Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013

[G-Fafif]

The 2012 thread is here. A survey of Mets Pop Culture in 2012 can be found here.

And the first sighting of 2013? The Odd Couple marathon running on WLNY-TV (Channels 10/55) is certainly ripe with familiar glimpses, but one I hadn't connected before was the prop newspaper front page used in the pilot for Get Smart...



...is the very same one framed in Oscar's office at the New York Herald. I noticed it while Oscar, Murray and Leon from production were engaging in a pizza-eating contest (which Oscar shouldn't have been in, given his ulcer...per Felix).

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Futurama is set in year 3001 -- the good news is Shea will be rebuilt at some point in the future (and demolished again). The bad news is the Mets will not another World Series until at least 3001.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

The Second Spitter wrote: The bad news is the Mets will not another World Series until at least 3001.

Cheapass Wilpon heads in a jar.

[Lefty Specialist]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: The Second Spitter wrote: The bad news is the Mets will not another World Series until at least 3001. Cheapass Wilpon heads in a jar.

If I'd been in a car while reading this, I would have driven off the road.

[metirish]

The guy from Glee

[Edgy MD]

That's more of a MLBS post than a MPCS post, no?

[metirish]

Oh, my bad.....

[Edgy MD]

Well, certainly not bad.

But we could totally use an MLBS thread, if you'd like to start one..

[Ceetar]

The Second Spitter wrote: Futurama is set in year 3001 -- the good news is Shea will be rebuilt at some point in the future (and demolished again). The bad news is the Mets will not another World Series until at least 3001.

no no, This was pre-conception of Citi Field. In that world the Mets kept Shea up as a museum when they moved to Citi Field where they won numerous championships. That's my story, sticking to it.

[MFS62]

Ceetar wrote: no no, This was pre-conception of Citi Field. In that world the Mets kept Shea up as a museum when they moved to Citi Field where they won numerous championships. That's my story, sticking to it.

Continuing that thought, it is preserved as a shrine by the Jerry Seinfeld financial group that bought the team from the Wilpons and turned it into perrennial Champions.

Later

[G-Fafif]

Now this is some detective work.

[Edgy MD]

You don't have to be the world's greatest detective to see that

(1) no manager in baseball down by one in the ninth with the bases empty and one out intentionally walks a batter. Not unless the batter is Carlos Beltran and the next three hitters are Jon Niese, Bobby Parnell, Francisco Rodriguez, and Elmer Dessens. And there're are no available pinch hitters remaining. Even Mike Pelfrey has been burned, somehow.

(2) The screen seems to switch from a night game to day.

(3) Games don't tend to end at the time one goes to dinner. Night games end at 11ish, at which time to you can get dinner in New York, but you're generally not picking each other up at that hour if you're going for a late meal, but coming from a late shift at work or an early night at the club or maybe the theater. Day games end at four, which is right out as a dinner time unless you're of a certain age and catching the retirees early special at Bob Evans. Daytime doubleheaders wrap around 7:30 or so, but during baseball season it wouldn't be so very dark at that hour (though we've already established that the creative team has no clue what time of year it is). It can only be the end of a day-night double header game two and it's 9:15 or so.

(4) That ain't Gary Cohen.

And that's without freezing and enhancing. It's elementary.

[Ceetar]

Learned a new word from that article, chyron, which is apparently used wrong since it's meant to represent the _bottom_ graphics on screens, and is a company name (so it's the Dumpster of rubbish bins)

Scorebug is such a nicer word.

I know deadspin has Mets fans, but this writer clearly isn't a regular one having ignored key clues like wall color (not blue, not 12. same with the scorebug, which was changed twice in '12)

You can also pinpoint the year via wall advertising.

Although I'm not really sure why it was necessary to deduce which cut scenes MLB provided the show in order to fit the dialogue in the first place.


neat though. Should I be watching Elementary?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Meh. The BBC update it rips from might be a better place to start. (Elementary:Sherlock::Mets-Era Bay:Old Bay)

[Ceetar]

been intrigued by Sherlock via Doctor Who commercial breaks.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Cumberbatch and Freeman are individually good... and work beautifully together. (Plus, the whole thing's only a few filmed "episodes" long.)

[Vic Sage]

SHERLOCK kicks serious ass; ELEMENTARY is eh.

[Frayed Knot]

Ceetar wrote: Should I be watching Elementary?

I've been giving it a try but, like Vic said, it's pretty much eh.

It's essentially the Holmes story as filtered through 'HOUSE' -- which, when you consider that HOUSE was itself a re-ordered Sherlock Holmes, kind of brings it around full circle.
Problem is that in the attempt to model this version of Sherlock Holmes on Greg House (right down to the self-centered obnoxiousness and the constant unshaven look) they've exaggerated the weak parts the earlier show while not hitting the high notes.
Like if you think House pulled conclusions out of his ass wait'll you see this guy; but yet the show doesn't have near the humor of the early years in HOUSE.

[Edgy MD]

Well, if the inning sequence depicted there isn't "right out of his ass," then I don't know what. What kind of idiot would write in a bases-empty-intentional-walk when down by one in the ninth? What kind of lousy Mets fan must Lucy Liu be if she didn't flag it?

[Lefty Specialist]

I'm impressed that somebody would devote such an incredible amount of time to dissecting 26 seconds of a TV episode.

The next time anybody accuses me of wasting my time, I can bring this up for comparison.

[Farmer Ted]

Noticed last night Vincent Irizarry as Corporal Fragetti sporting a Mets blue cap (with blue button) in Heartbreak Ridge.
Vincent mentions going to a Mets game on his webpage but follows nothing Mets-or baseball-related on Twitter.

[G-Fafif]

Just been told that in the novel Heft by Liz Nelson, one of the characters is a high school senior being scouted by the Mets.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

In this discussion of the new documentary "Kink" and BDSM/roleplay's progress in the culture... a weird, proud little Metly connection:

Deb, 55, says she and Sara, 41, are so close they�ve ceased using a safe word: They can sense the others� boundaries just by breath and nonverbal cues. When she plays with others, Deb, a lifelong Mets fan, uses the phrase �Yankees Rule,� which she could only utter under extreme duress.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Cacao!

[G-Fafif]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Cacao!

That's kind of a cool word...

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(NSFW-ish.)

[G-Fafif]

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Money lyrics, from Lobo's "Happy Days in New York City," circa 1969:

But today in New York city The people are smiling a lot And it's all because of the group of guys Who used to lose a lot Now it took eight years to do it And they don't know what they've done For the city's beginning to smile again The Mets have finally won

[G-Fafif]

From Girls, 3/10/2013:

Bartender at party to Adam: �Did ya hear that? The Mets are up, 3-2.� (Adam says, �No.�)

On The Simpsons, same night, there were references to the Astros moving to the American League (in Ned Flanders's vision of hell), being a Cubs fan as explanation for being a bully (Kearney's, I believe) and a Harry Shearer/Vin Scully riff during a lengthy rain delay about the baby ducks Mel Ott raised in Louisiana -- which thrilled me no end as Mel Ott was, in fact, from Louisiana. (Don't know about the baby ducks.)

[G-Fafif]

Opening this Friday, festival favorite Gimme The Loot, in which the Apple takes center stage:

A 1980s local-access cable clip shows graffiti artists boasting of �bombing the apple� � painting their signature tags on the giant apple that appears at Shea Stadium whenever beloved baseball team The Mets scores a home run. Nobody has achieved this rare feat in the 20 years since. But Malcolm (Ty Hickson) and Sofia (Tashiana Washington), two teens eager to establish themselves as street-art legends, are determined to change that by tagging the apple at Citi Field, the Mets� new home since 2009. Driving them is their rivalry with the Woodside King Crew (WKC), a bunch of punks from Queens who stepped on their turf and sabotaged their work.

Key plot point revealed early in this trailer.

[G-Fafif]

New reality show, Anybody Here Can Play This Game, that promises one lucky fan a chance to be a New York Mets outfielder. You'd be foolish not to try out.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

The latest Tom the Dancing Bug comic strip has a Metly theme. Looks like Louis is a member of the SBS.