This Is Not Funny

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• Matt March 9, 2011 at 7:01 pm

  That actually is pretty funny. When your favorite team is a joke…might as well have a good sense of humor about it.
• Tricia March 9, 2011 at 7:38 pm

  Awww come on, loosen up. I got a chuckle out of it.
• Lou March 9, 2011 at 8:10 pm

  The sign should say: “New York- we have the METS and other teams that wish they were the METS!”
• Mr North Jersey March 9, 2011 at 8:44 pm

  i think the ad did what it set out to do. good job by the advertisers.
• MetsMan86 March 9, 2011 at 8:53 pm

  My girlfriend who is from the Bronx and a Yankees fan point this out to me last night in the city. I told her I would rather take a crap in Manhattan Mini Storage unit than store anything there. Funny though. Too bad I doubt a Mets fan will use them now.
  • Mr North Jersey March 9, 2011 at 10:17 pm

    True, I would expect some Mets fans that find it offensive may not use them. The advertisers though got what they wanted as soon as the Times and then Blogs like MMO picked up on it.

    Free advertising.

    Now you have people saying did you see that ad making fun of the Mets? Before today I never knew of “Manhattan Mini Storage” now I do.

    Mission accomplished by advertisers. Well done indeed.
• Bayonne Mets Fan March 9, 2011 at 9:54 pm

  It’s not funny and it’s a bad job by that company. There are people who won’t think it’s funny and not give their business to them. If i made fun of one particular rock band in my advertising I may lose their fans who may also like the other bands I deal with, right or wrong their are people who are sensitive to that and to me everybody’s money is the same so that was a foolish move whoever signed off on that.

  Not good practice AT ALL.
  • Donal March 10, 2011 at 11:31 am

    Unless you are a hipster douche buying all kinds of stupid trinkets that can’t fit in your over priced shoebox apartment in Manhattan, then they really don’t care about you or your business. Well, at least you aren’t who this marketing campaign is aimed at.
• any March 9, 2011 at 9:54 pm

  well, technically they still can’t count.

  yanks, rangers, knicks, Mets.

  the rest don’t even play in the city! And pretty sure you can’t count the Isles as a professional team anymore (didn’t they get demoted to a club team by now?)
• srt March 9, 2011 at 10:22 pm

  I’ve been a Met fan for over 4 decades.

  In late summer 2009 I walked out to the end of driveway to get the mail. Some young boy – probably about 14 – was walking by. He looked at me and said: ‘wow, I feel sorry for you’. Took me a few seconds to realize I had a Mets tee shirt on.

  They don’t call us Met fans long suffering for no reason.
• Lou March 9, 2011 at 10:42 pm

  Being a MET fan is a lifelong passion-up, down, sideways from Marvelous Marv Throneberry to Ollivor Perez if you’re not into suffering take your fanhood (I just made up that word) and go to Yankee Stadium where the rarified air and haughty, taughty upper East Side roaylty pretend to look interested. One of my greatest possessions is the coffee table book “The New York Mets” by George Kalinsky with an introduction by Gov. Mario Cuomo. My son gave it to me one Christmas along with the neatsest NY Met hat I’ve ever seen. Ah, I raised the boy right! Ah spring is coming and I’m in love!
• any March 9, 2011 at 11:12 pm

  I was talking to someone I worked with back in the mid 80s the other day (in north jersey). Most of the office was met fans, we road tripped to Philly, had company outings (picnic area baby!).

  he mentioned it because he has a 13 YO that is just becoming a fan and is conflicted (mom is a yankee fan). He was amazed to hear is father describe the old days, and that so many of us were met fans. Just not something a 13 YO in NY really understands now.
• jay'smets March 10, 2011 at 10:28 am

  advertisers were probably Stankee fans.
  • metsaddict77 March 10, 2011 at 11:31 am

    how far we have fallen, just sad.
• mrmetfan March 10, 2011 at 12:55 pm

  you know what as mets fans they shouldnt seek their buisness anymore..