Met-Loving Big Shots 2010

[Guest themetfairy]

Farmer Ted wrote: Toni Darling. I have stories on that one for the next CPF lunch.

Ooh - or how about for Marathon weekend?

[Farmer Ted]

Not for www consumption. Kids in the audience.

[Farmer Ted]

Courtesy of today's Extra Mustard blog.

http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/.element/img/4.0/global/swapper/201006/100630.13.jpg

[Guest Edgy DC]

Funny how former-boxer Ray Knight wants no part of that shit.

Knight would assume a real boxer's stance and something primal would click in Tyson's head and he'd atomize poor Ray.

[G-Fafif]

The Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, revealed to Kevin Burkhardt his Mets fandom during Friday night's Snighcast from Nats Park. Grew up in East Elmhurst, used to walk to Shea, attended the second ever game there (he say he got out of school, but didn't cut -- the game was on a Saturday, but maybe he had extra sessions) and was talked by his brother into bolting Game Six before the Red Sox could celebrate. They walked home to East Elmhurst and discovered what happened. Don't know if he was still living in the family home at age 35, but he told it well.

Holder, Kagan...Met lovin' big shots we can believe in.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Alyssa Milano is now modelling clothes on the Mets online shop?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Nothing new. You'll see her in Cincinnati Reds, San Diego Padres, and Tennessee Titans gear if you look hard enough.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

(She's had a women's line-- "Touch"-- pitching licensed team gear for female fans for years. She's got shelf space in every stadium I've been to in the last 3-4 years.)

[MFS62]

I saw an ad that had Met-lovin' honey Julia Stiles pitching Stoli vodka.

Is she trying to hint that Mikhail Prokorov is buying the Mets?

Later

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I couldn't put my finger on it, but I just knew there was a reason the Mets looked good mid-game, but just... couldn't... finish:

�It was great following you guys,� Wright told Altidore as the two stars chatted briefly in the Mets dugout and then posed for a picture together before the Mets played host to the Cincinnati Reds Monday night. �We were living and dying with you guys.�

This sort of thing, though, always rankles:

In the meantime, he�s more than content to relax and watch one of his favorite New York baseball teams -- he wouldn�t commit to being solely a fan of the Mets or the Yankees -- and trying not to dwell on what could have been.

[metirish]

Altodore , as indecisive there as he was in front of goal in the WC.

[Willets Point]

Would be nice if they included the Altidore/Wright photo.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

We're gonna welcome a lousy shooter
When Jozy comes home
We're gonna snark on our work computers
When Jozy comes home to Shea,
We're gonna give him some shit
Sit on the bench with David
Trash talk officials till they blow the game
Be a Met fan or fake it
When Jozy comes home

[Guest Edgy DC]

Jozy and his soccer team
Killers of the World Cup dream
He claims some Met esteem
First, third, or second base
Promo ops don't wanna waste

Hurry, Hurry!

See them up in Boston
Or Washington
Denver or in Austin
Then time to run
Now he's in Chicago
Make no difference
Every town in MLB
"I love your team, they're neat with me!"

[stevejrogers]

Billy J. Kramer, well according to a recent episode of this Beatle podcast, about the 41 minute mark:

http://www.podarama.com/fab_fourum/blog.php

And at the 51 minute mark Billy says the Mets will make the postseason! Not sure when it was recorded.

[Centerfield]

I just saw Chris Rock on the upper West side sporting a blue Mets hat.

[Guest themetfairy]

Centerfield wrote: I just saw Chris Rock on the upper West side sporting a blue Mets hat.

Blue button or orange?

[Centerfield]

Orange. Disappointing.

[Guest Edgy DC]

George Thorogood brandishes dubious logic, and gets the 2009 Mets COMPLETELY wrong, in the interview that inspired Jerry Manuel's managing philosophy.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Unexpectedly drove in to work yesterday, and caught doo-wop legend Little Anthony (sans Imperials) on the Boomer and Craig (Craig and Boomer? Boomer and Carton?) show on 'FAN professing his love of the orange-and-blue; I couldn't remember whether we'd counted him as Met faithful in the prior list.

Anyway, after rattling off a Met-related morning-show-quality parody of "Tears on my Pillow" (this was the morning after the other night's 13-inning number), he hung out for a bit and talked baseball and music, and even quizzed Mookie (who called in) on clubhouse chemistry/whether Beltran should be batting 3rd or 4th at this juncture. Nice moment.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Little Anthony is a great addition to the camp. That man was a great singer in his day.

[MFS62]

The 1962 Mets caused a lot of tears on my pillow.

Later

[Theoldmole]

What did Mookie say?

[MFS62]

TheOldMole wrote: What did Mookie say?

"Be my little baby"?

OK, now that we've temporarily gone retro, does anyone else remember that Archie Bunker was a Mets fan?

The Mets are referenced in quite a few AITF episodes:

(1) The one where Archie first meets Henry Jefferson (who faked being George Jefferson) because George Jefferson skipped out on the dinner gathering (he went to the Mets game instead).

(2) Archie asks Mike The Liberal what he'll say about 'equality' when Mike's Mets are being managed by a woman. Gloria, Irene Lorenzo, and Edith all say hallelujiah, and Mike says "Let me think about that for a while." Archie then goes into a classic rant about 'equality.'

(3) The 1st Meeting between Archie and Mike has the ice broken by talking about the Mets.

We now return you to 2010.

Later

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

TheOldMole wrote: What did Mookie say?

Some cheery pablum about chemistry being very important-- "not just not overrated, but underrated"-- and guys working together being the key to winning. He also said he "loved children." Like, eleventy billion times.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I don't know why I like this so much-- my affinity for the mentally ill, maybe?-- but this needs to be on the scoreboard between innings at some point.

[Farmer Ted]

See sentence under "personal" in bio. Partisan bigshot.

http://israel.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=592&Itemid=63

[Benjamin Grimm]

Hey, that's my old district!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Keepin' it Isreal.

[G-Fafif]

bmfc1 wrote: Elena Kagan! The President just said so: "die-hard Mets fan."

Madam Justice Mets Fan confirmed 63-37. May bunting be ruled unconstitutional.