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Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

G-Fafif Jan 14 2012 05:16 AM

Go to 23:57 of Any Wednesday, the 1966 Manhattan romance romp, to find out where Jane Fonda suggests she and Jason Robards can cheat on his wife. [youtube]CcxRQhDKwHQ[/youtube]

Ashie62 Jan 14 2012 05:59 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Wow...like a Mad Men prequel..classic.

G-Fafif Jan 18 2012 10:00 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

In the montage of vintage footage it uses to set up every episode, the January 18 episode of ABC's The Middle (the best sitcom you're not watching) featured a clip of Shea Stadium under construction to help evoke the excitement of the Super Bowl coming to Indianapolis (near where the show is set).

G-Fafif Jan 29 2012 09:37 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

HBO's wonderful Namath documentary features ample Shea footage for which to die, or at least pause and linger over.

Vic Sage Jan 30 2012 02:57 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

while watching ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER on Broadway last week, i heard the following lyric during "COME BACK TO ME", which i never noticed in the song before: Hang a sign on your door Out to lunch ever more. Don't get lost at Korvette's Or get signed by the Mets Don't give up cigarettes, come back to me! Come back to me! Come back - So, i checked the original lyrics, and there it is in the Finale.

Edgy MD Jan 30 2012 08:06 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

That's great! (Or bad. I'm not sure.) [youtube:1yt68he5]cqqHzKG2CCo[/youtube:1yt68he5]

G-Fafif Jan 31 2012 09:10 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

That's three from Broadway that I know of. "You And I, Love" from 70, Girls, 70: The Mets are winning three to one The infield shows a lot of strength "This Is The Life" from Golden Boy: Polaroid camera, stereo sets Season box to see the Mets!

batmagadanleadoff Jan 31 2012 12:35 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

"Anatevka" from Fiddler on the Roof: Anatevka, Anatevka It's my tumble home town shtetl Delivering milk on my gimpy workhorse Or in a pinch, my mule named Mettle.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 31 2012 01:13 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Finally saw Bad Lieutenant; along with various sacrilege, defilement, lechery, and gluttony, there's some alternate-universe shit happening there, with that Mets-Dodgers World Series blaring in the background throughout.

Ashie62 Feb 02 2012 08:26 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Finally saw Bad Lieutenant; along with various sacrilege, defilement, lechery, and gluttony, there's some alternate-universe shit happening there, with that Mets-Dodgers World Series blaring in the background throughout. Ya like when Kietel wakes up drunk to see Strawberry crush one and then see its' 11-1 Dodgers and his bet evaporate.

G-Fafif Feb 17 2012 11:38 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Mr. Met with a cameo on last night's Dark Knight-themed 30 Rock episode, "The Tuxedo Begins".

themetfairy Feb 17 2012 12:09 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

G-Fafif wrote: Mr. Met with a cameo on last night's Dark Knight-themed 30 Rock episode, "The Tuxedo Begins". That was awesome!

G-Fafif Feb 17 2012 12:23 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

attgig Feb 17 2012 01:24 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

here's the clip in 30 rock: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/wall/article.js ... Id=rss_nym

Mets – Willets Point Feb 26 2012 08:42 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

I just caught up with 30 Rock and can't figure out if Mr. Met's appearance is just random or if there's some inside joke I'm missing.

G-Fafif Mar 02 2012 07:07 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Mets Rooters! Edsel Owners! Back A REAL Loser! Goldwater! --Pro-LBJ button, 1964, as noted in Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein (Published in 2001, being read by me at present.)

G-Fafif Mar 06 2012 11:48 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

"I'm a Mets fan, and I will suffer their fate for as long as they continue to suck." --Jon Stewart, March 5, 2012

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 07 2012 12:34 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

G-Fafif wrote: "I'm a Mets fan, and I will suffer their fate for as long as they continue to suck." --Jon Stewart, March 5, 2012 In the face of a highly-assumptive "New York... you're a Yankees fan, right?" from otherwise non-detestable HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan.

Edgy MD Mar 07 2012 12:58 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Mets sucking to the tune of a six-zip lead, Jon.

G-Fafif Mar 21 2012 01:16 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

In the 2011, uh, comedy Friends With Benefits, Justin Timberlake and the impossibly hot (until she speaks the movie's lines, dialogue designed to make the most attractive person repellent) Mila Kunis take a break from having "benefits" during a "wow, they're some 'friends'!" montage to watch Jose Reyes hit one out of Citi Field -- toward the Pepsi Porch -- on TV and high-five. We see Jose round the bases..."he's not the only one scoring!"...and the apple rise..."I'll bet that's not the only thing going up!" Actually, I would bet those jokes are in the director's cut. *** Citi Field shows up in Morgan Spurlock's Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold as part of a segment on how stadiums and arenas are all sponsored these days (the documentary's conceit is he's making a movie and everything about it is up for sale).

Ceetar Mar 21 2012 01:28 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

wife watched Friends with Benefits the other days. I half watched it while doing other things. to think I missed the best part of the movie..damn.

G-Fafif Mar 23 2012 10:11 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

In another scene from Friends With Benefits, Mila stands in front of one those phone booth ads (ironically talking on a cell phone) from 2010 that featured "ACE" Johan Santana as something WE BELIEVE in.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 26 2012 01:29 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

British import Lane Pryce is adapting to American culture just fine; he's one proud Mets fan. As Mad Men moves into the Summer of Love, not even the likes of Joe Grzenda and Nick Wilhite can dissuade Lane's rooting interest. Lane and his odd Mets pennant both make the move to Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce's new digs.

G-Fafif Mar 26 2012 06:45 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2010: Lane's office and Don's insights.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 26 2012 07:52 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2010: Lane's office and Don's insights. Lane and Ken probably sealed the deal over drinks in the Charcoal Room, which, Leonard Koppett wrote in The New York Mets: The Whole Story, was “a nightspot in its own right. After a night game, it became the scene of an impromptu party” for season box holders. If I had to pick up the Mad Men's bill, it'd be easier on my wallet if that bill were the restaurant instead of the bar tab. Here's Lane and Ken's eating options circa 1964-5, had they sloshed on down to the Diamond Club after festivities at the Charcoal Room. Not that the Diamond Club was a dry club.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 26 2012 08:21 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

I'm hungry for Ham & Cheese but don't have $1.50, so I'll settle for the Tongue sandwich, $1.15

batmagadanleadoff Mar 26 2012 08:32 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm hungry for Ham & Cheese but don't have $1.50, so I'll settle for the Tongue sandwich, $1.15 At 50 cents a serving, may I suggest the Jellied Madrilene? Tracy Stallard and Julie Newmar were nuzzling each other over one of those concoctions.

themetfairy Mar 26 2012 08:48 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

You could have had a V-8, for 45 cents.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 26 2012 08:50 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Nice. Speaking of Mad Men, I realized I am the same age as Joan Holloway's baby.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 26 2012 09:04 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Let's get this party started already. Dirges for Yogi? I hope Jane didn't forget to gotta believe. (New York magazine, 7/30/73 issue)

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 26 2012 10:32 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

I guaran-damn-tee that Jane knows "Zou Bisou Bisou."

TheOldMole Mar 27 2012 01:31 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

In Lawrence Block's The Night and the Music, Matt Scudder takes kids to a Mets game. Matlack is rocked and the Mets lose 13-4.

G-Fafif Mar 27 2012 06:09 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Nice. Speaking of Mad Men, I realized I am the same age as Joan Holloway's baby. But did you develop silver hair, an acid tongue and a tendency to dangle your Camel over infants that (ahem) aren't your child?

G-Fafif Mar 27 2012 06:12 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Of all the various "junk" from all the various trunks I've seen displayed in various threads, that Diamond Club menu might have kicked as much ass as Kevin Mitchell in a Pier Six brawl.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 28 2012 02:04 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

G-Fafif wrote: Of all the various "junk" from all the various trunks I've seen displayed in various threads, that Diamond Club menu might have kicked as much ass as Kevin Mitchell in a Pier Six brawl. Thanks. That menu's nothing. In my freezer, I've got three orders of 1964 Diamond Cub Jellied Madrilene and some after dinner mints. The Madrilenes are somewhat dessicated but the mints are in mint condition.

G-Fafif Mar 28 2012 02:21 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Bite Madrilene First.

Mets – Willets Point Mar 28 2012 02:37 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Things you don't see on menus anymore: Postum and Sanka.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 28 2012 02:56 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Things you don't see on menus anymore: Postum and Sanka. For sure. Postum, Sanka and the Madrilenes are as obsolete as the typewriters and carbon copy paper that the Mad Men's secretaries worked with. I confess that I had to google Postum because I didn't know what it was. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postum

batmagadanleadoff Apr 05 2012 07:28 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

In 1966, Jane Jarvis is one convincing bullshit artist. [youtube:2ctthz34]e449KGXFgrU[/youtube:2ctthz34]

G-Fafif Apr 13 2012 01:26 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Mr. Met with his second appearance of the season on 30 Rock last night, or two fewer than David Wright has in 2012. He appeared on a couch with Tracy Jordan in a wacky flashback montage.

G-Fafif Jun 09 2012 05:31 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Warmed up for the deHughesining with Men In Black 3, partially set on July 15-16, 1969. Features "my favorite moment in human history," wherein "a miracle is what is not possible but happens anyway." If you haven't seen the film or the commercials, do the math.

G-Fafif Jun 18 2012 01:42 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

[youtube:18lwbq4d]OQ2YrYGd0Tk[/youtube:18lwbq4d] A slow jam fit for Metsmerization (via Jeff Pearlman).

Ashie62 Jun 28 2012 10:40 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

The Beasties were Metly..

G-Fafif Jun 29 2012 08:03 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

"A Song With Orange and Blue" by Wayne Wilentz, a 50th anniversary tribute. [youtube]TztQ5x-pkOw[/youtube]

G-Fafif Aug 06 2012 06:16 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Jim Harper watched the Mets-Phillies game on his laptop (or was just checking the score, he claimed) in “5/1” episode of The Newsroom, about the night Bin Laden was killed.

G-Fafif Aug 06 2012 06:18 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

H/T to bmfc1 for finding this passage from the 2012 novel, The World Without You by Joshua Henkin. "If we weren't running late," Lily says, "I'd take you kids to Fenway Park. I could show you the Green Monster." "Are you a Red Sox fan?" Akiva asks. "Only when they play the Yankees." "Why" "Because I'm a Mets fan." In 1986, the year the Mets won the World Series, Lily accompanied Leo, who was fourteen at the time, on the subway to Flushing, to watch Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry play at Shea Stadium. Everyone in the family was a Mets fan, and in the bleachers at Shea even Lily and Noelle got along. Lily has no patience for Yankees fans, especially the newly minted New Yorkers, the arrivistes. She knows suffering: she's witnessed the Mets endure hundred-loss seasons. So when Akiva announces he's a Yankees fan, she says, "Too bad for you. I guess we'll have to eat at separate tables." Akiva is silent. "I'm only kidding," she says.

G-Fafif Aug 13 2012 12:20 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

“...sending you from second to fifth place in the course of five days, a feat I previously thought was only accomplishable by the New York Mets.” —Reese Lansing (Chris Messina), “The Blackout Part I: Tragedy Porn,” The Newsroom, 8/12/2012

bmfc1 Aug 20 2012 11:11 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

The new cast of Survivor has been announced and it includes Jeff Kent: http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,2035469 ... 00,00.html

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 20 2012 04:19 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

bmfc1 wrote: The new cast of Survivor has been announced and it includes Jeff Kent: http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,2035469 ... 00,00.html He should do fine, as long as nobody points a camera at him, asks him to do anything dumb, or tries to talk to him.

G-Fafif Sep 05 2012 03:59 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Speedo Tracksuit with author and Mets fan Paul Auster this past Sunday. Paul Auster still does not understand why Lucas Duda matters to him. Or why, at age 65, the author wants to be on this leather couch, gripping a stemless wine glass, sucking a cigarillo and caring about the fourth-place Mets. It is Wednesday evening, August 29, and Gary Cohen is reciting the starting lineups in Philly. On the top floor of his longtime home in Park Slope, Auster is reclining deep into the sofa, his long legs unfurled on a coffee table. This living room has bookshelves built into every wall, but Auster’s eyes point at the television in front of the couch. When Daniel Murphy steps in against Phillies rookie Tyler Cloyd with one out in the first inning, the phone rings. It is Auster’s publisher, informing him that his new memoir, “Winter Journal,” is ascending the New York Times bestseller list. “I don’t care,” Auster says, amiably, hanging up as Lucas Duda bats. He tops off my glass, and returns to what interests him. “Oh, we have to talk about Duda,” he continues. “He is a case of temperament and character. The way he hangs his head, the look in his eyes — he could be a great player, but he is bedeviled by doubts.” Confidence is the great Duda question, but there is also the Auster question, which tonight is the adults loving sports question. What is fandom all about, anyway? Or as the author frames it: “What is this thing that compels middle-aged and old men to keep watching younger men banging their bodies against distant ballfields?” * * * Paul Auster is a perfect laboratory for this inquiry, having spent a life digging for big ideas, but always returning to baseball. The arrival of the Mets-infested “New York Trilogy” in 1987 announced Auster as a top novelist, and he has remained perhaps the definitive Brooklyn writer of these last few decades. Among his books are 14 novels, seven works of non-fiction, and one collection of poetry. He has written and directed films, accumulated awards, and seen his work translated into 43 languages. But before all that, while Auster grew up across the river in New Jersey, baseball lit sparks that have never extinguished. Awe for Willie Mays in the 1954 World Series, and time as a New York Giants fan. Watching a 1955 World Series game at Ebbets Field. Once he saw Mays at the Polo Grounds and asked for an autograph. “Sure kid,” Mays said, “you got a pencil?” Eight-year-old Paul did not have a pencil, and neither did Mays. The Giants left. Then, in 1962, Auster made an April visit to Casey Stengel’s new club at the Polo Grounds. “The minute New York got a National League team again, I was a fan,” he says. There was normal teenage drifting. Auster was a high school shortstop, a good one, until he “discovered alcohol, tobacco, girls and literature,” and quit. But he never fully extricated himself from the Mets, and by early adulthood was addicted again. Graduating from Columbia and worried about the draft in 1969, his mind drifted to Tom Seaver. Writing poetry on the French countryside in 1973, he listened to the World Series on a transistor radio. That Mets heat has simmered through many of Auster’s novels. In “City of Glass,” characters chat about Dave Kingman and George Foster. The protagonist, Quinn, writes mystery novels under the pseudonym “William Wilson,” and eventually realizes that he shares that moniker with “Mookie Wilson, promising young player whose real name was William Wilson.” “Surely,” Quinn thinks, “there must be something interesting in that.” Surely. But what? Throughout this Mets-Phils game, I prod Auster to theorize, but the action intrudes. Having noted Duda’s confidence gap a few innings earlier — with sympathy, not scorn — Auster stands when the sulky slugger wraps a third-inning homer around the right-field foul pole. “Oh, Duda! Duda! Good for you!” he says. In the eighth, Duda steals second base; after sliding, he pops up and seems to inflate. “Look at Lucas,” Auster says, smiling. “He is looking prouder tonight. Did you see the way he jutted out his chin?” * * * And that right there, Lucas Duda’s human development, is why we watch. This, at least, is the opinion of Auster’s wife, the acclaimed writer Siri Hustvedt. Hustvedt joins us for some of the game, willing as usual to engage although not sharing the same mania. When she and Paul have movie nights, Siri allows frequent SNY check-ins. During the couple’s post-film discussions, she does not mind that Paul keeps the broadcast on mute. About six-feet tall, with blonde hair swept atop her head, Hustvedt curls in a chair opposite the couch. The 3-2 Mets win is completed, and the couple is grappling with the fan question. Hustvedt recently re-read Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina,” in which the heroine commits suicide by throwing herself in front of a train. She compares her absorption to Auster’s interest in Duda and the rest of the Mets characters. “Baseball is like a novel,” Hustvedt says. “You enter into fiction really just as eagerly and passionately.” Auster is not convinced: “I just think that the vehemence and passion that are inspired by these games is something I haven’t fully understood yet.” His wife presses. “It’s like Anna Karenina,” Hustvedt says. “I’m living through these people. How is it different?” “But why do we care so much?” Auster counters. “It means nothing.” I pipe in. “But does it mean less than anything else?” Hustvedt, emphatically: “No. (Anna) lays down on the tracks, then she changes her mind. It feels horrible, but it isn’t happening to me. Isn’t that what a great game does?” Earlier in the night, Auster had made a similar point, and he does not challenge his wife now. “It is kind of an aquarium of human life, a baseball game,” he’d said, before emitting a throaty laugh. “Or perhaps it’s a terrarium. You’re not swimming.” Now it is late. The wine is nearly drained, and on TV Bob Ojeda has wrapped his postmortem. Auster has other theories — he played in high school, so observing recalls a joyful physical experience — but Hustvedt’s idea of baseball’s narrative pull is impossible to refute; why else would anyone watch this garbage-time game? “Other sports mimic war,” Auster finally says. “Baseball is life.”

Edgy MD Sep 05 2012 09:23 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

That's just perfect.

G-Fafif Sep 29 2012 11:00 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

In the new CBS Sherlock Holmes series Elementary, Lucy Liu is Joan Watson, Mets fan. New York magazine is on the case. I just saw the pilot, which ends with your character watching the Mets as they lose. Was that an homage to your growing up in Queens? [Laughs] I actually love the Mets and the Yankees and I think they originally had the Yankees in there. But the Yankees did not want to portray themselves, obviously, as a losing team. But I think the Mets were open to it and that’s how we ended up doing it. [laughs]

G-Fafif Oct 01 2012 06:45 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Bart to Homer: “But you love New York, now that your least favorite buildings have been obliterated: old Penn Station and Shea Stadium!” Homer’s fist-shaking reply: “Lousy outdated relics..." --Season premiere of 2012-13 (24th season), “Moonshine River,” The Simpsons, 9/30/2012

Edgy MD Oct 02 2012 08:16 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Ripped, quite literally, from the pages of Lucky magazine. I'm sorry my office only offers me a b/w scanner --- and I've done some pretty grainy work with it --- because you can't see how spectacular Michelle's office ensemble truly is.

TheOldMole Oct 05 2012 01:15 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Watson's Mets have a guy named Ryerson playing for them.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 05 2012 06:27 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Ryerson can't be any worse that what we already have.

Edgy MD Oct 05 2012 07:50 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Ned? Ned Ryerson? I hope you haven't forgotten him, because he sure as heckfire remembers you!

Swan Swan H Oct 06 2012 11:08 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Not sure this belongs here, but I'm not starting a new thread for this. Former rumored Mike Piazza paramour Sam Champion comes out and announces his engagement. Piazza has a press conference scheduled today to deny that he is a bridesmaid.

cooby Oct 07 2012 05:00 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Swan Swan bringing on the funny again...

G-Fafif Oct 17 2012 01:47 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

TCM recently aired 1968's Bye Bye Braverman, which yielded a couple of shots of Shea Stadium and World's Fair relics in the background of scenes shot at Cedar Grove Cemetery off the LIE. But they weren't burying the Wes Westrum era.

seawolf17 Oct 17 2012 02:07 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Darren from The 7 Line says some of his shirts may be used in an upcoming episode of "30 Rock." Mr. Met's been on the show before, so there's definitely a Mets connection somewhere on that staff.

G-Fafif Nov 01 2012 01:15 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

In Mo’ Better Blues (a 1990 feature shown on HBO Signature in the early hours of November 1, 2012), Spike Lee’s character, Giant, bets on the Pirates to sweep the Mets a doubleheader because “the Mets need to get some more black ballplayers.” Also takes a shot at Steinbrenner and salutes Frank Robinson in the same betting scene.

Edgy MD Nov 01 2012 06:27 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Man, did Spike jump the shark halfway through his delivery of that line or what?

Frayed Knot Nov 01 2012 06:28 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

G-Fafif wrote: In Mo’ Better Blues, a 1990 feature ... Spike Lee’s character, Giant, bets on the Pirates to sweep the Mets a doubleheader because “the Mets need to get some more black ballplayers.” If I recall correctly the character of the bookie in that film was named Eli from Westchester.

bmfc1 Nov 04 2012 09:27 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Saturday Night Live, 11/3/12, at the end of the "Fox and Friends" segment, the crawl with the corrections from "the first two hours of the show" included "Mr. Met has never announced a preference for any religion over the other."

themetfairy Nov 04 2012 09:28 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

bmfc1 wrote: Saturday Night Live, 11/3/12, at the end of the "Fox and Friends" segment, the crawl with the corrections from "the first two hours of the show" included "Mr. Met has never announced a preference for any religion over the other." Thanks - we saw that a Mr. Met reference scrolled by, but didn't get a chance to read it through.

G-Fafif Nov 04 2012 12:15 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

In a childhood flashback sequence this week during one of his Back to Brooklyn shows, "young Jimmy Kimmel" wore a Mets shirt. Kimmel is a real-life Mets fan.

G-Fafif Nov 06 2012 12:47 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Watched (or fast-forwarded through) Mo' Better Blues to get a fuller taste of the Metsiana. Giant's (Spike Lee's) quote: “Pirates are playing the Mets in a doubleheader, gimme the Pirates in both games, the Mets some more black BALL-players.” Giant bets on the Mets the next day. (Doubleheader in question: September 29, 1989, at Three Rivers Stadium; Mets swept. Giant's looking at the Post as he places his bet.) Also in Mo' Better Blues, Denzel Washington’s musician character, Bleek, in a childhood flashback, is called on to play ball by four other kids, two of whom are wearing Mets stuff (one a Mets cap, the other a Mets jacket; one of them is young Giant). While his mother says he has to finish his trumpet practice first, Bleek’s dad is watching Rod Gaspar batting against Bob Moose during Moose’s no-hitter on 9/20/1969. Bob Murphy is heard referring to Moose as “just 21 years old” and having grown up “within walking distance of Forbes Field.” Later in the movie, Denzel as Bleek is wearing a New York Giants cap and a Willie Mays NEW YORK road jersey as he plays catch with his now much older dad, who’s wearing a Pittsburgh Crawfords jersey. Bleek the adult trumpeter also wears the cap on stage during a performance.

G-Fafif Nov 08 2012 08:59 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Spotted by Mrs. Fafif as she was getting random recordings watched from the DVR: In Moscow On The Hudson (1984), Soviet defector Robin Williams runs into the former KGB agent who had also defected in New York who is now a Mets cap-wearing hot dog vendor.

Frayed Knot Nov 16 2012 07:37 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

NY Times, Friday 11/16 47 ACROSS: BIG-HEADED BASEBALL MASCOT ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

Ceetar Nov 16 2012 07:39 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

NY Times, Friday 11/16 47 ACROSS: BIG-HEADED BASEBALL MASCOT ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ nice. Although that's not really a Friday level question in NY is it? this one is from way back, it was a Wednesday in Newsday.

Mets – Willets Point Nov 21 2012 01:59 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Flip Flop Fly Ball makes a good decision to abandon being a Yankees fan. He goes through a process of elimination to pick a new team. Does he make another good decision?

G-Fafif Nov 26 2012 01:32 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

A framed, matted portrait of Shea Stadium is quite visible on the wall of Dr. Danny Castellano's office on The Mindy Project, spotted in the episode that aired November 13, 2012, "Danny Castellano Is My Gynecologist".

G-Fafif Nov 27 2012 02:29 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

“Lenny Dykstra’s Prison Break” is one of the apps on Homer’s MyPad on “A Tree Grows In Springfield,” The Simpsons, November 25, 2012.

dinosaur jesus Nov 27 2012 03:04 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Mets – Willets Point wrote: Flip Flop Fly Ball makes a good decision to abandon being a Yankees fan. He goes through a process of elimination to pick a new team. Does he make another good decision? Not a bad decision. But good luck staying interested in his new team. There are teams I like fine, such as the Tigers, but somehow I can't be bothered to watch their games.

Benjamin Grimm Nov 28 2012 05:15 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

I can't imagine "picking a new team." Really caring about whether a group of strangers wins or loses is irrational. I follow the Mets because I've been doing it since I was eight years old, and I haven't let go of that. If I ever do, it will mean I'm no longer a baseball fan. At my age, I can't latch on to a team the same way I did when I was eight.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 28 2012 06:42 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

I think I could switch under the right circumstances. If for example I lived in another city and they had an admirable team. I would also root for the Mets but I'd only rule out the MFYs and Cardinals probably.

Mets – Willets Point Nov 28 2012 07:15 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I think I could switch under the right circumstances. If for example I lived in another city and they had an admirable team. I would also root for the Mets but I'd only rule out the MFYs and Cardinals probably. That's basically what happened to me when I moved to Boston and adopted the Sox as my AL team. The Flip Flop Fly Ball guy grew up in England and now lives in Mexico and never saw a baseball game until he was in his thirties so he's coming at this from an entirely different mindset than most of us. I like the infographics on his website even if he strung me along thinking he was going to become a Mets' fan until the last cull.

MFS62 Nov 28 2012 07:16 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I can't imagine "picking a new team." I can. And did. Y'see, my "old" team played in Brooklyn... Later

Edgy MD Nov 28 2012 07:36 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

As noted this morning, News Corp and the New York Yankees are now awfully cosy. This news does not sit well with all Yankees fans, most notably our own Craig Robinson. 99% of Yankee fans: "What's News Corp?" 0.99% of Yankee fans: "I don't give a shit." Craig Robinson: "I need a new team."

Edgy MD Nov 28 2012 07:37 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I think I could switch under the right circumstances. If for example I lived in another city and they had an admirable team. I would also root for the Mets but I'd only rule out the MFYs and Cardinals probably. I intend to root for the O's. But I'm not sure how much I'll actually care. I think it's different when you have kids.

seawolf17 Nov 28 2012 07:38 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Edgy MD wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I think I could switch under the right circumstances. If for example I lived in another city and they had an admirable team. I would also root for the Mets but I'd only rule out the MFYs and Cardinals probably. I intend to root for the O's. But I'm not sure how much I'll actually care. I think it's different when you have kids. YOU WILL ROOT FOR THE METS. One of my best friends lives outside Philly; his daughters are becoming Phillies fans by osmosis, as hard as he tries to fight it.

Benjamin Grimm Nov 28 2012 07:39 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

MFS62 wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: I can't imagine "picking a new team." I can. And did. Y'see, my "old" team played in Brooklyn... Later Yeah, but you weren't 49 years old when you picked that new team, were you?

Benjamin Grimm Nov 28 2012 07:39 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

seawolf17 wrote: One of my best friends lives outside Philly; his daughters are becoming Phillies fans by osmosis, as hard as he tries to fight it. I guess I've been lucky. Both of my kids disdain the Phillies.

Ceetar Nov 28 2012 07:45 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Edgy MD wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I think I could switch under the right circumstances. If for example I lived in another city and they had an admirable team. I would also root for the Mets but I'd only rule out the MFYs and Cardinals probably. I intend to root for the O's. But I'm not sure how much I'll actually care. I think it's different when you have kids. not only kids, it's different if you have someone to root with or go to games with. Say you move to a new city with a new job and make friends with some people that go to 10 games a year and are real fans. It's hard not to get swept up in that if you love the sport anyway. (and they're not evil scum of the earth Phillies or something) Sharing the fan experience is half the deal.

metirish Nov 28 2012 07:51 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

I think if I lived in say Phoenix I would go to D-Backs games, but I doubt I would care enough to go see the Marlins if I lived in Miami, unless of course the Mets were in town......I don;t think I could ever get into going to see an AL team if I lived in such a city...... Back to the OP, Murdoch and the MFY's are a perfect match for each other.

Edgy MD Nov 28 2012 07:56 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

seawolf17 wrote: I think I could switch under the right circumstances. If for example I lived in another city and they had an admirable team. I would also root for the Mets but I'd only rule out the MFYs and Cardinals probably. I intend to root for the O's. But I'm not sure how much I'll actually care. I think it's different when you have kids. YOU WILL ROOT FOR THE METS. One of my best friends lives outside Philly; his daughters are becoming Phillies fans by osmosis, as hard as he tries to fight it. Yeah, I think folks who move to say, Pittsburgh, claim to maintain Mets fandom, but start leaning toward the Pirates when their kid starts living a breathing Buccaneerness, did two things: 1) Kept their fandom on the shelf way too long, continuing to file as a Met fan at the end of the year, but otherwise being passive except for an occasional "are they doing any good?" peek at the standings. 2) Failed to do the heavy lifting of indoctrination during the child's formative years. I have to say, nothing is cooler than being that kid in class who loves an out-of-town team. You may not agree with them, but you respect them. (Unless it's the Yankees.)

G-Fafif Nov 28 2012 08:03 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Pop Culture alert: The 7 Line's t-shirts will appear in Thursday night's ep of 30 Rock.

TransMonk Nov 28 2012 08:12 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Edgy MD wrote: I have to say, nothing is cooler than being that kid in class who loves an out-of-town team. This. When I grew up in Central Illinois in the late eighties, half the kids loved the Cardinals, half the kids loved the Cubs and I was the mysterious Mets fan. It was fun when they were all in the NL East with the Cubs winning in 1984 and 1989, the Cards in 1985 and 1987 and the Mets winning in 1986 and 1988. I don't identify much with Philly or Atlanta geographically. And the Brewers/Mets is not much of a rivalry at all. I miss the competetion with the local teams. I can't imagine ever switching teams. If I did (probably over Wilpon hate), I would wait for an expansion/relocated team to start from scratch.

Edgy MD Nov 28 2012 08:19 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Our sandlot crew had about a dozen kids --- eight Met fans, two YLDBs, an Orioles fan and a Red Sox fan. Nobody talked shit to the last two. If Butch Hobson turned into a disaster at third or Earl Weaver got his ass suspended, we felt their pain, even if we disagreed with them. They were pure, somehow.

MFS62 Nov 28 2012 08:46 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: I can't imagine "picking a new team." I can. And did. Y'see, my "old" team played in Brooklyn... Later Yeah, but you weren't 49 years old when you picked that new team, were you? I was 16, but that was 49 in Brooklyn Dodger wait-till-next--years. Later

Edgy MD Nov 28 2012 01:47 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

"They call it America, and they call it civilization, and they call it television, and they believe in it and salute it and sing songs to it and eat and sleep and die still believing in it, and - and - I don't know," Gram Parsons said, taking another drag. "Then sometimes the Mets come along and win the World Series." - Bill Janowitz, The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

TheOldMole Nov 28 2012 04:30 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

I rooted for the Twins when I lived in Minnesota. But that was American League. Didn't interfere with my rooting for the brand-new Mets.

Ceetar Nov 30 2012 08:28 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

seawolf17 wrote: Darren from The 7 Line says some of his shirts may be used in an upcoming episode of "30 Rock." Mr. Met's been on the show before, so there's definitely a Mets connection somewhere on that staff. [youtube]4QpYGzl-Otc[/youtube][url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QpYGzl-Otc&feature=youtu.be&hd=1

G-Fafif Nov 30 2012 03:02 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

They're wearing Mets shirts because they were wearing them when they met. Brilliant line in a brilliant episode. Way to go, Mets entrepreneurship.

Ceetar Nov 30 2012 08:29 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

My wife randomly has a STARZ movie on. "Married to it (1991)" I'm photoshopping and all of a sudden I hear "You know what the best moment in the 60s was?" and I hear something about Davey Johnson and back back back back back..and the Mets are the World Champions! They were reminiscing about the 60s. Then the guys all leave the room to check the score. Mets were up a half game or something..which means early April or artistic license.

Fman99 Nov 30 2012 09:43 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Edgy MD wrote: "They call it America, and they call it civilization, and they call it television, and they believe in it and salute it and sing songs to it and eat and sleep and die still believing in it, and - and - I don't know," Gram Parsons said, taking another drag." Then sometimes the Mets come along and win the World Series." - Bill Janowitz, The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones Nice shot of ABNS on his chopper. Fool hippies.

A Boy Named Seo Dec 01 2012 10:46 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Ha. Still a fool hippie. Just a better bike than currently>>>

DocTee Dec 01 2012 10:57 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Yeah, I think folks who move to say, Pittsburgh, claim to maintain Mets fandom, but start leaning toward the Pirates when their kid starts living a breathing Buccaneerness, did two things: 1) Kept their fandom on the shelf way too long, continuing to file as a Met fan at the end of the year, but otherwise being passive except for an occasional "are they doing any good?" peek at the standings. 2) Failed to do the heavy lifting of indoctrination during the child's formative years. A few years back my daughters (then in Kindergarten and 3rd grade) came home from school to tell me "they had bad news." In the midst of the San Francisco's first WS run, they declared themselves Giants fans. Now they wear Panda or Posey shirts and gloat in another World Championship. They have it too easy.

Swan Swan H Dec 01 2012 11:04 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

DocTee wrote: A few years back my daughters (then in Kindergarten and 3rd grade) came home from school to tell me "they had bad news." In the midst of the San Francisco's first WS run, they declared themselves Giants fans. Now they wear Panda or Posey shirts and gloat in another World Championship. They have it too easy. So who do they live with now?

G-Fafif Dec 27 2012 01:09 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

Culmination of a thread, here. Thanks for everybody's help.