We Need a Met-Lovin' Big Shot Thread`

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Kobe, a Philly kid with good taste.

[Edgy MD]

I've long since realized that the tendency to demonize the living (apart from a handful of agreed-upon paragons) and lionize the dead is a bullshit game that sells papers and (now) garners clicks. So how come I'm totally falling for it now? For 25 years, I couldn't have come up with two good reasons to like Kobe, and now, in a day and a half, I'm allowing myself to get pushed firmly into his corner.



What a sap I am.

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Noted Mets fan Jack Antonoff wears a Mets cap in the Taylor Swift documentary "Miss Americana" (Netflix). Yeah, I watched it.

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Mr. Met will be on hand when Mike Bloomberg opens his Bayside field office, which is strange on several levels.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Can we get a list of which levels of the field office are strange and which ones aren't?

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Benjamin Grimm wrote: Can we get a list of which levels of the field office are strange and which ones aren't?

Third floor is bananas!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Is it any stranger than our HQ lobby in Stockholm?

[G-Fafif]

It's looks perfectly normal in Swedish.

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Andre Sayegh, mayor of Paterson, N.J., is quite clearly the best mayor in America.

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America's Mayor in action.

Cubs fan Chris Hayes fails to compliment Mayor Sayegh on his choice of wardrobe. Very bad form.

[Frayed Knot]

I stumbled across two baseball references in today's NYT which, while not specifically from Met-loving big shots (although maybe seeing as how both have/are spent some time in NYC) they were both

homages to the game from sources that I wouldn't have necessarily expected - especially seeing as how there aren't any more baseball fans from what I keep hearing.



-- From Yo-Yo Ma: 'When I met Pablo Casals when I was 7 and asked for his autograph he gave me some advice: 'Always make room for baseball'



-- Steve Earle: 'The first thing that died in New York (after Covid shutdowns) was the culture and it stopped being New York really quick. Within 48 hours there was no live music, no live theatre, and there

hasn't been any [expletive] baseball which I consider to be a cultural disaster.'

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Would-be Met-Lovin' Big Shot: Perry Gershon, running to replace major league a-hole Congressman Lee Zeldin out east. Check out his color scheme and note his hat as you scroll down.



https://www.perrygershon.com/https://www.perrygershon.com/



Fundraising email for the candidate from certified MLBS John Leguizamo features both gents in proper NY headgear.



https://www.perrygershon.com/2020/06/20/note-john-leguizamo/https://www.perrygershon.com/2020/06/20/note-john-leguizamo/

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[Edgy MD]

It's like he doesn't have any other marker colors.



Which is cool, 'cuz neither do I.

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Marlo Thomas says, “Nice cap 48 years ago, Rob.”

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Based on a shot of the kid's bedroom during The Today Show, Carson Daly appears to be raising his son to be a Mets fan.

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Pete Hamill, a former columnist and editor-in-chief of the Daily News and a best-selling author, died Wednesday at age 85. His brother Denis delivered this eulogy Saturday. Pete Hamill is going to be fine. My big brother Pete helped me with my grammar school book reports, my teenage hippie poetry, my first piece of published journalism, my first produced screenplay and most of my published novels. Pete always made everything he touched better. He always urged us to “do the work of the Lord.” So it makes perfect sense that Pete would help me one last time on his own eulogy. Truth be told, this eulogy should have been written five years ago when he was comatose in NYU Medical Center in Manhattan, where all the doctors said he was not going to wake up after suffering two broken hips, a heart attack and a series of ministrokes. But his wife, Fukiko, disagreed and told the doctors that Pete would wake up but that it took Pete longer because of his diabetes. The doctors whispered to me to make arrangements for a funeral. Two days later, Pete awoke in ICU speaking Spanish to an orderly about the New York Mets as Sinatra sang on a tape deck.

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-pete-hamill-eulogy-denis-hamill-20200808-lp5yf2z2v5felddtx5lxh4dypq-story.htmlhttps://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-pete-hamill-eulogy-denis-hamill-20200808-lp5yf2z2v5felddtx5lxh4dypq-story.html

[Edgy MD]

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Traditional MFYLBS Paul Simon's week or two on the MLBS bandwagon:

IN OCTOBER, MORE THAN TWO MONTHS BEFORE Howard, Simon takes a break from promoting Graceland and flies to London to produce an album by Ladysmith Black Mambazo. He then goes to New York to sing the national anthem at game six of the World Series, an invitation he accepted in part because it offended him to watch George Bush throw out the first ball at the Astrodome during the play-offs (“Bush—he's not from Texas, he's from Connecticut. He's from CIA. And excuse me, but he throws like a girl”). After this performance—“if you could call that singing”—he flies to Los Angeles for a two-day errand, a long-standing date at the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. Today and tomorrow the First Presbyterian Church is in show business—the rehearsal and taping of a gospel special for Cinemax. The singers' stage will be an expanded chancel, and audience members will be invited to the filmed show. The Mighty Clouds of Joy, the Edwin Hawkins Singers, Andrae Crouch, and other black gospel stars have agreed to sing; Luther Vandross and Jennifer Holliday will also appear, as will the Oak Ridge Boys, a white group. Paul Simon is hosting the program, and three of his songs—“Gone at Last,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” and “Slip Slidin' Away”—will be sung on the show. This morning, before rehearsals begin, he stands inside the church with Ian Hoblyn, the handsome, efficient Englishman who is his manager, talking very quietly and watching two men polish the piano. Simon wears round, thin-rimmed glasses, a blue T-shirt, sport coat, jeans. On his head is a Mets cap and in his lapel, a Mets pin.

https://classic.esquire.com/article/1987/6/1/the-apostle-of-angsthttps://classic.esquire.com/article/1987/6/1/the-apostle-of-angst

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[Edgy MD]

Isn't that Todd Zeile Thumbs-Down Guy?

[Fman99]

Traditional MFYLBS Paul Simon's week or two on the MLBS bandwagon: IN OCTOBER, MORE THAN TWO MONTHS BEFORE Howard, Simon takes a break from promoting Graceland and flies to London to produce an album by Ladysmith Black Mambazo. He then goes to New York to sing the national anthem at game six of the World Series, an invitation he accepted in part because it offended him to watch George Bush throw out the first ball at the Astrodome during the play-offs (“Bush—he's not from Texas, he's from Connecticut. He's from CIA. And excuse me, but he throws like a girl”). After this performance—“if you could call that singing”—he flies to Los Angeles for a two-day errand, a long-standing date at the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. Today and tomorrow the First Presbyterian Church is in show business—the rehearsal and taping of a gospel special for Cinemax. The singers' stage will be an expanded chancel, and audience members will be invited to the filmed show. The Mighty Clouds of Joy, the Edwin Hawkins Singers, Andrae Crouch, and other black gospel stars have agreed to sing; Luther Vandross and Jennifer Holliday will also appear, as will the Oak Ridge Boys, a white group. Paul Simon is hosting the program, and three of his songs—“Gone at Last,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” and “Slip Slidin' Away”—will be sung on the show. This morning, before rehearsals begin, he stands inside the church with Ian Hoblyn, the handsome, efficient Englishman who is his manager, talking very quietly and watching two men polish the piano. Simon wears round, thin-rimmed glasses, a blue T-shirt, sport coat, jeans. On his head is a Mets cap and in his lapel, a Mets pin. https://classic.esquire.com/article/1987/6/1/the-apostle-of-angsthttps://classic.esquire.com/article/1987/6/1/the-apostle-of-angst

He's from Flushing, from the same neighborhood where my dad grew up. My dad was a few years younger, and actually played on a little league team with Paul's younger brother, and my uncle played on a team with Art Garfunkel's younger brother.

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Branford Marsalis, in a Mets cap, discusses the late Jerry Garcia 25 years ago.



https://youtu.be/GnnoHPFMs3Uhttps://youtu.be/GnnoHPFMs3U