The Mets in Popular Culture, 2016

[bmfc1]

This barely qualifies as popular culture but it's close enough:
In the new play "Another Way Home", currently at the J Theater in Washington, DC, the Dad wears a Mets cap, pictured in this too-kind review: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/kid-goes-missing-and-family-freaks-gently-in-theater-j-play/2016/06/28/136a0474-3d3f-11e6-80bc-d06711fd2125_story.html

[Edgy MD]

Cool. I've enjoyed Rick Foucheux and Naomi Jacobson in the past. My wife trained with Foucheux.

[bmfc1]

Edgy: He was very good and better than the material.

[Edgy MD]

Paperback from 1979 but appears to feature Yogi Berra in his Mets kit, getting piggybacked by Lucy Van Pelt, and apparently about to get his ass bitten some hybrid of Milton Berle and Iron Eyes Cody.

[bmfc1]

In "The Night Of", Stone (John Turturro) has a son named after Dwight Gooden.

[G-Fafif]

In the 1966 film Penelope, banker’s wife Penelope Elcott, played by Natalie Wood, asks police lieutenant Horatio Bixbee, played by Peter Falk,

upon finding him in a pack of baseball cards (that Falk is carrying only for the bubble gum) and “Do I get to I keep Ron Swoboda?” as they part ways.

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[Edgy MD]

Am I the only one seeing a black stripe where an embedded video should be?

[HahnSolo]

Edgy MD wrote: Am I the only one seeing a black stripe where an embedded video should be?

Perhaps you're Flash needs to be updated?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Edgy MD wrote: Am I the only one seeing a black stripe where an embedded video should be?

I am seeing the same black stripe

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm seeing a black stripe too, but I can't be sure it's the same black stripe.

My stripe is vertical!

[Frayed Knot]

Me too (started a couple days ago) meaning that it's unlikely that all our 'Flash' players are in need of updating at the same time and so the problem lies elsewhere.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Whew, thank goodness. I was afraid it was just me seeing the black stripe in all the posts.

Glad to know it's just something with the site. I was afraid I may have had one too many of these [fimg=150:293kaqur]http://www.savorsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/red-stripe-lager.jpg[/fimg:293kaqur]

[metsmarathon]

how about met fans in popular culture...

http://www.hardballtimes.com/still-pitching-and-still-fascinating-at-69/

featuring a photo of one of our own:

[Guest themetfairy]

how about met fans in popular culture... http://www.hardballtimes.com/still-pitching-and-still-fascinating-at-69/ featuring a photo of one of our own:

There's actually a great story behind this photo.

I ran the Run to Home Base at Fenway Park in May 2012. It's a 9K charity race that starts outside Fenway Park, goes into Cambridge and then back into Boston (BTW, the view of Boston from the Mass Ave Bridge as you're heading into the city from Cambridge on a sunny day with sailboats on the water is THE most gorgeous view I've ever had during a run. And I have run in some damn gorgeous places!) and eventually finishing inside the Green Monster - a really fun course! The ribbon, BTW, is in memory of Dana Brand; I couldn't make the Mets 50th Anniversary Conference at Hofstra due to prior commitments, but I wore the ribbon in Dana's honor during races that spring.

ANYWAY, before the race they announced that Red Sox players would be on hand after the race, but they didn't say who would be there. While I was running, D-Dad ascertained that Bill Lee was one of the players. After the race, while I was in my post-running daze, D-Dad walks me over to the table where there's a line of people waiting to meet the Spaceman and yells out, "Bill - there's someone here from Team McGraw to meet you!" Bill left the table for about a minute and a half to talk to us, telling us how much he and Tug and Hank used to go out drinking together and how much fun they had. Then he returned to the table, to resume meeting all of the Red Sox fans who were still waiting on line for him.

Good times!

[Edgy MD]

Ah yes. Some of that Judeo-Christian bullsh*t did get in there. I’m in the more liberal wing of the religion.

Bill, Rastafari is an Abrahamic religion. It ain't all dope smoking.

[Frayed Knot]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Am I the only one seeing a black stripe where an embedded video should be? I am seeing the same black stripe

Hey, the stripes are gone!

[Benjamin Grimm]

It's entirely possible that I imagined this, but...

I just saw Suicide Squad this afternoon. (Eh!) But there was a scene where several characters are forced to imagine what they would like their life to be like. The character called "Diablo" (the guy who shoots flames from his hands) imagines himself at home with his wife and kids, listening to the radio. And I think the radio announcer says something about Lee Mazzilli. Since it was on the big screen and not on TV I couldn't pause, rewind, and listen again.

[TransMonk]

bmfc1 wrote: In "The Night Of", Stone (John Turturro) has a son named after Dwight Gooden.

Last week's episode had Turturro's character wearing a Yankees sweatshirt at the gym. I'm hoping he didn't name his kid after the Yankee version of Doc.

[batmagadanleadoff]

It's the White Shadow all weekend long on Decades binge. In Epidode 2, Season 3, Reeves and his terminally ill father go restaurant/bar-hopping on the Upper East Side. They run into Mickey Mantle in a restaurant, and after dinner, are then shown entering and exiting various other joints in the nabe. Including JG Melon's on 3rd and 74th and this place south on the same block at 3rd and 73rd:

Well I couldn't find a pic to post of the joint's exterior so you'll have to do with a dinner plate -- and from the 5th Avenue location -- not from the UES:

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[Lefty Specialist]

Beastie Boys, Washington Square Park, 1986.

[Guest cooby]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: It's the White Shadow all weekend long on Decades binge. In Epidode 2, Season 3, Reeves and his terminally ill father go restaurant/bar-hopping on the Upper East Side. They run into Mickey Mantle in a restaurant, and after dinner, are then shown entering and exiting various other joints in the nabe. Including JG Melon's on 3rd and 74th and this place south on the same block at 3rd and 73rd: Well I couldn't find a pic to post of the joint's exterior so you'll have to do with a dinner plate -- and from the 5th Avenue location -- not from the UES: [fimg=555]http://www.bidami.com/pics/79775_01_lg.jpg[/fimg]

Realize I already missed it, dang. What is Decades?

[batmagadanleadoff]

cooby wrote: It's the White Shadow all weekend long on Decades binge. In Epidode 2, Season 3, Reeves and his terminally ill father go restaurant/bar-hopping on the Upper East Side. They run into Mickey Mantle in a restaurant, and after dinner, are then shown entering and exiting various other joints in the nabe. Including JG Melon's on 3rd and 74th and this place south on the same block at 3rd and 73rd: Well I couldn't find a pic to post of the joint's exterior so you'll have to do with a dinner plate -- and from the 5th Avenue location -- not from the UES: [fimg=555]http://www.bidami.com/pics/79775_01_lg.jpg[/fimg] Realize I already missed it, dang. What is Decades?

http://www.decades.com/wheretowatch/

These are just some, but not all of the programs shown on Decades:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_Decades

[Guest cooby]

Thank you!

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm hoping that Ginny Baker gets traded from the Padres to the Mets.

[Frayed Knot]

Oh my Gawd, Lucas Duda is in Fred Wilpon's box!!!

[Lefty Specialist]

This week's New Yorker:

[G-Fafif]

A Mets hoodie, with Kevin James inside it, appeared in the premiere of James's new unnecessary series, Kevin James Does Other Things Besides Wear a Mets Hoodie on CBS, September 19, 2016.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Lefty Specialist wrote: This week's New Yorker: [fimg=444]http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CoverStory-2016_09_26_Ulriksen_Late-Innings-879x1200-1474052625.jpg[/fimg]

I think that's the first time an actual Met appeared on the cover of the NY'er. There have been generic Mets, but not an actual player. Coupl'a Yankees made the cover, though. Jeter, A-Rod and Randy Johnson for sure.

[Lefty Specialist]

G-Fafif wrote: A Mets hoodie, with Kevin James inside it, appeared in the premiere of James's new unnecessary series, Kevin James Does Other Things Besides Wear a Mets Hoodie on CBS, September 19, 2016.

Saw a Met hat hanging on a door before I hurriedly changed the channel.

[Ceetar]

https://twitter.com/MeeshFrack/status/786964694527598592

"Scream Queens on Fox had some actors dressed as some of our fav NYMets in a Halloween scene. S2Ep2."