The Mets in Popular Culture, 2018

[Edgy MD]

That runaway phenomenon of popular culture that is ABC's The Goldbergs featured a guest appearance by Mets first base coach Ruben Amaro, Jr., playing ... Ruben Amaro, Sr.

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[Edgy MD]

Hey, look, it's my old buddy Stephanie Courtney there at the end!

[G-Fafif]

Don't know if the Mets will be better in 2018, but here were ten top reasons they were going to be in 1996.

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Top Ten Reasons The Mets Will Do Better In 1996 - January 22, 1996 10. This year, the league is going to let us hit the ball off a tee —Second baseman Jeff Kent 9. We're eliminating that pre-game Happy Hour —Shortstop Jose Vizcaino 8. No more leaving during the eighth inning to beat traffic —Left fielder Ryan Thompson 7. 96 is a leap year, so we'll have an extra day to practice —Pitcher Jason Isringhausen 6. We're finally going to get around to finding out what this sign means —1st Baseman Rico Brogna 5. We're going to give 110 percent, at least 51 percent of the time —Right fielder Carl Everett 4. It's a huge weight off our shoulders knowing Letterman won't be hosting this year's Academy Awards —Catcher Todd Hundley 3. No more Cartoon Channel in the dugout —Pitcher Bill Pulsipher 2. We just signed a chimp with a 200-mph fastball —Pitcher Bobby Jones 1. Two words: lucky cups —Pitchers John Franco and Dave Mlicki

Edited January 6, 2018 by Guest

[Zvon]

Thats hilarious (cept I dont get Brogna's). E'ing that to my brothers.

[G-Fafif]

Zvon wrote: Thats hilarious (cept I dont get Brogna's). E'ing that to my brothers.

In the video, Rico mimics the sign-giving of a third base coach. It's actually quite impressive.

[Zvon]

G-Fafif wrote: Zvon wrote: Thats hilarious (cept I dont get Brogna's). E'ing that to my brothers. In the video, Rico mimics the sign-giving of a third base coach. It's actually quite impressive.

Awwww. My bad but the vid won't play for me ATM. Fixed the WiFi so it runs pretty fast for simple things like text. But it still takes 10 mins to load vids and such. Although for some small lengths of time it's as fast a cable and everything loads in a few blinks. Very small lengths and rare. I haven't quite grokked how hotspots work. Or I should say I know in theory, but Comcasts sucks.

Ill have real internet after the snow melts. YAY!

I would REALLY like not to go thru Comcast but I don't think I have much of a choice. Not a fan of the dish.

[G-Fafif]

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Netflix series Big Mouth knows what it's talking about.

[bmfc1]

Scott Rogowsky, the host of the very popular game HQ Trivia, sports a Mets ski cap and makes a Lucas Duda reference on his Twitter profile page:

http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2018/01/09/264452826/hq-trivia-host-scott-rogowsky-is-a-huge-mets-fan

[Ceetar]

technically old, but MLB just tweeted this with videos of 1988 Mets on Sesame Street

http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2018/01/17/264815160/mlb-players-on-sesame-street?partnerId=sf83239461&sf83239461=1

[G-Fafif]

In Will & Grace, “The Wedding,” Season 9, Episode 10, January 18, 2018, on NBC, Vince (Bobby Cannavale) appears with "one of my famous homemade soaps. Look, made from real shea butter. I call it Shea Stadium. It smells Amazin’. You know, ’cause the Mets?" Then, to quizzical looks, he realizes, “Wrong crowd.”

[Edgy MD]

I like Bobby Cannavale and his assortment of characters, but they all sort of project "Yankee fan," don't they?

[Zvon]

Zvon wrote: Awwww. My bad but the vid won't play for me ATM. Fixed the WiFi so it runs pretty fast for simple things like text. But it still takes 10 mins to load vids and such. Although for some small lengths of time it's as fast a cable and everything loads in a few blinks. Very small lengths and rare. I haven't quite grokked how hotspots work. Or I should say I know in theory, but Comcasts sucks.

I have to apologize to Comcast.
I put a PW on my WiFi so folks can no longer jump on and use it, and now it runs as fast as Mookie Wilson.

Comcast kept sending me a notice that too many devises were using my connection and I had no idea what they were talking about. I looked at the list and I was there, as well as 19 strangers. I'd just delete them and then the next day 19 more were back. I hate to admit to folks online how stupid I am, it makes for a bad impression, but you guyz already know me.

Sorry Comcast!

[G-Fafif]

Turns out that Simon & Garfunkel, as explained by Armisen & Hader, were less interested in music than they were "Da Mets".

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[bmfc1]

The Mets are mentioned during David Letterman's interview with Malala Yousafzai on Netflix. That was a surprise and I don't want to ruin it for you but it occurs at the 43-minute mark.

[G-Fafif]

A wool Mets ski cap from the black as Mets color era made a cameo on the SNL of March 10, 2018. Kyle Mooney as goofy Christ Fitzpatrick was asking passersby to weigh in on how great rock is and/or how much greater rock is than rap, and one of his respondents was wearing said hat.

Earlier on Saturday, spending several hours in Queens, I saw one guy wearing a Mets cap. And many people wearing the cap of some other local team.

[G-Fafif]

Method Man of Wu-Tang Clan wore a Darryl Strawberry 1986 Mets jersey and a Mets cap as he and Ghostface Killah appeared in a sketch with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show, April 17, 2018. Method Man’s outfit got more exposure in a widely circulated Instagram photo he and his bandmate took with author and former FBI director James Comey, who was Colbert’s main guest on the same episode.

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[G-Fafif]

Celebrities love to wear Mets garb when cameras are around.

• In the second part of The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (HBO, March 27, 2018), Chris Rock is spotted in a Mets cap and director Judd Apatow is wearing a Mr. Met. t-shirt.

• Eric Bloom of Blue Oyster Cult wears a Mets cap while he’s interviewed in New Wave: Dare To Be Different, the 2018 documentary exploring the impact of WLIR (debuted on Showtime, March 30, 2018).

[A Boy Named Seo]

I love that I can't figure who looks happier to be in that photo, Comey with the Wu-Tang, or Meth with Comey? It's clearly a tie.

[seawolf17]

bmfc1 wrote: Scott Rogowsky, the host of the very popular game HQ Trivia, sports a Mets ski cap and makes a Lucas Duda reference on his Twitter profile page: https://twitter.com/scottrogowsky?lang=en http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2018/01/09/264452826/hq-trivia-host-scott-rogowsky-is-a-huge-mets-fan

I've started playing this regularly, and he's made quite a few Mets references the past few days.

[Guest 41Forever]

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Three Sides of the Coin is a Kiss podcast, but the guys were at an event recently and spent some time talking to Jay Jay French of Twisted Sister. Jay Jay spends a nice chunk of his interview talking about the Mets, and how the guys in the band were huge Mets fans. First thing they'd do after a gig, he said, was check the score of the Mets game. French said Piazza was fan, and used "You Can't Stop Rock and Roll" as his walk-up music. And on a night where the Mets celebrated the Beatles concert at Shea, all the walk-up tunes were replaced with Beatles songs. Except for Piazza, who refused to switch.

Jay Jay is early in the podcast, followed by Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats, making it a very Long Island show.

Edited April 18, 2018 by Guest

[Edgy MD]

I'd go with "I've Got a Feeling."

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

We should recast Desert Island Mix Tape as "Walkup Song" Same rules otherwise. Would it change the results?

[G-Fafif]

This Sunday's episode of Madam Secretary (CBS, 10 PM ET) will include Faith and Fear in Flushing bloggers Greg Prince and Jason Fry playing themselves as baseball fans waiting in line to see a baseball documentary outside a movie theater. It's the stuff of blink and you'll miss us, but it's for real. The series producer/episode director is a Mets fan and a reader of our blog, so...

The riveting inside story is here.

One of the caps we wore, provided to us by the wardrobe department, is here:

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Edited April 20, 2018 by Guest

[Edgy MD]

Ka-POW!!

[seawolf17]

Super cool!

[Guest 41Forever]

That might be the coolest thing -- ever!!!!!!!!! Congrats!

[G-Fafif]

41Forever wrote: That might be the coolest thing -- ever!!!!!!!!! Congrats!

Well, it ain't Thor on GoT, but for us, it was a most unusual event. Thanks.

[Guest 41Forever]

G-Fafif wrote: 41Forever wrote: That might be the coolest thing -- ever!!!!!!!!! Congrats! Well, it ain't Thor on GoT, but for us, it was a most unusual event. Thanks.

Assuming that now that you have screen experience, Jason is busy casting you guys in the Star Wars Episode 9. I can see you guys sitting at the bar in a cantina scene, talking Mets with Chewbacca. Hmmm, maybe Zvon can PhotoShop that.

Then you can use your newfound Jedi skills on Mickey if he ever signals for Hansel Robles again. "That's not the reliever you're looking for..."

[Guest d'Kong76]

BOC!

[Benjamin Grimm]

VERY exciting!


Congratulations!