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Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

LWFS Jan 01 2020 10:50 PM

As a good portion of the 2010s has been dedicated to '90s worship (see: Gen Z obsession with "Friends"), it makes sense that the next decade might turn its retrospective lens to the... next decade, right? Who better to lead the way than '00s Hotboys/current dads-and-such the Strokes, led by MLBS-in-mild-exile Julian Casablancas, who played a sold-out NYE show at the Barclays, making news by teasing a new album and debuting a plaintive song from same, tastefully titled "Ode to the Mets." [YOUTUBE]1zgH9RSl2Cc[/YOUTUBE]

G-Fafif Jan 02 2020 01:52 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

In the November 13, 1994, episode of Married With Children, "A Man For No Seasons" (Season 9, Episode 11), several striking baseball player made appearances, including then-Met Bret Saberhagen, delivering pizza while wearing a nametag that identified him as Bobby Bonilla. When asked about the misidentification, Saberhagen explained Bonilla called in sick today. Also appearing: young Dodger catching sensation Mike Piazza as a clueless TV cameraman following reporter Joe Morgan around.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jan 02 2020 02:44 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

That Strokes song was garbage. No Met content either! (at least not till 4:22 when I quit on it).

Ceetar Jan 07 2020 02:57 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Is this gonna be worth it if it's not by Greg? [TWEET]https://twitter.com/davidkrell/status/1214659056654278658[/TWEET]

G-Fafif Jan 18 2020 11:08 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

VOICEOVER: T-minus 25 seconds. CROW T. ROBOT: The Mets lost today. From MST3K, Episode 704 (February 24, 1996), during the opening scene to the The Incredible Melting Man, amid a countdown to launch.

TransMonk Jan 22 2020 11:54 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

In Episode 3 of The Outsider on HBO, savant-character Holly Gibney recalls facts and stats from the Mets 3-0 win over the Cubs on September 26, 1985.

G-Fafif Jan 24 2020 07:30 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

A framed blue Mets jersey appears in the background when Fred (Seth Rogen) visits the office of his friend Lance (O'Shea Jackson) in the 2019 comedy Long Shot.

Edgy MD Feb 17 2020 10:15 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Did his folks name him after Shea Stadium?

G-Fafif Feb 20 2020 05:35 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

“He's got his little Mets cap on, and he just pulls away from me, darts across the street, runs right at me, jumps in my arms. So that was the first time Timmy hugged me after the divorce.” —One of the dads at the Elmhurst Community Center Single Parents Support Group, Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens, “Not Today,” S. 1, E. 5, February 19, 2020.

G-Fafif Mar 18 2020 12:27 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Exchange from The Outsider , “Dark Uncle,” Episode 3, January 19 (HBO); while a Cubs game is on at a bar: ALEC PELLEY: The first game my Dad ever took me to was at Wrigley. 1985, Cubbies-Mets, must've been towards the end of the season somewhere. After all these years, who can remember the date? HOLLY GIBNEY: Did they win or lose? ALEC: Cubbies lost. HOLLY: September 26. ALEC: September 26. I wish I could remember who was pitching. HOLLY: Johhny Abrego started for the Cubs, but was knocked out in the fourth. He was relieved by Ron Meridith, Steve Engel and Jay Baller. Dwight Gooden, on the other hand, threw a complete game shutout for the Mets.

MFS62 Mar 19 2020 06:38 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Maybe not pop culture, but Mets in a feel good story: https://www.yahoo.com/sports/pete-alonso-luis-rojas-surprise-lifelong-mets-fan-following-cancer-diagnosis-011931887.html Jeter wouldn't have done that. Later

G-Fafif Mar 20 2020 10:54 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Filmed at the Astrodome, but advertised with Shea. https://twitter.com/retronewsnow/status/1241208759394996229?s=21

Edgy MD Mar 20 2020 10:57 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

This featured the two most colorful teams a TV could handle at the time, if I recall correctly. Houston and Oakland?

G-Fafif Mar 20 2020 11:26 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

It was the inadvertent death knell for black & white TV sales.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 21 2020 01:06 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 21 2020 08:19 AM

Edgy MD wrote: This featured the two most colorful teams a TV could handle at the time, if I recall correctly. Houston and Oakland? The Pirates were pretty colorful, too. [FIMG=444]https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4407/35617439823_9ece241981_o.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=444]https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1545/25292299953_73333442e1_o.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=444]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/13/0c/a9/130ca9b7ea8782329bca0693e61060f0.jpg[/FIMG]

G-Fafif Mar 21 2020 08:18 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

I don't think those Buc threads debuted until after “Murder” aired. Pittsburgh should have called winners for the sequel.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 21 2020 08:21 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

=G-Fafif post_id=33809 time=1584800309 user_id=55] I don't think those Buc threads debuted until after “Murder” aired. Pittsburgh should have called winners for the sequel.

Those mix and matches debuted in '77. Don't know if they were worn in Spring Training.

G-Fafif Mar 21 2020 08:43 AM chip

Guessing “Murder” was in the can before the Buccos descended on Bradenton. I never saw the movie, but I remember deciding Oakland-Houston sounded otherworldly as a World Series matchup, with the A's having peaked (and been recently ravaged by a free agent exodus) and the Astros so stubbornly mediocre.

Edgy MD Mar 21 2020 11:01 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Even then, I realized it was a TV cheapie knockoff of Black Sunday. I was rooting for it to succeed, hoping to see how far down the feeding chain they would go. Hailstorm During the Stanley Cup Finals! Super Windy Day at the Masters!

Benjamin Grimm Mar 21 2020 12:56 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

I remember that I watched it when it was on, but remember nothing about the story, or whether or not I liked it. I just recall thinking that the idea of the Astros in the World Series seemed absurd.

G-Fafif Mar 23 2020 02:13 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

“Of the fifteen New York Met games she's attended, the Mets have won all fifteen.” —Casey Kasem, introducing Gloria Gaynor's “I Will Surive” as the No. 1 song on American Top 40, March 17, 1979. Casey had been telling a story of how Gaynor's South American tour crossed paths with that of New York Cosmos, and how her hastily arranged pregame concert may have helped the Cosmos break their winless streak (the Cosmos resented the idea they needed an opening act, let alone the kind of luck Gloria claimed to bring her teams).

batmagadanleadoff Mar 23 2020 03:00 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020 Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Mar 23 2020 05:41 PM

“Of the fifteen New York Met games she's attended, the Mets have won all fifteen.” —Casey Kasem, introducing Gloria Gaynor's.... “ I got a story that can top that. But first, some easy math. So the odds of Gaynor, or anybody, attending 15 Mets games resulting in 15 Mets wins is about 32,000 to 1 (2 to the 15th) assuming the Mets have a 50-50 chance of winning each game. I'm simplifying things to get a "ballpark" (get it?) figure that's reasonably accurate if not precise to the last digit. So my mother (not a baseball fan and doesn't even understand the rules of the game and I'm not even sure she gets it in her head that I'm a Mets fan -- she's pretty oblivious to baseball -- but she definitely knows who Tom Seaver is) -- she's been to just two baseball games in her entire life. And in each of those games, the Mets starter pitched a complete game one-hitter. Gary Gentry in 1971 and Pete Schourek 20 years later. And I'm figgerin' that the odds of that are anywhere from 60,000 to 100,000 to 1.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 23 2020 03:18 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

“Of the fifteen New York Met games she's attended, the Mets have won all fifteen.” —Casey Kasem, introducing Gloria Gaynor's.... “ I got a story that can top that. But first some easy math. So the odds of Gaynor, or anybody, attending 15 Mets games resulting in 15 Mets wins is about 32,000 to 1 (2 to the 15th) assuming the Mets have a 50-50 chance of winning each game. I'm simplifying things to get a "ballpark" (get it?) figure that's reasonably accurate if not precise to the last digit. So my mother (not a baseball fan and doesn't even understand the rules and I'm not even sure she gets it in her head that I'm a Mets fan -- but she definitely knows who Tom Seaver is) -- she's been to just two baseball games in her entire life. And in each of those games, the Mets starter pitched a complete game one-hitter. Gary Gentry in 1971 and Pete Schourek 20 years later. And I'm figgerin' that the odds of that are anywhere from 60,000 to 100,000 to 1.

Johnny Lunchbucket Mar 23 2020 03:20 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Buy her season tix for chrissakes

batmagadanleadoff Mar 23 2020 05:41 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Buy her season tix for chrissakes It'd be a colossal waste of money: she wouldn't go.

G-Fafif Mar 23 2020 05:47 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Then buy them for Ms. Gaynor.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 23 2020 05:49 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

=G-Fafif post_id=33947 time=1585007244 user_id=55] Then buy them for Ms. Gaynor.

Is Gaynor's streak still intact? That's an old reference.

G-Fafif Mar 23 2020 09:31 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

It will survive.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 24 2020 12:11 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

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bmfc1 Mar 29 2020 09:08 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

In the outstanding Netflix series "Unorthodox", a character named "Yanky" wears a (weird) Mets cap. Unfortunately, it was his, and the other character in the scene, second choice to a MFY cap.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 13 2020 02:28 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

From Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize winning American Pastoral: One night in the Summer of 1985, while visiting New York, I went out to see the Mets play the Astros, and while circling the stadium with my friends, looking for the gate to our seats, I saw the Swede, thirty-six years older than when I'd watched him play ball for Upsala. He wore a white shirt, a striped tie, and a charcoal-gray summer suit, and he was still terrifically handsome. [***] "You're Zuckerman?", he replied, vigorously shaking my hand. "The author?" [***] "These are my friends," I said, sweeping an arm out to introduce the three people with me. "And this man", I said to them, "is the greatest athlete in the history of Weequahic High. A real artist in three sports. Played first base like Keith Hernandez - thinking. A line drive doubles hitter. Do you know that?" I said to his son. "Your dad was our Hernandez." "Hernandez's a lefty," he replied. [***] The following letter reached me by way of my publisher a couple of weeks before Memorial Day, 1995. Dear Skip Zuckerman: I apologize for any inconvenience this letter may cause you. You may not remember our meeting at Shea Stadium. I was with my oldest son (now a first year college student) and you were out with some friends to see the Mets. That was ten years ago, the era of Carter-Gooden-Hernandez, when you could still watch the Mets. You can't anymore. [***] Sincerely, Seymour "Swede" Levov, WHS 1945 [FIMG=333]https://readwithstyle.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/american-pastoral-book-cover.jpg[/FIMG]

The Hot Corner Apr 13 2020 07:12 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

There is a fly over view of an abandoned CitiField in post-apocalyptic NYC during "Avengers: The End Game" Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to post an image.

bmfc1 May 06 2020 01:01 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Tonight is the finale of the fantastic show "Brockmire" and I brought a relevant clip (at around :45): [YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=81&v=a1RXzmLdcqw&feature=emb_logo[/YOUTUBE]

G-Fafif May 06 2020 01:27 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

C'mon, Charles, buy the Mets.

G-Fafif May 08 2020 10:04 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Pete Alonso to appear in expanded version of The Last Dance, according to this totally real promo. https://youtu.be/2i94NiMW_Wo

G-Fafif May 14 2020 12:23 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

More from the Strokes. Few bands are as synonymous with New York City than The Strokes, who helped launch the rebirth of the city's rock scene nearly 20 years ago. So it's fitting that their new album, The New Abnormal, concludes with “Ode To The Mets,” a mercurial and layered finale of nearly six minutes. But you won't hear frontman Julian Casablancas crooning about the team's bullpen woes or Wilpon mismanagement—in fact, he doesn't mention baseball at all. Like much to do with the team in Queens, it started as a joke. Casablancas, a Manhattan-raised Mets fan—one of his first memories is the team winning the 1986 World Series—attended the 2016 Wild Card game against the Giants at Citi Field with Paul Vassallo, a Strokes guitar technician. After New York lost 3–0 when Jeurys Familia gave up a three-run home run in the ninth inning, Casablancas wrote “Ode To The Mets” while waiting for the 7 train on the platform outside the stadium. But the brutal loss—which, Casablancas claims, didn't hurt much because he was “expecting them to lose the whole time,” though he also proudly recalls waging “psychological warfare” against Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner by heckling him—didn't directly inspire the song. “I did write it on the subway platform of the 7 sadly waiting for the train, but I wasn't really thinking of the game,” he says. https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/05/12/ode-to-the-mets-strokes-julian-casablancas-interview

Edgy MD Jun 05 2020 02:28 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

An almost unrecognizably baby-faced George Carlin in 1965, a guest of Merv Griffin, introducing his character of Lyle O. Higley, John Birch Society chapter head, as "A veteran of two wars, a depression, and a Mets double-header." Reference comes around the 2:20 mark. [YOUTUBE]gu-trYf96xo[/YOUTUBE]

MFS62 Jun 09 2020 06:15 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

In the Law and Order episode titled Navy Blues (1997), Detective Lenny Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) talking to a slow moving shopkeeper looking for a receipt, "Hurry up. I have Mets tickets next month". https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0629352/ Later

G-Fafif Jun 26 2020 12:18 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

When the Mets won the World Series in 1969, the writer's room at ABC's Manhattan-set That Girl was paying attention, as observed in the final two episodes of the 1969-70 season. “There are a lot of great men. There's the infield of the Mets...” —Boyfriend Donald Hollinger (Ted Bessell), “Easy Faller,” S. 4, Ep. 25, March 19, 1970 “When I can explain why I can miss an entire inning of a Mets baseball game because I've been staring at your picture on my television set [...] then I'll be able to explain why I love you.” —Donald's note to Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas), “All's Well That Ends,” S. 4, Ep. 26., March 26, 1970

Johnny Lunchbucket Jun 26 2020 12:19 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Batgirl>That Girl

Frayed Knot Jun 26 2020 01:07 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Batgirl>That Girl Just the fact that Bat Girl had the good sense not to marry Phil Donahue makes that statement true.

LWFS Jun 27 2020 11:35 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

I'm sure-- 99.5 percent or so-- that I'm probably the only one this bugs, but... the German in me is INCESSANTLY annoyed when I see new posts here, and they end up being from a Marlo Thomas sitcom rerun, or a Dick Cavett throwaway joke from '76. I mean, just because I read MADAME BOVARY this weekend doesn't make it part of 2020 popular culture. (Although finding out Charles Bovary was a big Ike-over-Duda guy would be a pretty big fun.)

MFS62 Jun 28 2020 05:47 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

I agree with LWFS over the overblown importance of Marlo Thomas. On the overrated scale, She was the Derek Jeter of television. Yes, her father was a popular comedian and a great humanitarian and she carried on his tradition of raising money to help sick children. But the public reaction to his daughter when her show was on could have made a billy goat gag. The height of foolishness to me was when she would be the cover story in women's magazines, interviewed for tips on parenting when she had no children. She was put on a media pedestal for no apparent reason. People even overlooked her awful nose job (it was so bad that my wife said Marlo's surgeon should have lost his license). I'll climb down off my soap box now. Later

batmagadanleadoff Jun 28 2020 06:18 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 28 2020 06:49 AM

I agree with LWFS over the overblown importance of Marlo Thomas. On the overrated scale, She was the Derek Jeter of television. I thought LWFS was referring to the anachronistic nature, rather than the qualitative rating of the Marlo Thomas pop culture reference, and by extension, the anachronistic nature of almost all of these pop culture references. If I'm right, I'll chime in that initially, I had the same pet peeve that I think LWFS is expressing. But I enjoy them anyways, and I've come to rationalize the thread title by explaining to myself that these aren't 2020 pop culture references, but rather, pop culture references that were documented in 2020. Also, it'd be hella impressive if LWFS really did read Madame Bovary this weekend, especially being that we're barely into Sunday. And for sure ... Batgirl > That Girl. [FIMG=555]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48750588128_1e0cc634bd_c.jpg[/FIMG]

batmagadanleadoff Jun 28 2020 06:39 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

September 15, 1967 --- New TV sensation Yvonne Craig appears as a guest on The Merv Griffin Show in her Batgirl costume where the two poke fun at the perennially sad-sack New York Mets baseball team in this exchange: Craig: "So, Merv, their new manager, Gil Hodges, thinks he's going to mold the Mets into a winner!" Griffin: "Oh brother! Last season, Don Bosch was going to be the next Willie Mays!"

G-Fafif Jun 28 2020 12:18 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Typical Merv.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 28 2020 01:43 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Asshole! What did Eva Gabor see in him?

Edgy MD Jun 28 2020 04:03 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

He let her host his show where she hooked up with hot, young, hairy Chuck Norris. [YOUTUBE]FxLOQLxie6w[/YOUTUBE]

Edgy MD Jul 04 2020 09:11 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

"If fame came in calories, this man would weigh more than the entire roster of the New York Mets." — Casey Kasem, speaking of Ray Stevens, the man whose smash hit, "Everything is Beautiful," was at #22 this week in 1970. The hits don't stop 'til we get to the top.

G-Fafif Jul 05 2020 10:02 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

The first AT40, no less. Happy 50th, Casey! From 2020‘s Two for Tennis by novelist and Mets fan Michael Elias, whose protagonist Mark seeks solace in the doings at Shea in September 2008: They all agreed on this last point and busied themselves with individual concerns: Ronnie cleaned up in the kitchen, Zeb headed for the bathroom, and Mark, remembering that there was a full slate of major-league baseball games every Sunday (as on most days), tuned in to ESPN to catch the scores. In particular, he was hoping for good news about his Mets, who were playing a doubleheader after a rainout the day before. From Shea Stadium in Queens, New York, ESPN was actually televising the second game of the doubleheader as their national Sunday night game-of-the-week. Excellent, Mark thought. What was even more excellent was the score, the Mets leading by a few runs. It was late in the game and Carlos Delgado, their slugging, black Puerto Rican first baseman, had hit a pair of home runs and driven in four. Their 137-million-dollar star pitcher, Johan Santana, had started the game and given them a strong performance, keeping the bats of the opposing Phillies quiet. Just last September, the Mets had blown a sizable division lead to the Phillies in the worst late-season collapse in baseball history, missing the playoffs by one game. For this reason, Mark, even more than usual, wished the Mets would overcome their Eastern Division rivals and send them back down the Jersey Turnpike to Philly disappointed. This game was crucial to the Mets, as it turned out they'd already lost the first two of this three-game series. But Santana answered the bell and, like he was doing all season, continued earning this year's big salary on that huge contract, one which was negotiated by a family friend who happened to be Johan's agent. Now a relief pitcher was in for the Mets, trying to close out a victory for them, and after a bad call by an ump and a squirrely infield hit, he recovered to preserve the lead and sew up the game. It was a much-needed win, like oxygen to a runner. The victory bumped the Mets' division lead back up to three games over Philadelphia. Had they lost, it would have been down to a single game, a prospect Mark found thoroughly loathsome. But now the Mets had a bit of breathing room, and, although it was just sports and Mark now had something more important in his life, he still cheered his team on toward success. There were still three weeks of games left on the regular-season schedule, but Mark was hopeful his team, like his new relationship with Ronnie, would be a winner and continue onward to greater heights. Why limit his thoughts to only one? The two possibilities were not mutually exclusive. There's more Metsiness within. https://www.amazon.com/Tennis-Adventures-Mark-Michael-Elias/dp/B089HXV78B/

Edgy MD Jul 05 2020 11:32 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Is it good?

G-Fafif Jul 05 2020 01:11 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

I've only read Metsian excerpts provided by the author.

G-Fafif Jul 18 2020 12:33 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Oakland Mets in the Popular Culture. https://twitter.com/mighty_flynn/status/1284317737267990528?s=21

G-Fafif Jul 31 2020 01:46 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Unearthed of late.. “I gotta go down to Kelsey's and watch the Mets play ball.” and later... “I won on a ballgame. The Mets beat them San Diego Padres.” —Archie Bunker, All In The Family, Season 6, Episode 2; September 15, 1975 (the night Mike Vail ties the rookie hitting streak record) “I love the Mets! But every time I suggest a Mets-themed prom, you guys look at me like I'm crazy! Well, here I go — final effort: Let's do a Mets prom! Blue and orange streamers, hot dogs! My uncle knows Mookie Wilson. He can come! Therefore, my theme is, ‘Remember the Night We Mets?' Thank you.” —Fred Armisen (wearing a Mets road jersey and a blue Mets cap) as Billy Zerillo, in a prom committee meeting, Saturday Night Live, May 19, 2007 (Season 32, Episode 20) The 1963 Off-Broadway revue Put It In Writing included a song, written by Fred Ebb and Norman Martin, that included the following lyrics: “When you run for a ball run right into the stands/Don't forget, you're a Met/When a grounder arrives let it slip through your hands/Don't forget, you're a Met,” asserting Mets fans preferred their new team lose. (Boo.)

G-Fafif Aug 01 2020 10:49 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

On Saturday Night Live, October 6, 2007 (Season 33, Episode 2), Fred Armisen as Omar Minaya and Kenan Thompson as Willie Randolph take to the Weekend Update desk to unsuccessfully explain away the Mets' late-season collapse (with Thompson in a home Mets uniform and blue cap). https://i0.wp.com/www.onesnladay.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/10-6-2007_0.42.43.01.jpg?ssl=1>

stevejrogers Aug 13 2020 02:37 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Was Greg notified about this? [url]https://www.amazon.com/New-York-Mets-Popular-Culture/dp/1476680108

G-Fafif Sep 20 2020 07:34 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

“What a great-looking crowd — so many stars, so much cocaine. Is this the Emmys or the Mets' locker room?” —David Letterman, 2020 Emmys (9/20/2020), reading jokes ostensibly left in his tuxedo pocket from when he last wore it, hosting the 1986 Emmys

Edgy MD Sep 20 2020 10:35 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

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G-Fafif Sep 27 2020 06:28 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

On the Season 32 premiere of The Simpsons (“Undercover Burns,” September 27, 2020), Mr. Burns takes on a new identity: Fred Kranepool.

G-Fafif Oct 01 2020 11:32 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 02 2020 08:41 AM

The guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers when NBC News broke in to announce Trump tested positive for COVID-19 was David Wright, promoting his upcoming book, The Captain. After the initial report, the network rejoined the Wright interview, already in progress.

Frayed Knot Oct 02 2020 04:21 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Now if I were a network exec I'd pre-empt Trump coverage for David Wright news ... but that's just me.

G-Fafif Oct 02 2020 08:54 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Full Late Night segment here. Only about the first 1:40 didn't air. https://youtu.be/en9XW_VVxR8 David being his affable self, though he takes a dig at a National League opponent to Wright-naturedly razz the host.

Johnny Lunchbucket Oct 02 2020 10:48 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

He's still so darn wholesome and polite and comes off only so real. I think DiComo is very good at what he does but my expectation going in is that I'm gonna learn less about David Wright than there is, if there is more, in this book than I want there to be. Might also come to nothing, but a weapons-grade investigative journalist doing deep research on the "real" David Wright makes for a more interesting book premise, to my imagination

Benjamin Grimm Oct 02 2020 11:06 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

I hope it mentions Jaerock Lee.

Edgy MD Oct 02 2020 11:07 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

What do you think might lie beneath the surface? He occasionally plays golf with his brothers after promising his wife that they'd go antique shopping. His favorite author is Tom Clancy and thinks the posthumous novels with Clancy's name on them but written by some other dude are just as good or better? Maybe his pastor goes a little too far with incorporating "You know you're a redneck if ... " jokes into his sermons, but David just cracks up every time anyhow.

Johnny Lunchbucket Oct 02 2020 11:55 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

None of us really know which is why a biography to me sounds more interesting than I would suspect an autobiography will be. That said, you're right they might both be boring

bmfc1 Oct 06 2020 05:41 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Seriously, Jeopardy? The Cateogry is "Talking Front Office Baseball" https://twitter.com/BrianWright86/status/1313621372497788928/photo/1 $200, not revealed; $400, above; $600, Jeter; $800, Atlanta Braves; $1000, Branch Rickey

G-Fafif Oct 19 2020 02:33 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

“...which then leaves the rest of us non-gays who will be immediately threatened and say, ‘Torch Song Trilogy? No way, nah, listen, I'm going out to Shea Stadium to catch the Mets and squash beer cans with my bare fists.'” —Copy from a 1982 radio ad for the Broadway play Torch Song Trilogy, presumably intended to convince straight people to come see an explicitly gay-themed production

Benjamin Grimm Oct 19 2020 02:56 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

John Leguizamo was on Real Time with Bill Maher wearing a Mets cap in a particularly unflattering way. The angle he was Zooming at made it look like his cap brim was as large as the one on the Geico commercial. https://i.redd.it/7opxt6sarhl41.png>

G-Fafif Oct 19 2020 03:39 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

He does that quite a bit. https://twitter.com/variety/status/1316925579933831169?s=21

G-Fafif Oct 20 2020 09:55 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

From the 2018 premiere of the FX series Pose, set in the late '80s: “I've watched a Met game from the owner's box and partied with Gooden and Strawberry afterwards.” Spoken by Matt Bromley (James Van Der Beek) in a "greed is good" spiel.

Edgy MD Oct 21 2020 10:52 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

I could be wrong, but I never got the idea that Dwight and Darryl partied together. Beyond that, I didn't think either of them had time for freakin' Bromley.

G-Fafif Nov 01 2020 09:47 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Maya Rudolph as the Statue of Liberty channeling Elaine Stritch shouted out the ‘86 Mets on last night's SNL (October 31, 2020). https://youtu.be/1UffOrgP8Is

G-Fafif Nov 22 2020 02:51 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

From This Week in TV Guide, 1970. Thanksgiving Day on the West Coast starts at 7:30 a.m. PT with my personal favorite of the era, The CBS All-American Thanksgiving Day Parades, three hours of fun featuring CBS personalities announcing four department store-sponsored parades: Macy's in New York, with Peter Graves and Julie Sommars; Gimbels' in Philadelphia, with Harvey Korman and Vicki Lawrence; J.L. Hudson's in Detroit, with New York Mets pitcher Tom Seaver and his wife Nancy; and, taped in Toronto,* the Eaton's Santa Claus Parade, with Mike Connors and Amanda Blake. For many years Bob Keeshan and the Captain Kangaroo gang hosted the overall coverage, but I don't know who (if anyone) was doing it by 1970.

batmagadanleadoff Nov 22 2020 04:22 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

From This Week in TV Guide, 1970.... Cool web site. New discovery. Thanks.

G-Fafif Dec 29 2020 10:34 AM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

As a good portion of the 2010s has been dedicated to '90s worship (see: Gen Z obsession with "Friends"), it makes sense that the next decade might turn its retrospective lens to the... next decade, right? Who better to lead the way than '00s Hotboys/current dads-and-such the Strokes, led by MLBS-in-mild-exile Julian Casablancas, who played a sold-out NYE show at the Barclays, making news by teasing a new album and debuting a plaintive song from same, tastefully titled "Ode to the Mets." [YOUTUBE]1zgH9RSl2Cc[/YOUTUBE] Since this is where we came in, this seems like a good place to just about go out.

G-Fafif Dec 29 2020 12:15 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

The whole year here. Thanks to all for your contribution, inadvertent and otherwise.

Edgy MD Dec 29 2020 07:19 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

I'll give you a head-start on 2021 with this still from 2019's Toy Story 4 featuring what is believed to be a bobblehead doll of Met-to-be Rickey Henderson. https://images.daznservices.com/di/library/sporting_news/39/b9/rickey-henderson-toy-story-4-ftr_z9zxdqcl6zqf15skawaz2m7fr.png?t=2103316506&quality=100>

G-Fafif Dec 29 2020 07:41 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Next year has already begun. https://twitter.com/nickschiavo/status/1344022877637648384?s=21

Edgy MD Dec 29 2020 09:15 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

Wow, two Pixars for the price of one.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 02 2021 04:44 PM Re: Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

=G-Fafif post_id=33947 time=1585007244 user_id=55] Then buy them for Ms. Gaynor.

Gloria Gaynor could buy me season tickets.



(Better late than never).