More: Blogs Comment on Citi Field Patch
Yesterday, Peter Abraham of the Journal News and Uni Watch’s Paul Lukas of ESPN.com wrote about the Citi Field 2009 Inaugural Season Patch from the Mets and MLB.
My thoughts from last week can be found here.
Today, the Sports Hernia gets in on the action, 
providing a series of humorous alternatives, including the one featured in this post.
Similarly, ‘Duk from Big League Stew, whose post is also featured on the main news page Yahoo.com, also has a few choice words, complete with the headline, “Mets’ pizza patch the laughingstock of baseball uniform world.”
…i have been sent lots of e-mail from people essentially saying, ‘The Mets didn’t use the name Citi Field on their patch, because Citigroup may be broken up, making the name irrelevant.’…
…the thing is, as ‘Duke points out, MLB does not allow commercial names or logos on uniforms, so, regardless of Citigroup’s future, it doesn’t really matter…
According to Big league Stew, “More likely, it’s a case of the Mets being as dull and uninspiring as their ’08 bullpen. They could’ve held a coloring contest among preschoolers and still ended up with a better design than the one above.”
…i said this on the day the Patch was released…i think it would have been awesome to team up with the Mets, and let us, the fans, submit user-generated designs, with some one from the team picking a winner…this would have been a great way to include the fans in the opening of the new building…
