This is the best the Mets could come up with?

So the Mets unveiled their new uniform logo to celebrate the team’s move into Citi Field next season and not surprisingly, it’s taking some heat:

At its best, it’s being said to resemble the logo of a certain pizza company that once featured the ‘Noid. At its worst, it’s being categorized as the biggest affront to Mets fans since John Rocker’s sermon in SI.

Here’s what UniWatch’s Paul Lukas, a lifelong Mets fan, had to say:

“Compare (anything) to this, and the Mets’ effort comes off looking like amateur hour. Or maybe amateur minute. It looks like one of those cheapo generic marks you see in commercials or movies when the producers couldn’t afford the licensing fees for the real logos.”

Though some conspiracy theorists are saying that this is the Mets way of distancing the team from CitiGroup, that isn’t the case here. MLB doesn’t allow commercial logos on uniforms, so that wouldn’t even be an issue. More likely, it’s a case of the Mets being as dull and uninspiring as their ’08 bullpen. They could’ve held a coloring contest among preschoolers and still ended up with a better design than the one above.

It’s almost like the designers were told they had a month to come up with the logo and instead of working on it, they got hammered drunk every night, came in the day the design was due and scribbled something really quickly on a piece of paper. Then the people that were in charge of approving the design (also hammered drunk the night before) passed it through because they wanted to get home as fast as they could to sleep off their hangover.

Either that, or some first grader made the design out of Legos and the Mets’ brass went, “F*&k it – let’s go with the kid. Nobody’s going to care anyway.”