Met-Lovin' Big Shots and Their Met-Lovin' Ways, 2011

[Edgy MD]

Last year's thread can be found here. When that link fails, look for the thread in the archives among threads started in January of 2010.

Meanwhile, Jersey Governor Chris Christie makes his first State of the State Address wearing the colors of his favorite team:

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Also a Fightin Blue Hen, this guy.

[bmfc1]

Question: are you happy to learn that any Big Shot is Met-Lovin' or are there some people that you don't like so they might as well be MFY fans?

[Ceetar]

bmfc1 wrote: Question: are you happy to learn that any Big Shot is Met-Lovin' or are there some people that you don't like so they might as well be MFY fans?

Unless Christie starts offering Mets license plates in Jersey, or sets it up so donating blood here gets Mets tickets, I couldn't care less who he claims to root for.

[Edgy MD]

I prefer to see terrorists and child killers --- if I must see them at all --- in the gear of another team.

I like to see both Demeritcrats and Repuiglicans in Mets colors, 'specially if they mean it.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I, too, can do without the blue-and-orange perp walks.

I have to admit that there are some pols I would have a tough time embracing into the tribe-- Cheney's one of those rare ones, methinks-- but ultimately, I think sincerity is the thing for me; if you're really, truly interested in and invested in the team-- and that interest must extend to the current day, even if the investment may wax and wane*-- then I'll tip my hat to you, buy you a beer and/or accept one, and discuss all things Metly (or just plain baseball-y).

*Either you're on point with the current state of affairs, or you're beating yourself up about it, and you'll get caught up as soon as you can. Maybe it's the residual Catholicism in me, but I'll take guilt/repentance-in-trade.

[G-Fafif]

Cheney going hunting with Chase Utley would be swell.

[Valadius]

bmfc1 wrote: Question: are you happy to learn that any Big Shot is Met-Lovin' or are there some people that you don't like so they might as well be MFY fans?

This applies to Christie.

[G-Fafif]

One I'd gladly trade to the MFYs here.

Metties? Really?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Baseball is so seductive, you can find yourself ignoring it all year, as I do, and then the series comes or a McGwire hits 61 home runs and you find yourself with moist eyes, cheering.

Gotta love that. Baseball is so great, even phonies like me are inspired to pretend to like it.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

We made ourselves unfashionable by cheering for Mike Piazza, and when I got home I found myself singing a song called Benny Abgayani, to the tune of �Gary Indiana,� from �The Music Man.�

I am fairly certain that not only would she compose the whitest Song Parody entry we'd ever seen, but that she'd come damn close to composing the whitest satirical pop song humanly possible. I'm talking a Doris Day song in barbershop-quartet harmonies, accompanied by folk guitar, with friends shouting "ironic" rap lyrics and clapping on one and three until the damn thing ended.

[G-Fafif]

My sister sent me this column when it first ran as some kind of well-meaning reach across the 180-degree divide that separates us politically. I asked her to please keep the Mets out of it -- and informed her that in my then 30+ years of fandom I'd never heard of these "Metties". Haven't heard of them in the ten years since, either.

What a wordsmith.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Baseball is so seductive, you can find yourself ignoring it all year, as I do, and then the series comes or a McGwire hits 61 home runs and you find yourself with moist eyes, cheering. Gotta love that. Baseball is so great, even phonies like me are inspired to pretend to like it.

Amen.

[G-Fafif]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: We made ourselves unfashionable by cheering for Mike Piazza, and when I got home I found myself singing a song called Benny Abgayani, to the tune of �Gary Indiana,� from �The Music Man.� I am fairly certain that not only would she compose the whitest Song Parody entry we'd ever seen, but that she'd come damn close to composing the whitest satirical pop song humanly possible. I'm talking a Doris Day song in barbershop-quartet harmonies, accompanied by folk guitar, with friends shouting "ironic" rap lyrics and clapping on one and three until the damn thing ended.

Perhaps, but you'd have to admire the effort. Then again, with all the time she spends ignoring baseball, there's definitely the time to work on it.

[bmfc1]

Mike Breen, NBA and Knicks announcer. On tonight's Knicks game, Girardi was in the crowd and Breen said that he wanted equal time for the Mets. Also, the sideline reporter said that Mike was "Mets guy."

[ashie62]

Valadius wrote: Question: are you happy to learn that any Big Shot is Met-Lovin' or are there some people that you don't like so they might as well be MFY fans? This applies to Christie.

Not in this NJ House.

[Frayed Knot]

bmfc1 wrote: Mike Breen, NBA and Knicks announcer. On tonight's Knicks game, Girardi was in the crowd and Breen said that he wanted equal time for the Mets. Also, the sideline reporter said that Mike was "Mets guy."

Yes, Breen has always been a Mets guy.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Joe Klein, novelist, journalist and author of Primary Colors, on being sued:

Excerpt:

The sheer joy that attends the beginning of spring training is tempered a bit this year, for me at least, by the messy situation in which the owners of my beloved New York Metropolitan Baseball Club have been entangled.

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2011/02/17/pitchers-and-catchers/

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Damn. This thread's a little more vaguely depressing than it used ter be; I'm half-expecting to actually see Cheney in a vintage Gilkey-era ice-cream hat the next time I open it.

[bmfc1]

Comedian Amy Schumer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Schumer

[Edgy MD]

One more professional funnyperson from my high school.

It's freaky.

[bmfc1]

What a school! Dave Atell, Amy Schumer, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Edgy!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

This guy

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[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Happened to have the WNBC/4 late local news on last night while trying to put YoungerPooper back to bed, and, after sports anchor Bruce Beck rattled off updates about the NFL labor talks, the night's Ranger game, and some Carmelo Anthony-related event, he threw it back to the anchors to close the show.

Longtime WNBC anchor Sue Simmons, who's no stranger to oddly-timed blurts, mutters, "Well, I guess I'll have to check my DVR to see those two scoreless innings Ollie Perez tossed."



Did a little Googling this morning to confirm, and yep, she's apparently one of us.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Ouch. Facelifts.

[metirish]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Happened to have the WNBC/4 late local news on last night while trying to put YoungerPooper back to bed, and, after sports anchor Bruce Beck rattled off updates about the NFL labor talks, the night's Ranger game, and some Carmelo Anthony-related event, he threw it back to the anchors to close the show. Longtime WNBC anchor Sue Simmons, who's no stranger to oddly-timed blurts, mutters, "Well, I guess I'll have to check my DVR to see those two scoreless innings Ollie Perez tossed." Did a little Googling this morning to confirm, and yep, she's apparently one of us.

Oh yeah , a big Mets fan, she scolded one of the sports guys last week for saying Shea Stadium.....

[Edgy MD]

I rememember how excited she was when Mookie Wilson debuted!

[metirish]

didn't see the pic before , when did she turn white?

[Edgy MD]

I'm pretty sure she's a twofer.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, I remember Simmons as one of the earlier public figures to make public her mixed race background.
When TV news first started to get away from being all white Ken & Barbie clones one of the first and favorite hiring targets was white-looking black chicks.

As for her looking ever more whiter these days I suppose that's either the lighting of that particular photo or the result of getting too many chemical skin peel procedures to go along with the facelifts.

[seawolf17]

I can't think of Sue Simmons without thinking of the FoW line from "Traffic & Weather":

Chuck Scarborough turns to Sue Simmons
Says sugar you don't know what you're missin'

Oooh we belong together
Like traffic and weather
Like traffic and weather

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