A play about the Mets

[Guest iramets]

I saw this play last night, and it was surprisingly good.

I'm no one to judge, because just the premise kinda hooks me in. The whole play takes place in a "die-hard Mets fan's apartment" and the characters are four Mets fans arguing baseball, cursing each other out and getting drunk (with brief interludes from a three-man broadcasting team, more or less along the lines of Murph, Keith and Gary Carter).

I mention it here, rather than the Promo forum, because it is about the Mets and it is going to run for about two more weeks. Tix are cheap, and I think there's contact info in the linked article. It's a way to get some cultcha while satisfying your Mets jones. You even get to learn some stuff (I learned a wrinkle about the infield fly rule that I didn't know.)

[Guest cooby]

Sounds very neat, are you involved someway, Ira? I didn't see your name. I'd love to see it.

[Guest iramets]

Nope. I just met the director because the woman who took me (because I'm such an avid Mets fan) is a friend of his. There were about 30 people in the audience (it's off-off-Broadway, though actually only a block or so off Broadway) and I told him I thought I had a group of Mets fans who'd be interested in the play. It would be great if some of you could come but this is very short notice, I know.

[Frayed Knot]

Does the devil appear disguised as Willie Randolph?

[Guest iramets]

No, but the characters are both liars and clueless, at various points.

"Liars and Clueless and Jerks, Oh My!"

[Vic Sage]

i'll try to get there.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The main characters are Phil, Vin, Sykes and Ralph. Are these parallels to big-shot baseball brocasters?

[Guest iramets]

Edgy DC wrote: The main characters are Phil, Vin, Sykes and Ralph. Are these parallels to big-shot baseball brocasters?

No, these are the fans, big loud-mouthed phonies and self-deceivers, who've lived wasted lives, incapable of a honest relationship with their friends, insecure, prone to violence--foolish men paying homage to their childlike selves whom they have not outgrown.

Mets fans, in other words.

[Benjamin Grimm]

]foolish men paying homage to their childlike selves whom they have not outgrown

Any adult who cares about a sports team (myself included) is being childish.

Kept in the proper perspective, it's a harmless indulgence.