Mets in the Popular Culture 2020

[Frayed Knot]

Now if I were a network exec I'd pre-empt Trump coverage for David Wright news ... but that's just me.

[G-Fafif]

Full Late Night segment here. Only about the first 1:40 didn't air.



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David being his affable self, though he takes a dig at a National League opponent to Wright-naturedly razz the host.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

He's still so darn wholesome and polite and comes off only so real.



I think DiComo is very good at what he does but my expectation going in is that I'm gonna learn less about David Wright than there is, if there is more, in this book than I want there to be. Might also come to nothing, but a weapons-grade investigative journalist doing deep research on the "real" David Wright makes for a more interesting book premise, to my imagination

[Benjamin Grimm]

I hope it mentions Jaerock Lee.

[Edgy MD]

What do you think might lie beneath the surface? He occasionally plays golf with his brothers after promising his wife that they'd go antique shopping. His favorite author is Tom Clancy and thinks the posthumous novels with Clancy's name on them but written by some other dude are just as good or better?



Maybe his pastor goes a little too far with incorporating "You know you're a redneck if ... " jokes into his sermons, but David just cracks up every time anyhow.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

None of us really know which is why a biography to me sounds more interesting than I would suspect an autobiography will be.



That said, you're right they might both be boring

[bmfc1]

Seriously, Jeopardy? The Cateogry is "Talking Front Office Baseball"

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$200, not revealed; $400, above; $600, Jeter; $800, Atlanta Braves; $1000, Branch Rickey

[G-Fafif]

“...which then leaves the rest of us non-gays who will be immediately threatened and say, ‘Torch Song Trilogy? No way, nah, listen, I'm going out to Shea Stadium to catch the Mets and squash beer cans with my bare fists.'”

—Copy from a 1982 radio ad for the Broadway play Torch Song Trilogy, presumably intended to convince straight people to come see an explicitly gay-themed production

[Benjamin Grimm]

John Leguizamo was on Real Time with Bill Maher wearing a Mets cap in a particularly unflattering way. The angle he was Zooming at made it look like his cap brim was as large as the one on the Geico commercial.



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[G-Fafif]

He does that quite a bit.

[G-Fafif]

From the 2018 premiere of the FX series Pose, set in the late '80s:

“I've watched a Met game from the owner's box and partied with Gooden and Strawberry afterwards.”

Spoken by Matt Bromley (James Van Der Beek) in a "greed is good" spiel.

[Edgy MD]

I could be wrong, but I never got the idea that Dwight and Darryl partied together.



Beyond that, I didn't think either of them had time for freakin' Bromley.

[G-Fafif]

Maya Rudolph as the Statue of Liberty channeling Elaine Stritch shouted out the ‘86 Mets on last night's SNL (October 31, 2020).



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[G-Fafif]

From https://www.itsabouttv.com/2020/11/this-week-in-tv-guide-november-21-1970.htmlThis Week in TV Guide, 1970.

Thanksgiving Day on the West Coast starts at 7:30 a.m. PT with my personal favorite of the era, The CBS All-American Thanksgiving Day Parades, three hours of fun featuring CBS personalities announcing four department store-sponsored parades: Macy's in New York, with Peter Graves and Julie Sommars; Gimbels' in Philadelphia, with Harvey Korman and Vicki Lawrence; J.L. Hudson's in Detroit, with New York Mets pitcher Tom Seaver and his wife Nancy; and, taped in Toronto,* the Eaton's Santa Claus Parade, with Mike Connors and Amanda Blake. For many years Bob Keeshan and the Captain Kangaroo gang hosted the overall coverage, but I don't know who (if anyone) was doing it by 1970.

[batmagadanleadoff]

From https://www.itsabouttv.com/2020/11/this-week-in-tv-guide-november-21-1970.htmlThis Week in TV Guide, 1970....

Cool web site. New discovery. Thanks.

[G-Fafif]

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." [YOUTUBE]1zgH9RSl2Cc[/YOUTUBE]

Since this is where we came in, this seems like a good place to https://www.mlb.com/news/julian-casablancas-on-mets-uniform-design-and-sports-breaking-your-heartjust about go out.

[G-Fafif]

The whole year http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2020/12/29/the-2020-oscars-cap-awards/here. Thanks to all for your contribution, inadvertent and otherwise.

[Edgy MD]

I'll give you a head-start on 2021 with this still from 2019's Toy Story 4 featuring what is believed to be a bobblehead doll of Met-to-be Rickey Henderson.



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[G-Fafif]

Next year has already begun.

[Edgy MD]

Wow, two Pixars for the price of one.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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Then buy them for Ms. Gaynor.