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We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Edgy MD May 16 2019 10:53 AM

Because they don't get much bigger than Dustin: [fimg=600]https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*p3yqD2DYJZKeqtU2PcHQ-A.jpeg[/fimg]

Johnny Lunchbucket May 16 2019 10:56 AM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Who is Dustin

Edgy MD May 16 2019 11:02 AM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Dustin is Gaten Matarazzo, the lisping-yet-confident kid who plays Dustin on Stranger Things and subsequently got the role as pitch-boy for Verizon FIOS.

kcmets May 16 2019 01:29 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Hey annoys me, that picture is annoying haha...

Edgy MD May 16 2019 01:44 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Well, as usual, it's too big, but we have limited options for size control. Plus, he has his hand on his crotch.

Johnny Lunchbucket May 16 2019 01:58 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Yeah I kinda want that kid to get run over by a car

G-Fafif May 16 2019 02:05 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

We're gonna need a bigger shot.

Edgy MD May 16 2019 02:22 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

This is British big-shot singer/actress Rita Ora forgetting her trousers back in 2016. [fimg=600]https://uinterview.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/rita_ora_wenn28702214.jpg[/fimg]

41Forever May 16 2019 02:23 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Yeah I kinda want that kid to get run over by a car No! He's a good guy on the show, I tell ya!

Willets Point May 16 2019 04:10 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Dustin is great. The FIOS commercials are fucking annoying. Shows his range as an actor.

G-Fafif May 16 2019 04:16 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

If Rita Ora is gonna forget only one among her hat or her pants, I'm glad she erred on the side of the latter. Because I like seeing the Mets hat, ya creeps.

Johnny Lunchbucket May 16 2019 04:52 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

I've never seen stranger things. Or game of thrones. Or any of the last 5 star wars movies

41Forever May 16 2019 05:12 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I've never seen stranger things. Or game of thrones. Or any of the last 5 star wars movies But you watch a lot of hockey. Stranger Things is like hockey, but in the 1980s and with the Clash and less violence. You'll like it.

Edgy MD May 16 2019 05:15 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Yeah, Stranger Things, whether you love it or hate it, is aimed right between your eyes.

G-Fafif May 26 2019 12:03 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

John Oliver, in a Mets cap, on the telecast telling Gelbs no way either he or his son could ever be a MFY fan (Mets fan since arriving from UK in 2006).

Frayed Knot May 26 2019 12:54 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

He went further than that, he said he knew that being a MFY fan "would be "immoral".

Edgy MD May 26 2019 08:59 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

For posterity's sake, we've transcribed the interview below: [fimg=600]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/screen-shot-2019-05-26-at-9.51.32-pm.png[/fimg] Sunday, May 26. Tigers @ Mets. Top of fourth. Gelbs: Gary, you know, there are very few people we get this excited about … Oliver: OH! (Laughs) Gelbs: … but John Oliver is sitting to my right, host of the … Oliver: You're writing checks I can't cash here, but … thank you. Gelbs: We'll see, we'll see. Um, host of the incredible Last Week with John Oliver on HBO, obviously. And now, listen, first of all, before we get to that: You're from England, you grew up in England, but you're a big Mets fan, we've heard, since 2006 — coinciding, I'm assuming, with when you joined The Daily Show with John Stewart. Oliver: That's right. I think John made it pretty clear that being a Mets fan was mandatory. But also, as a real sports fan in England, I knew that it's just … not acceptable to come to America and support the Yankees. It's just not OK. So, uh, yeah, hence, by default, I was a Mets fan, because I knew being a Yankee fan was the wrong thing to do, morally. Gelbs: Ha-ha! What do you, um, what do you like about the game? Oliver: It's just … I like, you know, the pace of it. It was the first American sport I really got into, because it … you know, has some characteristics of some sports in England, and, uh, I just love the whole occasion. So, I brought my son. It's my son's first baseball game. I have a three-and-a-half-year-old and it's his first baseball game today. Because he also … cannot be a Yankee fan. There are other choices in his life. That's not going to be one of them. Gelbs: You're really endearing yourself to the fan base right here. Um, John, about your show: It's so brilliantly done, obviously. You have the comedic side, but there's the journalism side, too. How do you view yourself? Do you view yourself as a journalist? Oliver: Oh, no. Very much as a comedian. I'm not a … I don't have the skills or the training for journalism. But we have people trained in journalism who work for us. But it's a comedy show first, second, and last. Gelbs: What is the split on your staff of comedians and journalists? Oliver: It's pretty … It's a pretty good mix. Uhhh, we have five researchers who all have journalistic backgrounds We have British producers that have journalist backgrounds, also. But our comedy writers all come from the world of comedy. Gelbs: How long does it take for you to really put a show together? Because those things cannot come together in one week? Oliver: No, we used to do it, uh … We used to do one story every week, until we realized we were going to kill everybody in the building, So now, um, now we usually take a month on each of those long stories. So we're in four-week cycles. We're working .. we're working on four or five long stories at any one moment. Gelbs: How do you go about choosing them? — as Dixon grounds out here. Two away. How do you. … What is that process of finding stories that your really want to dig into? Oliver: It's whatever … whatever we feel we can bring something new to. It's like, we try to show people things that they nec... probably haven't seen before. There's a lot of eating from the same trough at the moment, so we try and investigate, and, um, focus on stories that perhaps people don't know much about. Hence, doing stories on lethal injection, which literally nobody wants to hear about. Gelbs: What is your favorite one ever? Oliver: The … the favorite story? Gelbs: Yeah. Oliver: Uh, I mean, my … my wife's a veteran, so we did a story about Iraqi and Afghan translators who work with the US military, so I was personally close to that, but also, whenever we do something, like, mind-blowingly stupid, that's normal. And buying Russell Crowe's jockstrap was not something I thought I wanted to do, but … boy, oh boy, it turned out to be a dream come true. Gelbs: Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Oliver: It's just a dream I didn't know I had. Gelbs: Yeah, that's one I thought would have come naturally, to be quite honest with you. Um, when you go about putting these together — now, especially when you're doing something that will be controversial — how much fact-checking and double-fact-checking goes into making sure you're presenting everything correctly? Oliver: An absolute monumental amount. So we have … our scripts are pretty heavily lawyered, and, um, we're always in some degree of trouble. So, uh, they … our researchers and our lawyers don't let us make a mistake ‘cuz if we make a mistake, it's probably the end. Gelbs: Well, this is the end of the interview. I wish we could talk to you the entire game. Oliver: OH, what a SMOOTH link-out THAT was! Wow! Gelbs: John Oliver, thank you very much. We're through three and a half here. Mets trail Detroit, three-nothing.

bmfc1 Aug 11 2019 07:25 AM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

One of the candidates for President is a Mets fan. Yes, this guy is running for President. [TWEET]https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1160507754190180352[/TWEET]

G-Fafif Aug 11 2019 09:25 AM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

https://twitter.com/danrather/status/1159466189321457668?s=21

Johnny Lunchbucket Aug 11 2019 01:54 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

What's the frequency, Dan

G-Fafif Aug 11 2019 03:47 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: What's the frequency, Dan 880 AM

Johnny Lunchbucket Aug 11 2019 04:59 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: What's the frequency, Dan 880 AM Ah. I was brain-dead, locked out, and not up to speed.

seawolf17 Aug 11 2019 05:43 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: What's the frequency, Dan 880 AM Ah. I was brain-dead, locked out, and not up to speed. You should try the benzedrine.

G-Fafif Nov 21 2019 06:51 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Liz Callaway, star of stage and song, talks up her Mets fandom on the Break a Bat! podcast devoted to the nexus of baseball and Broadway. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/9-now-batting-liz-callaway/id1465846187?i=1000457306333 Liz has performed the anthem and GBA many times at Shea and Citi.

G-Fafif Jan 17 2020 09:38 AM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Awkwafina informs commuters, “This is Mets-Willets Point — HOME OF THE METS! I love the Mets, 'cause I'm from Queens, and you're riding the 7 train.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/nyregion/awkafina-subway-mta.html

Benjamin Grimm Jan 17 2020 09:58 AM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

I had never heard of Awkwafina until a few days ago, and now, suddenly, I'm seeing her name everywhere.

G-Fafif Jan 17 2020 10:08 AM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I had never heard of Awkwafina until a few days ago, and now, suddenly, I'm seeing her name everywhere. In related news, Gabbo is coming!

Benjamin Grimm Jan 17 2020 10:13 AM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

I had never heard of Gabbo until a moment ago, and now, suddenly, I'm seeing his (?) name everywhere.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jan 17 2020 11:47 AM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Look Smithers, Garbo is coming

G-Fafif Jan 17 2020 12:08 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Met-Empathizin' Big Shot... https://twitter.com/tperry518/status/1218241641439354880?s=21

G-Fafif Jan 26 2020 11:03 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Kobe, a Philly kid with good taste. https://twitter.com/mike5_5_5/status/1221666305788518400?s=21

Edgy MD Jan 27 2020 09:52 AM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

I've long since realized that the tendency to demonize the living (apart from a handful of agreed-upon paragons) and lionize the dead is a bullshit game that sells papers and (now) garners clicks. So how come I'm totally falling for it now? For 25 years, I couldn't have come up with two good reasons to like Kobe, and now, in a day and a half, I'm allowing myself to get pushed firmly into his corner. What a sap I am.

bmfc1 Feb 04 2020 02:21 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Noted Mets fan Jack Antonoff wears a Mets cap in the Taylor Swift documentary "Miss Americana" (Netflix). Yeah, I watched it.

G-Fafif Feb 05 2020 01:35 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Mr. Met will be on hand when Mike Bloomberg opens his Bayside field office, which is strange on several levels.

Benjamin Grimm Feb 05 2020 02:02 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Can we get a list of which levels of the field office are strange and which ones aren't?

G-Fafif Feb 05 2020 02:11 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Can we get a list of which levels of the field office are strange and which ones aren't? Third floor is bananas!

Benjamin Grimm Feb 05 2020 02:26 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Is it any stranger than our HQ lobby in Stockholm?

G-Fafif Feb 05 2020 03:23 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

It's looks perfectly normal in Swedish.

G-Fafif May 21 2020 08:06 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Andre Sayegh, mayor of Paterson, N.J., is quite clearly the best mayor in America. https://twitter.com/madisongman/status/1263632704622465025?s=21

G-Fafif May 22 2020 08:40 AM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

America's Mayor in action. https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR1b0DBn-UDREYhsg1ORJncOGpmmYf1eRa9dD8PlyuT4oAJS4SViIUjCvUg&v=zYe4gjbcQKM&feature=youtu.be#menu Cubs fan Chris Hayes fails to compliment Mayor Sayegh on his choice of wardrobe. Very bad form.

Frayed Knot May 24 2020 06:11 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

I stumbled across two baseball references in today's NYT which, while not specifically from Met-loving big shots (although maybe seeing as how both have/are spent some time in NYC) they were both homages to the game from sources that I wouldn't have necessarily expected - especially seeing as how there aren't any more baseball fans from what I keep hearing. -- From Yo-Yo Ma: 'When I met Pablo Casals when I was 7 and asked for his autograph he gave me some advice: 'Always make room for baseball' -- Steve Earle: 'The first thing that died in New York (after Covid shutdowns) was the culture and it stopped being New York really quick. Within 48 hours there was no live music, no live theatre, and there hasn't been any [expletive] baseball which I consider to be a cultural disaster.'

G-Fafif Jun 23 2020 08:59 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Would-be Met-Lovin' Big Shot: Perry Gershon, running to replace major league a-hole Congressman Lee Zeldin out east. Check out his color scheme and note his hat as you scroll down. https://www.perrygershon.com/ Fundraising email for the candidate from certified MLBS John Leguizamo features both gents in proper NY headgear. https://www.perrygershon.com/2020/06/20/note-john-leguizamo/

G-Fafif Jun 23 2020 09:02 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

https://twitter.com/perrygershon/status/1269680939887742979?s=21

Edgy MD Jun 24 2020 07:28 AM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

It's like he doesn't have any other marker colors. Which is cool, 'cuz neither do I.

G-Fafif Jun 30 2020 09:09 AM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Marlo Thomas says, “Nice cap 48 years ago, Rob.” https://twitter.com/bsmile/status/1277977421673664513?s=21

G-Fafif Jul 01 2020 04:32 AM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Based on a shot of the kid's bedroom during The Today Show, Carson Daly appears to be raising his son to be a Mets fan.

G-Fafif Aug 08 2020 11:05 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Pete Hamill, a former columnist and editor-in-chief of the Daily News and a best-selling author, died Wednesday at age 85. His brother Denis delivered this eulogy Saturday. Pete Hamill is going to be fine. My big brother Pete helped me with my grammar school book reports, my teenage hippie poetry, my first piece of published journalism, my first produced screenplay and most of my published novels. Pete always made everything he touched better. He always urged us to “do the work of the Lord.” So it makes perfect sense that Pete would help me one last time on his own eulogy. Truth be told, this eulogy should have been written five years ago when he was comatose in NYU Medical Center in Manhattan, where all the doctors said he was not going to wake up after suffering two broken hips, a heart attack and a series of ministrokes. But his wife, Fukiko, disagreed and told the doctors that Pete would wake up but that it took Pete longer because of his diabetes. The doctors whispered to me to make arrangements for a funeral. Two days later, Pete awoke in ICU speaking Spanish to an orderly about the New York Mets as Sinatra sang on a tape deck. https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-pete-hamill-eulogy-denis-hamill-20200808-lp5yf2z2v5felddtx5lxh4dypq-story.html

Edgy MD Aug 09 2020 05:07 AM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

[fimg=500]https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/voice-cover.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&strip=all[/fimg]

G-Fafif Aug 12 2020 03:16 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Traditional MFYLBS Paul Simon's week or two on the MLBS bandwagon: IN OCTOBER, MORE THAN TWO MONTHS BEFORE Howard, Simon takes a break from promoting Graceland and flies to London to produce an album by Ladysmith Black Mambazo. He then goes to New York to sing the national anthem at game six of the World Series, an invitation he accepted in part because it offended him to watch George Bush throw out the first ball at the Astrodome during the play-offs (“Bush—he's not from Texas, he's from Connecticut. He's from CIA. And excuse me, but he throws like a girl”). After this performance—“if you could call that singing”—he flies to Los Angeles for a two-day errand, a long-standing date at the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. Today and tomorrow the First Presbyterian Church is in show business—the rehearsal and taping of a gospel special for Cinemax. The singers' stage will be an expanded chancel, and audience members will be invited to the filmed show. The Mighty Clouds of Joy, the Edwin Hawkins Singers, Andrae Crouch, and other black gospel stars have agreed to sing; Luther Vandross and Jennifer Holliday will also appear, as will the Oak Ridge Boys, a white group. Paul Simon is hosting the program, and three of his songs—“Gone at Last,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” and “Slip Slidin' Away”—will be sung on the show. This morning, before rehearsals begin, he stands inside the church with Ian Hoblyn, the handsome, efficient Englishman who is his manager, talking very quietly and watching two men polish the piano. Simon wears round, thin-rimmed glasses, a blue T-shirt, sport coat, jeans. On his head is a Mets cap and in his lapel, a Mets pin. https://classic.esquire.com/article/1987/6/1/the-apostle-of-angst

G-Fafif Aug 23 2020 11:05 PM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

https://twitter.com/vanityfair/status/1297732756118687745?s=21

Edgy MD Aug 24 2020 08:25 AM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Isn't that Todd Zeile Thumbs-Down Guy?

Fman99 Aug 25 2020 05:28 AM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Traditional MFYLBS Paul Simon's week or two on the MLBS bandwagon: IN OCTOBER, MORE THAN TWO MONTHS BEFORE Howard, Simon takes a break from promoting Graceland and flies to London to produce an album by Ladysmith Black Mambazo. He then goes to New York to sing the national anthem at game six of the World Series, an invitation he accepted in part because it offended him to watch George Bush throw out the first ball at the Astrodome during the play-offs (“Bush—he's not from Texas, he's from Connecticut. He's from CIA. And excuse me, but he throws like a girl”). After this performance—“if you could call that singing”—he flies to Los Angeles for a two-day errand, a long-standing date at the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. Today and tomorrow the First Presbyterian Church is in show business—the rehearsal and taping of a gospel special for Cinemax. The singers' stage will be an expanded chancel, and audience members will be invited to the filmed show. The Mighty Clouds of Joy, the Edwin Hawkins Singers, Andrae Crouch, and other black gospel stars have agreed to sing; Luther Vandross and Jennifer Holliday will also appear, as will the Oak Ridge Boys, a white group. Paul Simon is hosting the program, and three of his songs—“Gone at Last,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” and “Slip Slidin' Away”—will be sung on the show. This morning, before rehearsals begin, he stands inside the church with Ian Hoblyn, the handsome, efficient Englishman who is his manager, talking very quietly and watching two men polish the piano. Simon wears round, thin-rimmed glasses, a blue T-shirt, sport coat, jeans. On his head is a Mets cap and in his lapel, a Mets pin. https://classic.esquire.com/article/1987/6/1/the-apostle-of-angst He's from Flushing, from the same neighborhood where my dad grew up. My dad was a few years younger, and actually played on a little league team with Paul's younger brother, and my uncle played on a team with Art Garfunkel's younger brother.

G-Fafif Feb 17 2021 08:02 AM Re: We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

Branford Marsalis, in a Mets cap, discusses the late Jerry Garcia 25 years ago. https://youtu.be/GnnoHPFMs3U