The Mets in Popular Culture, 2016

[Edgy MD]

A cast photo from that diamond of your 1982 fall schedule, The New Odd Couple. Relive the old fun and laughter with a new twis... wait a minute... who the hell dressed Demond Wilson?!

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No wonder Fred called him "Dummy."

[G-Fafif]

Matt Harvey guested on Bravo's Look Who's Talking: Live with Andy Cohen, alongside Connie Chung (Thursday, January 28, 2016). There was one baseball question (pertaining to staying in for the ninth inning of Game Five; Harvey claimed he had no idea what inning it was until he went back out to the mound) and the rest involved whether Harvey's been in a three-way (he has), whether he's had shall we say relations on a ballfield (he has, in college), whether he's in the mile high club (he's not) and which Met brings the most sizable Louisville Slugger to bear, if you will (he invoked the Fifth Amendment).

Kiner's Korner it was not.

[Edgy MD]

He should have said he was there to talk about Qualcomm.

[seawolf17]

Matt Harvey guested on Bravo's Look Who's Talking: Live with Andy Cohen, alongside Connie Chung (Thursday, January 28, 2016). There was one baseball question (pertaining to staying in for the ninth inning of Game Five; Harvey claimed he had no idea what inning it was until he went back out to the mound) and the rest involved whether Harvey's been in a three-way (he has), whether he's had shall we say relations on a ballfield (he has, in college), whether he's in the mile high club (he's not) and which Met brings the most sizable Louisville Slugger to bear, if you will (he invoked the Fifth Amendment). Kiner's Korner it was not.

Not for nothing, but Harvey is NOT the star of that show. Connie Chung is hysterical.

[G-Fafif]

Matt Harvey guested on Bravo's Look Who's Talking: Live with Andy Cohen, alongside Connie Chung (Thursday, January 28, 2016). There was one baseball question (pertaining to staying in for the ninth inning of Game Five; Harvey claimed he had no idea what inning it was until he went back out to the mound) and the rest involved whether Harvey's been in a three-way (he has), whether he's had shall we say relations on a ballfield (he has, in college), whether he's in the mile high club (he's not) and which Met brings the most sizable Louisville Slugger to bear, if you will (he invoked the Fifth Amendment). Kiner's Korner it was not. Not for nothing, but Harvey is NOT the star of that show. Connie Chung is hysterical.

Connie would definitely garner her share of Schaefer points.

Forgot to mention that as Andy was signing off, he hyped the "aftershow" to which, "the catcher with the best ass in baseball," Anthony Recker, would be calling in. Harvey broke up like he was Jimmy Fallon in the Debbie Downer at Disney World sketch.

Meanwhile, Randy Rice wore a 7 Line neon Shea catcher cap on the January 29, 2016, episode of The Smartest Guy in the Room on the History Channel.

[Edgy MD]

I'll drop this lovely Sears ad in here for posterity (though not the Recker kind of posterity).

[MFS62]

Yep. The $110 price sure speaks for itself.
It screams, "You spent me for WHAT?"

Later

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

You guys mock, but hey, double-knit is, like, twice the knit! TOM KNOWS TERRIFIC VALUE

[Lefty Specialist]

Those suits look bulletproof.

[Vic Sage]

i had a powder blue suit like that.
fuck you... it was the 70s.
You'd have to have been there to understand.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Matt Harvey guested on Bravo's Look Who's Talking: Live with Andy Cohen, alongside Connie Chung (Thursday, January 28, 2016).

Note to self: open and read all threads before posting Q's
in new threads about The Harvester.

Vic Sage wrote: i had a powder blue suit like that. fuck you... it was the 70s.

I had a dark brown one. I think I'm the the only guy in my
senior class who wore it for my yearbook picture. Everyone
wore a jacket and tie. I didn't get that memo, and got a LOT
of ribbing over it when the yearbooks came out.

[Frayed Knot]

One of the advantages to never actually being in fashion is that there are no leisure suit pictures in my past.

[Guest cooby classic]

Practically all the boys in my yearbook are wearing them.

I can remember wanted my dad to get the TomSeaver ensemble at Sears.

[Centerfield]

Frayed Knot wrote: One of the advantages to never actually being in fashion is that there are no leisure suit pictures in my past.

So he says. I think I met FK in the late 90's. He was wearing big oversized jeans, combat boots, a Starter jacket and was wearing a hairpick.

[Frayed Knot]

Are you kidding? In the '90s I was so out of fashion that when I tried to buy a 'Members Only' jacket they refused to sell me one because I wasn't a member!!

[Guest cooby classic]

I had one of them! It was gray and I loved it

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: Are you kidding? In the '90s I was so out of fashion that when I tried to buy a 'Members Only' jacket they refused to sell me one because I wasn't a member!!

BOOOOO!
Old joke.
(For those of us who are old enough to remember it)

Later

[bmfc1]

"Brooklyn Nine-Nine", February 2, 2016. It's Peralta's Birthday (Andy Samberg), his mother says that it's time for his surprise. Peralta says excitedly: "you got me the '86 Mets?" but it might get awkward, some of them turned out to be drug addicts (something like that).

[Benjamin Grimm]

In an earlier episode, Jake mentioned how once Mr. Met came to his birthday party and did number 2 in his bathroom.

[G-Fafif]

Mets Pop Culture Alert: Matt Harvey visits Late Night With Seth Myers in the next hour or so.

[G-Fafif]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: In an earlier episode, Jake mentioned how once Mr. Met came to his birthday party and did number 2 in his bathroom.

Sources say lots of misters did No. 2 in the MFY bathroom.

[MFS62]

G-Fafif wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: In an earlier episode, Jake mentioned how once Mr. Met came to his birthday party and did number 2 in his bathroom. Sources say lots of misters did No. 2 in the MFY bathroom.

BAM!
Thanks for reminding me. I haven't insulted Jeter for a while. But you did a good job for me.


Later

[Zvon]

I ran into this today. I don't recall it being shared here before, if it has, sorry.
Grank Funk Railroad live at Shea Stadium. They really sounded good.
This is the first time I've ever seen any footage from the GFR show @Shea. I read that structural engineers were worried about the stadium being damaged. I thought that was bullshit until I saw the end of this vid. How did that dugout not collapse?

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[seawolf17]

And even more interesting, how did nobody fall off the front?

[G-Fafif]

On HBO's new animated series Animals, two "PDNY" horses discuss the unlikelihood that there'll ever be a Mets parade in which they can march, while one of them remembers his grandfather was part of the '86 Mets parade (and that Doc Gooden offered him "blow"...which would be tough, considering he's not there, but here I am, analyzing a talking cartoon horse's penchant for accuracy).

Came across this gem...

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...via Jonathan Schwartz's annual Super Bowl Sunday Salute to Baseball, The St. Louis Browns, from 1972, by Skip Battin. Pertinent lyric: "The St. Louis Browns were a baseball team. And they lost more than the Mets could ever dream."

Former presidential candidate Chris Christie invoked his desire to order a pizza, open a beer and "watch the Mets" during the Saturday night debate in which he devoured Marco Rubio. At this point, the context hardly matters.

[Zvon]

I don't want to make a new thread for this. I asked this on the Tommie Agee facebook page and it's occurred to me that I should ask here too:

When I was a kid I had an illustrated book that was about playing outfield in baseball. It was brilliantly illustrated (no idea who the artist was) with a series of pencil drawings of Tommie Agee doing various outfield things. It was a small book, pretty much for kids, IIRC. I have looked for this book or the drawings from the book for years and I have never come across either.

Does anyone else here remember this Outfielders Guide Book with Tommie Agee in it?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Zvon wrote: I don't want to make a new thread for this. I asked this on the Tommie Agee facebook page and it's occurred to me that I should ask here too: When I was a kid I had an illustrated book that was about playing outfield in baseball. It was brilliantly illustrated (no idea who the artist was) with a series of pencil drawings of Tommie Agee doing various outfield things. It was a small book, pretty much for kids, IIRC. I have looked for this book or the drawings from the book for years and I have never come across either. Does anyone else here remember this Outfielders Guide Book with Tommie Agee in it?

"How to Play the Outfield", by Tommie Agee. I remember that book from elementary school. I never owned it, though. Early '70's. I think that Agee may not have even been a Met anymore when I first saw that book.

I tried googling it for a picture of the cover, with no luck.

[Zvon]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I don't want to make a new thread for this. I asked this on the Tommie Agee facebook page and it's occurred to me that I should ask here too: When I was a kid I had an illustrated book that was about playing outfield in baseball. It was brilliantly illustrated (no idea who the artist was) with a series of pencil drawings of Tommie Agee doing various outfield things. It was a small book, pretty much for kids, IIRC. I have looked for this book or the drawings from the book for years and I have never come across either. Does anyone else here remember this Outfielders Guide Book with Tommie Agee in it? "How to Play the Outfield", by Tommie Agee. I remember that book from elementary school. I never owned it, though. Early '70's. I think that Agee may not have even been a Met anymore when I first saw that book. I tried googling it for a picture of the cover, with no luck.

It was by Tommie?
Those drawings were so fantastic. I think it might have been one of those artists that worked for a NYC newspaper as well. Not Stark. They were very realistic portrayals, not caricature like. Don't think it was Gotto.

That young I usually got my books from the library or the grade school book of the month club. I also don't think I owned the book, but did possess it for an extended time. I tried to draw the drawings.

[MFS62]

The "how to play ... " books I remember being famous were the Spaulding Books:
http://rarebooks.library.nd.edu/collections/sports/baseball/

Side note: I once spoke to fan-insulter Pete Franklin about how Bill Mazeroski deserved to be in the Hall Of Fame because he was the greatest player ever to field his position. I said that if the Spaulding Guide on how to play second base were written today, it would have used Maz as a model. He said "You may be right", which for him was a loud and rare compliment.

Later

[batmagadanleadoff]

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