The Mets in the Popular Culture in 2024

[batmagadanleadoff]

Schwerner was a huge Mets fan. From the "What are you Reading: 2015" thread (which I actually found):

batmagadanleadoff
Apr 08 2015 09:43 AM
Re: What are you reading in 2015?



Excerpt:

"In his five months in Mississippi, some had come to revile Mickey Schwerner as 'that communist Jew N****r lover.' Yet those who knew him were struck by his kindness, his easygoing manner, his lack of hatred for anyone, black or white. He was 'full of life and ideas,' 'the gentlest man I have ever known.' A coworker in Meridian paid him the compliment he would have cherished most: "More than any white person I have ever known, he could put a colored person at ease.' Of average size and height, usually dressed in a gray sweatshirt, jeans, and black sneakers, Mickey Schwerner loved W.C. Fields, a good game of poker, and the hapless New York Mets."

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[Edgy MD]

This 1964 TV episode of Mr. Ed titled "Leo Durocher Meets Mr. Ed" features Alan Young strangely being unable to correctly pronounce homestand. It also features soon-to-be-Met Larry Miller staring in disbelief as everybody's favorite talking horse rips one off Sandy Koufax deep into the power alley for an inside-the-park homerun, while catcher Johnny Roseboro wants absolutely nothing to do with Ed's slide into home.




Johnny Werhas appears in #14, which will remind one how quickly and indiscriminantly the Dodgers reissued those digits after Gil Hodges joined the Mets in the expansion draft.

[metirish]

[Edgy MD]

That's about $800 for the tickets and another $1,100 for the Stella McCartney handbag.

[metirish]

That's some big shot stuff right there

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Who are they

[Benjamin Grimm]

(I don't know who that is.)

[metirish]

Haha I had to google him, he's an NFL talking head