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Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013

G-Fafif
Jan 01 2013 09:36 AM

The 2012 thread is here. A survey of Mets Pop Culture in 2012 can be found here.

And the first sighting of 2013? The Odd Couple marathon running on WLNY-TV (Channels 10/55) is certainly ripe with familiar glimpses, but one I hadn't connected before was the prop newspaper front page used in the pilot for Get Smart...



...is the very same one framed in Oscar's office at the New York Herald. I noticed it while Oscar, Murray and Leon from production were engaging in a pizza-eating contest (which Oscar shouldn't have been in, given his ulcer...per Felix).

The Second Spitter
Jan 04 2013 12:57 AM
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Futurama is set in year 3001 -- the good news is Shea will be rebuilt at some point in the future (and demolished again). The bad news is the Mets will not another World Series until at least 3001.

Mets – Willets Point
Jan 04 2013 01:33 AM
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The Second Spitter wrote:

The bad news is the Mets will not another World Series until at least 3001.


Cheapass Wilpon heads in a jar.

Lefty Specialist
Jan 04 2013 07:31 AM
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Mets – Willets Point wrote:
The Second Spitter wrote:

The bad news is the Mets will not another World Series until at least 3001.


Cheapass Wilpon heads in a jar.


If I'd been in a car while reading this, I would have driven off the road.

metirish
Jan 07 2013 06:52 AM
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The guy from Glee

Edgy MD
Jan 07 2013 07:42 AM
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That's more of a MLBS post than a MPCS post, no?

metirish
Jan 07 2013 07:44 AM
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Oh, my bad.....

Edgy MD
Jan 07 2013 07:54 AM
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Well, certainly not bad.

But we could totally use an MLBS thread, if you'd like to start one..

Ceetar
Jan 07 2013 08:02 AM
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The Second Spitter wrote:
Futurama is set in year 3001 -- the good news is Shea will be rebuilt at some point in the future (and demolished again). The bad news is the Mets will not another World Series until at least 3001.



no no, This was pre-conception of Citi Field. In that world the Mets kept Shea up as a museum when they moved to Citi Field where they won numerous championships. That's my story, sticking to it.

MFS62
Jan 07 2013 09:42 AM
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Ceetar wrote:
no no, This was pre-conception of Citi Field. In that world the Mets kept Shea up as a museum when they moved to Citi Field where they won numerous championships. That's my story, sticking to it.

Continuing that thought, it is preserved as a shrine by the Jerry Seinfeld financial group that bought the team from the Wilpons and turned it into perrennial Champions.

Later

G-Fafif
Jan 18 2013 09:57 PM
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Now this is some detective work.

Edgy MD
Jan 19 2013 07:52 AM
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You don't have to be the world's greatest detective to see that

(1) no manager in baseball down by one in the ninth with the bases empty and one out intentionally walks a batter. Not unless the batter is Carlos Beltran and the next three hitters are Jon Niese, Bobby Parnell, Francisco Rodriguez, and Elmer Dessens. And there're are no available pinch hitters remaining. Even Mike Pelfrey has been burned, somehow.

(2) The screen seems to switch from a night game to day.

(3) Games don't tend to end at the time one goes to dinner. Night games end at 11ish, at which time to you can get dinner in New York, but you're generally not picking each other up at that hour if you're going for a late meal, but coming from a late shift at work or an early night at the club or maybe the theater. Day games end at four, which is right out as a dinner time unless you're of a certain age and catching the retirees early special at Bob Evans. Daytime doubleheaders wrap around 7:30 or so, but during baseball season it wouldn't be so very dark at that hour (though we've already established that the creative team has no clue what time of year it is). It can only be the end of a day-night double header game two and it's 9:15 or so.

(4) That ain't Gary Cohen.

And that's without freezing and enhancing. It's elementary.

Ceetar
Jan 19 2013 08:43 AM
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Learned a new word from that article, chyron, which is apparently used wrong since it's meant to represent the _bottom_ graphics on screens, and is a company name (so it's the Dumpster of rubbish bins)

Scorebug is such a nicer word.

I know deadspin has Mets fans, but this writer clearly isn't a regular one having ignored key clues like wall color (not blue, not 12. same with the scorebug, which was changed twice in '12)

You can also pinpoint the year via wall advertising.

Although I'm not really sure why it was necessary to deduce which cut scenes MLB provided the show in order to fit the dialogue in the first place.


neat though. Should I be watching Elementary?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Jan 19 2013 10:09 AM
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Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Jan 19 2013 10:55 AM

Meh. The BBC update it rips from might be a better place to start. (Elementary:Sherlock::Mets-Era Bay:Old Bay)

Ceetar
Jan 19 2013 10:17 AM
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been intrigued by Sherlock via Doctor Who commercial breaks.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Jan 19 2013 10:55 AM
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Cumberbatch and Freeman are individually good... and work beautifully together. (Plus, the whole thing's only a few filmed "episodes" long.)

Vic Sage
Jan 19 2013 12:18 PM
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SHERLOCK kicks serious ass; ELEMENTARY is eh.

Frayed Knot
Jan 19 2013 12:46 PM
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Ceetar wrote:
Should I be watching Elementary?


I've been giving it a try but, like Vic said, it's pretty much eh.

It's essentially the Holmes story as filtered through 'HOUSE' -- which, when you consider that HOUSE was itself a re-ordered Sherlock Holmes, kind of brings it around full circle.
Problem is that in the attempt to model this version of Sherlock Holmes on Greg House (right down to the self-centered obnoxiousness and the constant unshaven look) they've exaggerated the weak parts the earlier show while not hitting the high notes.
Like if you think House pulled conclusions out of his ass wait'll you see this guy; but yet the show doesn't have near the humor of the early years in HOUSE.

Edgy MD
Jan 19 2013 01:22 PM
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Well, if the inning sequence depicted there isn't "right out of his ass," then I don't know what. What kind of idiot would write in a bases-empty-intentional-walk when down by one in the ninth? What kind of lousy Mets fan must Lucy Liu be if she didn't flag it?

Lefty Specialist
Jan 19 2013 03:35 PM
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I'm impressed that somebody would devote such an incredible amount of time to dissecting 26 seconds of a TV episode.

The next time anybody accuses me of wasting my time, I can bring this up for comparison.

Farmer Ted
Jan 23 2013 10:15 AM
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Noticed last night Vincent Irizarry as Corporal Fragetti sporting a Mets blue cap (with blue button) in Heartbreak Ridge.
Vincent mentions going to a Mets game on his webpage but follows nothing Mets-or baseball-related on Twitter.

G-Fafif
Feb 27 2013 05:41 PM
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Just been told that in the novel Heft by Liz Nelson, one of the characters is a high school senior being scouted by the Mets.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Feb 28 2013 12:00 AM
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In this discussion of the new documentary "Kink" and BDSM/roleplay's progress in the culture... a weird, proud little Metly connection:

Deb, 55, says she and Sara, 41, are so close they’ve ceased using a safe word: They can sense the others’ boundaries just by breath and nonverbal cues. When she plays with others, Deb, a lifelong Mets fan, uses the phrase “Yankees Rule,” which she could only utter under extreme duress.

Mets – Willets Point
Feb 28 2013 07:14 AM
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Cacao!

G-Fafif
Feb 28 2013 07:48 AM
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Mets – Willets Point wrote:
Cacao!


That's kind of a cool word...

[youtube]ldQGPwuHhkM[/youtube]

(NSFW-ish.)

G-Fafif
Feb 28 2013 09:34 AM
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Money lyrics, from Lobo's "Happy Days in New York City," circa 1969:

But today in New York city
The people are smiling a lot
And it's all because of the group of guys
Who used to lose a lot

Now it took eight years to do it
And they don't know what they've done
For the city's beginning to smile again
The Mets have finally won

G-Fafif
Mar 11 2013 12:58 PM
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From Girls, 3/10/2013:

Bartender at party to Adam: “Did ya hear that? The Mets are up, 3-2.” (Adam says, “No.”)

On The Simpsons, same night, there were references to the Astros moving to the American League (in Ned Flanders's vision of hell), being a Cubs fan as explanation for being a bully (Kearney's, I believe) and a Harry Shearer/Vin Scully riff during a lengthy rain delay about the baby ducks Mel Ott raised in Louisiana -- which thrilled me no end as Mel Ott was, in fact, from Louisiana. (Don't know about the baby ducks.)

G-Fafif
Mar 17 2013 05:30 PM
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Opening this Friday, festival favorite Gimme The Loot, in which the Apple takes center stage:

A 1980s local-access cable clip shows graffiti artists boasting of “bombing the apple” – painting their signature tags on the giant apple that appears at Shea Stadium whenever beloved baseball team The Mets scores a home run. Nobody has achieved this rare feat in the 20 years since. But Malcolm (Ty Hickson) and Sofia (Tashiana Washington), two teens eager to establish themselves as street-art legends, are determined to change that by tagging the apple at Citi Field, the Mets’ new home since 2009. Driving them is their rivalry with the Woodside King Crew (WKC), a bunch of punks from Queens who stepped on their turf and sabotaged their work.


Key plot point revealed early in this trailer.

G-Fafif
Apr 01 2013 05:33 AM
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New reality show, Anybody Here Can Play This Game, that promises one lucky fan a chance to be a New York Mets outfielder. You'd be foolish not to try out.

Mets – Willets Point
Apr 05 2013 08:40 AM
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The latest Tom the Dancing Bug comic strip has a Metly theme. Looks like Louis is a member of the SBS.

G-Fafif
Apr 26 2013 07:25 AM
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Take me out to the ball game
I want to sit in the stands and scream
I wanna root for the losing team
Like that day
The stadium was Shea
And I lived in a rally cap
And the underdog would say
—The So So Glos, “Son of an American,” Blowout (2012)

G-Fafif
Apr 30 2013 02:21 PM
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Metstradamus features Jons Hamm and Stewart trading baseball barbs Monday night, as Cardinal and Met fans will do. Note JS slipping in a Cleon Jones that nobody in his audience or at his desk gets but probably everyone here will.

Swan Swan H
Apr 30 2013 02:39 PM
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In the QA thread I asked who should play Atticus Finch in a remake of 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' Edgy went with Viggo Mortensen, but Jon Hamm would be my call.

Zvon
Apr 30 2013 02:51 PM
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G-Fafif wrote:
Metstradamus features Jons Hamm and Stewart trading baseball barbs Monday night, as Cardinal and Met fans will do. Note JS slipping in a Cleon Jones that nobody in his audience or at his desk gets but probably everyone here will.


This was priceless.

Swan Swan H wrote:
In the QA thread I asked who should play Atticus Finch in a remake of 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' Edgy went with Viggo Mortensen, but Jon Hamm would be my call.

One of my all time favorite movies. Tough shoes to fill. Peck was perfect. Hamm could be.

Benjamin Grimm
May 23 2013 08:15 AM
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On Showtime's Nurse Jackie (starring Mets fan Edie Falco) this week, a drunk and ranting Mets fan was brought into the Emergency Room after smashing his face against the side of a bus. He was enraged by the sight of a Yankees logo on the bus, so he bashed the logo with his face.

He was wearing blue and orange, sort of a Mets jacket without any licensed MLB logos or insignia. At one point he shouted to an EMT, "Girardi is your mother's bitch!"

G-Fafif
Jun 11 2013 08:07 AM
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"I get baseball tickets -- mostly the Mets."
--Dr. Arnold Rosen, to Don Draper, late in the 1968 season, Mad Men, "Favors" (S. 6 Ep. 11; aired 6/9/2013)

batmagadanleadoff
Jun 21 2013 12:40 PM
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"I get baseball tickets -- mostly the Mets."
--Dr. Arnold Rosen, to Don Draper, late in the 1968 season, Mad Men, "Favors" (S. 6 Ep. 11; aired 6/9/2013)



'Mad Men' mocks Mets
45 m ago By Neil Best


Linda Cardellini as Sylvia Rosen and Jon Hamm as Don Draper in a scene
from "Mad Men." The season finale airs June 23 on AMC.


It is not unusual for the 2013 Mets to be a pop culture punch line, but at least they have company. Take the 1968 Mets. Please.

On a recent “Mad Men,’’ the character Arnold Rosen tells his “friend’’ (long story) Don Draper that he has been meaning to invite him to a game and often has access to Mets tickets. “Well, I’m glad you didn’t,’’ Draper says.

Jon Hamm, who plays Draper, is a Cardinals fan. He told the Sporting News he was pleased by the dig at the Mets, who finished 24 games behind the pennant-winning Cards in '68.

One year later Draper might have felt differently about Mets tickets, but Rosen might not have been offering.

Tags: AMC , Mets


http://www.newsday.com/sports/media/wat ... -1.5541258


The Mad Men discover the dead body of Lane Pryce; in the background, a Mets pennant, circa 1965

G-Fafif
Aug 02 2013 09:56 AM
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Two very Mets-heavy episodes of The Newsroom, though maybe not exactly airing on HBO.

SteveJRogers
Aug 02 2013 11:21 AM
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G-Fafif wrote:
Two very Mets-heavy episodes of The Newsroom, though maybe not exactly airing on HBO.


I miss having the White House Deputy Chief Of Staff hoping against hope that he'd be able to share a bromance moment with Mike Piazza during a batting practice in Port Saint Lucie...

G-Fafif
Aug 05 2013 04:29 PM
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Minority Mets owner Bill Maher offered guest Jay-Z a blinged-up black Mets cap on Friday's Real Time. Jay-Z declined not, he said, because it's the Mets, but because it was too sparkly. Mr. Carter added when his uncle took him to his first baseball game as a kid, it was a Mets game...but that he was lured to dark side anyway.

G-Fafif
Aug 20 2013 04:41 PM
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Throwback Mets Pop Culture Sighting from Season One, Episode Six of The Odd Couple ("Oscar's Ulcer"), first aired October 29, 1970: Felix (enters restaurant, approaches Oscar): "You said you wanted your freedom. Freedom to you means either a hot tamale or a night baseball game. The Mets are out of town."

Felix very much up on the recently defending world champs.

H/T bmfc1, who recently appeared alongside a Mets coffee mug on this fine program.

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Frayed Knot
Aug 31 2013 08:11 AM
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Saturday NY Times Crossword
11 DOWN - 5 Letters

Clue = Orange and blue wearer, for short

Answer = NYMET

Edgy MD
Aug 31 2013 08:27 AM
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That bmfc-starring reality show clip is cash money. Go, bmfc!

bmfc1
Aug 31 2013 03:38 PM
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Thank you Edgy.

themetfairy
Sep 03 2013 09:06 PM
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Mr. Met was a participant in Jon Stewart's return to The Daily Show this evening.

G-Fafif
Sep 03 2013 10:36 PM
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Mr. Met made sure what had to go down went down. And as has been the case in his myriad popular culture appearances, Mr. Met brought to this role an incredible amount of versatility and believability for someone who doesn't speak and wears the same expression at all times.

How does he do that?

Edgy MD
Sep 04 2013 07:17 AM
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I'm still coming out against Conan turning him into a hooker.

bmfc1
Sep 04 2013 08:29 AM
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G-Fafif
Sep 24 2013 05:56 AM
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Not exactly a pop culture sighting, but this caught my Metsian eye, from The New Republic's profile of estranged Clinton retainer/handler Doug Band.

Not everyone in Clintonland was thrilled at Band’s ascent. “He can come across as pretty harshly judgmental,” says a former senior aide to Hillary Clinton. “You could fill Shea Stadium with people who haven’t heard from Doug, or heard something they didn’t want to hear, or heard something that alienates them.”


Unless research on this article began five or more years ago, that's a pretty nifty allusion for 2013.

G-Fafif
Sep 25 2013 06:27 AM
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Spotted in the audience at The Colbert Report on September 24 as the Emmy-winning host thanked his staff (filling all the seats for the occasion): Mr. Met.

Edgy MD
Sep 25 2013 07:48 AM
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G-Fafif wrote:
Not exactly a pop culture sighting, but this caught my Metsian eye, from The New Republic's profile of estranged Clinton retainer/handler Doug Band.

Not everyone in Clintonland was thrilled at Band’s ascent. “He can come across as pretty harshly judgmental,” says a former senior aide to Hillary Clinton. “You could fill Shea Stadium with people who haven’t heard from Doug, or heard something they didn’t want to hear, or heard something that alienates them.”


Unless research on this article began five or more years ago, that's a pretty nifty allusion for 2013.

I think a little footwork and you can probably definitively name this un-named former senior aide outright.

seawolf17
Sep 27 2013 02:23 PM
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How is this guy a Mets fan? This whole thing reads MFYs.

http://happyplace.someecards.com/26552/ ... 0-criteria

G-Fafif
Nov 01 2013 10:40 AM
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Dillon Gee gets a shoutout around 1:46.

G-Fafif
Nov 07 2013 09:25 AM
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Go To Hell, Mike Piazza, a Ben Stiller (and Mike Piazza) vehicle has existed in script form since 2001. Premise: Ben Stiller believed his life had been ruined by Mike Piazza.

Stiller's character, Remy "Slider" Thompson, the naked man on the field, then explains how he got to that point and what he has against Mike Piazza. Remy and Piazza were classmates growing up in Pennsylvania. Piazza was great at everything and well-liked, overshadowing Remy. Since they were born on the same day, Thompson's birthday parties were always empty because everyone was at the wildly popular Piazza's parties. Piazza stole Thompson's girlfriend, and worst of all, when they were 12, Piazza's team beat Thompson's team at the Pennsylvania Little League Championship, putting an end to Thompson's promising career as a pitcher.

Having given up on baseball, Remy is now a 30-something sausage vendor who's elated to open up his own hot dog restaurant at Dodger Stadium, only to have Mike Piazza transferred there and his restaurant shut down as a result of the team spending so much money to get Piazza. Remy then moves and spends several years opening a restaurant at The Mets' Shea Stadium, only to have the same thing happen. "At that moment," he explains, "I decided to dedicate the rest of my existence to ruining the life of Mike Piazza."

[...]

Go to Hell, Mike Piazza was a spec script (a non-commissioned, unsolicited screenplay) by David Rotman and Ryan Oxford, who wrote it under the pen names J.J. Kanutsen and Milton Manoon for some reason. Rotman and Oxford sold the script to Universal and Ben Stiller was attached to star and produce in the spring of 2001. "We wrote it expressly for Ben," Oxford said at the time, "He has this great ability to play characters who feel slighted by the world — when they really are not — and who become obsessed by that." The movie was set to be Stiller's first starring role after Zoolander and The Royal Tenenbaums, with the studio eyeing Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure) to direct. Directors Jay Roach (Meet the Parents), Tom Shadyac (Bruce Almighty), and Todd Phillips (The Hangover) were also considered for the job, but no director was ever attached.

Mike Piazza was never formally signed on for the project, but he's the biggest character in the movie besides Stiller and figures prominently into the story. Piazza seemed interested when talking to Sports Illustrated at the time, saying, "It's flattering to have your name out there. It's kind of like Being John Malkovich." He did have an issue with the title though, explaining, "My mom's kind of upset with the title. If they were to approach me, I'd have to ask for something a little more subtle. I'm a Catholic boy."

Casting a Major League Baseball player with no acting experience in a big part in a comedy seems risky, but Piazza would have been playing himself and the script didn't call for him to do much more than sit there and say the occasional line while Stiller and the rest of the cast act.

Edgy MD
Nov 07 2013 09:41 AM
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I'd kind of be disappointed NOT to see this script resurface as Go to Hell, Giancarlo Stanton and Go to Hell, Bryce Harper and Go to Hell, Travis D'Arnaud as the years pass, maybe finally seeing the light of day in 2037 as Go to Hell, Anesh Vanu.

Mets – Willets Point
Nov 07 2013 09:46 AM
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Go To Hell, Matt Harvey might work. Move it from Pennsylvania to Connecticut. They're going to have to find someone younger than Stiller for the Slider role.

seawolf17
Nov 07 2013 09:52 AM
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I'm already tired of everyone bashing the Wilpons over the Vanu deal. NOBODY thought he was going to be a big-time player, and we did get 150 productive at-bats out of Anthony Recker II that summer in return.

Frayed Knot
Nov 10 2013 10:35 AM
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NY Times Sunday Crossword: 18-Down -- First Mets manager _ _ _ _ _ _ _



I won't give away the answer in case anyone hasn't finished the puzzle yet and wants to do it all on their own.

Ceetar
Nov 10 2013 01:17 PM
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Frayed Knot wrote:
NY Times Sunday Crossword: 18-Down -- First Mets manager _ _ _ _ _ _ _



I won't give away the answer in case anyone hasn't finished the puzzle yet and wants to do it all on their own.


I never came close to finishing Sunday's anyway.

Actually, I miss doing crosswords. The times app is only for iPhone for some reason, and the app I used doesn't get Newsday's anymore. I'm not attached to any others..recommendations?

G-Fafif
Nov 11 2013 03:11 PM
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Vince Vaughn wears a Mets t-shirt in the commercial for Delivery Man.

Frayed Knot
Nov 11 2013 03:25 PM
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Ceetar wrote:
...recommendations?


Buying a newspaper?

Ceetar
Nov 11 2013 03:31 PM
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Frayed Knot wrote:
Ceetar wrote:
...recommendations?


Buying a newspaper?


They still sell those?

Benjamin Grimm
Nov 12 2013 06:49 AM
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Frayed Knot wrote:
Ceetar wrote:
...recommendations?


Buying a newspaper?


You beat me to it!

themetfairy
Nov 25 2013 09:03 PM
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On this evening's episode of How I Met Your Mother, Ted reads a newspaper headline that says, "Mets Mathematically Eliminated."

HahnSolo
Nov 26 2013 11:19 AM
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themetfairy wrote:
On this evening's episode of How I Met Your Mother, Ted reads a newspaper headline that says, "Mets Mathematically Eliminated."


Was that a repeat from May?

Benjamin Grimm
Nov 26 2013 11:29 AM
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OH SNAP!

G-Fafif
Nov 26 2013 12:10 PM
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On Raising Hope last Friday (a series Sandy Alderson clearly wants nothing to do with), a character who is making a viral video in which different kinds of fruit represent different famous athletes needs to come up with the name of a baseball player that he can use to turn into a Strawberry-related pun...and after thinking long and hard about it lands on "Strawberry Bonds".

Frayed Knot
Nov 30 2013 09:21 AM
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NY Times Saturday XWORD
42 DOWN: Sports Mascot who's a popular bobble-head

Answer = M R M E T

G-Fafif
Dec 30 2013 12:09 PM
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The second annual Oscar's Caps, FAFIF's recognition of Mets pop culture sightings from the year just about gone by, both contemporary and vintage. (Much of it tracked in this here thread.)

Zvon
Dec 30 2013 08:11 PM
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G-Fafif wrote:
The second annual Oscar's Caps, FAFIF's recognition of Mets pop culture sightings from the year just about gone by, both contemporary and vintage. (Much of it tracked in this here thread.)

I had to view the Godzilla cartoon and see how they treated Shea. Not bad, could be worse. I won't bust em for the scoreboard placement and whatnot cause it is Shea, and they call it that. And the dialogue near the end about how the Mets suck (that's why the guy dreamed up a monster to attack Shea, cuz the Mets sucked, lol. He was a fan.) makes it a classic.

In this shot the stadium looks most like Shea.

These? Not so much.

The back of the scoreboard looks close enough. They both knew better than to destroy the scoreboard. That's respect.

And then they take it outside and mess with my favorite rendition of our globe on the globe, the Unisphere!


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! He broke it. gah!


You can't throw anything at Godzilla. He'll turn it into a global weapon of dream creature destruction!

Episode on youtube has the wrong name. It's listed under the ep Leviathan.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW4tJK75H1E

The Second Spitter wrote:
Futurama is set in year 3001 -- the good news is Shea will be rebuilt at some point in the future (and demolished again). The bad news is the Mets will not another World Series until at least 3001.



Gotta make the list. Unless these appearances are all supposed to be in the past.
[url]http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/ynqt7p/futurama-giant-fight

Futurama ep is called Anthology of Interest I.

themetfairy
Jan 14 2014 10:25 AM
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Tom Seaver on the cover of Wine Spectator magazine

Edgy MD
Jan 14 2014 10:44 AM
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I would have loved to adapt the unisphere --- or a reasonable facsimile --- into the nu ballpark's design.