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I think we need a new one of these. Veteran NYC rocker Garland Jefferies may actually be a bit of a frontrunner fan, but it was in good old Shea, not MFY Stadium, where a racist remark inspired this song. Take it away, GJ:

I was inspired to write this song after a very upsetting moment: I was at Shea Stadium watching the Mets vs. Houston, Dwight Gooden vs. Nolan Ryan. I was sitting in foul territory in left field. I got up to get a few franks and soda for the guys, walking and watching the game and going down the steps, all at the same time. I was probably blocking the view of people--and one guy says, "Hey, Buckwheat! Get the f--k out of here, Buckwheat!" I had never heard the word used before like that; I was shocked. I turned around and I was just frozen. I kept walking and I was on line and feeling really uncomfortable. I said, "Don't call me Buckwheat" to myself, and I went home and wrote the song. It just brought back my whole childhood, all the name calling. I grew up in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn in a very mixed-race community: Jews, Irish, Blacks, Italians and Spanish, K--s, M--ks, N-----s, W--s and sp--s. You heard those words a lot. I would cringe when I heard the "n------" word and I still do. The whole usage of it today in rap disturbs me to no end. Kids don't know the real meaning and how it feels to hear it. It got to the point where you knew you'd hear it almost every day from someone.


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I knew he was a Met fan when he recorded "R-A-U-C-H Rauch."

I love Garland Jeffreys. In the earliest years of MTV, when they skewed toward classick vynil rock transitioning to cassette nu wave, it seemed like Garland was the only black artist in their rotation.


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That's about as adorable as a grown-ass man gets.


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Don't think we already have a thread for this year, so starting this one with Nick Kroll, start of The Kroll Show on Comedy Central and Rodney Ruxin (everybody calls him Ruxin) on FXX's The League. On with Olbermann last night describing his never-dimmed enthusiasm for the '86 Mets, having been at Game Six (WS edition) as an eight-year-old.

Also recalled making prank phone calls in the mid-'90s to the Sweater and the Schmoozer on WFAN, demanding Patrick Ewing to point guard.


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I knew this existed but my "search" efforts proved fruitless. Thanks for merging, merging officials.


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George Lopez grew up wanting to be "like Tommie Agee," according to the somewhat reliable Mets Twitter account.


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Your homeland's security is being overseen by Jeh Johnson, who has every reason to protect a slice of Queens.

Johnson, a lifelong Mets fan who played first base and was a designated hitter when he was growing up, will throw out the first pitch at Citi Field on Thursday afternoon when the Mets end their home stand against the Washington Nationals.

Asked whether he�s practicing, the secretary said: �This is probably a huge mistake, but I�m going to wait until I can get to the bullpen at the stadium to loosen up.�

How�s your arm? �I�ll find out 30 minutes before game time. I was a huge fan of the �69 Mets. So, throwing out the first pitch is living the dream for me.�


He did a fine job, this eyewitness can attest. And he gave his favorite team an award as well. No doubt, as a lifelong Mets fan, it pained him that jeff Wilpon accepted it.


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Co-owner Bill Maher high on his investment.

Maher is a true player who puts his money where his mouth is, and that includes Major League Baseball. In 2012 he invested in a piece of Mets ownership. And not just to be able to toke in the owners' box.

"I'm hopeful for the Mets this year," he says. "I think they've got a couple of key players. I think [Curtis] Granderson's going to have a big year. And Bartolo Colon, I think is a good steady influence on the pitching staff and they have very powerful pitching. I mean, when you have a pitching staff like they could have ... when they get back ... Matt Harvey, I think he can be in every game. If they get a little luck with the offense, they could just surprise some people."

We asked him about the high life of a major league owner.

"You have your own box when you're an owner," Maher said. "I mean, when I go to the games, so far I've stayed in my box. But, you can also sit right down on field level and I'm probably going to do that. I'm going to go back to an owner's meeting in June and I think they're playing the Braves that night, and I want to sit, like, really, really close to the field."

Ballclub co-owner, writer, intelligent talker, Maher is a true renaissance man for this marijuana millennium. But, unlike some decriminalization intellectuals, this guy practices what he preaches. He smokes weed. And he breaks down boundaries doing it. Important boundaries.


Like putting Matt Harvey in every game?


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Was Thomas Hardy a MLBS?
He wrote, "And yet to every bad, there is a worse".

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MLBS Jon Stewart is going to have Mookie Wilson on as his guest tonight.


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Edgy MD wrote:
Is it already noted that Apu is not just a Metropolitan fan on the show, but also in real life?

Yes, Hank Azaria is one of us.







dgwphotography
Jul 30 2014 09:25 AM


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Marvel CCO Joe Quesada (with Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldana, and Chris Pratt) at last night's Guardians Of the Galaxy screening:








Mets Guy in Michigan
Jul 30 2014 10:40 AM


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Marvel CCO Joe Quesada (with Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldana, and Chris Pratt) at last night's Guardians Of the Galaxy screening:




That's awesome! If they can make a raccoon and a tree a superhero, certainly Mr. Met can be one of the Avengers!







LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Aug 15 2014 12:16 PM


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Big deal, Jerome. Who doesn't think about baseball all day?

Then I started relating my life to their life. The life of a stand-up comic is very similar to that of a baseball player. You perform on this 85 to 93 percent level on a daily basis. You can't give 100 because you've gotta do it every day. When you're that road comic and doing it twice a night or three times a night, the obvious analogy to the season of a baseball player. It's an everyday thing and an up and down thing. It's all about having a short memory and being in the moment of that game.

Bob Costas recently did an interview with Clayton Kershaw and Mike Trout, and at the end of the interview, he said Michael Jordan never stepped on the court and went 0-for-20, that Tom Brady never stepped on the field and didn't complete a pass. But that happens to guys like Kershaw and Trout all the time.

That brutality, as a comedian, I can relate to that, because stand-up comedy is brutal that way.


(Nice get from Mark Simon.)







John Cougar Lunchbucket
Aug 15 2014 02:21 PM


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That was a great interview.







bmfc1
Aug 15 2014 06:04 PM


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Star of MTV's "Teen Wolf", actor Dylan O'Brien. "Long suffering"--he's 22.
https://twitter.com/dylanobrien







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Aug 15 2014 11:37 PM


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Laugh all you want, but one could very easily argue that anyone younger than, say, 30 is longer-suffering than their elders who've been at it longer, since they don't have an '86, much less a '73 or '69, to nourish them (however thin that soup base may have gotten by this point).







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Aug 16 2014 06:38 AM


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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote:
Big deal, Jerome. Who doesn't think about baseball all day?

Then I started relating my life to their life. The life of a stand-up comic is very similar to that of a baseball player. You perform on this 85 to 93 percent level on a daily basis. You can't give 100 because you've gotta do it every day. When you're that road comic and doing it twice a night or three times a night, the obvious analogy to the season of a baseball player. It's an everyday thing and an up and down thing. It's all about having a short memory and being in the moment of that game.

Bob Costas recently did an interview with Clayton Kershaw and Mike Trout, and at the end of the interview, he said Michael Jordan never stepped on the court and went 0-for-20, that Tom Brady never stepped on the field and didn't complete a pass. But that happens to guys like Kershaw and Trout all the time.

That brutality, as a comedian, I can relate to that, because stand-up comedy is brutal that way.


(Nice get from Mark Simon.)


My wife read this article and said, "Damn, I had better seats for Game 6 than Jerry Seinfeld did!" She had loge seats and Seinfeld was upper deck. (And yes, we have the ticket stub.)







Edgy MD
Oct 30 2014 10:05 AM


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Jim Oddo: Staten Island borough president and nemesis of Vic Black.








Edgy MD
Nov 05 2014 09:51 AM


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Congressman (District 3, NY) Steve Israel, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, explaining how he approaches last night's news: �As a Mets fan, I�ve learned to look on the bright side."








Edgy MD
Dec 22 2014 08:10 AM


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Murdered NYPD Officer Rafael Ramos, MLBS.

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Marvel CCO Joe Quesada (with Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldana, and Chris Pratt) at last night's Guardians Of the Galaxy screening:




That's awesome! If they can make a raccoon and a tree a superhero, certainly Mr. Met can be one of the Avengers!


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Big deal, Jerome. Who doesn't think about baseball all day?

Then I started relating my life to their life. The life of a stand-up comic is very similar to that of a baseball player. You perform on this 85 to 93 percent level on a daily basis. You can't give 100 because you've gotta do it every day. When you're that road comic and doing it twice a night or three times a night, the obvious analogy to the season of a baseball player. It's an everyday thing and an up and down thing. It's all about having a short memory and being in the moment of that game.

Bob Costas recently did an interview with Clayton Kershaw and Mike Trout, and at the end of the interview, he said Michael Jordan never stepped on the court and went 0-for-20, that Tom Brady never stepped on the field and didn't complete a pass. But that happens to guys like Kershaw and Trout all the time.

That brutality, as a comedian, I can relate to that, because stand-up comedy is brutal that way.


(Nice get from Mark Simon.)


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That was a great interview.


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