Mets in the Popular Culture 2019

[G-Fafif]

Keep an eye peeled as you consume television, film, what have you and place your sightings here.

[G-Fafif]

Here's a roundup of Mets in the Popular Culture 2018 (including a few appropriate farewells):



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Edited December 30, 2018 by Guest

[batmagadanleadoff]

If it's New Years, you know there's a Twilight Zone marathon on somewheres. Here's a Mets Twilight Zone reference from the SyFy channel I was onto for decades. I never posted it before because I figured someone already did. In A Kind of Stopwatch, (S5E4 - October 18, 1963) McNulty the bore comes into possession of an unusual stopwatch that, when he clicks it, stops the world. Everybody and everything but McNulty is frozen in time. Another click and the world resumes moving and going, etc., etc. This episode isn't necessarily my favorite but I like it and it does get me to daydreaming quite a bit whenever I view it. Anyways, it takes McNulty the whole episode to finally figure out that he could stop the world, walk into a bank and leisurely take as much money as is there.



Until then, he uses the stopwatch mostly to commit silly pranks -- like going to the Polo Grounds to watch a Mets game, and stopping the world to move second base closer to Ron Hunt to allow for the Mets rookie to steal second base safely. Hunt's rigged steal proves decisive as Snider drives him in with the game's winning run.





OT -- the IMG function isn't working too good. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. And the IMG link's not there. Neither is the FIMG link.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The IMG icon is the little picture of the sun behind the mountains, to the right of the asterisk.



The next time you see try to post an image and find that it doesn't work, post it anyway (in its broken state) so that I can take a look.



For more on FIMG, see the post with the cows in http://www.thecranepool.net/phpBB32/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=27774this thread.

[LWFS]

That Piazza HoF banner lurking in the background set dressing marks our boy Peter Parker as the MCU's sports-allegiance moral center, in the official trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home.



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[Willets Point]

J.K. Rowling reveals some tidbits about the https://news.clickhole.com/the-saga-continues-j-k-rowling-has-revealed-that-ever-1831109080Hogwarts' sorting hat and the Mets.



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[bmfc1]

In the Hulu documentary about the Fyre Festival, "Fyre Fraud" (not the Netflix documentary on the same subject), at the very end, Ja Rule is on some sort of broadcasted program, drinking, and the host of the show is wearing a Mets jersey and cap.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I saw a few seconds of a Michael Kay interview with Ron Howard where Ron sez he's a Dodger fan first but once in New York adopted the Mets as his club.

[Willets Point]

The Mountain Goats - the band not the actual goats - are releasing an album in April called In League With Dragons which will tell https://www.spin.com/2019/01/mountain-goats-younger-in-league-with-dragons/“wild tales of revenge and redemption, heroes at a crossroads, and great figures in decline.” Curiously, the track listing includes a song titled "Doc Gooden."

[G-Fafif]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I saw a few seconds of a Michael Kay interview with Ron Howard where Ron sez he's a Dodger fan first but once in New York adopted the Mets as his club.

During the 2006 NLDS, Ron was interviewed by Julie Donaldson of the defunct (now, not then) Mets Weekly at Shea. The director diplomatically said, in essence, he was a Dodgers fan first, a Mets fan locally. The host tried to rechristen him as a Mets fan since "this is a Mets show," but Ron, smiling but unflinchingly, wasn't having it. The Kay interview seems to have first aired in 2013, so perhaps he's put that Hollywood hogwash behind him.

[Edgy MD]

Ron's played at Shea and made a film about the Beatles live performances, including Shea. He's got at least a little juice. Hell, he caught a fly ball off the bat of Peggy Hodges!



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Ron Howard directs a Mets game.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I saw a few seconds of a Michael Kay interview with Ron Howard where Ron sez he's a Dodger fan first but once in New York adopted the Mets as his club. During the 2006 NLDS, Ron was interviewed by Julie Donaldson of the defunct (now, not then) Mets Weekly at Shea. The director diplomatically said, in essence, he was a Dodgers fan first, a Mets fan locally. The host tried to rechristen him as a Mets fan since "this is a Mets show," but Ron, smiling but unflinchingly, wasn't having it. The Kay interview seems to have first aired in 2013, so perhaps he's put that Hollywood hogwash behind him.

That's pretty much the same story he told Kay. Kay of course tried to get Cunningham to say he was a MFY fan but the best Opie could do was say his son likes them.



Apropos of nothing, the actor who played Richie Cunningham Jr. on Happy Days grew up to be a chef/entrepreneur and founded a modern hipster grocery chain called Lucky's Market known for in-store smoked bacon and $2 pints of beer. Fun guy. Also a Dodgers fan, I bet.

[G-Fafif]

Until Howard makes with the UTLEY U BUTTLEY banner, he's suspect.

[LWFS]

WTF does "Dodgers fan first/Met fan locally" mean? Show up, root lightly if you will, Opie. But you're a fan, or you're not.

[stevejrogers]

An empty Citi Field will appear as part of Thanos' devastation in Avengers: Endgame.

[Lefty Specialist]

This one hurts.



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Gavin McInnes, leader of the racist hate group The Proud Boys, is apparently an enormous Mets fan.



Yeah, he's just as smart as he looks.

[Willets Point]

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An empty Citi Field will appear as part of Thanos' devastation in Avengers: Endgame.

[seawolf17]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Gavin McInnes, leader of the racist hate group The Proud Boys, is apparently an enormous Mets fan.

Ah, fuck. Well, I guess every team has their douchebag fans.

[Lefty Specialist]

Willets Point wrote: =stevejrogers post_id=2294 time=1549237562 user_id=57] An empty Citi Field will appear as part of Thanos' devastation in Avengers: Endgame.

Oh, snap!

[Willets Point]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Willets Point wrote: =stevejrogers post_id=2294 time=1549237562 user_id=57] An empty Citi Field will appear as part of Thanos' devastation in Avengers: Endgame. Oh, snap!

One can only hope Thanos made quick work of the Wilpons and spared Noah Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom.

[bmfc1]

On the new season of Survivor, Dan "The Wardog" DaSilva has a Mets tattoo. You can see a Nets tattoo, too

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Edited February 6, 2019 by Guest

[Willets Point]

A new episode of "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" is a parody of the movie Sliding Doors and in the alternate universe it is said that the Mets are winning "World Series after World Series."

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Tom Seaver leads off Saturday Night Live reporting for NBC Sports on the rain delay holding up the December 3, 1983, show.



On February 8, 2019's Real Time, Bill Maher and Chris Christie bond over their Mets fandom.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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Jack Lemmon (as Felix Ungar) at Shea Stadium with Tommy Davis in 1967.

[G-Fafif]

The junior Senator from New York wants nothing do with the junior ballclub from New York in 1967 (around the 1:35 mark).



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[Guest CeetarForgotPassword]

Does this count as 'popular' culture?



(I haven't read it yet, but here's a snippit)



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[Edgy MD]

Everybody welcome back Cee.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

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[TransMonk]

I've been watching This Giant Beast That is the Global Economy which is a documentary series on Amazon hosted by Kal Penn.



Their episode on death briefly mentions Brian Cole's death and the $131 million his family won in their lawsuit with Ford.

[A Boy Named Seo]

GF and I watched the outrageously cheesy and fun Cobra Kai on YouTubeTV and there on Daniel LaRusso's desk sat a Keith Hernandez bobblehead doll that I didn't notice at all, but my keeper GF did. She even knew who it was.