“The ownership change kind of brought a different vibe, I’ll call it, to the whole organization,” McKeon said.
The Mets generated momentum prior to and during the owners’ lockout by signing free agents Mark Canha, Eduardo Esocbar, Starling Marte and Max Scherzer to contracts worth more than a quarter of a billion dollars and by hiring Buck Showalter as manager - moves that symbolized a change in philosophies, up and down the organization, heading into the first normal-ish season of Steve Cohen’s tenure as owner. The in-game experience at Citi Field began changing when no one was quite sure when the Mets would play their next game. “I like to think of it as like we’re creating a daily newspaper everyday, where the big parts are consistent throughout but we’re changing the little stuff,” McKeon said. McKeon and Bobby Clemens, the Mets’ executive director of creative content, have overseen an irreverent overhaul of the gameday experience at Citi Field - a cacophony of sights and sounds that serve as a combination of the old-fashioned way in which most fans used to get their baseball information as well as an in-stadium approximation of a broadcast on SNY, the network that carries most Mets games.
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