The story behind Mets’ new OMG sign used in home run celebrations

The Mets have celebrated home runs using Jose Iglesias‘ song, “OMG” for quite some time but they’ve added a new wrinkle to the festivities.

Fans may have noticed a giant OMG sign in the dugout during Friday’s win. Whenever a Met hit a homer, or whenever a member of the team felt like it, the orange and blue OMG sign was hoisted in the air and handed to the home run hitter to pose with it.

SNY’s Steve Gelbs got to the bottom of where the sign came from and how it got to the Mets dugout during Saturday’s broadcast.

Per Gelbs’ report, the OMG sign was created by an artist who goes by the name Jaymaccustoms. He makes custom signs and was inspired by the spark that Iglesias and the song had created within the team, so he took a screenshot of the OMG shirt that Alex Cohen posted on her social media and began to create the sign.

With the sign in hand, Jaymac was at The K Korner on Friday before the game and Alex Cohen happened to walk in. He asked her if she could give it to Iglesias, and Cohen agreed as long as he wrote a note to accompany it.

She gave the sign to someone to bring it to the clubhouse, but when Iglesias could not be found, it was left at his locker.

When Iglesias saw it, he didn’t know how it got there but his Mets teammates thought the veteran infielder had it made and thanked him because they were looking for something to celebrate home runs in the dugout with.

Of course, the home run celebrations around MLB have become very elaborate. Whether it’s holding a trident in Seattle or wearing a samurai hat in Anaheim, it’s become tradition in baseball to celebrate the long ball in extravagant ways.

Jaymaccustoms did not know if Iglesias received the sign until he was texted by friends during Friday’s game that the Mets not only received the OMG sign but were using it.

“Incredibly grateful to Alex Cohen for taking my gift to the team to them before tonight’s game,” he wrote on social media during the game. “Not planned, just wanted to bless a pivotal clubhouse guy for his mark on the team.”