Our Year to Win. But The Season Has Come is extremely lame and should be canned immediately. If they can’t come up with an exciting slogan, there shouldn’t be any slogan.
maybe “Your Season Has Come” is just their way of reminding us that the season has begun as none of us will be able to actually be in the park opening day!!!
By the way, were will we all be opening day? I haven’t given up being there yet but I refuse to pay $200 a ticket to sit in UR 20 row P just to do so. Worse case scenario, I’ll just hang at the Ramada Inn bar and watch it on TV with the other real fans.
Since I didn’t win any lotteries either and am not going to pay 200 for a lousy seat just to be at opening day, I’m going to the second home game, on Wednesday, April 11th, with my daughter. I had no trouble getting tickets for that. Maybe that should be the real, long-time fan’s Opening Day.
yeah, you know what all i have to say is this: these fuckin’ slogans already, i mean in 2005 the “new mets”, they were stale; in 2006 “the team, the time, the mets” they werent the team, it wasnt their time, whats next?
Go Red Sox !!! Make pebbles out of rocks. Go Red Sox !!!