The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

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"I just got an offer from New York, darlin’"
"The Yankees?"
"The Mets."
"Oh."
"Yeah, I know."
—Kansas City broadcaster Jim Brockmire (real-life Mets fan Hank Azaria) and his then-wife Lucy, in a flashback to 2007, Brockmire, "It All Comes Down To This," Season 1, Episode 8, May 17, 2017

[Frayed Knot]

59 A in today's NYT Xword: "Mr." who has stitches in his face _ _ _

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HBO's "The Wizard of Lies", about Madoff. In a list of victims, Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz are included. When the voice over is reviewing the sale of Madoff's assets, a Mets jacket is shown with "MADOFF" across the back. Here it is: https://goo.gl/images/NoHVIi

[TransMonk]

Mets fan John Oliver devotes another one of his show opening slides to the Mets.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

The Slate sports podcast Hang Up and Listen recently had a segment on favorite nonfamous athletes where they talked with Daniel Engber about his love for Keith Miller.

And the most recent episode is entitled "The Mr. Met Has No Middle Finger Edition" with lots about our favorite, if occasionally profane, baseball mascot.

[Guest themetfairy]

In Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's Season 3 finale, one of the storylines involves a three hour pre-season cruise for Mets fans.

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In the opening credits to the 1977 CBS sitcom Busting Loose, Jack Kruschen as Sam Markowitz appears wearing a souvenir Mets batting helmet, brandishing a New York Mets pennant on a stick.

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[Edgy MD]

I'm not sure I ever saw an episode of Bustin' Loose, but seeing those opening credits, I'm certain it's the greatest sitcom ever.

[Frayed Knot]

John McEnroe, as seen on CBS's 'SUNDAY MORNING', wearing a Met hat while tutoring young tennis-ians at some program he runs.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I'm not sure Busting Loose qualifies on either descriptive aspect of the culture in this thread. But I strive daily to be as happy as Alan Arkin is about whatever he's fist-pumping about. (Finally catching and killing a blind Audrey Hepburn? Argo-fucking himself?)

[HahnSolo]

Good to see that as early as 1977 TV was busting out the "token hot chick and token black guy who clearly don't belong".

And that Met guy must have gone on to a career a decade or so later as a WFAN caller.

[Edgy MD]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I'm not sure Busting Loose qualifies on either descriptive aspect of the culture in this thread. But I strive daily to be as happy as Alan Arkin is about whatever he's fist-pumping about. (Finally catching and killing a blind Audrey Hepburn? Argo-fucking himself?)

Psst ... Adam, man.

[stevejrogers]

Two seasons in the 1977 calendar year for 25 total episodes

http://epguides.com/BustingLoose/

[stevejrogers]

It also rated getting a Wiki page.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busting_Loose_(TV_series)

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy MD wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I'm not sure Busting Loose qualifies on either descriptive aspect of the culture in this thread. But I strive daily to be as happy as Alan Arkin is about whatever he's fist-pumping about. (Finally catching and killing a blind Audrey Hepburn? Argo-fucking himself?) Psst ... Adam, man.

So... he's just happy not to be in Alaska?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

No actor alive made an entrance like Sam Markowitz.

I vaguely remember this show; it resides in the same file in my brain that contains "On the Rocks" the best show set in a prison since "Hogan's Heroes" but maybe not as good as season 3 of Walking Dead or Oz.

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A reliable source informs me that on one episode of Busting Loose, Sam Markowitz comes over to watch a Mets game with son Lenny (played by Alan Arkin's son Adam) and is heard to cheer, "Rah, Mets! Rah, Mets!"

[Edgy MD]

HahnSolo wrote: Good to see that as early as 1977 TV was busting out the "token hot chick and token black guy who clearly don't belong".

Don't forget the stock young Italian stallion character, who alternates getting hoots out of his babe magnet qualities with milking laughs out of his cocker spaniel-level IQ.

[Guest cooby]

Last night I read this thread in bed. About 9:15 my husband hollered upstairs that at 9:30 a bunch of '69 Mets were going to be on Everybody Loves Raymond! It was a great episode!

He kept saying I should tell metfairy but sorry I didn't

[Guest themetfairy]

No worries Hon.

But it was sweet of mr. cooby to think of me

[ashie62]

A very young Mike Mesaros of the Smithereens rocking a Mets hat on the right.

[Edgy MD]

In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Peter's bedroom features a Mike Piazza-themed Mets pennant, a Mets cap on the on the shelf, and what looked like a Mets hanky.

There was probably more stuff if you slow it down.

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Mets New Star Pitcher
To Undergo Tommy
John Surgery,
Macarena to Blame!
— Headline from Quad Cities Times on office bulletin board in recreated Exit 57 sketch with Matthew McConaughey, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, July 31, 2017

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Playing With Science, a podcast about the science of sports, features Ron Darling discussing the physics of pitching.

[Edgy MD]

In the New York Times, Spring, Texas' Joe Garcia and his dog Heidi escape floodwaters.

[Benjamin Grimm]

This same photo was on the cover of the New York Post today. I briefly considered including it in the 2017 Tabloid Cover Derby.

[Guest themetfairy]

What do they think about that in Stockholm?

[Benjamin Grimm]

I don't know. Maja recognizes my number and then hangs up.

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I remember, in 1969, everything was going right with the world — the Mets looked like they might win the pennant and I was doing Gene Pitney recording sessions and sessions with the Drifters and the Platters...and I even getting paid for some of this stuff. —Rupert Holmes, Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast, 2017

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Noted Mets fan and musician Jack Antonoff wore a Mets cap on the 2017 MTV VMAs, August 27, 2017.