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Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

seawolf17 Jan 07 2014 10:47 AM

From the Comics Curmudgeon, and apparently today's paper: http://joshreads.com/?p=20469

MFS62 Jan 27 2014 07:17 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Old book, but I just started reading the paperback. Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart. The dediction reads: "For my loves -- Tracy, Stan, and Shamsky No offense, Sportscenter" Later

Edgy MD Jan 27 2014 07:20 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Gotta hand it to the Lockhorns --- keeping those Levittown roots.

G-Fafif Feb 01 2014 06:37 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

She got on the 7 train headed out to Queens, surrounded by hordes of people wearing orange and blue and also looking like they'd all suddenly put on a few pounds. Laurie got off at the Shea Stadium stop with the rest of them and found Eric standing on the walkway waiting for her. "Greetings, and welcome to Game One of the National League Championship Series. This is for you," he said, holding out a blue baseball hat with an "N" and a "Y" on it. I imagine somebody else here can speak more authoritatively to this title should he choose, but worth noting ASAP the publication of A Whole New Ballgame by Caryn Rose (Metsgrrl in non-fiction circles), a novel that is lousy -- in a good way -- with Metsiana c. 2006.

G-Fafif Feb 01 2014 08:28 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Big week for the 2006 Mets, who inspired "Easy Come, Easy Go" by Queens' own Caught In A Trap. Blogging Mets tells the story: http://www.bloggingmets.com/22813/hardc ... 2006-mets/

themetfairy Feb 10 2014 09:23 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Ty Burrell talks about his Mets fandom with Jon Stewart on this evening's episode of The Daily Show. He says, "It's the disease of being the eternal optimist."

Edgy MD Feb 11 2014 07:18 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Good for Ty Burrell, I guess, but I don't find a whole lot of Met fans to be particularly optimistic.

Benjamin Grimm Feb 11 2014 07:19 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Neither do I. "Angst-ridden" is more like it.

themetfairy Feb 11 2014 07:37 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Here is the interview (fast forward to about the 3:20 mark to get the Mets discussion)

Vic Sage Feb 11 2014 10:18 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

i watched it -- yeah, i didn't get Burrell's viewpoint. Other than Ceeter, "optimistic Mets fan" is an oxymoron. Stewart much better embodied our eternal angst.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 11 2014 10:54 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Hell, if you're a barely-working actor, rooting for even a .400 season may feel something like "optimism." My favorite part of the interview comes right after he says, "I think they're going to win the World Series every year," and there's an audible, pity-drenched gasp from the audience.

themetfairy Feb 11 2014 11:06 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Barely working? The guy is one of the stars of Modern Family and was on the show to promote his new movie.

Vic Sage Feb 11 2014 11:14 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

metfairy = Ty Burrell's press rep

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 11 2014 11:54 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

themetfairy wrote: Barely working? The guy is one of the stars of Modern Family and was on the show to promote his new movie. Not slagging the guy-- I'm talking about his career 15 or so years ago, while living in Astoria, during his nascent fandom.

Lefty Specialist Feb 11 2014 12:44 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

In his new movie, he plays second fiddle to Muppets. Ty shouldn't spring for the beachfront house in Malibu just yet.

Benjamin Grimm Feb 11 2014 12:55 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

If he's going to get residuals from the syndication of Modern Family, I'd say he's in pretty good shape. (I'm not sure that actors get any compensation from syndication, however.)

themetfairy Feb 11 2014 01:00 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Burrell can afford that house And that's just for Modern Family - he's likely making some nice money from voicing Mr. Peabody.

Vic Sage Feb 11 2014 02:46 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

I used to love "Rocky & Friends", and Peabody and his boy Sherman were 2 of the reasons why. But for the sake of Mr. Burrell's mortgage payments, the new MR. PEABODY will need to be more successful than the other Jay Ward movie spinoffs, Boris and Natasha (1992), Dudley Do-Right (1999), and The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000), all of which were disasters.

G-Fafif Feb 18 2014 10:19 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

In the sad 1998 sequel The Odd Couple II (popping up on one of the HBOs suddenly after keeping its existence unknown to me for 16 years), a Bruce Stark print of Yogi Berra as Mets manager hangs in Oscar’s apartment. Oscar is also asked by an acquaintance if covering minor league ball in Sarasota is comedown after years of writing about “the Yankees and the Mets”.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 28 2014 05:13 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

The Baseball Project's new album is out, and is a hoot along with it being pretty good (Mike Mills is now an official member I think). Met content includes this one: [youtube:y63ozgjz]Els3cRvntvo[/youtube:y63ozgjz] Mike Mills contributes this piece of power-hitting pop-homerism: [youtube:y63ozgjz]NWvkhzC014s[/youtube:y63ozgjz]

G-Fafif Mar 28 2014 07:03 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

That Dykstra song is not only sensational, it's like the musical version of this book I'm reading right now, one in which the reader's stomach (mine, anyway) churns as the author works for Lenny and Lenny makes him regret it a little more each page. And "Dale Murphy for the Hall of Fame" is now in my head.

G-Fafif Mar 28 2014 07:44 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

[youtube:2fhei5y3]63-ToDgwVUQ[/youtube:2fhei5y3] Mets shoutout in this one, too. Sold his cards for stock in a startup and became owner of the team.

G-Fafif Apr 07 2014 11:15 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

This Monday was Opening Day of the new Major League Baseball season, and the reopening of old wounds day for Mets fans. --Colin Jost, new Weekend Update anchor, SNL, 4/5/2014

bmfc1 Apr 15 2014 05:48 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Accused murdered Ben Affleck wearing a Mets cap at 1:02 of the "Gone Girl" trailer: http://youtu.be/sOPLieLQQQs

Benjamin Grimm Apr 15 2014 06:58 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

On last Friday's episode of Hawaii Five-0, Danno (Scott Caan) was pinned under wreckage in the basement of a collapsed building, and to calm his nerves he started reciting the starting players from the 1986 Mets. (Mentions of Backman, Hernandez, Santana, Knight, Foster, and Wilson.) Time passes, he's still pinned down, and he's up to 1992, mentioning Saberhagen and Bonilla. He finds that 1992 isn't as soothing as 1986 was.

Ceetar Apr 15 2014 08:29 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

bmfc1 wrote: Accused murdered Ben Affleck wearing a Mets cap at 1:02 of the "Gone Girl" trailer: http://youtu.be/sOPLieLQQQs I just found out they're making this into a movie, and they cast Batman? I'm not sure I agree. Good book though, even if the character probably isn't one of the 'good' Mets fans. Mike Kerwick just tweeted about the cap. Hi Mike!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 15 2014 09:26 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

The Baseball Project's new album is out, and is a hoot along with it being pretty good (Mike Mills is now an official member I think). Met content includes this one: [youtube]Els3cRvntvo[/youtube] Mike Mills contributes this piece of power-hitting pop-homerism: [youtube]NWvkhzC014s[/youtube] Win a trip to the AAA All-Star game by filling in the blanks: [url]http://woobox.com/5k26ac

G-Fafif May 05 2014 12:18 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Mad Men, Season Seven, Episode Four (air date 5/4/2014), “The Monolith”. Takes place late April 1969. Don is in the late Lane Pryce’s old office, now his. Finds Lane's familiar Mets pennant tucked away. He eventually hangs it up where it used to be displayed. Later he gets drunk, calls Freddy Rumsen, suggests going to Shea and when Freddy comes by to pick him up, Don sings a couple of lines of “Meet The Mets”. Freddy takes him home to sober up. When Don awakes the next morning, he asks, “Did the Mets win?” One of the great Mets pop culture moments of recent years.

batmagadanleadoff May 05 2014 01:13 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

G-Fafif wrote: Mad Men, Season Seven, Episode Four (air date 5/4/2014), “The Monolith”. Takes place late April 1969. Don is in the late Lane Pryce’s old office, now his. Finds Lane's familiar Mets pennant tucked away. He eventually hangs it up where it used to be displayed. Later he gets drunk, calls Freddy Rumsen, suggests going to Shea and when Freddy comes by to pick him up, Don sings a couple of lines of “Meet The Mets”. Freddy takes him home to sober up. When Don awakes the next morning, he asks, “Did the Mets win?” One of the great Mets pop culture moments of recent years. I was waiting for you to put up that post. The Mad Men are coming to Mets country.

G-Fafif May 05 2014 07:23 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Evidence -- gleaned from the paper Don was reading in a previous scene (Friday's Post) points to the game Don and Freddy missed as April 21, 1969, an eleven-inning loss to the Phillies. Gary Gentry went nine, struck out eight, walked seven and gave up seven hits in his third major league start; if his pitches were counted, it wasn't mentioned. Ron Taylor gave up the game-winning hit to Tony Taylor. Not quite 10,000 True New Yorkers were in attendance. Larry Hisle, whose birthday is today, homered. The only Met run was driven in by Rocky: the right fielder, not the governor for whom Henry Francis works.

batmagadanleadoff May 05 2014 10:10 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

If it's April, 1969, then Don didn't just jump on the bandwagon.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 05 2014 05:12 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

That his interest in the Mets increases the more unhinged he gets... well, that gets it somewhat reversed, doesn't it? I was also a little disappointed that he didn't end that tirade against the computer-lease guy with, "You will be known as... Chipper."

G-Fafif May 17 2014 12:14 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

On Maron, May 15, 2014 (Season 2, Episode 2, “Marc’s New Friend”), Marc finds himself in a sports memorabilia store where his showbiz buddy casually purchases a “’68 Seaver” and a “’69 Ryan”. Later Ray shows off an ashtray that once belonged to Casey Stengel, to which sports-challenged Marc asks, “from Casey and the Sunshine Band?”

G-Fafif May 20 2014 12:12 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

I'd somehow missed the presence of Mets Bucket Hat Guy on Jimmy Fallon (Late Night, now Tonight). If you watch Jimmy Fallon, then I am sure you know Mets Bucket Hat Guy, also known as Mike DiCenzo. He had a recurring role on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” and now “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”. Mike is a writer and actor who really has an unbelievable talent when it comes to word association. He has a way of seamlessly connecting the dots between a wide variety of topics and words that never fails to impress. The concept for Mets Bucket Hat Guy started innocently enough in 2010, when Jimmy Fallon hosted the Emmys. ”I wrote an intro for co-presenters Matthew Perry and Lauren Graham where Jimmy connects their two names doing a stream-of-conscious runner,” Mike recalled. “He liked it, so we came up with a way to do that on the show.” The outfit was an accident — or, perhaps, fate. Mike overslept and was late for work, the first and only time that’s ever happened to him. He threw on a Hawaiian shirt and a red Mets bucket hat he got for free at a baseball game, and arrived at the office two hours late. He wore the outfit, he said, “un-ironically.” That very same Hawaiian shirt and red Mets bucket hat now resides in the Fallon wardrobe department. Hat appears to be orange, but always nice to see the skyline.

Edgy MD May 20 2014 12:22 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Pretty funny that the hat still has the giveaway sponsor on it.

Edgy MD May 22 2014 01:48 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

The New Mutants, April 1987.

Benjamin Grimm May 22 2014 01:56 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

I like that Cyclops' dad was romantically involved with a giant female skunk.

Edgy MD May 22 2014 02:00 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

"The Mets stink? I think that's your girlfriend you're thinking of, Summers."

G-Fafif Jun 06 2014 02:10 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

The remote control landed on Antenna TV and unearthed the following: Season 3, Episode 10 of The Patty Duke Show, “Sick In Bed” (11/17/1965): A Mets pennant, in which the silhouette of a player is illustrated batting in the middle of the skyline logo, is displayed prominently on the bookshelf of Patty Lane’s bedroom.

Mets Guy in Michigan Jun 06 2014 02:20 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Citi Field and sharknados! [url]http://youtu.be/3e0ieIpBhsg [youtube]http://youtu.be/3e0ieIpBhsg[/youtube]

Zvon Jun 06 2014 02:27 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Citi Field and sharknados! [url]http://youtu.be/3e0ieIpBhsg [youtube]http://youtu.be/3e0ieIpBhsg[/youtube] The first shot of the old man looking up: is that comedian Robert Klein?

themetfairy Jun 06 2014 02:38 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Citi Field and sharknados! [url]http://youtu.be/3e0ieIpBhsg [youtube]http://youtu.be/3e0ieIpBhsg[/youtube] The first shot of the old man looking up: is that comedian Robert Klein? Yes.

G-Fafif Jun 24 2014 09:26 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Let's Go Metropolitans, advise 45 Adapters on their 2012 LP Collected Works Vol. 1. [youtube]Gz2a0KvLmWo&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]

Frayed Knot Jul 01 2014 07:07 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Sunday's NY Times Crossowrd 101 DOWN: The _ _ _ _ _ _ METS I wonder how many non, or partial, sports fans they caught wondering why AMAZING only had six slots?

G-Fafif Jul 05 2014 04:51 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Sighted 26 years after the fact: Kid in hardware store wears adjustable Mets cap in hardware store in the unfortunately existing Arthur 2: On The Rocks (1988).

G-Fafif Jul 08 2014 06:44 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Mystery writer A R Kennedy notes Lily, one of the main characters in her ongoing Nathan Miccoli series, is "a big Mets fan" and that "key scenes" occur at Citi Field.

bmfc1 Jul 17 2014 12:56 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

It's Mets fan on Mets fan action as Jon Stewart, wearing a black Mets cap, is the latest comedian to get coffee with Jerry Seinfeld. http://www.crackle.com/c/comedians-in-c ... ing-coffee

Vic Sage Jul 17 2014 01:49 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

I'm surprised they didn't talk about the Mets at all. When i took my recent tour of Citifield with [sales agent who shall remain nameless], she took great pride in pointing out Jerry's luxury suite. It's the one on the end, on the 1b side.

themetfairy Jul 17 2014 02:27 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

And he brings friends to the games.

seawolf17 Jul 17 2014 02:34 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

themetfairy wrote: And he brings friends to the games. Well, I would hope he would. Although it would be funny if he just sat in the suite by himself a few times, looking longingly to the suites next to him every few hitters.

Edgy MD Oct 03 2014 09:38 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

In the French/American sic-fi film Stargate, Kurt Russell first appears around nine minutes in, mourning an apparently deceased son, shown in a nearby photograph in a Mets uniform with the 1980s piping up the side.

G-Fafif Oct 04 2014 01:46 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

The Mets are Hollywood's Team, according to the Los Angeles Times in 2000. The mind-boggling "Frequency" stars Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel as a father and son who magically reconnect through the time-space continuum by talking on a ham radio that somehow bridges 30 years. Along the way, they change the course of their family history and prevent a series of murders, thanks in no small part to their mutual love of the 1969 Mets. Key plays from the '69 World Series--including the famous "shoe polish incident"--are pivotal plot links in the film. Of course it's the Mets. Who else could it be? It's no secret that baseball has a certain je ne say hey that Hollywood strives to appropriate whenever possible. But more specifically, when it comes to movie and TV references to the major leagues, the '69 Mets are the team to use when you're trying to invoke a sense of wonderment.

Edgy MD Oct 07 2014 02:34 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

The back sleeve cover of E. Pluribus Funk (1971) by Grand Funk Railroad:

G-Fafif Oct 08 2014 11:11 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

The coin of the realm!

Zvon Oct 08 2014 12:10 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Wow. I saw that back in the day but didn't know Shea was on the back. That's an amazin' find.

Edgy MD Oct 08 2014 12:32 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Makes me want to create Mets money redeemable at CitiField and Mets Clubhouse-type retailers.

Ceetar Oct 08 2014 01:25 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Edgy MD wrote: Makes me want to create Mets money redeemable at CitiField and Mets Clubhouse-type retailers. Mets Money is no longer sold nor can it be used at Citi Field. Guests with Mets Money from previous seasons should be directed to the advance ticket window across from the Hyundai Club third base entrance so that the Mets Money can be converted to a Mets Gift Card.

Ceetar Oct 08 2014 02:07 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

[url]http://mets.tumblr.com/post/99418904117/ben-affleck-sports-mets-hat-in-new-film-by-will Ben Affleck Sports Mets Hat in New Film by Will Carafello He’s not a Mets fan but he’ll play one on the big screen. Ben Affleck is a great actor but he just could not portray his character as a Yankees fan. In his new film, Gone Girl, in theaters now, director David Fincher asked Affleck to wear a Yankees cap for a scene in the movie. The Oscar-winning actor replied, no chance. "I said, ‘David, I love you, I would do anything for you,’ " Affleck, told the New York Times. “‘But I will not wear a Yankees hat. I just can’t. I can’t wear it because it’s going to become a thing, David. I will never hear the end of it. I can’t do it.’ And I couldn’t put it on my head." For a scene in the film, Affleck’s character attempts to lay low in a New York airport and needs a local baseball cap as part of his disguise. The script called for a New York Yankees cap but the Boston native said he just would not do it. Affleck shared, “That was the only fight David and I had, and it was a legitimate fight.” The two decided to Affleck would wear a New York Mets hat instead. The compromise was “very Switzerland” in Affleck’s opinion. For the scene, Affleck wears the more subtle, all-black Mets cap. The traditional orange and blue cap was apparently too bold for the scene where Affleck is trying to blend in. Though never stated, one would also have to guess that the 1997 “snow-white” alternate cap was never an option for the role, either. We would be happy to see Mr. Affleck in orange and blue in any of his future films. Unrelated — the St. Lucie Mets are offer 30% off Mets hats right now. Channel your inner Ben Affleck and use code: HATS30 when checking out to save: http://bit.ly/Zc9uLT

G-Fafif Nov 09 2014 04:50 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Larry Kirwan of Black 47 puts the band's about-to-conclude career in perspective for the Times. Indeed, there were huge concerts. They played Farm Aid at Iowa State’s 55,000-seat football stadium, and a half-dozen times at Shea Stadium after Mets games on Irish Night. “We played Shea more than the Beatles did,” Mr. Kirwan said with a smile.

G-Fafif Nov 24 2014 01:00 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Nov 28 2014 05:07 PM

“The Mets need speed. The Mets need power. The Mets need pitching. That's what I'm thinking about right now [...] I would take any one of the three: speed, power or pitching.” —Jim Harper to Maggie Jordan, ignoring her EPA report scoop, The Newsroom, "Main Justice," S3, E3, November 23, 2014 (ep takes place on April 22, 2013)

G-Fafif Nov 24 2014 01:07 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Syndicated Peanuts strip on November 22, 2014, originally ran in 1967: LUCY (to Linus, who’s sitting in front of the television): Little brothers should stand when big sisters enter the room. LINUS (standing): You’re right...I beg your pardon... [LINUS stands and thinks while sits and watches television) LINUS: Little brothers are the New York Mets of life!

G-Fafif Nov 24 2014 01:30 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

“Tonight we honor Long Island’s favorite son, even if he is a Mets fan.” —Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor (MFY fan), presenting the Library of Congress George Gershwin Award for Popular Song to Billy Joel, November 19, 2014

Lefty Specialist Nov 24 2014 03:36 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Billy's a Yankee fan through and through. That's why it bugged me that he played the last concert at Shea. He's a Met fan in the same way Billy Crystal was a Met fan in City Slickers; it was convenient at the time.

Edgy MD Nov 24 2014 04:34 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

If I agreed with that post more, my wife would be jealous. The Shea thing was an opportunity grab, using his authority and status to wedge into associations. That's good business and his prerogative, but the Mets shouldn't have been such patsies.

G-Fafif Nov 24 2014 04:40 PM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Crystal is MFY through and through. Joel is a celebrity fan who thinks it's great when New York wins. And FWIW, in the six years since his show, he's never disowned the association, never backtracked, never said anything along the lines of "Willie Randolph just went from sleeping with Pamela Anderson to Louie Anderson," as Crystal did when Willie Randolph came home to manage his childhood team. Sotomayor could have used a better line, but I'm not offended.

Frayed Knot Dec 24 2014 07:10 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

Not exactly a Met reference, but Keith Olbermann's year-end wrap show where he showed highlights of past holiday week games featured some hot Lindsay Nelson voice action during clips from the 1979 Cotton Bowl

G-Fafif Dec 30 2014 01:30 AM Re: Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

The third annual complete(-ish) survey of the Year in Mets Pop Culture here. Thanks to all who contributed to this thread and made the resulting article as broad in scope as possible.