Let me say something nice about the Mets organization. The sale of the premium games (Opening Day, Subway Series, Shea Finale) went rather smooth Sunday morning. It seemed like the site was capable of handling the onslaught of ticket requests and orders were processed quickly. Of course, if you weren’t one of the few lucky lottery winners you wouldn’t know this, but those are the realities of a larger fan base. No sense complaining about it now. Just wait until next year when there probably won’t even be one of these lotteries for the premium games at Citi Field.
So there you go… something nice about the Mets organization. I feel like it’s been a rarity this offseason, considering I’ve taken the Mets to task for raising ticket prices after an epic collapse, getting 50 cents on the dollar for Lastings Milledge, auditioning every catcher this side of Yogi Berra rather than bring back Paul Lo Duca, and finally adding a really-for-real “Last Play at Shea” after selling out the faux “final” concert. Hell, if they hadn’t signed Johan Santana, my offseason worth of posts might have been more bitter than all the fans that bought the tickets for the first Billy Joel concert combined.
And I’m about to do it again as the Mets unveiled the logo for their new home in 2009 and beyond, Citi Field. That’s it to the right. No, I didn’t just create something in PhotoShoppe and slap it on my blog. This is really the logo they came up with for their beautiful new ballpark.
Seriously, it’s like they didn’t even try. Does anything there evoke baseball? As the Green Machine put it, it looks like they asked an intern to whip something up before lunch. When I see it, I’m reminded of a wireless PCI card for your laptop. The “Citi” part is portion that slides into the slot and the orange part is the portion that sticks out. It’s even matches Cingular’s color scheme.
With all the meticulous planning that went into this ballpark, I honestly expected something spectacular for a logo. This is underwhelming.
