Met-Loving Big Shots 2010

[Willets Point]

Maybe not a big shot, but New York Public Library blogger Donald Laub gives a shoutout to his favorite team.

[G-Fafif]

Willets Point wrote: Maybe not a big shot, but New York Public Library blogger Donald Laub gives a shoutout to his favorite team.

Donald Laub needs to be brought up to speed on recent Mets books. But I'll still take him over Don LaGreca.

[Willets Point]

I did my best in the comments.

[G-Fafif]

Willets Point wrote: I did my best in the comments.

Nice work. Thanks.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I submitted a post about The Miracle Has Landed, but it hasn't landed.

[Willets Point]

Edgy DC wrote: I submitted a post about The Miracle Has Landed, but it hasn't landed.

You need to donate a copy of that book to the NYPL system because it's not in their catalog.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Stop talking crazy.

[G-Fafif]

Director Ang Lee wears a Mets cap while directing "Taking Woodstock," as witnessed in the "making of" extras on the Blu-Ray.

[ashie62]

G-Fafif wrote: Director Ang Lee wears a Mets cap while directing "Taking Woodstock," as witnessed in the "making of" extras on the Blu-Ray.

What were the reviews for that film?

[G-Fafif]

Ashie62 wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Director Ang Lee wears a Mets cap while directing "Taking Woodstock," as witnessed in the "making of" extras on the Blu-Ray. What were the reviews for that film?

I liked it. My wife liked it.

[Guest themetfairy]

G-Fafif wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Director Ang Lee wears a Mets cap while directing "Taking Woodstock," as witnessed in the "making of" extras on the Blu-Ray. What were the reviews for that film? I liked it. My wife liked it.

Good but not great. The pace was a little slow.

[ashie62]

Ah, who cares All hail Ang Lee, as long as he's wearing a Mets hat

It's OT but District 9 was the bomb!

[Benjamin Grimm]

When I think of Ang Lee, I can only think of him as the guy who tried to ruin the Hulk.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: When I think of Ang Lee, I can only think of him as the guy who tried to ruin the Hulk.

I'm pretty sure that he could make a lush, immaculately-composed film about the glory days of Shea that would make the old girl look the best she ever has... and feel as airless as a piano recital on the moon.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman is one of my favorite movies.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Agreed on EDMW. It's everything else that leaves me cold (Ice Storm, Crouching Tiger, that one with Jewel).

[G-Fafif]

Kathy Ireland, all-time supermodel, shows off her Met-loving tendencies in the 1987 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.



Digging up that picture led to a selectively thorough examination of swimsuit models posing in Mets caps and their relationship to Dominican-born Mets shortstops here.

[Benjamin Grimm]

She's also showing off too much of her ribcage.

[metirish]

Damn she wouldn't get hired now days with those meaty ribs.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"Sure, she's hot, but her shoulder's totally flying open."

-KH

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

metirish wrote: Damn she wouldn't get hired now days with those meaty ribs.

That would be a travesty. Kathy Ireland always was, and still is, a beautiful woman.

[bmfc1]

He's fictional, but he was a Mets fan. It's Louie De Palma from Taxi.

In Ken Levine's excellent blog (he has quite an interesting and varied background), he discusses Valentine's Day and Louie's explanation of love:

Louie is trying to win back his girlfriend, Zena. He asks if she loves him. She says she doesn�t know what love is. He tells her she�s in luck because he does. And he�s the only person alive who can say that. He�s read what everyone else says love is and they�re always wrong. She finally asks him what it is, and Louie says:

�Love is the end of happiness!

The end. Because one day all a guy�s got to do to be happy is to watch the Mets. The next day you gotta have Zena in the room watching the Mets with you. You don�t know why. They�re the same Mets, it�s the same room�but you gotta have Zena there.�

http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/

[Benjamin Grimm]

So were Archie Bunker and Meathead. The Mets were one of the very few things they could agree on.

[G-Fafif]

She's also showing off too much of her ribcage.

Ribs...batting cage...worked for Rusty.

[batmagadanleadoff]

G-Fafif wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Director Ang Lee wears a Mets cap while directing "Taking Woodstock," as witnessed in the "making of" extras on the Blu-Ray. What were the reviews for that film? I liked it. My wife liked it.

Hey Ashie: Of course he liked it. He likes everything that has to do with 1969. I bet he could sell you on Charles Manson if he thought about it long enough.

[G-Fafif]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Director Ang Lee wears a Mets cap while directing "Taking Woodstock," as witnessed in the "making of" extras on the Blu-Ray. What were the reviews for that film? I liked it. My wife liked it. Hey Ashie: Of course he liked it. He likes everything that has to do with 1969. I bet he could sell you on Charles Manson if he thought about it long enough.

I've never been too high on Nixon's inauguration.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I guess I'm slipping but I don't remember Meathead sharing Archie's interest in the Mets.

I remember Methead liking them, but not Meathead.

[batmagadanleadoff]

G-Fafif wrote: G-Fafif wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Director Ang Lee wears a Mets cap while directing "Taking Woodstock," as witnessed in the "making of" extras on the Blu-Ray. What were the reviews for that film? I liked it. My wife liked it. Hey Ashie: Of course he liked it. He likes everything that has to do with 1969. I bet he could sell you on Charles Manson if he thought about it long enough. I've never been too high on Nixon's inauguration.

Aha! So I was right about Manson.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Edgy DC wrote: I guess I'm slipping but I don't remember Meathead sharing Archie's interest in the Mets. I remember Methead liking them, but not Meathead.

Early on, there was a flashback episode showing the day that Gloria introduced Mike to Archie. She said, "Daddy, you and Michael both like the Mets." And Meathead said something about Seaver and Koosman. I don't remember exactly how it went.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I believe you, but it's not ringing bells for me.

I certainly remember Archie missing a game at Shea when forced by Edith to entertain the Jeffersons, only to find out later he was entertaining a fake George Jefferson ('Weezy's brother I think), while George was at Shea. So the Mets were certainly a rare something he had in common with Jefferson.

It's great to have had an episode building up George Jefferson (not yet so successful, but more intolerant than Archie Bunker [if that's possible], or at least less wrapped around Weezy's finger than Archie was around Edith's), before he ever appears in the flesh. One wonders if Norman Lear already had Sherman Helmsley warming up in the bullpen at this point.