Meet the Mets, and their angry celebrity fans

Trying to sell people on a losing baseball team is always an
intriguing marketing proposition, and something, as a Mets fan, I’m quite
familiar with. It’s a little disturbing to drive by Shea Stadium midseason to
see a slogan proudly declaring that "The Magic Is Back," when a look
at the box score makes it plain that any magic left the building way before the
All-Star break. So this year, the Mets
have embarked on a ploy to make the team appear that it’s popular among
celebrities—and that those celebrities get really pissed off when someone else buys the seats they’ve been sitting in for years.