The Mets in the Popular Culture in 2024

[G-Fafif]

Kicking off the new year by inviting you to check out Faith and Fear's https://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2024/01/05/the-2023-oscars-caps-awards/annual survey of the old year of Mets where one wouldn't expect to find them. Thanks to those who kept an eye out here and everywhere.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I recall that Spy magazine Strawberry-Dino comparison

[MFS62]

Great job. I frequently see Lenny Briscoe making Mets references when I watch old Law and Order reruns.



Later

[stevejrogers]

YouTube, and trying to capture an image from this site is not being my friend, so here is, still a Met, Tom Seaver on the

12/3/1983 episode of Saturday Night Live as part of the cold open for The Smothers Brothers' episode

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[G-Fafif]

Co-starring roles in the latest Eladio Carrión video, “RKO,” for Citi Field, Marysol Castro (bumped up to PBP from PA) and Francisco Alvarez. Mets look good in black here, and the immense scoreboard really fills the screen.



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[Edgy MD]

Harry Tallman was played by Jerry Maren, who, back in 1939, was honoring Dorothy on behalf of the Lollipop Guild.

[Edgy MD]

At the 4:40 mark In James Ivory's 1989 film Slaves of New York, adapted by Mets fan and screenwriter Tama Janowitz from her own collection of stories, protagonist Eleanor's lamentations over her life start to annoy her baseball-watching boyfriend Stash, who suddenly cries out, “I said I'm watching the game! KILL 'EM, LENNY!!”



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[Edgy MD]

Sticking with the late 1980s, here's a 1987 Garbage Pail Kids trading card.



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[Edgy MD]

I was familiar with this song, which features references to Big Shea and Butch Huskey, but I hadn't seen this video (I'm not particularly confident that it's even original) that features beautiful if indifferently lit overhead shots of the World's Fair at night, plus action at what looks to be the earliest years of Shea Stadium.



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[Lefty Specialist]

Stephen Colbert piles on Trump and the Mets.



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He then introduced, “on the condition of complete anonymity,” Juror #11, who though faceless at first, is immediately identifiable as Benanti with her signature Melania Trump accent—with a twist.



“I am just a random New Yorker with a random New York accent,” Benanti said as the anonymous juror when questioned about how familiar her voice sounds. “How about those Mets? Not good at baseball, yes?”

[stevejrogers]

Met Lovin't Big Shot Connor Trinneer has a new vid/podcast about Star Trek and sci-fi with his fellow Star Trek: Enterprise co-star Dominic Keating, https://thedconchamber.com/The D-Con Chamber.


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[Frayed Knot]

If those are big shots I need to brush up on my big shots.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I was thinking the same thing. I've never heard of those people, but I suppose in the Star Trek community they may indeed be considered big shots.



The world of celebrity has become very fragmented.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I was thinking the same thing.

Me three.



Also, I would've liked for Steve to put the actual Mets pop culture

reference in his post, instead of just a link.



I mean, that's a 20 minute pod. I have to sit through 20 minutes of that to find like a six seconds remark?

[stevejrogers]

Well to be fair, Enterprise was the last, and shortest run 2001-2005), of the second wave of Star Trek TV series that went for nearly 20 years (starting with Next Generation's debut in 1987).



The next time the Star Trek franchise rolled out a brand new TV show would be Discovery in 2017. It (which wrapped this year after 5 seasons) and successive series (Strange New Worlds, Picard, and Lower Decks) can be found more so on Paramount's streaming platform, Paramount+

[Edgy MD]

The Met-Lovin' big shots don't seem that big anymore as I age theme has escaped the "Met-Lovin' Big Shots" threads and landed here in a "Mets in the Popular Culture" thread, home of the ever-popular popular culture doesn't seem that popular anymore as I age theme.

[stevejrogers]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I was thinking the same thing. Me three. Also, I would've liked for Steve to put the actual Mets pop culture reference in his post, instead of just a link. I mean, that's a 20 minute pod. I have to sit through 20 minutes of that to find like a six seconds remark?

The reference was Connor wearing a cap in a screen capture

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I was thinking the same thing. Me three. Also, I would've liked for Steve to put the actual Mets pop culture reference in his post, instead of just a link. I mean, that's a 20 minute pod. I have to sit through 20 minutes of that to find like a six seconds remark? The reference was Connor wearing a cap in a screen capture

Oh. Thanks. I didn't even notice. I did notice the '66 style Batman and Robin standees in the background of one of those shots.

[G-Fafif]

Not just sports news.

Not just music news.

Jose Iglesias is news news.

OMG!

[G-Fafif]

CBS Mornings hosts shown a fine time at Citi Field.

[Edgy MD]

CBS News Sunday Morning commentator/contributor Nancy Giles is a family friend and huge Met lover.

[MFS62]

Kathy Ireland 1987

This one's good for any year.

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Later

[Edgy MD]

In the 1988 film Mississippi Burning, this scene seems to end with a radio report that "In Pittsburgh, the Pirates are leading the last-place Mets, 7-1."



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Pittsburgh did indeed https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN196406250.shtmlbeat the Mets 8-1 on June 24, 1964, in the period when the historical events depicted in the film are taking place, so it's plausible that the broadcast is authentic, but there is still an issue with the verisimilitude of the scene. The Mets scored last in that game, so there was never a point at which they were trailing 7-1. Now, it's possible that the announcer is reporting that that the Pirates are winning "Seven-to-nothing," or "Seven-to-none" and the sound of Gene Hackman closing the door and the end of the scene distorts that final word, but that wouldn't account for the fact that the game was at Shea, and that the barber's report on the score of the Cardinals game on that day is irreconcilable with https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLN/SLN196406250.shtmlthe actual outcome.



This is why people resented Alan Parker directing films about historical American subjects. He couldn't get the Mets stuff right.

[batmagadanleadoff]

There's a scene in Mississippi Burning where the Gene Hackman character visits the home of either the Michael Rooker character or the Brad Dourif character (I forget which but I'm leaning towards Dourif) and there's a Mets/Cardinals game being broadcast on the TV in the background of the scene.





I doubt very much that the verisimilitude of the scene you described is undermined at all. Nobody, not even anybody who attended that Mets/Pirates game from 60 years ago is gonna remember enough from that game to notice whether or not the movie version radio broadcast is historically accurate. Discovering some nerdy nitpick will not affect the verisimilitude of the scene. That scene appears accurate enough upon any kind of reasonable viewing. It's one thing to claim that the movie radio broadcast isn't quite accurate, but another to say that the verisimilitude of the scene is undermined. In the movies, the whiskey that the actors are supposed to be drinking is often ginger ale.

[G-Fafif]

Schwerner's regular uniform of blue jeans, T-shirt, sneakers, a blue New York Mets cap, and Beatnik-esque facial hair made him stand out like a thicket of weeds on fresh-cut Mississippi grass.

—Joseph Tirella, Tomorrow-Land: The 1964-65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America, 2014

[batmagadanleadoff]

Schwerner was a huge Mets fan. From the "What are you Reading: 2015" thread (which I actually found):



batmagadanleadoff

Apr 08 2015 09:43 AM

Re: What are you reading in 2015?



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Excerpt:

"In his five months in Mississippi, some had come to revile Mickey Schwerner as 'that communist Jew N****r lover.' Yet those who knew him were struck by his kindness, his easygoing manner, his lack of hatred for anyone, black or white. He was 'full of life and ideas,' 'the gentlest man I have ever known.' A coworker in Meridian paid him the compliment he would have cherished most: "More than any white person I have ever known, he could put a colored person at ease.' Of average size and height, usually dressed in a gray sweatshirt, jeans, and black sneakers, Mickey Schwerner loved W.C. Fields, a good game of poker, and the hapless New York Mets."

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[Edgy MD]

This 1964 TV episode of Mr. Ed titled "Leo Durocher Meets Mr. Ed" features Alan Young strangely being unable to correctly pronounce homestand. It also features soon-to-be-Met Larry Miller staring in disbelief as everybody's favorite talking horse rips one off Sandy Koufax deep into the power alley for an inside-the-park homerun, while catcher Johnny Roseboro wants absolutely nothing to do with Ed's slide into home.





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Johnny Werhas appears in #14, which will remind one how quickly and indiscriminantly the Dodgers reissued those digits after Gil Hodges joined the Mets in the expansion draft.

[metirish]

[Edgy MD]

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That's about $800 for the tickets and another $1,100 for the https://www.stellamccartney.com/us/en/logo-square-crossbody-bag-700073WP02342200U.html?gad_source=4&gclid=CjwKCAjwjsi4BhB5EiwAFAL0YGT30OQ6FYEKmBEW-P2_yOy8sG6bTf0SffI8hlux-gLOoOpiLq783xoCFRsQAvD_BwEStella McCartney handbag.

[metirish]

That's some big shot stuff right there