No one’s ever really identified the Reds’ mascot as a definitive representation of the Reds or anything. Almost every stadium is a copy of a stadium that came before it. The Giants and Dodgers abandoned NY to move west, and the Mets were created to replace them. One color from each team to celebrate the NY NL history is hardly plagiarism.
However, the Mets “Ya gotta believe” slogan not only is the defining cry of one of our few World Series runs, but it is literally one of the most identifiable Mets slogans out there, perhaps only bested by the “Amazin’ Mets” tag. Taking that away from your rivals is just stupid. You look stupid and unoriginal when the Phils use it. Sorta sad that a team with twice as much history as the Mets needs to use one of their slogans.

Supposing that colors can be plagiarized (a grey area in copyright law, no pun intended), orange and blue are the colors of the City of New York… which were in turn taken from the Netherlands. The Giants and Dodgers absconded with them when they left town; the Mets reclaimed them.

“Ya gotta believe” is also the opposite of apt for the Phillies. Belief is hoping for the improbable, or at least for luck in matters out of one’s control, not expecting a consistently successful team to continue doing well. And though it pains me like a fissure in my liberty bell, Phillies fans don’t have much need for blind faith this season; they’re doing all right on the field.

Mr. Met is technically predated by a sleeve patch version of Mr. Red, which only existed for the 1955 season, but Mr. Met was the first human mascot in MLB, and was around for almost 35 years before Mr. Red made a re-appearance.

Depending on whether we keep or rid of Franceour, of course.

But knowing our management, I wouldn’t be surprised if they bumble this up and give him a very asinine deal.

how they would react if they were in the field together and a ball was hit in between the two of them. That collision still makes my head hurt, I can only imagine how they feel.

but he also wants to sign Russell Branyan?

but his player analysis and arm chari GMing skills are beyond putrid. his suggestions universally suck. which is too bad because i think hes got plenty of writing talent. but its hard to take him seriously about anything when hes says stuff like about franceour.

He put grit 3rd. 3rd!!! Grit is always number one.