Derailed in playoffs, the Mets’ ad still covers the 7 train

New York Mets advert blitz pictured on a 7 prepare to Citi Subject.
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All aboard the disorient specific.

The Mets’ chest-puffing subway advert marketing campaign flexing the staff’s 101-win season and playoff bid has was a painful, rolling reminder of how shortly the Amazins’ postseason goals have been dashed.

“If baseball is life, that is the prepare of dying,” groaned die-hard Byron James, 51, seated beneath Mr. Met’s smug mug on a 7 prepare.

To have fun the staff’s first playoff run since 2016, the Mets early this month slapped prepare automobiles and stations alongside the 7 line and the Instances Sq. shuttle in a sea of orange and blue, and large pictures of their star gamers.

However lower than per week after the disclosing, the San Diego Padres clobbered the Mets 2-1 within the Wild Card collection, leaving followers to endure for the remainder of the month the transferring memorials to what may need been.

“That is the prepare of dying,” groaned fan Byron James.

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“I don’t need to see this after leaving Citi Subject,” kvetched Mets stadium porter Jose Barreto, 32. “It’s only a unhealthy reminder that the Yankees are nonetheless right here and the Mets are gone.” 

Darren Meenan, proprietor and founding father of the 7 Line fan group, agreed that the posters are seemingly a “miserable reminder” for followers driving the prepare every day, however applauded the Mets for no less than making an attempt to pump extra blue and orange into town.

“With this marketing campaign it was simply unlucky timing, however you gotta roll with the punches,” he mentioned. “That what being a Mets fan is all about.” 

Lower than per week after the advertisements have been unveiled, the Mets fell from the playoffs.

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It hasn’t taken lengthy for Yankees followers to weaponize the advertisements and rub salt within the wounds of their crosstown rivals. 

One Bomber booster — or disgruntled Mets fan — scribbled “choked” beneath a number of Grand Central Station Mets posters.

Yankees fan Nick Primola, 53, in the meantime, hollered sarcastically “Let’s go Mets” whereas recording a video of the subway hallways, which he despatched to a buddy nonetheless sulking over final Sunday’s shutout. 

“I don’t need to see this,” Mets worker Jose Baretto mentioned.

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“It’s exhausting not to have a look at that with an ironic quantity of disbelief,” he mentioned. “Town was lastly seeming to go all in on the Mets, and as soon as once more … they only have been the Mets.”