Baseball Guru
04-18-2006, 09:02 AM
http://www.courant.com/sports/baseba...,2451646.story
April 18, 2006
BY NEIL BEST, Newsday Staff Writer A new song for the Mets?
As any long-time fan knows, that is potential sacrilege, for "Meet the Mets" forever will be regarded as the official anthem of the Amazin's.
Thomas Scandaliato understands that, even if he co-wrote the new song in question, "Our Team. Our Time," which was to debut before last night's game against the Atlanta Braves at Shea Stadium.
"I love 'Meet the Mets!'" he said yesterday from the offices of TJS Marketing Group in Smithtown, an advertising agency of which he is president. "Are you kidding? If I replaced that, I'd be shot."
"Our Team. Our Time" echoes the Mets' marketing slogan for this season and repeats the title phrase in its lyrics no fewer than 11 times.
Its hip-hop beat makes it a tad more contemporary than "Meet the Mets," in which fans are encouraged to "bring your kiddies" and "bring your wife."
Scandaliato wrote the song unsolicited, collaborating with friend Steven (Boogie) Brown of Breakthru productions in Orange, N.J. They had a free-lance artist named Aghi record it then presented it to the Mets. They liked it.
"It was fans inspired to express their excitement in a song about this year's team, and we thought it was a pretty good effort," said Dave Howard, the Mets' executive vice president of business operations. "It was a pretty cool song."
The new song will be played periodically before or during games, and eventually will be made into a video that can be shown on the scoreboard. It could eventually catch on the way "Let's Go Mets" did for the 1986 championship team. But it never will replace "Meet the Mets."
Said Howard: "That's the original, the classic, the timeless theme song."
April 18, 2006
BY NEIL BEST, Newsday Staff Writer A new song for the Mets?
As any long-time fan knows, that is potential sacrilege, for "Meet the Mets" forever will be regarded as the official anthem of the Amazin's.
Thomas Scandaliato understands that, even if he co-wrote the new song in question, "Our Team. Our Time," which was to debut before last night's game against the Atlanta Braves at Shea Stadium.
"I love 'Meet the Mets!'" he said yesterday from the offices of TJS Marketing Group in Smithtown, an advertising agency of which he is president. "Are you kidding? If I replaced that, I'd be shot."
"Our Team. Our Time" echoes the Mets' marketing slogan for this season and repeats the title phrase in its lyrics no fewer than 11 times.
Its hip-hop beat makes it a tad more contemporary than "Meet the Mets," in which fans are encouraged to "bring your kiddies" and "bring your wife."
Scandaliato wrote the song unsolicited, collaborating with friend Steven (Boogie) Brown of Breakthru productions in Orange, N.J. They had a free-lance artist named Aghi record it then presented it to the Mets. They liked it.
"It was fans inspired to express their excitement in a song about this year's team, and we thought it was a pretty good effort," said Dave Howard, the Mets' executive vice president of business operations. "It was a pretty cool song."
The new song will be played periodically before or during games, and eventually will be made into a video that can be shown on the scoreboard. It could eventually catch on the way "Let's Go Mets" did for the 1986 championship team. But it never will replace "Meet the Mets."
Said Howard: "That's the original, the classic, the timeless theme song."