The Dugout: Inaugural Season 2009

How many seasons have we played here? What year is it? These questions and more are answered in the Citi Field Inaugural Season 2009 patch, to be worn next season by the New York Mets! All you have to do is turn your head slightly and all is revealed.

The Orioles get the swank old logo/Maryland flag ultimate mashup patch, the Yankees get their arches, and the Mets get a Zippo from Cafe Press. Look at that thing. It's just infuriating, isn't it? Is it a diamond with a dugout? Is it a sideways rectangle? If the words in the blue are horizontal, why is the year diagonal? Did that stoner kid from the design your own video games commercial get an office job with Major League Baseball? Why do I suddenly want to kill my family?

Come for the depressing baseball team, stay for Mike Westfall's hilarious photoshop work. This morning's Dugout is after the jump.

The Dugout

	Online Host Welcome to the Clearly Labeled Citi Field New York Mets Inaugural Season 2009 Chatroom!
	DudleyDoWright: "Clearly labeled?"
	omar_goodness: Over the last 18 months we've had the top designers and graphic artists in the New York Metropolitan Area working dilligently and in seclusion on a uniform patch for our first season in Citi Field.
	omar_goodness: We moved them into a high-tech facility at the cost of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.
	omar_goodness: Everything was going great until September, when the facility collapsed upon itself and killed everyone inside.
	omar_goodness: But we still needed a patch, so I've spent the offseason learning MS Paint from a series of CD-Roms I bought off the television and this is what I've come up with

	omar_goodness: So. What do you think?
	JohanSolo: well, you can't spell "inaugural" without "aug"
	ReyesAGoodMovie: is it spost to look like the domino pizza logo
	omar_goodness: I don't know what you're asking.
	ReyesAGoodMovie: /
	omar_goodness: I've never seen that before in my life.
	DudleyDoWright: /picks up patch Never seen it before? Why is the patch made out of cardboard? It looks like you cut it out from a-
	omar_goodness: Insolence! I'm a New York millionaire! I've never had the highest quality of the low-quality pizzas!
	DudleyDoWright: There's still cheese stuck to the bottom of it!
	JohanSolo: You remembered we were supposed to have a patch when you were in the middle of lunch today, didn't you
	omar_goodness: Buh! buh!
	strikeout_rod: that's pretty low, mr. minaya
	JohanSolo: first you tell us the National League is making pitchers cover left field, and now this.
	DudleyDoWright: Wait until the Blogosphere hears about this! Corky Simpson will call you a name!
	LordsOfTheRyanChurch: That patch doesn't say who we are, or where we're playing, it doesn't even have a baseball on it, EVERYTHING designed for baseball has a baseball on it or some stitches, or something
	strikeout_rod: it's barely even our colors
	ReyesAGoodMovie: an whys it sideways
	DudleyDoWright: We could've done a better job than that.
	omar_goodness: All right, FINE! Put your money where your mouth is!
	ReyesAGoodMovie: !!! no i love my money
	omar_goodness: Just TRY and design a better logo than mine. You've got 30 minutes™.
	Online Host An hour and 20 minutes later...
	omar_goodness: Let's see what you've got.
	JohanSolo: I'll go first. For my design, I chose to show that we would have a new roof over our head in 2009 hope you like! /
	ReyesAGoodMovie: wow, everybody come 'ere, gather roun this, its the good stuff
	DudleyDoWright: Personally, I'd pan it.
	strikeout_rod: yeah its too cheesy
	JohanSolo: well what did YOU come up with?
	strikeout_rod: in my logo i included a championship banner, because we have gathered the best ingredients to make the best team
	strikeout_rod: /
	ReyesAGoodMovie: what a robust design!!
	LordsOfTheRyanChurch: That's not a better logo you dip, you just garnished it.
	DudleyDoWright: It still doesn't tell you who we are or what we play. Did you try writing "METS" on it?
	strikeout_rod: writing mets is hard what did you do
	DudleyDoWright: ah well I don't want to toot my own horn, but I used a lil' thing we in the internet biz-ness call the "blur tool" to whip up a classic design
	DudleyDoWright: /
	LordsOfTheRyanChurch: Cha-ching!
	ReyesAGoodMovie: where can i get a blur tool
	LordsOfTheRyanChurch: you wouldn't be able to afford it, it costs CRAZY bread
	omar_goodness: Church, let's see your design.
	LordsOfTheRyanChurch: I don't have one. I drew up one based on the DiGiorno's logo, but nobody believed I made it at home :(
	omar_goodness: Jose?
	ReyesAGoodMovie: my logo was already taken by the los angeles of anaheim pizza kitchen
	DudleyDoWright: Boss, you know, I think we were hasty to criticize your logo.
	omar_goodness: Oh?
	DudleyDoWright: Yeah. It says everything you need to know about Citi Field.
	DudleyDoWright: Our inaugural season there is 2009, we're a bunch of squares, and it's not on the level.
	JohanSolo: And we're supposed to be good, but will end up terrible.
	omar_goodness: Ha! Great! Everyone pile into the van, I'm taking you out for pizza!