The Mets in Popular Culture, 2016

[Zvon]

Noah really gets around. The little funny clips, the photo ops, magazine covers, and now a cartoon.
Who does he think he is? Matt Harvey?

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[Guest themetfairy]

One of Bruno Mars' backup singers on SNL last week was wearing a Mets shirt.



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[G-Fafif]

themetfairy wrote: One of Bruno Mars' backup singers on SNL last week was wearing a Mets shirt. [fimg=440]https://www.nbc.com/sites/nbcunbc/files/files/styles/1080xauto/public/images/2016/10/15/SNL1707_Set_Photos_44.jpeg?itok=6s4_8uH-[/fimg]

With HUNDLEY 9 on the back.

[G-Fafif]

Thor killed it as "the viking" on Kevin Can Wait. Played a laconic dude in a familiar costume on Halloween. Best Viking on TV Monday night.

[G-Fafif]

"I hope that wherever you are, the New York Mets are on and it's always the '86 World Series."
--Oscar Madison (Matthew Perry), attempting to scatter his father Walter's ashes (which are stuck in taffy), The Odd Couple, "Taffy Days," S 3 Ep 1, 11/7/2016 (tribute to Garry Marshall)

[Zvon]

There might be a better place for this but they ain't wed yet. And congratulations Mr. Matz!
Ripped jeans? Do you do that with sexy boots?

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[Frayed Knot]

G-Fafif wrote: "I hope that wherever you are, the New York Mets are on and it's always the '86 World Series." --Oscar Madison (Matthew Perry), attempting to scatter his father Walter's ashes (which are stuck in taffy), The Odd Couple, "Taffy Days," S 3 Ep 1, 11/7/2016 (tribute to Garry Marshall)

The most surprising thing about this? ... that the reworked version of that show is still on the air.

[MFS62]

Zvon wrote: There might be a better place for this but they ain't wed yet. And congratulations Mr. Matz! Ripped jeans? Do you do that with sexy boots? [tweet]https://twitter.com/Smatz88/status/797652414383923204[/tweet]

She can wear anything she wants.

Later

[Guest themetfairy]

Zvon wrote: There might be a better place for this but they ain't wed yet. And congratulations Mr. Matz! Ripped jeans? Do you do that with sexy boots? [tweet]https://twitter.com/Smatz88/status/797652414383923204[/tweet]

Ah - I saw this after posting in the Wifey Watch thread.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Which is the obvious place for it, of course.

[bmfc1]

Morgan Freeman wears a Mets cap in the trailer for "Going In Style" (at 1:30):

[G-Fafif]

Your as comprehensive as can be 2016 Mets in the Popular Culture roundup, here.

[G-Fafif]

From Dan Epstein: The nights the Stones (no, not George and Steve) came to Shea, featuring Mick Jagger's postseason wrapup.

Ever mindful of his audience and surroundings, Jagger made sure to acknowledge the Mets during the first night of the Stones’ six-show stand. “We’re sorry the Mets didn’t make it to the World Series,” he told the audience from the stage, which had been built across the far reaches of the Shea outfield. “Too bad—but we’re going to have the World Series of Love!”

[G-Fafif]

A late 2016 entrant: From the eighth episode of the first season of the online series Horace and Pete (courtesy of bmfc1). Horace (Steve Buscemi) has just been told that he can no longer be prescribed the drug that keeps him sane (because of the side effects) and that he will have to return to the mental hospital. He tells his cousin, Pete, why he wants to stay in the world, as it is for him with the drug:

“It's not a joyful life, you know? I mean, but you do it because you know, there's always, you know, some potential. I mean, some days are okay, and even if they're not, then, you know, you know you can have an okay one. Or maybe even a great day. So you're sort of, you know, just biding your time to see what happens next. See what life offers. Maybe hit the lottery. Meet someone special. Maybe the Mets will win the playoffs, or if they make it into the playoffs. You know, or, like, looking forward to Easter this year. I — I like talking to you. I like TV. But you gotta understand, Horace. My life is about to be a nightmare. My mind is gonna drift into madness. I mean, you have no idea what it's like.”

[batmagadanleadoff]

From Dan Epstein: The nights the Stones (no, not George and Steve) came to Shea, featuring Mick Jagger's postseason wrapup. Ever mindful of his audience and surroundings, Jagger made sure to acknowledge the Mets during the first night of the Stones’ six-show stand. “We’re sorry the Mets didn’t make it to the World Series,” he told the audience from the stage, which had been built across the far reaches of the Shea outfield. “Too bad—but we’re going to have the World Series of Love!”

Excerpt from your linked article - The Rolling Stones at Shea Stadium

[The promoters] held a joint press conference to announce that the Stones would perform two shows at Shea Stadium, on Oct. 26 and Oct. 28 [1989]. Tickets, at $30 a pop, would go on sale via Ticketmaster at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 19, with a limit of eight tickets per buyer. Though anyone born in the last quarter-century may have difficulty imagining it now, obtaining concert tickets—especially for big-name acts—in the pre-Internet age generally required more effort than just refreshing your browser. You could try repeatedly dialing various local Ticketmaster outlets from your home or work phone, praying you could get through to an operator before all the tickets sold out (or an important call came in); but if you were serious about snagging tickets, you had to stake out a store that housed an actual Ticketmaster desk, and line up hours (or even days) before the show went on sale. Marty Walsh ... and a friend decided to buy their tickets from a Ticketmaster outlet located in a TSW toy store in nearby Yorktown Heights. He remembers showing up the Friday afternoon before the tickets went on sale in order to snag two of the 250 individually numbered wristbands that were handed out ahead of time to prevent people from camping out overnight (or cutting in line on the day of the sale). “It didn’t matter which numbered band we received, because the store would pick a random number to be the first on line,” Walsh explains. “Even if someone had wristband #001, if #120 was the number pulled, [the customer with the #120 wristband] would be first in line to purchase the tickets, with subsequent numbers 121, 122, 123, etc., being the next in line.”

I attended one of these Stones at Shea concerts in '89. I purchased my tickets in the exact same manner that Marty Walsh, above did, through Ticketmaster. I remember waiting in line all night long for my tickets more than I remember the concert itself, which, like the article says, was pretty good all around, even though by '89, I had lost some interest in the Stones, seeing them as an over the hill band whose new music was losing relevancy. Still. terrific outdoor sound system, deep cuts and a cameo by Eric Clapton, joining the Stones on Little Red Rooster.

That was the only time in my life I ever camped out overnight for any kind of tickets. I'm normally averse to obtaining tickets in that camping out fashion. The only reason I was motivated to pull that stunt in the first place was because the Ticketmaster location happened to be about a block and a half from me and because the Stones were rock and roll royalty, and from an historical perspective, the greatest band still making music, what with the Beatles having broken up and Led Zeppelin disbanding after John Bonham's death. I'd say that waiting overnight on a ticket line is something for the younger ones, like driving instead of flying from NY to Florida (I never did that one, no regrets either).

My biggest takeaway from that experience was a first-hand lesson into just how corrupt that whole Ticketmaster set-up was. Not that I didn't know beforehand. Everyone knew. It was always an open secret, and much more open than secret, that any seat available through Ticketmaster that was even remotely desirable or prime would never be made available to the regular masses. Those tickets were always set aside for the big-shots, the connected, and the professional scalpers.

My Ticketmaster location didn't have a wrist band system like the one Walsh describes in the excerpt above. You simply waited on line until the Ticketmaster opened in the morning. That was it. First come, first serve. I was about the 10th person from the front of the line. No worse than 15th. I was certain that, given my position in line, I'd score some tickets on the actual baseball field. Isn't that how fans scored prime concert tickets without having to go to the scalpers? I was sure that my effort would result in some prime Stones tickets.

No such thing. Not even close. The best tickets available by the time I got to buy my tickets, which was less than 10 minutes after the Ticketmaster opened, was the very last row of the Mezzanine section behind home plate, right up against that chicken-wire fencing. I had that window-pane or letterbox view of the concert created by the overhang from Shea's Upper Deck.

Fuck you, Ticketmaster.

Edited January 1, 2017 by Guest

[Edgy MD]

I got scrod by Ticketmaster and arbitrary rules at different outlets for the Stones and for the 1989 U2 shows as well. What a messed-up system.

What I enjoyed about the show from the perspective of the horrid nosebleed seats I did manage to get was that it was their first real tour in eight or nine years, and so rather than merely include the de rigueur two singles from the latest album ("Mixed Emotions" and "Rock and a Hard Place") in the standard hits lineup, they included all the neglected singles from the interim years, and so many of the likes "One Hit to the Body," "Too Much Blood," "Undercover of the Night," "She Was Hot," and "Harlem Shuffle" got an airing they hadn't gotten before or since.

That said, checking setlist.fm, I see no appearances by "Too Much Blood," so clearly my memory of their mini-set of catching up on the eighties singles is distorted.

[Fman99]

Edgy MD wrote: I got scrod by Ticketmaster and arbitrary rules at different outlets for the Stones and for the 1989 U2 shows as well. What a messed-up system. What I enjoyed about the show from the perspective of the horrid nosebleed seats I did manage to get was that it was their first real tour in eight or nine years, and so rather than merely include the de rigueur two singles from the latest album ("Mixed Emotions" and "Rock and a Hard Place") in the standard hits lineup, they included all the neglected singles from the interim years, and so many of the likes "One Hit to the Body," "Too Much Blood," "Undercover of the Night," "She Was Hot," and "Harlem Shuffle" got an airing they hadn't gotten before or since. That said, checking setlist.fm, I see no appearances by "Too Much Blood," so clearly my memory of their mini-set of catching up on the eighties singles is distorted.

We scored amazing seats at the local Ticketmaster, thanks to buddies of mine who camped out overnight. Tenth row, stage left, for the Thursday night October 26th show. Still the greatest night of live music I've ever experienced. Being on the field, at Shea, certainly had something to do with it.