Mets in the Popular Culture 2019

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[bmfc1]

The Irishman, Netflix, Scorsese (fantastic) has the main character watching a Phillies game and you can see Gregg Jefferies. A Twitter sleuth figured out the game and it was against the Mets from September 22, 1996.

[Frayed Knot]

Sunday's (12/8) NY Times Xword puzzle, 76-Down: New York Mets epithet (6 LETTERS)



A M A Z I N

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Todd Hundley appears as if out of a dream, SNL, December 13, 1997.

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Mike DelGuidice, who leads the Billy Joel tribute band Big Shot and plays with Billy besides, released “Mona Lisa” in 2019 with a video shot partly at a slightly dreamy Citi Field (the Rotunda never looked so good). Starring, as too many things do, Kevin James.

[G-Fafif]

Overheard on a car radio news report in the 1969 film, Medium Cool, set in Chicago the summer before:

"And finally, it was the Mets walloping the Pirates..."

[G-Fafif]

Your eighth annual comprehensive survey of the year in Metsian Popular Culture is http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2019/12/28/the-2019-oscars-cap-awards/here. Thanks to all who unwittingly contributed.

[RealityChuck]

Greg did mention it, but he missed a notable point.



In The Kominsky Method, Michael Douglas claims that he was sitting in the bleachers when the Mets won the 1969 World Series.



I trust everyone here knows what's wrong with that statement.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Maybe he was sitting in bleachers at some location other than Shea Stadium.

[bmfc1]

I'm pretty sure that the Mets added seating in OF (well, not in the OF but beyond the fence) so there were "bleachers". Plus, they are old guys so maybe they called "cheap seats" "bleachers". I heard it (great show) and let it pass.

[MFS62]

I'm pretty sure that the Mets added seating in OF (well, not in the OF but beyond the fence) so there were "bleachers". Plus, they are old guys so maybe they called "cheap seats" "bleachers". I heard it (great show) and let it pass.

True that. I've heard the left field upper deck stands at Ebbets Field referred to as "the bleachers".

And thank you Greg, for that great article.

Later

[G-Fafif]

Thanks MFS. Here's some Pete.



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