The Mets have spent their offseason cutting coupons, selling off pieces of their outfield, and generally lowering expectations about the team's immediate future to the point where a healthy Daniel Murphy seems about as good as it could get. The sorry state of the franchise is not lost on its long-suffering fans, who took to Twitter today to mock the organization's decision to bring back homemade Banner Day—for the first time since 1996—by creating the hashtag: #MetsRejectedPromotionalDates. Below, check out twenty of our favorite pathetic, imaginary Mets promotional dates.

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