Met-Loving Big Shots 2010

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Or perhaps Self-Loathing MLBSs might be more apropos. Mild joshing in front of the wrong sort of microphone, or is Ferris a Broderick of more fear than faith?

�It�s very hard being a Mets fan these days. I�m thinking of getting a divorce. Maybe I�ll become a Cardinals fan. The Mets had so many injuries last year. I don�t understand how it could happen that much. And if they don�t get hurt again � but they probably will � I still think it�s a good team. So I can�t help it. I�m hopeful.�

[Benjamin Grimm]

He's probably kidding. And if he ever does get a divorce, I'm sure it will be so that he can marry Nathan Lane.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I see "self-loathing" with a cap-S and I think, "Why would anyone hate Todd Self?"

Seriously, waa, bloody waa. Why do peeps think these such particularly hard times? The Mets got hurt and lost a lot of games. Caveat emptor, man.

Hey Broderick, if you can't take it, bankroll your own damn team.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I agree. I'm so tired of the angst.

[Guest holychicken]

Well, you guys are more tough than myself. Arguably the biggest regular season MLB collapse of all time, followed by another late season blown lead, followed by a completely disheartening year (not to mention having to deal with the Yankees winning, again) has got me feeling like these are hard times.

And I don't even have the Giants to cheer me up this year.

[Willets Point]

I'll take 2007-2009 (2 highly-competitive years & 1 injury-ridden year) over 2002-2004 (three crap years with a team full of reprobates) any time. This team's still got a solid core and I expect good things in 2010.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Screen grab from DJ Khaled's new video Fed Up featuring Drake, Usher, Young Jeezy and Rick Ross. That would be Rick Ross in the Mets jacket and cap. I stumbled across this scanning the music video channels while getting dressed this morning.

[Guest themetfairy]

John Oliver, correspondent for The Daily Show

[Fman99]

See, I told you Ferris was a rat. Good, jump ship and go hump your foot-faced wife.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Matthew Morrison, Broadway musical-theater actor, South Beach buff person and "Glee" star (he's the glee club's pretty-boy teacher).

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2010/01/02/matthew-morrison-south-beach-buff/

AAAAAAAND somewhat less proudly, "Snooki" from MTV reality show/graduate course in fist-pumpin'-like-a-champ "Jersey Shore":

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Under the category of Big Shot Loving Mets (or, considering that the fourth round of the shootout was the first time a puck crossed the goal line the whole night it should be Big Save Loving Mets) Murphy, Pelfrey and Santos were at the Garden for last night's Rangers-Devils pitcher's duel. The reaction when they showed them on the big screen was not quite Potvin-level, but the boos definitely outnumbered the cheers.

[G-Fafif]

Swan Swan H wrote: Under the category of Big Shot Loving Mets (or, considering that the fourth round of the shootout was the first time a puck crossed the goal line the whole night it should be Big Save Loving Mets) Murphy, Pelfrey and Santos were at the Garden for last night's Rangers-Devils pitcher's duel. The reaction when they showed them on the big screen was not quite Potvin-level, but the boos definitely outnumbered the cheers.

I recall Piazza at a Rangers game before his penultimate Met season getting a similar reaction, which caused one of the clueless weathervane columnists (Matthews probably) to insist Mike Must Be Traded. All I can really glean from these boos is that the Rangers attract a lot of MFYLDBs.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

I agree. I think the tendency is Mets-Jets-Islanders, and Yankees-Giants-Rangers, although I am an exception (Mets-Giants-Rangers).

[G-Fafif]

Swan Swan H wrote: I agree. I think the tendency is Mets-Jets-Islanders, and Yankees-Giants-Rangers, although I am an exception (Mets-Giants-Rangers).

For a swath of New Yorkers, it's Frontrunner-Frontrunner-Frontrunner.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Mets-Whatever-Whatever here, baby.

Go, Question Marks!

[Guest Swan Swan H]

G-Fafif wrote: Swan Swan H wrote: I agree. I think the tendency is Mets-Jets-Islanders, and Yankees-Giants-Rangers, although I am an exception (Mets-Giants-Rangers). For a swath of New Yorkers, it's Frontrunner-Frontrunner-Frontrunner.

They can all go swath themselves.

[Farmer Ted]

Cutie Denise from the Taco Bell commercial has some Mets Loving in her.

http://www.thundertreats.com/articles/women/thunder-chat-nicole-hayden.html

[Guest Edgy DC]

Nicole, honey, I don't mean to interrupt your cute little exclamation pointing, but the Sox won in 2004.

They won everything.

[Theoldmole]

It's Mets-Jets-Isles if you're an Islander -- for those upstaters among us, that doesn't hold. I'm with Swannie, Mets/Giants/Rangers. but football is not like baseball, and I have no problem also rooting for the Jets.

[Fman99]

Mets-Jets-Syracuse basketball.

There was a time that I followed the Rangers and Knicks but I am unable to bring myself to care about the NHL or NBA anymore.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Edgy DC wrote: Mets-Whatever-Whatever here, baby.

Me too. I have a bit of an affinity for the Giants over the Jets, and used to follow the Knicks a bit, but the only team I'm a fan of is the Mets. I haven't watched any sports at all on TV (other than the 1986 NLCS rerun) since Nelson Figueroa threw his last pitch of the season in early October.

[G-Fafif]

If Mets Suber isn't a Mets-loving big shot, then he might have self esteem issues. Saw his name in the credits for Sunday night's episode of Big Love on HBO but haven't been able to determine whom he played or find an image.

But I'd like to think he considers the Mets either super or superb.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Is the head of surgery at Peconic Bay Hospital a big shot?

[MFS62]

If he's the one performing YOUR surgery, he is to you.

Later

[Theoldmole]

I thought hotshot surgeons all looked like Patrick Dempsey.

[RealityChuck]

TheOldMole wrote: It's Mets-Jets-Isles if you're an Islander -- for those upstaters among us, that doesn't hold. I'm with Swannie, Mets/Giants/Rangers. but football is not like baseball, and I have no problem also rooting for the Jets.

I'm originally a Long Islanders and I was Mets/Jets/Rangers long before I moved upstate.

Of course, there were no Islanders when I was getting into hockey.

For basketball, I was a New York Nets fan, but stopped following them after they traded Erving. I don't care about basketball, finding it much too dull.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Edgy DC wrote: Is the head of surgery at Peconic Bay Hospital a big shot?

Well, he's certainly big.

Nice office decor. Actually, I'm rather jealous.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The updated list (with a tip of the hat to NY Sports Dog):

Actors/Comedians:

Adam Sandler
Robert DeNiro
Jerry Seinfeld
Ben Stiller
Chris Rock
Jimmy Kimmel
Jon Stewart
[crossout]Ray Romano[/crossout]
Matthew Broderick
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Viggo Mortensen
Tim Robbins
Susan Sarandon
Jason Alexander
Glenn Close
Kevin James
Jim Breuer
Charles Grodin
Julia Stiles
Matt Dillon
Kevin Dillon
Hilary Swank
John Leguizamo
Nell Carter
Jerry Orbach (RIP)
George Carlin (RIP)
Nell Carter
Ed Burns
Michael Vartan (Alias, One Hour Photo)
Stephen Collins (7th Heaven)
Bradley Whitford (West Wing, Billy Madison)
Hank Azaria
Ellen Barkin
Kamal Ahmed (Jerky Boys)
Matthew Morrisson (Broadway, Glee)

Music:

Julian Casablancas (The Strokes)
Lars Ullrich (Metallica)
Luther Vandross (RIP)
Twisted Sister
Chuck D
Nas
DJ Clue
Adam Horowitz (Beastie Boys)
George Thorogood
Cyndi Lauper
JoJo Hermann (Widespread Panic)
Robert Randolph
Pearl Bailey (late jazz singer)
Yo La Tengo
Ian Hunter
Marc Anthony
Brian Setzer

TV/Radio Personalities:

Stephen Colbert
Bill O'Reilly
Kelly Ripa
John Oliver (Daily Show)
Howard Stern/Robin Quivers/Gary Dell'Abate
Opie (Opie and Anthony)
Linda Cohn
Steve Somers
Joe Benigno
Sid Rosenberg
Mike Breen
Gary Cohen
Howie Rose
Richard Neer
Ian Eagle
Gene Shalit

Authors:

Harper Lee
Paul Auster
P.G. Wodehouse
Peter David

Politics:

George Bush, Sr
Richard Nixon
David Paterson
Chief Justice Earl Warren
Joe Klein
Carol Bellamy
Anthony Weiner

Sports World (current, or claimed to root for the Mets in their formative years):

David Wright
Paul LoDuca
Willie Randolph
Al Leiter
John Franco
Doug Mientkiewicz
Alex Rodriguez
Gary Sheffield
JC Romero
Lee Mazzilli
Bobby Bonilla
Bobby Valentine
Steve Karsay
Rich Aurilia
Jon Daniels (Texas Rangers GM)
Stuart Sternberg (Rays principal owner)
Jeff Van Gundy
Chris Mullin
Tom Gugliotta
Tim Thomas
Ron Artest
Boomer Esiason
Dwight Freeney
Dallas Clark
Keith Bulluck
Gary Bettman (NHL commish)
John McEnroe
James Blake
Sarah Hughes (figure skater)
Mick Foley (WWE)

[metirish]

Cool list ..


I would never have guessed Philip Seymour Hoffman, mad respect man , mad.

[Frayed Knot]

I believe a few of those.