Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2013

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Take me out to the ball game I want to sit in the stands and scream I wanna root for the losing team Like that day The stadium was Shea And I lived in a rally cap And the underdog would say �The So So Glos, �Son of an American,� Blowout (2012)

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Metstradamus features Jons Hamm and Stewart trading baseball barbs Monday night, as Cardinal and Met fans will do. Note JS slipping in a Cleon Jones that nobody in his audience or at his desk gets but probably everyone here will.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

In the QA thread I asked who should play Atticus Finch in a remake of 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' Edgy went with Viggo Mortensen, but Jon Hamm would be my call.

[Zvon]

G-Fafif wrote: Metstradamus features Jons Hamm and Stewart trading baseball barbs Monday night, as Cardinal and Met fans will do. Note JS slipping in a Cleon Jones that nobody in his audience or at his desk gets but probably everyone here will.

This was priceless.

Swan Swan H wrote: In the QA thread I asked who should play Atticus Finch in a remake of 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' Edgy went with Viggo Mortensen, but Jon Hamm would be my call.

One of my all time favorite movies. Tough shoes to fill. Peck was perfect. Hamm could be.

[Benjamin Grimm]

On Showtime's Nurse Jackie (starring Mets fan Edie Falco) this week, a drunk and ranting Mets fan was brought into the Emergency Room after smashing his face against the side of a bus. He was enraged by the sight of a Yankees logo on the bus, so he bashed the logo with his face.

He was wearing blue and orange, sort of a Mets jacket without any licensed MLB logos or insignia. At one point he shouted to an EMT, "Girardi is your mother's bitch!"

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"I get baseball tickets -- mostly the Mets."
--Dr. Arnold Rosen, to Don Draper, late in the 1968 season, Mad Men, "Favors" (S. 6 Ep. 11; aired 6/9/2013)

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"I get baseball tickets -- mostly the Mets." --Dr. Arnold Rosen, to Don Draper, late in the 1968 season, Mad Men, "Favors" (S. 6 Ep. 11; aired 6/9/2013)

'Mad Men' mocks Mets
45 m ago By Neil Best


Linda Cardellini as Sylvia Rosen and Jon Hamm as Don Draper in a scene
from "Mad Men." The season finale airs June 23 on AMC.

It is not unusual for the 2013 Mets to be a pop culture punch line, but at least they have company. Take the 1968 Mets. Please. On a recent �Mad Men,�� the character Arnold Rosen tells his �friend�� (long story) Don Draper that he has been meaning to invite him to a game and often has access to Mets tickets. �Well, I�m glad you didn�t,�� Draper says. Jon Hamm, who plays Draper, is a Cardinals fan. He told the Sporting News he was pleased by the dig at the Mets, who finished 24 games behind the pennant-winning Cards in '68. One year later Draper might have felt differently about Mets tickets, but Rosen might not have been offering. Tags: AMC , Mets

http://www.newsday.com/sports/media/watchdog-1.812020/mad-men-mocks-mets-1.5541258


The Mad Men discover the dead body of Lane Pryce; in the background, a Mets pennant, circa 1965

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Two very Mets-heavy episodes of The Newsroom, though maybe not exactly airing on HBO.

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G-Fafif wrote: Two very Mets-heavy episodes of The Newsroom, though maybe not exactly airing on HBO.

I miss having the White House Deputy Chief Of Staff hoping against hope that he'd be able to share a bromance moment with Mike Piazza during a batting practice in Port Saint Lucie...

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Minority Mets owner Bill Maher offered guest Jay-Z a blinged-up black Mets cap on Friday's Real Time. Jay-Z declined not, he said, because it's the Mets, but because it was too sparkly. Mr. Carter added when his uncle took him to his first baseball game as a kid, it was a Mets game...but that he was lured to dark side anyway.

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Throwback Mets Pop Culture Sighting from Season One, Episode Six of The Odd Couple ("Oscar's Ulcer"), first aired October 29, 1970: Felix (enters restaurant, approaches Oscar): "You said you wanted your freedom. Freedom to you means either a hot tamale or a night baseball game. The Mets are out of town."

Felix very much up on the recently defending world champs.

H/T bmfc1, who recently appeared alongside a Mets coffee mug on this fine program.

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[Frayed Knot]

Saturday NY Times Crossword
11 DOWN - 5 Letters

Clue = Orange and blue wearer, for short

Answer = NYMET

[Edgy MD]

That bmfc-starring reality show clip is cash money. Go, bmfc!

[bmfc1]

Thank you Edgy.

[Guest themetfairy]

Mr. Met was a participant in Jon Stewart's return to The Daily Show this evening.

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Mr. Met made sure what had to go down went down. And as has been the case in his myriad popular culture appearances, Mr. Met brought to this role an incredible amount of versatility and believability for someone who doesn't speak and wears the same expression at all times.

How does he do that?

[Edgy MD]

I'm still coming out against Conan turning him into a hooker.

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Not exactly a pop culture sighting, but this caught my Metsian eye, from The New Republic's profile of estranged Clinton retainer/handler Doug Band.

Not everyone in Clintonland was thrilled at Band�s ascent. �He can come across as pretty harshly judgmental,� says a former senior aide to Hillary Clinton. �You could fill Shea Stadium with people who haven�t heard from Doug, or heard something they didn�t want to hear, or heard something that alienates them.�

Unless research on this article began five or more years ago, that's a pretty nifty allusion for 2013.

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Spotted in the audience at The Colbert Report on September 24 as the Emmy-winning host thanked his staff (filling all the seats for the occasion): Mr. Met.

[Edgy MD]

G-Fafif wrote: Not exactly a pop culture sighting, but this caught my Metsian eye, from The New Republic's profile of estranged Clinton retainer/handler Doug Band. Not everyone in Clintonland was thrilled at Band�s ascent. �He can come across as pretty harshly judgmental,� says a former senior aide to Hillary Clinton. �You could fill Shea Stadium with people who haven�t heard from Doug, or heard something they didn�t want to hear, or heard something that alienates them.� Unless research on this article began five or more years ago, that's a pretty nifty allusion for 2013.

I think a little footwork and you can probably definitively name this un-named former senior aide outright.

[seawolf17]

How is this guy a Mets fan? This whole thing reads MFYs.

http://happyplace.someecards.com/26552/this-guy-would-love-to-date-you-as-long-as-you-fulfill-his-1000-criteria

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Dillon Gee gets a shoutout around 1:46.

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Go To Hell, Mike Piazza, a Ben Stiller (and Mike Piazza) vehicle has existed in script form since 2001. Premise: Ben Stiller believed his life had been ruined by Mike Piazza.

Stiller's character, Remy "Slider" Thompson, the naked man on the field, then explains how he got to that point and what he has against Mike Piazza. Remy and Piazza were classmates growing up in Pennsylvania. Piazza was great at everything and well-liked, overshadowing Remy. Since they were born on the same day, Thompson's birthday parties were always empty because everyone was at the wildly popular Piazza's parties. Piazza stole Thompson's girlfriend, and worst of all, when they were 12, Piazza's team beat Thompson's team at the Pennsylvania Little League Championship, putting an end to Thompson's promising career as a pitcher. Having given up on baseball, Remy is now a 30-something sausage vendor who's elated to open up his own hot dog restaurant at Dodger Stadium, only to have Mike Piazza transferred there and his restaurant shut down as a result of the team spending so much money to get Piazza. Remy then moves and spends several years opening a restaurant at The Mets' Shea Stadium, only to have the same thing happen. "At that moment," he explains, "I decided to dedicate the rest of my existence to ruining the life of Mike Piazza." [...] Go to Hell, Mike Piazza was a spec script (a non-commissioned, unsolicited screenplay) by David Rotman and Ryan Oxford, who wrote it under the pen names J.J. Kanutsen and Milton Manoon for some reason. Rotman and Oxford sold the script to Universal and Ben Stiller was attached to star and produce in the spring of 2001. "We wrote it expressly for Ben," Oxford said at the time, "He has this great ability to play characters who feel slighted by the world � when they really are not � and who become obsessed by that." The movie was set to be Stiller's first starring role after Zoolander and The Royal Tenenbaums, with the studio eyeing Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure) to direct. Directors Jay Roach (Meet the Parents), Tom Shadyac (Bruce Almighty), and Todd Phillips (The Hangover) were also considered for the job, but no director was ever attached. Mike Piazza was never formally signed on for the project, but he's the biggest character in the movie besides Stiller and figures prominently into the story. Piazza seemed interested when talking to Sports Illustrated at the time, saying, "It's flattering to have your name out there. It's kind of like Being John Malkovich." He did have an issue with the title though, explaining, "My mom's kind of upset with the title. If they were to approach me, I'd have to ask for something a little more subtle. I'm a Catholic boy." Casting a Major League Baseball player with no acting experience in a big part in a comedy seems risky, but Piazza would have been playing himself and the script didn't call for him to do much more than sit there and say the occasional line while Stiller and the rest of the cast act.

[Edgy MD]

I'd kind of be disappointed NOT to see this script resurface as Go to Hell, Giancarlo Stanton and Go to Hell, Bryce Harper and Go to Hell, Travis D'Arnaud as the years pass, maybe finally seeing the light of day in 2037 as Go to Hell, Anesh Vanu.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Go To Hell, Matt Harvey might work. Move it from Pennsylvania to Connecticut. They're going to have to find someone younger than Stiller for the Slider role.

[seawolf17]

I'm already tired of everyone bashing the Wilpons over the Vanu deal. NOBODY thought he was going to be a big-time player, and we did get 150 productive at-bats out of Anthony Recker II that summer in return.

[Frayed Knot]

NY Times Sunday Crossword: 18-Down -- First Mets manager _ _ _ _ _ _ _



I won't give away the answer in case anyone hasn't finished the puzzle yet and wants to do it all on their own.

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: NY Times Sunday Crossword: 18-Down -- First Mets manager _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I won't give away the answer in case anyone hasn't finished the puzzle yet and wants to do it all on their own.

I never came close to finishing Sunday's anyway.

Actually, I miss doing crosswords. The times app is only for iPhone for some reason, and the app I used doesn't get Newsday's anymore. I'm not attached to any others..recommendations?

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Vince Vaughn wears a Mets t-shirt in the commercial for Delivery Man.