O Mets celebrated home runs using José Iglesias‘, ‘OMG’ for some time now, but they’ve added a new twist to the festivities.
Fans may have noticed a giant OMG sign in the dugout during Friday’s win. Whenever a Met hit a home run, or whenever a member of the team felt like it, the orange and blue OMG sign was hoisted into the air and handed to the home run hitter to pose with.
SNY’s Steve Gelbs found out where the sign came from and how it got to the Mets dugout during Saturday’s broadcast.
According to Gelbs’ report, the OMG sign was created by an artist who goes by the name Jaymaccustoms. He makes custom posters and was inspired by the spark that Iglesias and the music created within the team, so he took a screenshot of the OMG shirt that Alex Cohen posted on his social media and started creating the poster.
With the sign in hand, Jaymac was at The K Korner on the Friday before the game and Alex Cohen walked in. He asked if she could give it to Iglesias, and Cohen agreed, as long as he wrote a note to accompany it.
She signaled for someone to take him to the clubhouse, but when Iglesias could not be found, he was left in his locker.
When Iglesias saw it, he didn’t know how it got there, but his Mets teammates thought the veteran infielder had made it and were thankful because they were looking for something to commemorate home runs in the dugout.
Of course, home run celebrations in MLB have become very elaborate. Whether it’s holding a pitchfork in Seattle or wearing a samurai hat in Anaheim, it’s become baseball tradition to celebrate the long ball in extravagant fashion.
Jaymaccustoms didn’t know if Iglesias received the sign until he received a message from friends during Friday’s game that the Mets not only received the OMG sign, but were also using it.
“Incredibly grateful to Alex Cohen for bringing my gift to the team before tonight’s game,” he said. he wrote on social media during the game. “It wasn’t planned, I just wanted to bless an important guy at the club for his impact on the team.”
