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The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

G-Fafif Jan 02 2017 04:04 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 05 2017 10:50 AM

From New Year's weekend viewing, as 2016 was becoming 2017. On MTV Classic (formerly VH-1 Classic), hip-hop videos from the early ’90s with Met apparel sightings (all from crowd shots in the background of the main artist) include: • “Summertime” by D.J. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince (1991), somebody wearing a white cap, blue bill and Mets in script. • “U.N.I.T.Y” by Queen Latifah (1993), a person wearing a traditional Mets cap in the crowd. • “Iesha” by Another Bad Creation (1991), a script Mets logo that looks almost spray-painted on appears on a t-shirt. • "Motownphilly" by Boyz II Men (1991), a couple of folks mill in the background in Mets gear. On the annual WLNY (Channel 10/55 in the NY area) Odd Couple marathon: To start the “Hospital Mates” episode (Season 2, Episode 3, October 1, 1971), Oscar comes home all happy from softball and wonders aloud, “I wonder if I’m too old to be discovered by the Mets.” The marathon provided a strong reminder of how often not only Oscar, but Dr. Nancy Cunningham donned the blue and orange. Even Felix put it on (albeit backwards) for the role-reversal episode.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 05 2017 06:54 AM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Keith Hernandez, awash in World Series champs mania is a guest on The Dick Cavett Show, along with Mike Tyson and Susan Lucci -- original air date - November 26, 1986. http://dickcavettshow.com/index.php/com ... item/11-26 Keith reveals that he's a big fan of Psycho Cybernetics and the power of positive thinking (Keith shoulda played for Wes Westrum -- the '66 Mets sure coulda used a Keith Hernandez-like player) and also notes that any baseball player who gets caught with his mistress/groupie by his road trip tagging along wife is stupid.

G-Fafif Jan 05 2017 10:49 AM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Keith Hernandez, awash in World Series champs mania is a guest on The Dick Cavett Show, along with Mike Tyson and Susan Lucci -- original air date - November 26, 1986. http://dickcavettshow.com/index.php/com ... item/11-26 Keith reveals that he's a big fan of Psycho Cybernetics and the power of positive thinking (Keith shoulda played for Wes Westrum -- the '66 Mets sure coulda used a Keith Hernandez-like player) and also notes that any baseball player who gets caught with his mistress/groupie by his road trip tagging along wife is stupid. Caught this on the Decades channel. Didn't see it in 1986, but it brought back the several-month high that existed when the Mets were the World Champion Mets and there was nothing yet to defend or even train for defending. Keith, teased by Dick, recalled walking out of the shower room on his hands in his "birthday suit" as his response to the admission of lady reporters to the clubhouse. But now, in 1986, there is "no sex," everybody's who's there is there to do a job. Such enlightenment.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 05 2017 04:34 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Keith Hernandez, awash in World Series champs mania is a guest on The Dick Cavett Show, along with Mike Tyson and Susan Lucci -- original air date - November 26, 1986. http://dickcavettshow.com/index.php/com ... item/11-26 Keith reveals that he's a big fan of Psycho Cybernetics and the power of positive thinking (Keith shoulda played for Wes Westrum -- the '66 Mets sure coulda used a Keith Hernandez-like player) and also notes that any baseball player who gets caught with his mistress/groupie by his road trip tagging along wife is stupid. Caught this on the Decades channel. Didn't see it in 1986.... Me too. Me neither.

Benjamin Grimm Jan 05 2017 04:41 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

I have a memory of Susan Lucci talking to Keith Hernandez about "that game" without seeming to really relate to its significance. Am I remembering right?

Vic Sage Jan 06 2017 09:41 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

the almost complete list of Mets movie references and appearances: [url]http://www.amazinavenue.com/2017/1/6/14148998/mets-movies-references-film-shea-stadium-new-york

Benjamin Grimm Jan 06 2017 09:42 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

The Odd Couple is much further down on that list than it ought to be.

Frayed Knot Jan 06 2017 10:05 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Not sure if that list is supposed to be in any particular order or not; if so it's an odd one that's for sure. As far as what he may have missed - I'm not registered at that site to leave comments, but the (really bad) remake of TAKING OF PELHAM 123 has the hijacked subway train speeding past a clearly visible Shea Stadium ... as it supposedly goes through Brooklyn, although that geographical faux pas was maybe the least of about 1,986 things wrong with that movie. All of which begs the question: What's up with Denzel doing remakes of movies that have no business being remade? ... Pelham, Manchurian Candidate, Magnificent Seven. I mean, who's convincing him that any of these projects are good ideas?

MFS62 Jan 11 2017 04:35 AM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Watching a rerun of a 1994 episode of Law and Order titled "Wager." There have been a lot of Mets references (including Doc Gooden and Sid Fernandez) in banter about how well one of the policemen would hit against major league pitching. Later

G-Fafif Jan 12 2017 08:03 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

MFS62 wrote: Watching a rerun of a 1994 episode of Law and Order titled "Wager." There have been a lot of Mets references (including Doc Gooden and Sid Fernandez) in banter about how well one of the policemen would hit against major league pitching. With guest star Keith Hernandez as Drew Harding.

cooby Jan 12 2017 08:51 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Denzel is a dreamboat

Ceetar Mar 01 2017 02:01 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Seen on Clickhole [url]https://www.facebook.com/clickhole/photos/a.1461385317435063.1073741828.1439042583002670/1845811778992413/?type=3&theater

Mets Willets Point Mar 01 2017 04:40 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Not sure if he's been documented as a MLBS, but astronaut and Long Island native Michael Massimino is a Mets fan according to the introduction I just heard on the Moth Radio Hour.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 01 2017 05:13 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Ceetar wrote: Seen on Clickhole [url]https://www.facebook.com/clickhole/photos/a.1461385317435063.1073741828.1439042583002670/1845811778992413/?type=3&theater Where's Ronnie?

themetfairy Mar 01 2017 05:51 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Mets Willets Point wrote: Not sure if he's been documented as a MLBS, but astronaut and Long Island native Michael Massimino is a Mets fan according to the introduction I just heard on the Moth Radio Hour. We had that covered in 2002. Franco's Out Of This World! - Well, his jersey was, at least. Astronaut Mike Massimino, a Franklin Square, NY native and lifelong Mets fan, met John Franco in Houston last weekend to give the pitcher photos of the astronaut wearing Franco's jersey on the recent Space Shuttle Columbia mission.

Mets Willets Point Mar 01 2017 07:53 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Thanks. It's good to have a reminder after 15 years.

G-Fafif Mar 14 2017 04:55 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

“You struck out more times than the 1962 Mets.” —Carol to Jerry, The Bob Newhart Show, “Carol Ankles for Indie-Prod,” S 6 E 20, March 4, 1978

Ceetar Mar 20 2017 07:58 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Not sure what the expiration date is for some of these, but when Rachel goes to return Barry's engagement ring in episode 2 of Friends, there's a Mets hat on the door. somewhat bold, as the Mets were supposed to host Pittsburgh the day it aired, but instead were home for months.

Ceetar Mar 20 2017 07:59 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2016

A Mets hat appears in the next episode as well, in Joey and Chandler's apartment. (Friends is in this season with the Mets right?)

cooby Mar 20 2017 08:46 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Ceetar wrote: Seen on Clickhole [url]https://www.facebook.com/clickhole/photos/a.1461385317435063.1073741828.1439042583002670/1845811778992413/?type=3&theater I don't get it

G-Fafif Mar 20 2017 10:58 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Ceetar wrote: Not sure what the expiration date is for some of these Any time is a good time to see something/say something.

Chad Ochoseis Apr 01 2017 04:56 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

A Cleveland April Fools joke with a Metly surprise at the end. A massive change is coming for Market Garden Brewery: The downtown Cleveland brewery, which has been expanding rapidly since its inception in 2011, will shift from producing beer to making milk within five years. ... One of the biggest challenges will be finding a place for the cows the brewery will keep - something McNulty said is important so people will understand the "grains-to-glass" cycle and know exactly where the milk they are drinking is coming from. The owners have chosen a farm in Amish country, about 90 minutes south of Cleveland. Ohio-bred cows could be a selling point in the milk market, much like the local-foods movement has influenced offerings in restaurants and grocery stores. Livestock workers who are experienced are encouraged to apply for cow-tending positions when the brewery's plan hits that phase. Email mbona@cleveland.com for details. Sidd Finch of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, has been hired as director of the brewery's milk operations. He was traveling in the Himalayas and unavailable for comment. [url]http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/04/market_garden_brewery_to_shift.html

TransMonk Apr 04 2017 03:03 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but apparently David Fincher's GONE GIRL Blu-Ray commentary includes this:

Ceetar Apr 04 2017 03:42 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but apparently David Fincher's GONE GIRL Blu-Ray commentary includes this: I mean, it probably should've been. fits the character better.

Ceetar Apr 13 2017 03:19 AM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

In season 28, episode 19 of the Simpsons 'Caper Chase' the first scene is beer league softball between Springfield and Indian Point and they joke 'They think they're so cool because their fallout radius includes Manhattan' 'Yeah, how many Mets games have you postponed?'

G-Fafif Apr 18 2017 03:48 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Jack Antonoff, lead singer of Bleachers, performed in a Mr. Met tank top on Jimmy Kimmel Live, April 17, 2017.

bmfc1 Apr 18 2017 04:04 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

If you don't believe G-Fafif, here's proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLu2T-u443w

Edgy MD Apr 18 2017 05:28 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

You don't see a lot of drummer/drummer/keyboard/keyboard/guitarist-singer lineups. The eighties are everywhere.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 19 2017 04:49 AM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

They really are. Except where the nineties have taken up residence. Antonoff's also the lead guitarist of .fun; also also, he's a native North Jerseyan/kid of the eighties, and longtime Brooklyn resident. He's possibly legit.

G-Fafif May 12 2017 09:51 AM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Dialogue between Eddie the Doorman and a tenant from Netflix’s Master of None (Season 2, Episode 6, 2017, "New York, I Love You"): “Hey, Eddie, how those Mets doing?” “Eh, we can’t win. You know how it is.” Howie Rose is heard doing play-by-play.

G-Fafif May 18 2017 03:45 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

"I just got an offer from New York, darlin’" "The Yankees?" "The Mets." "Oh." "Yeah, I know." —Kansas City broadcaster Jim Brockmire (real-life Mets fan Hank Azaria) and his then-wife Lucy, in a flashback to 2007, Brockmire, "It All Comes Down To This," Season 1, Episode 8, May 17, 2017

Frayed Knot May 20 2017 04:15 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

59 A in today's NYT Xword: "Mr." who has stitches in his face _ _ _

bmfc1 May 22 2017 12:10 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

HBO's "The Wizard of Lies", about Madoff. In a list of victims, Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz are included. When the voice over is reviewing the sale of Madoff's assets, a Mets jacket is shown with "MADOFF" across the back. Here it is: https://goo.gl/images/NoHVIi

TransMonk Jun 08 2017 12:40 AM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Mets fan John Oliver devotes another one of his show opening slides to the Mets.

Mets Willets Point Jun 08 2017 03:56 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

The Slate sports podcast Hang Up and Listen recently had a segment on favorite nonfamous athletes where they talked with Daniel Engber about his love for Keith Miller. And the most recent episode is entitled "The Mr. Met Has No Middle Finger Edition" with lots about our favorite, if occasionally profane, baseball mascot.

themetfairy Jun 24 2017 12:54 AM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

In Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's Season 3 finale, one of the storylines involves a three hour pre-season cruise for Mets fans.

G-Fafif Jun 27 2017 09:53 AM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

In the opening credits to the 1977 CBS sitcom Busting Loose, Jack Kruschen as Sam Markowitz appears wearing a souvenir Mets batting helmet, brandishing a New York Mets pennant on a stick. [youtube]6cJIHuA-rH0[/youtube]

Edgy MD Jun 27 2017 12:27 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

I'm not sure I ever saw an episode of Bustin' Loose, but seeing those opening credits, I'm certain it's the greatest sitcom ever.

Frayed Knot Jun 27 2017 12:31 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

John McEnroe, as seen on CBS's 'SUNDAY MORNING', wearing a Met hat while tutoring young tennis-ians at some program he runs.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 27 2017 03:55 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

I'm not sure Busting Loose qualifies on either descriptive aspect of the culture in this thread. But I strive daily to be as happy as Alan Arkin is about whatever he's fist-pumping about. (Finally catching and killing a blind Audrey Hepburn? Argo-fucking himself?)

HahnSolo Jun 27 2017 05:56 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Good to see that as early as 1977 TV was busting out the "token hot chick and token black guy who clearly don't belong". And that Met guy must have gone on to a career a decade or so later as a WFAN caller.

Edgy MD Jun 27 2017 05:59 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I'm not sure Busting Loose qualifies on either descriptive aspect of the culture in this thread. But I strive daily to be as happy as Alan Arkin is about whatever he's fist-pumping about. (Finally catching and killing a blind Audrey Hepburn? Argo-fucking himself?) Psst ... Adam, man.

SteveJRogers Jun 27 2017 06:32 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Two seasons in the 1977 calendar year for 25 total episodes [url]http://epguides.com/BustingLoose/

SteveJRogers Jun 27 2017 06:34 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

It also rated getting a Wiki page. [url]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busting_Loose_(TV_series)

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 27 2017 07:41 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Edgy MD wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I'm not sure Busting Loose qualifies on either descriptive aspect of the culture in this thread. But I strive daily to be as happy as Alan Arkin is about whatever he's fist-pumping about. (Finally catching and killing a blind Audrey Hepburn? Argo-fucking himself?) Psst ... Adam, man. So... he's just happy not to be in Alaska?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 28 2017 06:31 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

No actor alive made an entrance like Sam Markowitz. I vaguely remember this show; it resides in the same file in my brain that contains "On the Rocks" the best show set in a prison since "Hogan's Heroes" but maybe not as good as season 3 of Walking Dead or Oz.

G-Fafif Jun 28 2017 06:31 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

A reliable source informs me that on one episode of Busting Loose, Sam Markowitz comes over to watch a Mets game with son Lenny (played by Alan Arkin's son Adam) and is heard to cheer, "Rah, Mets! Rah, Mets!"

Edgy MD Jun 28 2017 06:39 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

HahnSolo wrote: Good to see that as early as 1977 TV was busting out the "token hot chick and token black guy who clearly don't belong". Don't forget the stock young Italian stallion character, who alternates getting hoots out of his babe magnet qualities with milking laughs out of his cocker spaniel-level IQ.

cooby Jun 28 2017 10:07 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Last night I read this thread in bed. About 9:15 my husband hollered upstairs that at 9:30 a bunch of '69 Mets were going to be on Everybody Loves Raymond! It was a great episode! He kept saying I should tell metfairy but sorry I didn't :(

themetfairy Jun 28 2017 11:42 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

No worries Hon. But it was sweet of mr. cooby to think of me :)

Ashie62 Jul 16 2017 12:17 AM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

A very young Mike Mesaros of the Smithereens rocking a Mets hat on the right.

Edgy MD Jul 16 2017 12:54 AM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Peter's bedroom features a Mike Piazza-themed Mets pennant, a Mets cap on the on the shelf, and what looked like a Mets hanky. There was probably more stuff if you slow it down.

G-Fafif Aug 01 2017 03:04 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Mets New Star Pitcher To Undergo Tommy John Surgery, Macarena to Blame! — Headline from Quad Cities Times on office bulletin board in recreated Exit 57 sketch with Matthew McConaughey, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, July 31, 2017

Mets Willets Point Aug 01 2017 03:09 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Playing With Science, a podcast about the science of sports, features Ron Darling discussing the physics of pitching.

Edgy MD Aug 29 2017 05:11 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

In the New York Times, Spring, Texas' Joe Garcia and his dog Heidi escape floodwaters.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 29 2017 05:29 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

This same photo was on the cover of the New York Post today. I briefly considered including it in the 2017 Tabloid Cover Derby.

themetfairy Aug 29 2017 06:09 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

What do they think about that in Stockholm?

Benjamin Grimm Aug 29 2017 06:33 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

I don't know. Maja recognizes my number and then hangs up.

G-Fafif Aug 29 2017 10:31 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

I remember, in 1969, everything was going right with the world — the Mets looked like they might win the pennant and I was doing Gene Pitney recording sessions and sessions with the Drifters and the Platters...and I even getting paid for some of this stuff. —Rupert Holmes, Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast, 2017

G-Fafif Aug 29 2017 10:32 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Noted Mets fan and musician Jack Antonoff wore a Mets cap on the 2017 MTV VMAs, August 27, 2017.

themetfairy Aug 30 2017 03:08 AM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

On The Daily Show tonight, in discussing a story where someone required one hundred and ten stitches, Trevor Noah commented, "Not even Mr. Met has one hundred and ten stitches!"

G-Fafif Aug 30 2017 01:35 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Jerry Seinfeld wears a METS EST ’62 warmup jacket while standing in front of his childhood home in the trailer for his 2017 Netflix sepcial, Jerry Before Seinfeld: Back On Stage. Presumably he wears it in the show as well.

themetfairy Sep 11 2017 07:34 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

The Fall 2017 edition of Columbia Magazine features an article about alum Gary Cohen.

batmagadanleadoff Sep 11 2017 10:17 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Rafael Montero appears in the 2017 edition of the Mets yearbook.

41Forever Sep 12 2017 01:50 AM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

themetfairy wrote: The Fall 2017 edition of Columbia Magazine features an article about alum Gary Cohen. That's cool! Hopefully that photo with all the hair is in there. Is the article online?

themetfairy Sep 12 2017 02:01 AM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

41Forever wrote: themetfairy wrote: The Fall 2017 edition of Columbia Magazine features an article about alum Gary Cohen. That's cool! Hopefully that photo with all the hair is in there. Is the article online? I'm not sure whether the article is online. The hair photo is mentioned, but not shown.

41Forever Sep 12 2017 12:51 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Here it it! That's a nice story. Thanks for sharing. [url]http://magazine.columbia.edu/features/fall-2017/outta-here#

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 12 2017 02:09 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Yet another media member comes out strongly for Terry. “I’ve been through nine managers since I’ve been here, and Terry Collins is by far, by far, the best to deal with.”

Ceetar Sep 12 2017 02:20 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Yet another media member comes out strongly for Terry. “I’ve been through nine managers since I’ve been here, and Terry Collins is by far, by far, the best to deal with.” I feel like how well the media likes him is like a manager's 100th most valuable asset in terms of the team but probably #2 in terms of job security.

G-Fafif Sep 13 2017 07:30 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

“The Mets at the Reds in Cincy, what’s the line?” “Reds and one.” “New York’s due. Who’s pitchin’ tomorrow, Seaver?” “Tug.” “Hmm, whaddaya think?” “I don’t think. You want the action?” “All right, all right. Gimme a hundred on the Metropolitans.” —The Deuce pilot, 9/10/2017, James Franco as Frankie, laying action in Times Square, 1971 (Tug didn't start a game at Cincinnati in 1971, but that doesn't seem to be what the new HBO series is about.)

Ceetar Sep 13 2017 07:33 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

G-Fafif wrote: “The Mets at the Reds in Cincy, what’s the line?” “Reds and one.” “New York’s due. Who’s pitchin’ tomorrow, Seaver?” “Tug.” “Hmm, whaddaya think?” “I don’t think. You want the action?” “All right, all right. Gimme a hundred on the Metropolitans.” —The Deuce pilot, 9/10/2017, James Franco as Frankie, laying action in Times Square, 1971 (Tug didn't start a game at Cincinnati in 1971, but that doesn't seem to be what the new HBO series is about.) It seems, uh, very much about Tugs.

G-Fafif Sep 13 2017 08:08 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Ceetar wrote: G-Fafif wrote: “The Mets at the Reds in Cincy, what’s the line?” “Reds and one.” “New York’s due. Who’s pitchin’ tomorrow, Seaver?” “Tug.” “Hmm, whaddaya think?” “I don’t think. You want the action?” “All right, all right. Gimme a hundred on the Metropolitans.” —The Deuce pilot, 9/10/2017, James Franco as Frankie, laying action in Times Square, 1971 (Tug didn't start a game at Cincinnati in 1971, but that doesn't seem to be what the new HBO series is about.) It seems, uh, very much about Tugs. Oh snap.

Lefty Specialist Sep 13 2017 08:15 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Not a good bet. The Mets were 4-8 against the Reds in 1971.

batmagadanleadoff Sep 13 2017 09:23 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

G-Fafif wrote: “The Mets at the Reds in Cincy, what’s the line?” “Reds and one.” “New York’s due. Who’s pitchin’ tomorrow, Seaver?” “Tug.” “Hmm, whaddaya think?” “I don’t think. You want the action?” “All right, all right. Gimme a hundred on the Metropolitans.” —The Deuce pilot, 9/10/2017, James Franco as Frankie, laying action in Times Square, 1971 (Tug didn't start a game at Cincinnati in 1971, but that doesn't seem to be what the new HBO series is about.) I watched that opening episode, and noted the Mets reference. But I couldn't make out the part of the dialogue that I highlighted above. It was unintelligible, (i.e. I didn't hear it so well).

Edgy MD Sep 17 2017 03:26 AM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Stumbled over a 2011 episode of Blue Bloods (for some reason). The main suspect's name? Darin Gorski.

41Forever Sep 26 2017 07:45 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Somebody buy this guy an MFY cap, please! This doesn't help us. [url]http://nypost.com/2017/09/26/weiner-pops-out-and-disappears/

G-Fafif Sep 29 2017 07:17 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Noah Syndergaard appears on Impractical Jokers, Season 6, Episode 23 ("Take Me Out At The Ballgame"), debuted September 28, 2017, truTV. In it, he innocently signs baseballs and tosses them into the stands before a game (between the Mets and Reds on September 8), the gag being that one of the title characters keeps swooping in and grabbing them, annoying everybody in sight.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 29 2017 07:22 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

I can't stand those guys. I've never watched their show, but I've heard their cackling coming from the TV when others in my household have had it on.

G-Fafif Sep 29 2017 07:25 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I can't stand those guys. I've never watched their show, but I've heard their cackling coming from the TV when others in my household have had it on. I had never heard of it or them until I happened to be at the game where they were taping this bit and the Mets heralded their appearance repeatedly, plugging their upcoming gig at the Garden as well as their show. Based on the clip I just watched on YouTube, Thor spent more time in their sketch than he did on the mound in his most recent start.

Frayed Knot Sep 29 2017 08:00 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

That inning or two gig they did with Howie & Josh that you're referencing certainly did nothing to get me to go running to their program.

G-Fafif Oct 04 2017 07:42 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert recently replaced MFYS III with Citi Field in its opening montage of NYC landmarks. Fair weather types they are not.

Edgy MD Oct 04 2017 07:54 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

That's great. Mets aside, they go from YSIII to MSG to the 42nd Street subway station, and it sort of leaves out the two Eastern boroughs.

Ceetar Oct 04 2017 08:19 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Edgy MD wrote: That's great. Mets aside, they go from YSIII to MSG to the 42nd Street subway station, and it sort of leaves out the two Eastern boroughs. The montage changes every so often. This is the director's cut of the original, but it features neither stadium so there must be outtakes too. [youtube]bmdmx-ZcVvE[/youtube]

RealityChuck Oct 08 2017 10:23 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Jason Isaacs of Star Trek: Discovery at NY Comic Con.

Mets Willets Point Oct 11 2017 02:21 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

MLBS at Citi Field in '17

Frayed Knot Oct 11 2017 02:53 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Mets Willets Point wrote: MLBS at Citi Field in '17 I've heard of several of those people.

HahnSolo Oct 11 2017 06:36 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Mets Willets Point wrote: MLBS at Citi Field in '17 No backwards caps, Dylan O'Brien, whoever you are.

G-Fafif Oct 12 2017 07:41 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Oh, Sybil, you know the way Archie is. I mean, he says he hates everybody. President Carter. Mayor Beame. Walter Cronkite. Bella Abzug. Mr. Abzug. The Mets, the Jets, all the United Nations. And they don’t get upset, so why should you? —Edith Bunker, All In The Family, “Edith’s 50th Birthday (Part One),” October 16, 1977

Benjamin Grimm Oct 12 2017 07:43 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

And Sybil, of course, is Sybil Gooley. She worked at Ferguson's Market, didn't she?

G-Fafif Oct 12 2017 07:48 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Benjamin Grimm wrote: And Sybil, of course, is Sybil Gooley. She worked at Ferguson's Market, didn't she? Yes, indeed.

MFS62 Oct 12 2017 08:07 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Mets Willets Point wrote: MLBS at Citi Field in '17 MmmmmmmMorena Baccarin! Later

Mets Willets Point Oct 12 2017 09:24 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Ralph Macchio looks very youthful for someone who is 55.

G-Fafif Oct 16 2017 08:15 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Not exactly popular culture, since it falls within the realm of sports non-fiction, but in the NFL Network's most recent installment of A Football Life, which touchingly remembers the late Sam Mills, Ron Swoboda appears out of the blue and orange as a talking head. Mills was a New Orleans Saint and Rocky has gone on to a long career in sportscasting in New Orleans. He must be to generations of New Orleanians what Ralph Kiner is to us: an esteemed local voice who was famous for something somewhere else, we're pretty sure, but we know him for what we know him for first and foremost.

G-Fafif Oct 20 2017 07:06 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 20 2017 07:07 PM

"I saw the New York Mets play five times last year. That’s far out enough for me." "Well, I guess the Mets will probably lose today, too." —Bert Monker, deli man who had been swooning for Sally Rogers, "Roses, Romance and Rye Bread," The Dick Van Dyke Show, Season Four, Episode Six, October 28, 1964

G-Fafif Oct 20 2017 07:07 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

The Meyerowitz Stories (2017) reportedly includes references to Asdrubal Cabrera hitting into a double play and Terry Collins moving Bartolo Colon to the bullpen. The Mets talk is described as a substitute for the characters expressing how they really feel.

Edgy MD Oct 20 2017 07:25 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

I saw a Jeopardy! clip flying around from last night's show, featuring the category SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK, in which the $600 answer was "What is Shea Stadium?"

G-Fafif Oct 21 2017 04:39 AM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Jimmy Kimmel did his show from Brooklyn this week. On October 18, he and sidekick Guillermo were playing stickball in the street and broke somebody's apartment window. It was revealed to belong to Mike Piazza, who stuck his head out the window to scold them clad in a Mets bathrobe.

41Forever Oct 27 2017 01:03 AM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 28 2017 12:37 AM

I've discovered this new band, Lawrence, that's a New York brother and sister. The brother appears to be a Mets fan as he's wearing Mets gear in most of the videos. [youtube:2yzl2y2i]4jc9ORQ03Ts[/youtube:2yzl2y2i]

41Forever Oct 28 2017 12:31 AM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

The kids in Lawrence posted this shot with their Mom! Get them in the Crane Pool Forum!

G-Fafif Oct 29 2017 07:13 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

In the Lockhorns comic strip of Sunday, October 29, 2017, as Leroy leans back and watches a baseball player in a blue cap with a bat on a large flat-screen television, Loretta comments to a friend, "If it were up to Leroy, our song would be 'Meet The Mets.'"

Edgy MD Oct 29 2017 07:30 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

She says that like it's a bad thing.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 29 2017 07:52 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

I didn't realize that The Lockhorns were still extant.

G-Fafif Oct 29 2017 08:13 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I didn't realize that The Lockhorns were still extant. And they haven't aged a bit.

d'Kong76 Oct 31 2017 12:28 AM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Some guy with good seats at tonight's game at MSG...

Ashie62 Nov 02 2017 07:51 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Did not know that "Grand Funk Record" in 1970 holds the record for fastest sellout at Shea. Better yet, Steve Marriot and Humble Pie opened.

G-Fafif Nov 21 2017 04:32 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

“Where in New York City is the ball dropped every year?” “Citi Field.” —From Jon Stewart’s New York City citizenship test, administered to Conan O’Brien on Conan (in NYC), November 7, 2017

G-Fafif Nov 21 2017 04:33 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

“Well, first in the National League, it was the Mets over the Braves, three to two...” —Setup to joke in the first set David Letterman performed on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, November 24, 1978, featured on David Letterman: The Mark Twain Prize, aired on PBS, November 20, 2017 (presented at Kennedy Center, October 22, 2017)

G-Fafif Nov 23 2017 06:32 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

“The American Revolution, we don’t have statues of King George. He lost, he’s out. World War I, the people who lost, we don’t have statues. Otherwise, the Mets would have a statue every year.” —Mets fan John Leguizamo regarding the continued existence of Confederate statues, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, November 22, 2017

Edgy MD Nov 23 2017 08:26 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

I support his greater point, but boo.

Frayed Knot Nov 25 2017 02:47 AM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Mr. Met's bad behavior earlier this year was the basis for a JEOPARDY question tonight.

Edgy MD Dec 04 2017 04:21 PM

Prince Fielder conducting a life-after-baseball interview ... in a Mets jersey! [fimg=500]https://sportsdaydfw.imgix.net/1499984324-Prince-Fielder-Feature_57478174_611759.JPG?q=50&auto=format&w=900[/fimg]

G-Fafif Dec 04 2017 08:22 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

Bump as needed.

G-Fafif Dec 24 2017 11:14 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

In the current and godawful Off Broadway musical Bulldozer: The Ballad of Robert Moses, a radio report sets the scene for our production by noting traffic on the Grand Central is backed up to Shea Stadium, "but how about those Mets?"

G-Fafif Jan 07 2018 09:25 PM Re: The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

The 2017 wrapup (with a taste of 2018) is here.