David meets Dave

[Benjamin Grimm]

According to my Late Show Newsletter David Wright of the New York Mets will be on Late Show with David Letterman on Wednesday, July 12.

Fire up your TiVo!

[soupcan]

Tivo? How about just staying up wuss?

[Elster88]

Do one better and post it on Youtube.

[Benjamin Grimm]

WAY past my bedtime!

On top of that, I'm so far behind on my TiVo'ed Daves (because of my vacation) I probably won't watch it for at least a week.

[metirish]

I just saw a clip on SNY of Wright on Letterman, basically Dave is busting Wright's balls about the Mets,.." are you guys that good or is the league just weak".....stuff like that.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Unfortunately, Dave is one of those misguided Yankee fans. He grew up in Indiana; most transplants seem to latch on to the Yankees. They don't know any better.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Yancy - "...most transplants seem to latch on to the Yankees. They don't know any better."

The Dark Side attracts those poor, unsuspecting souls that are weak in spirit.

[stevejrogers]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Unfortunately, Dave is one of those misguided Yankee fans. He grew up in Indiana; most transplants seem to latch on to the Yankees. They don't know any better.

No proof, but since his NBC prime years were during the good years for the Mets, I bet you he was considering himself a Met fan then and Mets would get frequent mentions on the show.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think back then he was still a Cincinnati Reds fan, which was the team he rooted for as a kid. The Mets did get a lot of mention, but Dave never called himself a Mets fan, and he never fawned over them as he does the Yankees.

I've been a big Letterman fan ever since the start of Late Night in 1982, and I've missed few shows. But I can't watch him interview a Yankee; I always fast-forward through those interviews.

Letterman guests that I fast-forward:

Any Yankee
Tom Arnold
Comedian George Miller (deceased)
Howard Stern
Billy Crystal (usually, but not always)
Race car drivers (usually, but not always)

[metirish]

[Willets Point]

Damn he's good looking.

[seawolf17]

And damn, can he rock a pastel shirt.

[Frayed Knot]

Will someone please throw a bucket of cold water on Willets.



A decent - though somewhat short & generic - appearence.
An early joke in the beginning (when announcing that night's guests) was pretty good as Dave produced a Wright baseball card which had it's 'fun fact' on the back saying: 'In his spare time David likes to bet on Baseball'

The kid seemed a shade nervous (talking very fast) but was otherwise fine. Zinged Dave with a; 'I've heard all your bad Met jokes and we all know you're a Yankee fan' -- to which Dave replied; 'only when they're winning'. Other than that he likes Cal Ripken, the Mets, Willie, his family, hot dogs, apple pie, ... yyybbb.

As with the SI article from a few weeks back and similar national exposures there's nothing that us Met nerds are going to learn or find surprising here.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Julia Stiles asked him which team he prefers.

"I like...

both

teams."

"You can't! You can't like them both."

"You can if you have a show."

[seawolf17]

[Guest Edgy DC]

A pure natural swing. You can't teach that.

[Frayed Knot]

Nice form ... although her hitting could use some work.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I've seen better photos of Julia Stiles.

That catcher behind her has a nasty groin injury!

[Guest Iubitul]

David Rocks The Pastel Shirt

David on Letterman

[Guest Edgy DC]

The Wreckers seemed kind of contrived.

[Vic Sage]

i have a pretty high sensitivity and low threshhold for the Garvey/Carter/Seaver/Clemens all-American too perfect BS jocks... a type discussed elsewhere with regard to Wright.

Frankly, i don't get that vibe from him at all. He seems just a spunky, goofy down-home kid. He's good looking, but not in a "chiseled features" kind of way. More like a slightly scruffy surfer dude. Yeah, he's got a bit of frat boy in him, but he's not the one demanding the pledge bend over, but rather the nice guy who takes the sore-butted pledge out for a beer afterwards.

I liked the story he told about his brothers. His younger brothers always call him, to either congratulate him for a good performance or razz him when he stinks. He said that, after the bare-handed catch he made last season against SD, they called and left a message saying it was a good thing he didn't try to catch it with his glove, or he would've dropped it (noting to Letterman that he made alot of errors last year).

While he said nothing startling or contraversial, his answers didn't seem canned or rehearsed. He just seemed like a naturally decent guy you could hang out with, and if you drank too much, he'd drive you home.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Iubitul wrote: David Rocks The Pastel Shirt David on Letterman

Thanks - It was nice being able to watch that, and I know that MK will enjoy seeing it when he gets home from baseball camp

I had already received one phone call this morning from a female friend who was very pleased with Mr. Wright's appearance on the show - now I have the chance to see it for myself

[Willets Point]

Frayed Knot wrote: Will someone please throw a bucket of cold water on Willets.

Nothing can cool the ardour of this mancrush.

David Wright, women want him, men want to be him.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Vic Sage wrote: While he said nothing startling or contraversial, his answers didn't seem canned or rehearsed. He just seemed like a naturally decent guy you could hang out with, and if you drank too much, he'd drive you home.

Definitely.

Keep in mind how close Wright was to Joe McEwing, and how he used to go to the McEwing's place for dinner every night during spring training. Isn't this the kind of thing you would expect from someone who chose Joe McEwing as his first major league mentor?

Like Vic said - he seems to be just a decent guy.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Willets Point wrote: David Wright, women want him, men want to be him.

And I know several other fans who want him to marry their daughters.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I want to lock him up --- in a long term deal and it a hermetically sealed box.

[Benjamin Grimm]

My daughter's too young for him, but I have a cousin who's 23 and single.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm not too worried about losing David to free agency. I fully expect a deal to get done, unless some bonehead causes a rift between David and either the city or the front office. Fortunately, Dick Young is dead at the present time, so at least, he won't screw this up for us.

On an unrelated note, further proof that David Wright is all that and a bag of chips: he's zooming up the charts in UMDB popularity. He's now all the way in 26th place, having passed a ton of Mets who had up to a five-year head start on him. He's bound to crack the top twenty before the end of the calendar year, if not before the end of the season.

[Vic Sage]

i think a guy whose idol is Cal Ripken may be inclined to stick with the team he started with. Especially since, as a kid growing up in Virginia, he was a fan of the Norfolk Tides.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

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