Currently at Mets.com, the team is asking fans to vote from 10 choices, including a write-in option, to elect a new eighth-inning sign-a-long song, which could potentially replace Sweet Caroline.
However, FARK.com is encouraging it’s community to bombard Mets.com and vote Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up as a write-in candidate.
FARK logs more than 4 million unique visitors each month.
…in other words, unless the Mets ignore these vote totals, this will be your eighth-inning sing-a-long, which, as bad as it is, is still far better than Sweet Caroline…so, thanks, FARK…
To vote, go here, and do so by noon on Monday, April 7, when the voting booth closes.
…as i said last week, personally, i think there is way, way too much music played at Shea Stadium as it is…also, the poll question implies that having a sing-a-long is some sort of requirement…last i checked, baseball can actually be played without a singing…in fact, i prefer song-less baseball…
To learn what a Rickroll is, go here.
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That makes my day
How about we don’t sing a long like a bunch of idiots? And take down that stupid 7 train race on the scoreboard. Let’s exude some kind of class as an organization – I know, difficult, but possible.
they diddnt do the train race at all last year
Yeah, cause singing is the most classless thing one can do… However, Rick Astley needs to be stopped.
rick ftw
Do you have any idea of the repercussions if 50,000 people get Rick Rolled at the same time? its like Global Warming times a million.
This FARK stunt is the funniest thing i’ve ever heard.
How about John Foggerty’s Centerfield…
There’s way too much idiotic noise at the game.
I voted for quiet.
What about “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”??
I hope everyone is just thinking about that song as a given when they make comments about silence etc…
They should play “America F*** Yeah” from ‘Team America’. That would be THE best sing along.
definately
Can you imagine the sweet sound of 57 thousand plus singing the team america theme song. It would go down as one of the greatest moments in American history.
I voted Land of 1000 Dances by Wilson Pickett
Just for the Record, I am so voting for Rick Astley now.
I encourage all Mets fans to do so.
http://www.rickrollthemets.com
The momentum is picking up steam!
Rick Astley? Wasn’t he that little weenie guy with the big voice?
Bring back Jane Jarvis- she’s not dead yet and probably played the organ at Ebbets ha ha , so Fred Sterling would love her.
What about Glenn Frey “You belong to the city” The song explains Queens and the rest of the city. If not I’ll go with “Ready or Not” by The Fugees
Write in “BACK IN THE NEW YORK GROOVE” It’s time this team got back to our 06 Groove
marky mark – good vibrations
This pretty much needs to get done.
Ugh, can’t we have silence instead?
They rickroll prisoners at Guantanamo.
You don’t understand the true meaning of Rick Roll man. The real definition of rick roll is when you get something even better than what you expected. Which happens to be Rick Astley.
I’m thinking Hit Em Up by Tupac, instead of referring to Biggie we can refer to the Phils and Braves
haha, then we would have to appologize to LMilz for all the outrage about his song
That being said it’s not too late to vote for “Bend Ya Knees” by Manny D Featuring L- Millz!
have you or anyone else been able to find a copy of the manny d song featuring lastings online? ive been looking forever
Nothing wrong with Rick Astley. Of course, I wouldn’t tell that lie…and hurt you.
Rick-Roll at Shea would be HILARIOUS. I love it!
Why do we need to have a stupid song? Can you say L-A-M-E? And Rick Astley? Good God……
Is he even still alive??
why not?
I would rather “bend ya knees” then “Rick Roll”. What did we do to merrit this?
I know the hang up with “sweet Caroline” but its much much better then this crapola.
please, everyone vote for this song!
Why does everyone get all bent out of shape by these things? This stuff is obviously for the casual fan. Personally, while these antics are going on, I’m usually checking out my scorecard or discussing the game with whoever I am with.
And to be honest, some of this stuff is actually fun. People need to lighten up and have some fun. You’re at a ballpark, not a church.
I can only speak for myself, but I’m certainly not “bent out of shape”. One the things I love about baseball vs other sports is the relaxed atmosphere of the game…the fact that there is no clock, and you can sit back, watch the game and have conversation while doing so.
You can’t do that any more. There is constantly something in your face, constantly some obnoxious music blaring in your ears. I live in DC and went to the Nats opening night for their new ballpark, and it was insane. They literally bombarded you with stimuli after every pitch.
Besides, Rick Astley is lame.
Evvvvvverybody clap your hands…
Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap….
I cant find the song writer online ANYWHERE…..anyone know its John Lennon or Bob Dylan….I wanna pick up the single….
C’mon….how can you not wanna be ‘moderized’. This is baseball 21st century style mofo…and new and NOW are always better than old and boring…
I’m actually OK wiht the 7th inning song, but they HAVE to stop the in game stuff….
im pretty sure that’s the immortal MC Hammer
its the Cha Cha slide, by, i dunno, some guy.
And you would be wrong…it’s DJ Casper
dont ask me how i know that
that’s actually The Humpty Dance by Digital Underground.
Cha Cha Slide by Mr. C
See, I don’t buy this argument. Baseball is still a relaxed environment. It really isn’t that hard to ignore this stuff.
I just can’t stand the fact that the loudest cheers of the entire game are reserved for an obviously phony “decibel meter” and a mascot shooting burritos/T-shirts/hot dogs into the stands. People three decks up in a stadium packed with 40,000 people are waving and screaming at the top of their lungs to get one of seven or 8 XXL T-shirts with a corporate logo on it. Then the next inning starts and people decide to walk up and down rows and go for their fourth helping of nachos. I don’t get it. Darn kids these days. . ..
Again, I don’t understand why this riles people up. This is how things are. Most people are not hard core baseball fans who come to Shea to lay alms down at home plate. Most people are just looking to get drunk, eat nachos, sing, dance, and leave with a good story to tell at work the next day.
This is just how people are. Do you get pissed off at water for being wet?
i see your point about the stadium being lame but i can honestly say that with out the ability to booze heavily nats games at the hold rfk would have been unbearable. and i least with the presidents race you have something to cheer for.
im with you brotha. it’s all part of the ballpark experience. if you hate it so much you could always sit at home and watch it on tv with the sound off.
save the indignation for the fact that they still have black on their uniforms.
You can have plenty of fun minus the lame music. Its not necessary. Screw the casual fan.
That is absolutely hillarious. I’m gonna vote for it, just because I’d get a laugh out of it every time I go to a game.
Totally, you gotta have a sense of humor, and at least people wouldn’t complain that the Mets weren’t original.
Dude–i dont know how i would feel about it while at Shea, but just thinking about it now is CRACKING ME UP!!!!
hahahahaha
I am going to miss the voalre when loduca came up to bat that was my favorite sing along
I would pay 100 dollars for that song to win
Seriously, this could become a legitimate phenomenon. I can imagine Rick Astley being exhumed and trotted out to Shea down the stretch to do live renditions…in your face, Rally Monkey!!
Rick Astley is still alive. He’s only 42 years old.
I pretty much meant exhume in the figurative sense, as only his career is technically dead. But anyway, I would love to see it.
Death to Molly Ringwald ” I’ll be back later for your career”
Nice Family Guy there.
We know the game and we’re gonna play it!
Can we start up some sort of Metsblog campaign to get the organ back at Shea and then CitiField.
I say no electronic music. Let’s keep it classy with the organ.
that sounds terrible. organs are boring and old fashioned. lets have some fun at the ball park
You could try watching the game.
What about a harpsichord?
lol
Oh that would be sweet, a little Bach anyone?
Write In AC/DC !
All of those songs are terrible, not so much in and of themselves (okay, Bon Jovi sucks), but I mean — for baseball — and for the situation.
I made a write-in vote for You Shook Me All Night Long by AC/DC and I encourage each and every one of you Mets-lovin’ muthers to do the same.
We can win this and defeat wimpy songs!!!
Rick Astley wipes the floor with AC/DC.
You mean Rick Astley wipes the floors at the Peep Shows — with his tongue!
Funny, but what please spare me from any further mental images!
The irony between your philosophy & the group you’ve chosen to represent it is just tooooooooo effin funny!!!!!!!!
AC/DC….Hah!
How about the song “What I’ve Done” by Linkin Park. This is a song that would get the crowd going in the 8th inning.
Rick Astley wipes the floor with Linkin Park.
Anyone wipes the floor with Linkin Park. Except U2. U2 is worse.
Or it would scare every kid in the stadium….remember…baseball is for kids!
How would it scared the kids.. Dont they play “Enter Sandman” when Wagner comes on. I think thats a scary song!..
You need a song that everyone knows, not just angry teenage boys who take themselves too seriously
Not my cup of tea particularly, but WAY better than anything listed to vote for from a rocking — get the crowd moving — sense.
Never Gonna Give You Up works on so many levels though. If we’re fighting to come back, it implies that we’re never going to give up on the team until the game is over! If we’re leading, it implies we’ll never give up the lead.
Besides, since we’ll all be so used to it, it’ll ultimately amount to rickrolling the opposing team at every game.
a song from 1962 by a guy from NYC – Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out), Ernie Maresca
Coool song!
this guy is probably selling used cars in Richmond, VA..but man, thats some head of hair
And it’s Mets colored!
I’m going to be seriously ill…
Man, I was so sick of the Rickrolling phenomenon until I saw that awesome Muppets version on Youtube the other day.
we’re no strangers to love……you know the rules..and so do i (do i do i do i do i….)
I think I could come to love the Eighth-Inning RickRoll. I really do.
If you ask me a cool sing-a-long would have been Jimmy Eats Worl “The Sweetness”.
Better, definitely getting better. There’s hope yet.
You know what? The way this is going, one you is bound to suggest “It’s Raining Men” by the Weather Girls. In fact, I hate to say it, but that song rocks harder than the ones listed to vote for.
Hey while we’re at it, let’s turn shea stadium into a golf site, where no one can make any noises because god forbid we have a little fun at baseball games….
Come on Cerrone, you’re a good guy but sometimes you can really tighten my jaws
As for “Never Gonna Give You Up”….I LOVE that idea….hell, i’d write it in. It’s something different, its an original idea….I don’t see any other team doing it….plus, its a nice little pick-me-up at games that aren’t going so well for us.
yaya i am totally in favor of this :) it will make all of us met fans sound pretty :)
Vote Land of 1000 Dances by Wilson Pickett
4chan invades Shea Stadium. Awesome.
lol 4CHAN SUX
Am I wrong for writing in Rick Astley when my heart wanted to vote for Movin’ Out?
Yes, you ARE wrong.
Billy Joel sucks and so does everybody else on that list except Wilson Pickett, who rocks. (And no, I’m not the guy who’s pitching him [no pun intended].)
Shea Stadium is like that crappy ride at the carnival that goes around in circles on a tilt while playing crappy music curated by carnies. Let Shea go out with some dignity. Enough with the constant bombardment of bad music during games!
Evvvvvverybody clap your hands…
Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap….
Sorry, just have to say that anytime someone isnt a total moron and hates it just as much as I…
Just remember, when in doubt realize that corporations market themselves to stupid people. Maybe they can air the ESPN ‘Who’s NOW?’ tournament on the jumbo tron as well…
I thought that was “everybody crap your pants”
P U !
Can we use Bobby V’s J-Pop tango song, with video on the big screen?
If the Mets are going to pick some songs, they should at least pick songs that represent the attitudes or their spirits of the game. Not only should we as the fans like the song, the players should too seeing how they are prone to hearing it every home game.
Here is my top three:
Don’t Stop Believing -Journey (Who does not like that song? Plus it sums up-the hope)
Centerfield – CCR (It’s a baseball game, Makes sense to play a baseball song right?)
Walk of Life-Dire Straits (just a good song)
These are all good songs, but I would say that, particularly Centerfield and Walk of Life have become sports cliches’.
The Mets would do well to play a song that rocks and at the same time sums up the ethos of New Yorkers and, if possible, can be connected to sports or competition in some way.
WEEN–LMLYP
thats what im talking about!!! love live the ween!!!!!
too old farty
we need spanglish songs anyways
Out of all the choices on that list though (save for the Astley write in of course), I would have to choose the Monkees. I love Bruce and Van Morrison, just not those songs really.
I still say bring back the “Curly Shuffle”. That’s how I voted.
The Curly Shuffle is awesome….definitely should be the song.
But honestly, as long as they get rid of Sweet Caroline thats all I care about. I wonder if the Mets front office even realizes thats the Red Sox song…that they clearly stole.
How bout some originality this year Mets PR / Marketing department.
I wrote in “Redemption Song” by Bob Marley and the Wailers. At least my conscience will be clear when I’m covering my ears and yelling expletives during Rick Astley.
Should they have vendors selling blunts, too?
That would be pretty awesome if you ask me.
I thought they were? at least way up yonder in the upper upper level.
Good to hear that the frat contingent loves the Mets.
Man, I hate frat guys too, but come on, you gotta be crazy to dislike Marley.
People who don’t like Marley don’t like to smile.
excellent choice!
Paradise by the dashboard lights by Meat Loaf…..
That’s the best sing-a-long song ever….
With Rizzuto on the track…no Yank-mes in our songs, please!
I’m writing in City of Blinding of Lights by U2!
I mean City of Blinding Lights.
If you must go U2, then “Vertigo” would be awesome!
“Hello, hello (HOLA!!)”
Perfect for Los Mets
bueno point
we gotta go w/ build me up buttercup…great sing along song, and i hate sweet caroline its the damn red sox song i dont ever want to emulate them
Yeah, god forbid we emulate them by winning 2 world championships in 3 years….rolls eyes
Except it’s not “emulating” them: it’s stealing something cheesy from them.
I’m all for an 8th inning sing-a-long, but the team should have its own song, not a rip-off. So I think this voting thing is a good idea…
Guys….it was not STOLEN!
Sweet Caroline has been around A LOT longer than when the red sox used it
The rickroll is front page on Digg right now. It’s gonna be a landslide.
Why is the theme from Friends even a choice. It is not a good song, unless you want to hear clapping and think about the TV show.
Because they were there for each other when the rain started to fall, just like the Mets should be, and they lived and/or worked in NYC, just like the Mets do.
Easily recognizable opening riff. That’s the only reason I can think of…
Now that I think about it–How about more than one? What I mean is have a song in the 8th depending on the Mets situation.
If you want fan interaction, then make them feel like they can interact.Some overplayed song like Sweet Caroline should not be the answer.
If the Mets are winning: Heart of rock and roll- Huey Lewis and the News ( Although Huey might not like seeing how I think he is a San Fran fan)
If the Mets are losing: Under Pressure – David Bowie and I can not think of the name). (However. it might not help their game)
Tie ball Game: The Heat is On-Glenn Frey (though many may not know the lyrics) This song other than in Beverly Hills Cop sounds familiar to me with the Mets. Like something during my younger days-I don’t know why.
that would be david bowie and queen
Ah ha, thats it!
I can’t believe someone let him cut that video doing that ridiculous dance…
What are you talking about?
Side note: I will be really pissed off at the Mets Org. if they go with anything from Friends. I think the players will hate it too.
didn’t you click through to the video of rick asstley? he is the worst dancer and instead of the director of the video thinking, “jeez, this guy moves like a freakin’ stiff, maybe we should not show him dancing,” he’s more than happy to continue to show his “moves” over and over. horrible.
Fire Water Burn by the Bloodhound Gang
Just don’t bring your kiddies to the game :)
that would be amazing 50 k screaming we dont need no water let the m-fer burn
So true, so true.
At last, someone GETS IT!
Now THAT would BE New York!!
so innappropriate, but so perfect, sometimes you find something that fits so perfect you can’t top it,
AWESOME!!! God, that would be funy!
You all do realize that, regardless of what they play, WE can sing “burn mother f’er, burn” ourselves, just like many of us have sung “get laid, get f’ed” to Billy Idol’s Mony Mony.
im down for trying to get my whole section singin, the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire,
do they allow large boomboxes inside?
I doubt you could bring the boom box, but you wouldn’t need it. If you have a loud voice, just shout “the roof, the roof” a couple times. Like starting the wave, at first it won’t take, but keep it up and eventually people will join in. I’ve been drunk enough to yell it myself a few times, but I noticed a family with lots of kids in the next section so I stopped. I did see some knowing smiles from people sitting nearby though.
How about some T. Rex like your name man. They could play “Main Man” when Maine starts. “Hot Love” would be an awesome sing-a-long song as well.
Ironically, I’ve never been a big T-Rex fan. Not big on dinosaurs either. It’s just a contraction of my name. But I DO dig the video for “Bang a Gong” with Elton John playing piano in the days before he realized he was, well, you know, “differently oriented.”
I voted for Louie Louie. Nobody knows the words anyway so i think it would be perfect.
But I agree that the music needs to be stopped. I went to Glavine’s 300th at Wrigley last year and I was so much more into the game because there wasnt as much distracting music. It just feels so much more pure and traditional.
Since they are making citifield a tribute to ebbets, they should also try and revert back to the way baseball was played in those days.
Unfortunately more and more people seem to be going to sporting events to hear loud snippets of popular music and be seen on TV talking on their cellphones while waving at the camera than actually give a sh*t about the game itself.
Look, this isn’t an attack on you, per se, just this kind of attitude.
You’re at a ball game, have some fun for crying out loud. I hate this pretentious attitude about the purity and tradition of baseball.
Do you still wear a suit and a tie to the game?
Because the FUN for many of us IS THE GAME. Novel, eh? We don’t need to be bombarded by bright lights, shrill noises, and shiny objects every half second. We have attention spans longer than finches.
And, in fact, traditionally, the stands were full of rabble-rousing, drunken, cigar smoking gamblers. But at least they watched the frigging game. The “Baseball as carnival” BS is meant to make the “experience” palatable to non-fans.
What do you do between innings? Meditate to the ghost of Casey Stengel?
Most people do watch the games. None of this extracurricular stuff happens while the game is being played (unlike during basketball games). Sure they make do the hand clapping thing or try to get a Let’s go Mets chant going, but is this that big of a deal. Seriously, I cannot recall anything that egregious going on while the actual game is going on. All this crap people moan and groan about goes on between innings.
Really, I want to know what you do between innings.
Personally, during play I keep score and mostly focus on the game, aside from some sparse comments to whoever I happen to be with.
But in between innings I’ll sing along to Meet the Mets, Take Me Out to the Ballgame, or whatever else they happen to play. I laugh at the Professor Reyes skits, answer some trivia, or, if I find whatever the team has provided for my between inning entertainment to be dull or ridiculous, I’ll check out my score card and discuss the game with whoever I happen to be at the game with.
It really has nothing to do with attention span, and more to do with the fact that there is a lot of dead time at baseball games and that people do possess the ability to think about more than one thing at a time.
What everyone needs to understand is that there are about a gazillion ways to entertain oneself these days, so there are probably less baseball obsessed people out there. They may like and enjoy the game, but they just go there to take in the atmosphere, watch a ball game and be generally entertained. They’re hanging on every pitch or wondering why Beltran just took three steps to his left.
So I’m sorry if you take issue with baseball as a carnival, but if you like rooting for a winning team with a payroll the size of the Mets, then you’re going to have to deal with the team pandering to the more casual fan. Because let’s face it, you and I are going to be at Shea (soon Citi) no matter what. It’s the casual fan they need to lure to the stadium. So the way I see it, you have two options: stay home, or accept it and actually enjoy yourself at the game.
Amen,
You took the words outta my head. I watch the game, but in between innings it’s fun to laugh with Jose, or see the couples on the big screen. I also like to see what song the players choose for themselves, thats kind of cool too. I’m also a musician so I may be biased. I’ve been going to ball games since I was 6(1967), and personally I like the music addition.
I don’t want to make a generalization, but anyone ho doesn’t like Rick Astley is dumb.
Wow what an intelligent remark.
I think we all like some song out there that we shouldn’t be liking.
Especially when it comes to Music- we all have guilty pleasures.
Is Anyone Ho related to Don Ho? Cuz I know Don Ho LOVES Rick Astley.
i dont want to make generalizations either but if you dont agree with gibbons then shut up cause youre wrong!
How about the RHCP’s Special Secret Song?
“New York Groove” by Ace Frehley was geat before games during the ‘06 playoffs.
The songs they proposed are awful. As are the suggestions here. “Build Me Up Buttercup”? “Paradise By the Dashboard Light”? Why not add “ABC, 123″ by the Jackson 5 for the troika of horrible songs that fat girls in bars across America all squeal with delight and then sing along to?
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
you need to go to better bars dude……
unless you have a thing for Fat Chics….
bring on the drunk, singing, bbw’s. more to love, more to forget.
so are you saying that fat chicks across the country don’t sing those songs? are your bars immune to fat chicks?
are you a fat guy?
I’ve loved this song even way before Rickroll started to happen.
NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UPPPPP NEVER SAY GOODBYEE
hahaha
i’d dance to this if i was at shea.
it’s possibly one of the most emblamatic songs of the 80s, and for that reason alone, it should be shunned.
special secret song!
How about something recorded in the last 20 years? Shea is currently where you go to hear 1980s music
Are you knocking on 80’s music?
I think regardless of what actually wins the vote, the Mets are going to announce the winner as “Movin’ Out” simply because Billy Joel is “The Last Play at Shea.” Sorry motherFARKers :-)
They’ll still play Lazy Mary, right ???????????
I hope not.
seeeeeconnnnnd staaaanzzzaa….
Oh man, does this mean I’ll have to add this song to my Ipod?
Seriously, I actually made a “Mets list” of songs associated with the team. Unfortunately I couldn’t find the 1986 “Let’s Go Mets” theme song or even “Meet the Mets” on Itunes. But at least I get to rock out to “Enter Sandman,” “Takin’ Care of Business,” “Johnny B. Good,” “L.A. Woman” and others.
I actually made a compliation of all the songs that are included in the 1986 A Year to Remember Video. I included the Let’s Go Mets song on there as well.
Heh – I’ve got “Wild Boys” on my mix. I need to find “Like a Rock” and that last song rolling over the end – “I Remember You” I think.
Actually, I need to find that video. My copy has finally bitten the dust (I guess 100+ viewings over 20 years will do that). I checked Ebay and Amazon, and the only thing I saw was one guy selling a used copy for like $100. Maybe they’ll release it on DVD one day.
I have it on DVD, along with the VHS transfer of “An Amazin’ Era”. Though it is copyright infringement, I will have to put it on bit torrent at some point.
Fighting by Yellowcard
Although, it isn’t a good song to sing to…….I just like the song……nevermind
Meet the Mets is fine…….they play anything and everything at the stadium anyway so who cares about the “sing-a-long” in the 8th…
I think an asteroid just shifted ever so slightly in ts orbit and is headed straight for earth. Yellowcard. Good Lord.
Anyway, the thing about the Rick Astley song is that it’s not funny. Not that clever. See, it’s a song nobody likes . . but we’re going to listen to it anyway. . . How IRONIC that I like a song for being lousy. HAHAHA!
lol, lay off of yellowcard
I’m voting for Jane Jarvis’ version (on her Hammond Organ) of the MC5’s “Kick out the Jams”
yeah yeah purity of the sport rickrolling is old meme whatever…but i LOVE this idea, sorry. anything beats sweet caroline.
While many on the other side do not like the idea of music at basball or at least in the 8th inning, It has been real successful for sports and games in general.
GTA Video game: Some of the best music in one little package.
Football: halftime show (personally I hate the talent they get but everyone else loves it)
Snowboarding and skateboarding: Something tells me guys like Shawn White and Tony hawk might not be the same without their anthems.
Hockey: That NANANANA- Hey… NANANANA that seems synomous with that sport.
Basketball: When I go to see the Rebs play they always play Viva Las Vegas by the King and everyone appears to enjoy it. Plus they have the band that plays all sorts of crazy covers with their brass.
Bottomline is- Baseball has changed. There is no use fighting about it. Especially the music aspect because both the players and most of the fans get into it.
Like movies that have music, sports with music is for a better experience. It helps put the fans and the players into a different world, away from the selected disappointments in our lives.
Hockey: That NANANANA- Hey… NANANANA that seems synomous with that sport.
I believe that is “Rock and Roll, pt. 2″ by Gary Glitter.
Also, just being in attendance at a well played baseball game was enough of an escape from the real world for me. But I can wear earplugs.
Good call on the name with that one
Going to the game in general is enough. Yea that goes without saying.
I just do not see how music especially during an inning warm-up is a pitfall for baseball. Not that they should have one every inning.
I hear you on the “warm up” thing. I don’t have a particular issue with music played at the ballgame, what I don’t like is how inconsistently loud the Shea speakers can sometimes be, especially depending on where you sit. Hopefully Citi Field will have a better sound system. But yeah, between innings, or batter walk up songs, I have no problem with. The batter walk up songs help me learn a little bit more about the hitter. I LOVE Jose Reyes’ 5th at bat song, I think it’s called “Chacaron” and I think the artist is “El Chombo.” I hope he still uses that. It always makes me laugh.
The music in sports thing that I definitely do NOT like is when they play it during the competition, which seems to be mostly a basketball issue.
whatever happend to minnie the moocher?
Well, she was busted for solicitation, got out, developed a wicked crack habit, kicked that, wrote a best-selling autobiography, went on Oprah, was found to have falsified and/or exaggerated many of the events of her life, shrank in disgrace from public view, moved to Carbondale, Illinois, began working as a bottle room operator at a local Kroegers, went to school at nights at a local community colege, had a brief affair with an Amish cooper named Josidiah (but we won’t speak any further of this), fled Illinois for Bar Harbor, Maine where she worked at a combo oyster bar/souvenier shop for, oh, about 8 months until she met a Red Sox fan named Blaise who suffered from E.D. and was hypoglycemic, left him and moved to Okmulgee, Oklahoma where she got her real estate brokers license and sold houses while she worked her way through beauty school. She eventually saved enough money to have cosmetic surgery to have her eyes pinned back, and after she finished beauty school, she went on to open up a series of nail salons within Wal Mart Supercenter locations — the first one being in Geneseo, NY. You can look it up on Dikipedia.
priceless
thats good stuff
I don’t think that the song necesarily has to do with Baseball. So… how about
Under the Boardwalk
How about Stand by Me (Ben E, King or John Lennon… doesn’t matter, they’re both great)
or how about something uniquely New York….
The Ramones… Do you Wanna Dance?
Actually good choices! Good job.
I was going to propose a Milli Vanilli (sp) song so we could see Pedro dance…oh….wait…….nooooooooo!!!!
I just felt a pop in my eardrum, time to go on the DL
Or they could just bring back the Curley Shuffle.
Yes! please. Also, bring back that clip from the movie Network. That was the greatest, but they rarely ever used it at all last year.
Hey Matt,
No music?
Are you having a “Hey you kids get off my lawn” moment?
LOL
Back in my younger days when I played ball in the street, I remember that every time a ball landed in the front lawn of the neighbor across the street-he would keep it. Man was I pissed.
I eventually got them all back…months later.
That comment just reminded me of those moments.
You were great in ‘The Sandlot’
Allow me to express the opinions of those that dont want background music the best way I can…
EVERYTHING now is ‘2000ized’….EVERYTHING….TV, movies,radio, CERTAINLY basketball games, the NFL….just friggin EVERYTHING…
The thread yesterday about instituting replay…same deal…
Cant baseball, which has been the national pastime for 150 years stay the way it has been forever. Im not talking wildcards or intraleague….I mean the ‘game’ The stadium experience. LEAVE IT THE HELL ALONE. JUST THIS ONE THING. PLEASE. What the HELL is wrong with keeping this one thing sacred. I just want ONE place where I can look around and nowt know that its 2008. ONE STUPID PLACE, and to me thats at a baseball game….until recently…
I know you some of you keep saying, ‘Please its a ball park, not a church, losen up’….Understand that for me it IS my church.There is rapidly becoming NO WHERE I CAN GO thats not commercialzed and ‘in your face…I just wanna relax and watch the game without being told when to clap….
I should add I do like the 7th inning stuff….just keep it to that, the THUMP THUMP THUMP for the chants….the da da da DA DA DA’s….all fine….no songs during the game….Please…
Since when do they play music during the games other than for like 5 second when they announce the hitters?
Sigh…
Evvvverybody clap your hands…
clap, clap, clap, clap…
Im guessing thats telling me when to clap…no?
I know it sounds like the Sandlot. However, it was not as dramatic as that. No dog, just a jerk of a neighbor, the guy was mailman. Plus when I asked for the balls he denied me (as opposed to that movie). I had to have my parents chew him out. You can believe it or not I really do not care. I just thought it was fun thing that reminded me of that comment, thats all.
Wishful thinking on your part about keeping tradtion. That was blown away back when they started juicing. As for me I can live without the 8th inning music. Personally I would rather embrace the idea and make it work rather than fight city hall.
Minnie the Moocher…. nice.
Just wondering: If say Johan Santana and Carlos Zambrano are dueling into the 9th in a 1 run game, and Shea doesn’t blare a pop song in the 8th, are all the fans going to leave their seats and storm the Met corporate offices saying “hey where the hell was my 8th inning song?”
What does this have to do with anything?
It has everything to do with this thread. I’m just curious as to whether a good pitching match up, alone, without between inning dancing girls or loud music or contests, is enough of an attraction to people. If you could get tix to Shea for a Santana v. Zambrano match up, but you knew ahead of time that they did not do plane races or play pop songs, would you still go?
Just the game should be enough. (It is for me)
The fact of the matter is that they plan on putting in the 8th inning so you might as well think up some good songs and preach them…Otherwise you might just be spinning your wheels on something that will not change to your benefit.
I would go, but I would probably have to take my cranky miserable kids, who want cotton candy, no popcorn, no ice cream, no cotton candy, home because they don’t have the attention span to sit and watch a pure baseball game for 3 hours.
I think I’m more tired about debating the merits of “music” and “sound” at the Mets game than I am taking about Kazmir. The game is different, every sports franchise does this to a certain extent. It’s never going to change.
Kudos to FARK for having fun with it at our expense.
I’m not trying to stop anything. I’m simply asking a question, and thank you for your answer. As I wrote well above, I submitted my suggestion (Redemption Song by Bob Marley, not because I practice Rastafarianism but because I believe 2008 to be a season of redemption for the Mets) to mets.com. I know it won’t win, but I did submit one, which is sort of like voting in an election. By voting you retain your right to complain or gloat about it later. If you don’t participate, tough luck as you suggest.
My point, as I noted above in length, is that this is a pointless debate.
Yes, a great pitching matchup is enough to get me to “Show up at Shea,” but I doubt it’s enough to get my little sister to go.
Baseball teams need to offer something for everyone. Last year my dad took my entire family out to a game at Shea. I’m 24, my brother is 21, and my two sisters are 17 and 12, respectively. My mom and girlfriend also came.
During the game, everyone watched what was going on between the lines. Now my family may be a bad example, because we’re all baseball junkies (my twelve year old sister groaned “oh man, double play” when Delgado hit a weak grounder to second with a man on first”) and played sports when we were younger (my sisters still play), but the point remains, our focus was on the game action.
Then, in between innings, me, my dad, my brother, and my girlfriend would discuss the game and various Mets related stuff while my mom and sisters were quite amused with some of the silliness that goes on between innings. My youngest sister loved tracking Mr. Met as he walked throughout the ballpark, while my other sister watched a video of some band I’ve never heard of on the big screen. In the 7th inning we all got up, stretched out, and sang along to “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” But when the game resumed, our attention was back on the game.
What’s the ultimate point? Going to Shea offers something for everyone. It was a great time and I stand by what I’ve been saying. I’ve never felt any of the extracurricular stuff I hear so many people complain about infringes on my enjoyment of the game while it’s being played.
If they didn’t sell beer at the game, I would still go. If the seats were made of old wood that splintered, I would still go. If the whole place smelled like low tide, I would still go. I don’t understand what point you are trying to make here. Just because the game is enough to make me come, that does not mean that the organization should not try to make the whole experience a good one. The only question is whether music adds something positive to the experience, not whether music is essential to the experience. No one has argued the latter.
I’m not trying to make any point, I’m trying to understand what is or is not important to a person who spends money to attend a sporting event. Thank you (and everyone else who responded) for helping me understand.
Hey Dc,
I just put the video on to DVD. They don’t sell it on DVD, but my buddy works at a radio station so has access to all sorts of equipment and converted it.
The song at the end of the video is I”ll Remember You by Bob Dylan off the Empire Burlesque cd.
“Mr. Wilpon– I am incensed! I ordered a side of RickRoll with my World-Series clinching no-hitter! IN-censed!”
Boomer and Carton were discussing the sing along on their show this morning on WFAN (they’re great, by the way, AND they are die-hard Met fans)…..
They actually came up with a promotion that would be kinda cool.. not necessarily in place of the 8th inning sing along….
have a kid play Guitar Hero on top of the dugout and the crowd could sing along with them.
Sounds great in theory… but if the kid stinks… the could could get ornry.
HAY GUYS I WANT TO HEAR FORCE FED BROKEN GLASS BY CANNIBAL CORPSE. VOTE FOR THAT INSTEAD.
Billy Joel – Piano Man
That’s one sad song.
Whatever happen to “No crying in Baseball?”
Only if it’s Saturday and the 8th inning fall exactly at 9:00.
well played
Any Mets fans in Atlanta out there that can give a weather report?
I checked weather.com and they have tornado warnings for Atlanta until 10:30 and the radar map looks pretty bad. Is this game going to be played tonight?
Tomorrow calls for heavy rains most of the day also.
To honest and for the Mets benefit (but not for my own because I would like to hear a game today) It would be nice to have that one postponed to help their rotation, get more rest, and buy more time for the DLs, trade talks or whatever.
especially if you were like me and bought tickets to Saturdays game thinking the Mets would be in a 4 man rotation and Santana would be pitching. Maine/Hudson is much better than Pelfrey!
Atlanta is where Pelfrey shines. I was down there last Sept 1 and Pelfrey was very good: 6IP, 1ER, 7K and a W. Shea is where you don’t want to have tix to a Pelfrey game. Besides, you’ll get to see Glavine rocked and enjoy it for a change.
True, I’ve been thinking all week what I should yell at Glavine as he warms up in the 1st. Weather report doesn’t look good for this evening though.
In Atlanta, I don’t know what would be good to yell because you’ll be surrounded by people that LOVE him. But if/when he pitches at Shea it would be wonderful if everyone to the left field side of home plate yelled “ONE” and then everyone to the right field side of home plate yelled “THIRD,” and so on back and forth. He’d want to dig a hole in the mound and crawl in.
If any of the next two games got rained out would they schedule a doubleheader this weekend? If they don’t and the Mets decide to keep everyone’s turn wouldn’t that push Santana’s start on Sunday to Tuesday’s opening day.
As much as I want to hear a game tonight, I think I would sign up for a rain out tonight if the result ended in Santana pitching Tuesday
Probably would just play Monday afternoon.
The Braves have a game on Monday so the rain could actually have the rotation work out to have Santana on Opening Day.
I think as Met fans, Living on a Prayer is perfect.
LIVING ON A PRAYER!
when is johan’s first home start going to be? 4/11?
Why is this even up for discussion. I have three words for you: The. Curly. Shuffle.
…The tueffel shuffle?
Oh, Christ.
I thought this was the Major Leagues?!? Can’t the Mets just play baseball games, and not resort to all the garbage sideshows that occur at minor league games?
If I want to sing songs, learn Spanish, and play games, then I’ll attend more Brooklyn Cyclone games.
you might as well abandon MLB altogether because other teams are doing it…..Why take it out of the Mets? Because they are hoping on the wagon? I guess.. If that makes you feel better. Have fun at those farm shows.
That’s it! Sideshows! Shea needs sideshows. And freak shows! And maybe Burlesque shows.
I voted for Your Love by the Outfield for a few reasons…
1) THE BAND NAME SEEMS APPROPRIATE.
2) THE METS WERE ONE OF, IF NOT, THE, TEAM OF THE 80′S SO THERE SHOULD BE AN 80′S SONG TO SING ALONG TO.
3) I’M PRETTY SURE GARY, KEITH, AND RON WOULD ALL APPRECIATE THAT SONG.
4) MANY METS FANS GREAT UP IN THE 80′S AND SHOULD HAVE A SONG TO REMEMBER THE 80′S AND THE METS.
5) IT’S A GREAT SING-A-LONG, FUN SONG.
6) IF THE SONG HAD TO BE CLEANED UP A BIT TO PLAY, WE COULD HAVE SOMEONE LIKE JOSE REYES AND/D-WRIGHT SING instead of “I don’t want to lose your love tonight…” they could do, “we don’t want to lose this game tonight!”
Join me.
I have never even heard of that song.
I like the idea. Easy song to catch on to as well.
Why isn’t “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey on there, it’s an easy song to remember and it goes along with the Mets slogan it’s never over till it’s over and pretty much the deffinition of game 6. I like this one and i voted for it.
“Don’t Stop Believing”
yea especially since the sopranos brought it back.
I agree. with you. as mentioned above… I also voted for it on their website. I am glad to not be the only one with good intentions with this idea.
how about the Cheers theme song? Although its another Boston thing..
What about the Law % Order theme song. Everyone can hum along to it.
I just looked at the weather report for Atlanta….
“Strong Thunderstorms” chance of precip 100%
I can’t see them getting this game in tonight.
also tornado warnings
It was raining about an hour ago? Not sure, this minute it’s just cloudy but I’m sure it’s gonna start raining again
canceled game
230 posts abt an 8th inning song–i thought we were goin to talk baseball once reg season games started…
maine-sat
pelfrey-sun
off mon
home opener tues-johan
this is hiklarious…i just voted for it…..all you wet blankets with no sense of humor suck…this is classic…..classic i say…..
This is funny considering I rickrolled a certain Phillies blog during the preseason. Isn’t the Rick Astley song even somewhat appropriate for us?
Now that I think about, since its the last season at Shea how about Talking Heads “Burning Down the House”?
Also, we need to ditch “Takin’ Care of Business” at the end of every home victory and play James Brown “The Payback” this season.
I love your thinking man. “Burning down the house” would be awesome, and “the big payback” could not be more appropriate. I really like taking care of business though. Maybe the “Big pay back” could be used for the divisions game.
Its funny that there are over 200 comments over this stuff. We really needed a baseball game today I guess.
I like the idea of a song, but it’s got to be cool. Rick Astley wan’t considered cool. There’s a song that was recorded by Sly and the family stone called “I want to thank you for letting me be myslef again”. Look for it on the web. It’s catchy, it’s cool and it describes Met fans perfectly. We just want to be fans the way we know how. So to the Mets, we want to thank you for letting us be ourselves again.
Let’s Go Mets!!!
I’m down with some Sly.
Please not that weird song from Rickroll.
I have the best song.
“We’re not going to take it” by Twisted Sister
Please join me and say no to rickroll and neil diamond.
I should’ have voted Take on me by A-ha!
egr
I am a Professional DJ from NY who also was disgusted by the choices that were given. I have a solution.
We all agree that we don’t want our song to be some cheezy or commercial song.
We want it to be a rare song with some cache.
A pimpin’ old song that someone like Jay-Z would sample.
I have found the PERFECT SONG but I know it’s too rare to be taken seriously but it is now and forever a crying shame that the Shea Faithful have not heard it yet.
It is called “I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES” BY THE JACKSON SISTERS.
If the fans hear it they are gonna go wild. It sounds like your being sent in a time machine back to your youth with your glove dreaming of playing in the bigs.
The Lyrics
I Believe in Miracles Baby
I Believe in You
I Believe in Miracles Baby
I Believe in You
They say the day is ending
Lets watch the sun go down
And plan a holiday for two
For All Eternity
We will ride a cloud so you can see
The world i created just for you
I saw you standing on the street
I wanted to meet just stop a while
You give me smile to say hello
You make me feel so good inside
That i realised i could not hide
The feeling that came when you failed to say
I Believe in Miracles
I Believe in Miracles
I Believe in Miracles
Dont you
Dont you
I Believe in You
I Believe in Miracles Baby
I Believe in You
I dont know what people are saying
Or what games their player-playing
Or if their planning same old game on me
People never knowing where they are going or what they are showing
So come on boys,show a little love for me
I Believe in Miracles
I Believe in Miracles
I Believe in Miracles
Dont you
Dont you
I Believe in Miracles
I Believe in Miracles
I Believe in Miracles
Dont you
Dont you
La La La…
Here we are together face to face
Forever in a place that i created
Just for you,you,you
So people are better than what you give
Believe in dreams and think they are real
And one day soon
The miracle will come true
I Believe in Miracles
Dont you
I Believe in Miracles
Dont you
I Believe in Miracles
Dont you
Dont you
I Believe in Miracles…
DON’T MISS OUT! This could be our JAM! Pulled out of the crates by a real DJ and a Real METS Fan!!
And I’m writing in Rick Astley.
Like a million effing times.
I vote for Wooly Bully. Wooly bully or Tito Puente’s El Timbero
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