{"id":990,"date":"2006-04-19T10:26:20","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T18:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/no_new_mets_theme_song.html"},"modified":"2006-04-19T10:26:20","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T18:26:20","slug":"no_new_mets_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/no_new_mets_the.html","title":{"rendered":"No New Mets Theme Song!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newsday writes about the Mets’ new theme song<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

[Thomas] 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.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Never fear though — even the new song’s composers agree that it would be sacrilegious to replace the much-loved “Meet the Mets” anthem:<\/p>\n

“I love ‘Meet the Mets!'” [Scandaliato] 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.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newsday writes about the Mets’ new theme song: “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” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}