Your 2007 National League East Champion New York Mets!
Oops. The New York Daily News puts it perfectly:
Welcome to Queens, where pigs can fly, the sky is always blue, and the Mets reign as defending National League East champions.
A tourism brochure, printed for $9,300 by the borough president's office, hails the Mets as winners last year - when they endured a historic collapse to miss the playoffs.
They printed 45,000 of those bad boys. The tourism people call the mistake "wishful thinking." Billy Wagner calls it his city's brochure makers sucking.
[NYDaily News via We Hate to Lose]
What's worse? The misprint or the fact that New York actually considers that piece of shit a tourist attraction?
Posted by: meech.one | Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 11:11 AM
In other news, Dewey defeats Truman.
Posted by: Loqiel | Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 11:24 AM
These would make great gifts for the Met fan in your life.
Posted by: johndewar | Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 11:32 AM
Don;t be too harsh. We call ourselves the City of Brotherly Love, and let's be honest, we are far from it.
Posted by: stop2think | Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 12:09 PM
Should we start calling the ticket office asking for tickets to see the defending NL East champion Mets???
Posted by: Kevin McGuire | Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 12:37 PM
need more e mail addresses for pat
please post
Posted by: Dan r | Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 01:07 PM
What Meryl Levitz of GPTMC said was fantastic
"We beg to differ," said Meryl Levitz, head of the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation. "On behalf of the fighting Phils, we demand a reprint."
Posted by: Phil | Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 01:55 PM
Its not that our nick name is the city of brotherly love, thats just what Philadelphia means.
Can't wait until the Mets have an actual park that we would want to invade.
Posted by: gootman | Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 01:55 PM
dont get me wrong I hate the Mets. but dont you guys think its alot more fun when the Phillies and Mets are in a race as opposed to the Phillies and Marlins. I mean its so easy to hate the Mets bc their fans are homos. Are there any Marlins fans?
Posted by: TK | Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 03:17 PM
I hate the Marlins. I used to live in Florida. Their fans are an absolute joke, but I loved getting free tickets and the freedom to roam around wherever I wanted to in the stadium.
Posted by: Justin Evans | Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 03:20 PM
I dislike the Marlins based on them being in first place, and not last like I thought they would be, but I can't hate them. They do more with less, and being a Philly fan I have to respect that. But the Mets, they're the anti-Marlins. Overpayed whiny players, dickhead fans, Billy Wags, that stupid paper mashay Apple that pops up after the home runs... easy to hate.
Posted by: PhilaMegaMan | Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 04:13 PM
so does this mean we get brochures with super bowl XXXIX champs printed in them?
Posted by: brian | Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 06:04 PM
City of Brother Love doesn't mean we have love for residents of other cities. Those people are like distant cousins. Our brothers, whom we love, are our neighbors and fellow fans.
Posted by: Benjamin | Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 06:46 PM
Wow... umm, yeah, not gonna lie, I love this. I'm sending it to all my Philly Phan Phriends.
Oh... and, Wha, Wha, Wha, Whahahahahhaha!
Loser Mets.
Posted by: PhiPhan5648 | Friday, May 30, 2008 at 03:30 PM