Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

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As a good portion of the 2010s has been dedicated to '90s worship (see: Gen Z obsession with "Friends"), it makes sense that the next decade might turn its retrospective lens to the... next decade, right?



Who better to lead the way than '00s Hotboys/current dads-and-such the Strokes, led by MLBS-in-mild-exile http://www.mtv.com/news/2579323/julian-casablancas-new-york-mets-song/Julian Casablancas, who played a sold-out NYE show at the Barclays, making news by teasing a new album and debuting a plaintive song from same, tastefully titled "Ode to the Mets."



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In the November 13, 1994, episode of Married With Children, "A Man For No Seasons" (Season 9, Episode 11), several striking baseball player made appearances, including then-Met Bret Saberhagen, delivering pizza while wearing a nametag that identified him as Bobby Bonilla. When asked about the misidentification, Saberhagen explained Bonilla called in sick today.



Also appearing: young Dodger catching sensation Mike Piazza as a clueless TV cameraman following reporter Joe Morgan around.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

That Strokes song was garbage. No Met content either! (at least not till 4:22 when I quit on it).

[Ceetar]

Is this gonna be worth it if it's not by Greg?

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VOICEOVER: T-minus 25 seconds. CROW T. ROBOT: The Mets lost today.

From MST3K, Episode 704 (February 24, 1996), during the opening scene to the The Incredible Melting Man, amid a countdown to launch.

[TransMonk]

In Episode 3 of The Outsider on HBO, savant-character Holly Gibney recalls facts and stats from the Mets 3-0 win over the Cubs on September 26, 1985.

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A framed blue Mets jersey appears in the background when Fred (Seth Rogen) visits the office of his friend Lance (O'Shea Jackson) in the 2019 comedy Long Shot.

[Edgy MD]

Did his folks name him after Shea Stadium?

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“He's got his little Mets cap on, and he just pulls away from me, darts across the street, runs right at me, jumps in my arms. So that was the first time Timmy hugged me after the divorce.”

—One of the dads at the Elmhurst Community Center Single Parents Support Group, Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens, “Not Today,” S. 1, E. 5, February 19, 2020.

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Exchange from The Outsider , “Dark Uncle,” Episode 3, January 19 (HBO); while a Cubs game is on at a bar:



ALEC PELLEY: The first game my Dad ever took me to was at Wrigley. 1985, Cubbies-Mets, must've been towards the end of the season somewhere. After all these years, who can remember the date?

HOLLY GIBNEY: Did they win or lose?

ALEC: Cubbies lost.

HOLLY: September 26.

ALEC: September 26. I wish I could remember who was pitching.

HOLLY: Johhny Abrego started for the Cubs, but was knocked out in the fourth. He was relieved by Ron Meridith, Steve Engel and Jay Baller. Dwight Gooden, on the other hand, threw a complete game shutout for the Mets.

[MFS62]

Maybe not pop culture, but Mets in a feel good story:

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/pete-alonso-luis-rojas-surprise-lifelong-mets-fan-following-cancer-diagnosis-011931887.htmlhttps://www.yahoo.com/sports/pete-alonso-luis-rojas-surprise-lifelong-mets-fan-following-cancer-diagnosis-011931887.html



Jeter wouldn't have done that.

Later

[G-Fafif]

Filmed at the Astrodome, but advertised with Shea.



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[Edgy MD]

This featured the two most colorful teams a TV could handle at the time, if I recall correctly. Houston and Oakland?

[G-Fafif]

It was the inadvertent death knell for black & white TV sales.

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Edgy MD wrote: This featured the two most colorful teams a TV could handle at the time, if I recall correctly. Houston and Oakland?

The Pirates were pretty colorful, too.



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Edited March 21, 2020 by Guest

[G-Fafif]

I don't think those Buc threads debuted until after “Murder” aired. Pittsburgh should have called winners for the sequel.

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I don't think those Buc threads debuted until after “Murder” aired. Pittsburgh should have called winners for the sequel.

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Guessing “Murder” was in the can before the Buccos descended on Bradenton.



I never saw the movie, but I remember deciding Oakland-Houston sounded otherworldly as a World Series matchup, with the A's having peaked (and been recently ravaged by a free agent exodus) and the Astros so stubbornly mediocre.

[Edgy MD]

Even then, I realized it was a TV cheapie knockoff of Black Sunday. I was rooting for it to succeed, hoping to see how far down the feeding chain they would go.



Hailstorm During the Stanley Cup Finals! Super Windy Day at the Masters!

[Benjamin Grimm]

I remember that I watched it when it was on, but remember nothing about the story, or whether or not I liked it. I just recall thinking that the idea of the Astros in the World Series seemed absurd.

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“Of the fifteen New York Met games she's attended, the Mets have won all fifteen.”

—Casey Kasem, introducing Gloria Gaynor's “I Will Surive” as the No. 1 song on American Top 40, March 17, 1979. Casey had been telling a story of how Gaynor's South American tour crossed paths with that of New York Cosmos, and how her hastily arranged pregame concert may have helped the Cosmos break their winless streak (the Cosmos resented the idea they needed an opening act, let alone the kind of luck Gloria claimed to bring her teams).

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“Of the fifteen New York Met games she's attended, the Mets have won all fifteen.” —Casey Kasem, introducing Gloria Gaynor's.... “

I got a story that can top that. But first, some easy math. So the odds of Gaynor, or anybody, attending 15 Mets games resulting in 15 Mets wins is about 32,000 to 1 (2 to the 15th) assuming the Mets have a 50-50 chance of winning each game. I'm simplifying things to get a "ballpark" (get it?) figure that's reasonably accurate if not precise to the last digit.



So my mother (not a baseball fan and doesn't even understand the rules of the game and I'm not even sure she gets it in her head that I'm a Mets fan -- she's pretty oblivious to baseball -- but she definitely knows who Tom Seaver is) -- she's been to just two baseball games in her entire life. And in each of those games, the Mets starter pitched a complete game one-hitter. Gary Gentry in 1971 and Pete Schourek 20 years later. And I'm figgerin' that the odds of that are anywhere from 60,000 to 100,000 to 1.

Edited March 23, 2020 by Guest

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“Of the fifteen New York Met games she's attended, the Mets have won all fifteen.” —Casey Kasem, introducing Gloria Gaynor's.... “ I got a story that can top that. But first some easy math. So the odds of Gaynor, or anybody, attending 15 Mets games resulting in 15 Mets wins is about 32,000 to 1 (2 to the 15th) assuming the Mets have a 50-50 chance of winning each game. I'm simplifying things to get a "ballpark" (get it?) figure that's reasonably accurate if not precise to the last digit. So my mother (not a baseball fan and doesn't even understand the rules and I'm not even sure she gets it in her head that I'm a Mets fan -- but she definitely knows who Tom Seaver is) -- she's been to just two baseball games in her entire life. And in each of those games, the Mets starter pitched a complete game one-hitter. Gary Gentry in 1971 and Pete Schourek 20 years later. And I'm figgerin' that the odds of that are anywhere from 60,000 to 100,000 to 1.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Buy her season tix for chrissakes

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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Buy her season tix for chrissakes

It'd be a colossal waste of money: she wouldn't go.

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Then buy them for Ms. Gaynor.

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Then buy them for Ms. Gaynor.

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It will survive.

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In the outstanding Netflix series "Unorthodox", a character named "Yanky" wears a (weird) Mets cap. Unfortunately, it was his, and the other character in the scene, second choice to a MFY cap.