Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

[batmagadanleadoff]

If it's April, 1969, then Don didn't just jump on the bandwagon.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

That his interest in the Mets increases the more unhinged he gets... well, that gets it somewhat reversed, doesn't it?

I was also a little disappointed that he didn't end that tirade against the computer-lease guy with, "You will be known as... Chipper."

[G-Fafif]

On Maron, May 15, 2014 (Season 2, Episode 2, �Marc�s New Friend�), Marc finds himself in a sports memorabilia store where his showbiz buddy casually purchases a ��68 Seaver� and a ��69 Ryan�. Later Ray shows off an ashtray that once belonged to Casey Stengel, to which sports-challenged Marc asks, �from Casey and the Sunshine Band?�

[G-Fafif]

I'd somehow missed the presence of Mets Bucket Hat Guy on Jimmy Fallon (Late Night, now Tonight).

If you watch Jimmy Fallon, then I am sure you know Mets Bucket Hat Guy, also known as Mike DiCenzo. He had a recurring role on �Late Night With Jimmy Fallon� and now �The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon�. Mike is a writer and actor who really has an unbelievable talent when it comes to word association. He has a way of seamlessly connecting the dots between a wide variety of topics and words that never fails to impress. The concept for Mets Bucket Hat Guy started innocently enough in 2010, when Jimmy Fallon hosted the Emmys. �I wrote an intro for co-presenters Matthew Perry and Lauren Graham where Jimmy connects their two names doing a stream-of-conscious runner,� Mike recalled. �He liked it, so we came up with a way to do that on the show.� The outfit was an accident � or, perhaps, fate. Mike overslept and was late for work, the first and only time that�s ever happened to him. He threw on a Hawaiian shirt and a red Mets bucket hat he got for free at a baseball game, and arrived at the office two hours late. He wore the outfit, he said, �un-ironically.� That very same Hawaiian shirt and red Mets bucket hat now resides in the Fallon wardrobe department.

Hat appears to be orange, but always nice to see the skyline.

[Edgy MD]

Pretty funny that the hat still has the giveaway sponsor on it.

[Edgy MD]

The New Mutants, April 1987.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I like that Cyclops' dad was romantically involved with a giant female skunk.

[Edgy MD]

"The Mets stink? I think that's your girlfriend you're thinking of, Summers."

[G-Fafif]

The remote control landed on Antenna TV and unearthed the following:

Season 3, Episode 10 of The Patty Duke Show, �Sick In Bed� (11/17/1965): A Mets pennant, in which the silhouette of a player is illustrated batting in the middle of the skyline logo, is displayed prominently on the bookshelf of Patty Lane�s bedroom.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Citi Field and sharknados!

[Zvon]

Citi Field and sharknados! http://youtu.be/3e0ieIpBhsg [youtube]http://youtu.be/3e0ieIpBhsg[/youtube]

The first shot of the old man looking up: is that comedian Robert Klein?

[Guest themetfairy]

Citi Field and sharknados! http://youtu.be/3e0ieIpBhsg [youtube]http://youtu.be/3e0ieIpBhsg[/youtube] The first shot of the old man looking up: is that comedian Robert Klein?

Yes.

[G-Fafif]

Let's Go Metropolitans, advise 45 Adapters on their 2012 LP Collected Works Vol. 1.

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[Frayed Knot]

Sunday's NY Times Crossowrd
101 DOWN: The _ _ _ _ _ _ METS

I wonder how many non, or partial, sports fans they caught wondering why AMAZING only had six slots?

[G-Fafif]

Sighted 26 years after the fact: Kid in hardware store wears adjustable Mets cap in hardware store in the unfortunately existing Arthur 2: On The Rocks (1988).

[G-Fafif]

Mystery writer A R Kennedy notes Lily, one of the main characters in her ongoing Nathan Miccoli series, is "a big Mets fan" and that "key scenes" occur at Citi Field.

[bmfc1]

It's Mets fan on Mets fan action as Jon Stewart, wearing a black Mets cap, is the latest comedian to get coffee with Jerry Seinfeld. http://www.crackle.com/c/comedians-in-cars-getting-coffee

[Vic Sage]

I'm surprised they didn't talk about the Mets at all.
When i took my recent tour of Citifield with [sales agent who shall remain nameless], she took great pride in pointing out Jerry's luxury suite. It's the one on the end, on the 1b side.

[Guest themetfairy]

And he brings friends to the games.

[seawolf17]

themetfairy wrote: And he brings friends to the games.

Well, I would hope he would. Although it would be funny if he just sat in the suite by himself a few times, looking longingly to the suites next to him every few hitters.

[Edgy MD]

In the French/American sic-fi film Stargate, Kurt Russell first appears around nine minutes in, mourning an apparently deceased son, shown in a nearby photograph in a Mets uniform with the 1980s piping up the side.

[G-Fafif]

The Mets are Hollywood's Team, according to the Los Angeles Times in 2000.

The mind-boggling "Frequency" stars Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel as a father and son who magically reconnect through the time-space continuum by talking on a ham radio that somehow bridges 30 years. Along the way, they change the course of their family history and prevent a series of murders, thanks in no small part to their mutual love of the 1969 Mets. Key plays from the '69 World Series--including the famous "shoe polish incident"--are pivotal plot links in the film. Of course it's the Mets. Who else could it be? It's no secret that baseball has a certain je ne say hey that Hollywood strives to appropriate whenever possible. But more specifically, when it comes to movie and TV references to the major leagues, the '69 Mets are the team to use when you're trying to invoke a sense of wonderment.

[Edgy MD]

The back sleeve cover of E. Pluribus Funk (1971) by Grand Funk Railroad:

[G-Fafif]

The coin of the realm!

[Zvon]

Wow. I saw that back in the day but didn't know Shea was on the back. That's an amazin' find.

[Edgy MD]

Makes me want to create Mets money redeemable at CitiField and Mets Clubhouse-type retailers.

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: Makes me want to create Mets money redeemable at CitiField and Mets Clubhouse-type retailers.

Mets Money is no longer sold nor can it be used at Citi Field. Guests with Mets Money from previous seasons should be directed to the advance ticket window across from the Hyundai Club third base entrance so that the Mets Money can be converted to a Mets Gift Card.

[Ceetar]

http://mets.tumblr.com/post/99418904117/ben-affleck-sports-mets-hat-in-new-film-by-will

Ben Affleck Sports Mets Hat in New Film by Will Carafello He�s not a Mets fan but he�ll play one on the big screen. Ben Affleck is a great actor but he just could not portray his character as a Yankees fan. In his new film, Gone Girl, in theaters now, director David Fincher asked Affleck to wear a Yankees cap for a scene in the movie. The Oscar-winning actor replied, no chance. "I said, �David, I love you, I would do anything for you,� " Affleck, told the New York Times. ��But I will not wear a Yankees hat. I just can�t. I can�t wear it because it�s going to become a thing, David. I will never hear the end of it. I can�t do it.� And I couldn�t put it on my head." For a scene in the film, Affleck�s character attempts to lay low in a New York airport and needs a local baseball cap as part of his disguise. The script called for a New York Yankees cap but the Boston native said he just would not do it. Affleck shared, �That was the only fight David and I had, and it was a legitimate fight.� The two decided to Affleck would wear a New York Mets hat instead. The compromise was �very Switzerland� in Affleck�s opinion. For the scene, Affleck wears the more subtle, all-black Mets cap. The traditional orange and blue cap was apparently too bold for the scene where Affleck is trying to blend in. Though never stated, one would also have to guess that the 1997 �snow-white� alternate cap was never an option for the role, either. We would be happy to see Mr. Affleck in orange and blue in any of his future films. Unrelated � the St. Lucie Mets are offer 30% off Mets hats right now. Channel your inner Ben Affleck and use code: HATS30 when checking out to save: http://bit.ly/Zc9uLT

[G-Fafif]

Larry Kirwan of Black 47 puts the band's about-to-conclude career in perspective for the Times.

Indeed, there were huge concerts. They played Farm Aid at Iowa State�s 55,000-seat football stadium, and a half-dozen times at Shea Stadium after Mets games on Irish Night. �We played Shea more than the Beatles did,� Mr. Kirwan said with a smile.

[G-Fafif]

�The Mets need speed. The Mets need power. The Mets need pitching. That's what I'm thinking about right now [...] I would take any one of the three: speed, power or pitching.�
�Jim Harper to Maggie Jordan, ignoring her EPA report scoop, The Newsroom, "Main Justice," S3, E3, November 23, 2014 (ep takes place on April 22, 2013)