No New Mets Theme Song!

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” and “bring your wife.”

[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.

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

“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.”