Mets fans have met the new theme song, and they don't like what they hear

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Their team may be sitting pretty atop the National League East, but that doesn’t mean fans of the New York Mets feel any affection for the team’s new theme song, an attempt at hip-hop which includes the Mets new, non-committal tagline: "The team. The time. The Mets." Local media outlets have been reporting that fans hate the song so much that its creators have been receiving death threats. While that seems a bit harsh, having listened to the song this morning, I have to admit it’s pretty awful.

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