Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

[seawolf17]

From the Comics Curmudgeon, and apparently today's paper:

http://joshreads.com/?p=20469

[MFS62]

Old book, but I just started reading the paperback.
Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart.
The dediction reads:
"For my loves -- Tracy, Stan, and Shamsky
No offense, Sportscenter"

Later

[Edgy MD]

Gotta hand it to the Lockhorns --- keeping those Levittown roots.

[G-Fafif]

She got on the 7 train headed out to Queens, surrounded by hordes of people wearing orange and blue and also looking like they'd all suddenly put on a few pounds. Laurie got off at the Shea Stadium stop with the rest of them and found Eric standing on the walkway waiting for her. "Greetings, and welcome to Game One of the National League Championship Series. This is for you," he said, holding out a blue baseball hat with an "N" and a "Y" on it.

I imagine somebody else here can speak more authoritatively to this title should he choose, but worth noting ASAP the publication of A Whole New Ballgame by Caryn Rose (Metsgrrl in non-fiction circles), a novel that is lousy -- in a good way -- with Metsiana c. 2006.

[G-Fafif]

Big week for the 2006 Mets, who inspired "Easy Come, Easy Go" by Queens' own Caught In A Trap. Blogging Mets tells the story:

http://www.bloggingmets.com/22813/hardcore-punk-song-2006-mets/

[Guest themetfairy]

Ty Burrell talks about his Mets fandom with Jon Stewart on this evening's episode of The Daily Show.

He says, "It's the disease of being the eternal optimist."

[Edgy MD]

Good for Ty Burrell, I guess, but I don't find a whole lot of Met fans to be particularly optimistic.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Neither do I. "Angst-ridden" is more like it.

[Guest themetfairy]

Here is the interview

(fast forward to about the 3:20 mark to get the Mets discussion)

[Vic Sage]

i watched it -- yeah, i didn't get Burrell's viewpoint. Other than Ceeter, "optimistic Mets fan" is an oxymoron.
Stewart much better embodied our eternal angst.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Hell, if you're a barely-working actor, rooting for even a .400 season may feel something like "optimism."

My favorite part of the interview comes right after he says, "I think they're going to win the World Series every year," and there's an audible, pity-drenched gasp from the audience.

[Guest themetfairy]

Barely working? The guy is one of the stars of Modern Family and was on the show to promote his new movie.

[Vic Sage]

metfairy = Ty Burrell's press rep

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

themetfairy wrote: Barely working? The guy is one of the stars of Modern Family and was on the show to promote his new movie.

Not slagging the guy-- I'm talking about his career 15 or so years ago, while living in Astoria, during his nascent fandom.

[Lefty Specialist]

In his new movie, he plays second fiddle to Muppets. Ty shouldn't spring for the beachfront house in Malibu just yet.

[Benjamin Grimm]

If he's going to get residuals from the syndication of Modern Family, I'd say he's in pretty good shape.

(I'm not sure that actors get any compensation from syndication, however.)

[Guest themetfairy]

Burrell can afford that house

And that's just for Modern Family - he's likely making some nice money from voicing Mr. Peabody.

[Vic Sage]

I used to love "Rocky & Friends", and Peabody and his boy Sherman were 2 of the reasons why.

But for the sake of Mr. Burrell's mortgage payments, the new MR. PEABODY will need to be more successful than the other Jay Ward movie spinoffs, Boris and Natasha (1992), Dudley Do-Right (1999), and The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000), all of which were disasters.

[G-Fafif]

In the sad 1998 sequel The Odd Couple II (popping up on one of the HBOs suddenly after keeping its existence unknown to me for 16 years), a Bruce Stark print of Yogi Berra as Mets manager hangs in Oscar�s apartment. Oscar is also asked by an acquaintance if covering minor league ball in Sarasota is comedown after years of writing about �the Yankees and the Mets�.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The Baseball Project's new album is out, and is a hoot along with it being pretty good (Mike Mills is now an official member I think). Met content includes this one:

[youtube:y63ozgjz]Els3cRvntvo[/youtube:y63ozgjz]

Mike Mills contributes this piece of power-hitting pop-homerism:

[youtube:y63ozgjz]NWvkhzC014s[/youtube:y63ozgjz]

[G-Fafif]

That Dykstra song is not only sensational, it's like the musical version of this book I'm reading right now, one in which the reader's stomach (mine, anyway) churns as the author works for Lenny and Lenny makes him regret it a little more each page.

And "Dale Murphy for the Hall of Fame" is now in my head.

[G-Fafif]

[youtube:2fhei5y3]63-ToDgwVUQ[/youtube:2fhei5y3]

Mets shoutout in this one, too. Sold his cards for stock in a startup and became owner of the team.

[G-Fafif]

This Monday was Opening Day of the new Major League Baseball season, and the reopening of old wounds day for Mets fans.

--Colin Jost, new Weekend Update anchor, SNL, 4/5/2014

[bmfc1]

Accused murdered Ben Affleck wearing a Mets cap at 1:02 of the "Gone Girl" trailer:
http://youtu.be/sOPLieLQQQs

[Benjamin Grimm]

On last Friday's episode of Hawaii Five-0, Danno (Scott Caan) was pinned under wreckage in the basement of a collapsed building, and to calm his nerves he started reciting the starting players from the 1986 Mets. (Mentions of Backman, Hernandez, Santana, Knight, Foster, and Wilson.) Time passes, he's still pinned down, and he's up to 1992, mentioning Saberhagen and Bonilla. He finds that 1992 isn't as soothing as 1986 was.

[Ceetar]

bmfc1 wrote: Accused murdered Ben Affleck wearing a Mets cap at 1:02 of the "Gone Girl" trailer: http://youtu.be/sOPLieLQQQs

I just found out they're making this into a movie, and they cast Batman? I'm not sure I agree.

Good book though, even if the character probably isn't one of the 'good' Mets fans.

Mike Kerwick just tweeted about the cap. Hi Mike!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The Baseball Project's new album is out, and is a hoot along with it being pretty good (Mike Mills is now an official member I think). Met content includes this one: [youtube]Els3cRvntvo[/youtube] Mike Mills contributes this piece of power-hitting pop-homerism: [youtube]NWvkhzC014s[/youtube]

Win a trip to the AAA All-Star game by filling in the blanks:

http://woobox.com/5k26ac

[G-Fafif]

Mad Men, Season Seven, Episode Four (air date 5/4/2014), �The Monolith�. Takes place late April 1969. Don is in the late Lane Pryce�s old office, now his. Finds Lane's familiar Mets pennant tucked away. He eventually hangs it up where it used to be displayed. Later he gets drunk, calls Freddy Rumsen, suggests going to Shea and when Freddy comes by to pick him up, Don sings a couple of lines of �Meet The Mets�. Freddy takes him home to sober up. When Don awakes the next morning, he asks, �Did the Mets win?�

One of the great Mets pop culture moments of recent years.

[batmagadanleadoff]

G-Fafif wrote: Mad Men, Season Seven, Episode Four (air date 5/4/2014), �The Monolith�. Takes place late April 1969. Don is in the late Lane Pryce�s old office, now his. Finds Lane's familiar Mets pennant tucked away. He eventually hangs it up where it used to be displayed. Later he gets drunk, calls Freddy Rumsen, suggests going to Shea and when Freddy comes by to pick him up, Don sings a couple of lines of �Meet The Mets�. Freddy takes him home to sober up. When Don awakes the next morning, he asks, �Did the Mets win?� One of the great Mets pop culture moments of recent years.

I was waiting for you to put up that post. The Mad Men are coming to Mets country.

[G-Fafif]

Evidence -- gleaned from the paper Don was reading in a previous scene (Friday's Post) points to the game Don and Freddy missed as April 21, 1969, an eleven-inning loss to the Phillies. Gary Gentry went nine, struck out eight, walked seven and gave up seven hits in his third major league start; if his pitches were counted, it wasn't mentioned. Ron Taylor gave up the game-winning hit to Tony Taylor. Not quite 10,000 True New Yorkers were in attendance. Larry Hisle, whose birthday is today, homered. The only Met run was driven in by Rocky: the right fielder, not the governor for whom Henry Francis works.