The Mets in Popular Culture, 2017

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Mets Willets Point wrote: MLBS at Citi Field in '17

MmmmmmmMorena Baccarin!

Later

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Ralph Macchio looks very youthful for someone who is 55.

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Not exactly popular culture, since it falls within the realm of sports non-fiction, but in the NFL Network's most recent installment of A Football Life, which touchingly remembers the late Sam Mills, Ron Swoboda appears out of the blue and orange as a talking head. Mills was a New Orleans Saint and Rocky has gone on to a long career in sportscasting in New Orleans. He must be to generations of New Orleanians what Ralph Kiner is to us: an esteemed local voice who was famous for something somewhere else, we're pretty sure, but we know him for what we know him for first and foremost.

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"I saw the New York Mets play five times last year. That’s far out enough for me."

"Well, I guess the Mets will probably lose today, too."

—Bert Monker, deli man who had been swooning for Sally Rogers, "Roses, Romance and Rye Bread," The Dick Van Dyke Show, Season Four, Episode Six, October 28, 1964

Edited October 20, 2017 by Guest

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The Meyerowitz Stories (2017) reportedly includes references to Asdrubal Cabrera hitting into a double play and Terry Collins moving Bartolo Colon to the bullpen. The Mets talk is described as a substitute for the characters expressing how they really feel.

[Edgy MD]

I saw a Jeopardy! clip flying around from last night's show, featuring the category SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK, in which the $600 answer was "What is Shea Stadium?"

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Jimmy Kimmel did his show from Brooklyn this week. On October 18, he and sidekick Guillermo were playing stickball in the street and broke somebody's apartment window. It was revealed to belong to Mike Piazza, who stuck his head out the window to scold them clad in a Mets bathrobe.

[Guest 41Forever]

I've discovered this new band, Lawrence, that's a New York brother and sister. The brother appears to be a Mets fan as he's wearing Mets gear in most of the videos.

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Edited October 27, 2017 by Guest

[Guest 41Forever]

The kids in Lawrence posted this shot with their Mom! Get them in the Crane Pool Forum!

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In the Lockhorns comic strip of Sunday, October 29, 2017, as Leroy leans back and watches a baseball player in a blue cap with a bat on a large flat-screen television, Loretta comments to a friend, "If it were up to Leroy, our song would be 'Meet The Mets.'"

[Edgy MD]

She says that like it's a bad thing.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I didn't realize that The Lockhorns were still extant.

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Benjamin Grimm wrote: I didn't realize that The Lockhorns were still extant.

And they haven't aged a bit.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Some guy with good seats at tonight's game at MSG...

[ashie62]

Did not know that "Grand Funk Record" in 1970 holds the record for fastest sellout at Shea.

Better yet, Steve Marriot and Humble Pie opened.

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“Where in New York City is the ball dropped every year?”
“Citi Field.”
—From Jon Stewart’s New York City citizenship test, administered to Conan O’Brien on Conan (in NYC), November 7, 2017

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“Well, first in the National League, it was the Mets over the Braves, three to two...”
—Setup to joke in the first set David Letterman performed on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, November 24, 1978, featured on David Letterman: The Mark Twain Prize, aired on PBS, November 20, 2017 (presented at Kennedy Center, October 22, 2017)

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“The American Revolution, we don’t have statues of King George. He lost, he’s out. World War I, the people who lost, we don’t have statues. Otherwise, the Mets would have a statue every year.”
—Mets fan John Leguizamo regarding the continued existence of Confederate statues, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, November 22, 2017

[Edgy MD]

I support his greater point, but boo.

[Frayed Knot]

Mr. Met's bad behavior earlier this year was the basis for a JEOPARDY question tonight.

[Edgy MD]

Prince Fielder conducting a life-after-baseball interview ... in a Mets jersey!

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Bump as needed.

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In the current and godawful Off Broadway musical Bulldozer: The Ballad of Robert Moses, a radio report sets the scene for our production by noting traffic on the Grand Central is backed up to Shea Stadium, "but how about those Mets?"

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The 2017 wrapup (with a taste of 2018) is here.