Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2014

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Syndicated Peanuts strip on November 22, 2014, originally ran in 1967:
LUCY (to Linus, who�s sitting in front of the television): Little brothers should stand when big sisters enter the room.
LINUS (standing): You�re right...I beg your pardon...
[LINUS stands and thinks while sits and watches television)
LINUS: Little brothers are the New York Mets of life!

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�Tonight we honor Long Island�s favorite son, even if he is a Mets fan.�
�Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor (MFY fan), presenting the Library of Congress George Gershwin Award for Popular Song to Billy Joel, November 19, 2014

[Lefty Specialist]

Billy's a Yankee fan through and through. That's why it bugged me that he played the last concert at Shea. He's a Met fan in the same way Billy Crystal was a Met fan in City Slickers; it was convenient at the time.

[Edgy MD]

If I agreed with that post more, my wife would be jealous.

The Shea thing was an opportunity grab, using his authority and status to wedge into associations. That's good business and his prerogative, but the Mets shouldn't have been such patsies.

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Crystal is MFY through and through. Joel is a celebrity fan who thinks it's great when New York wins. And FWIW, in the six years since his show, he's never disowned the association, never backtracked, never said anything along the lines of "Willie Randolph just went from sleeping with Pamela Anderson to Louie Anderson," as Crystal did when Willie Randolph came home to manage his childhood team.

Sotomayor could have used a better line, but I'm not offended.

[Frayed Knot]

Not exactly a Met reference, but Keith Olbermann's year-end wrap show where he showed highlights of past holiday week games featured some hot Lindsay Nelson voice action during clips from the 1979 Cotton Bowl

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The third annual complete(-ish) survey of the Year in Mets Pop Culture here. Thanks to all who contributed to this thread and made the resulting article as broad in scope as possible.