This morning, WFAN’s Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton announced today they were recently asked by the Mets to submit four songs to replace Sweet Caroline during the eighth inning in Citi Field.
…oh, jeez, this again… ok, fine… let’s see what we’ve got…
Carton, Esiason and their staff selected the ‘Curly Shuffle,’ ‘Blame it on the Boogie,’ ‘I Like it Like That,’ and ‘Mama Said Knock You Out,’ to join the organization’s selections, which include ‘Meet the Mets,’ ‘Twist and Shout,’ ‘This Land is Your Land,’ and ‘Shout.’
According to Carton, the eight choices will up for vote on Mets.com at some point in the next week or so.
…again, why does there have to be sing a long in the first place… and why do we need to go through this every season… just play Meet the Mets… or don’t… or, frankly, at this point, play Sweet Caroline, play the theme to MASH, whatever, just pick something…
…hey, here’s a song idea: Watch the Game… how about that one… how about you stop distracting me with songs, and trivia, and t-shirts, and let me actually watch the game, and talk to my father about the situation at hand without having to shout over the public address system… just a suggestion…
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thank you, its so frustrating going to a game and not just watching the game.
Of course, this sing-a-long would be BETWEEN innings, so it would not prevent anyone from “watching the game.” Having said that, I vote whole-heartedly for the Curly Shuffle.
Remember, not everyone has he baseball capacity to discuss in depth situations in between innnings. I for one would love to just sit and talk baseball, but I know for everyone one of me there is 4000 others looking for the in between innnings antics.
Being in the minority, I vote for the Curley Shuffle as well….
Not to encourage sing along songs but what about something like Glenn Frey’s You belong to the City?
It’s got an easy chorus to sing to.
It’s not a mainstream song, but then again it’s not this rare song that nobody has never heard of.
Plus you can maybe make a tie in with the lyrics. We play in New York which is the #1 city. We play at a place called Citi.
I’m fine with Meet the Mets too. But any sing along should have some correlation to the Mets, rather than just some random arbitary song
Totally agree, lets not pick a song just for the sake of picking a song, make it have to do with baseball or at least NY. Will there be a write-in section for the voting?
I’m just glad they didn’t decide to pick the song after the 2000 season or we would have been stuck with “Who let the dogs out”.
I really wish the small band which walked around the seats from my youth at Shea could be brought back. Beats the heck outta that egotist Cowbellman.
Matt:
I totally agree with the banning.
While you are at it though, we need to ban the wave as well. Anyone engaged in an effort to start or continue the wave should be immediately asked to leave the stadium (same as if they touched a ball in play).
Funny name, i actually have a mlb fantasy league team named “kick in your philsticles” LOL
Having said that, I love the wave. It’s fun to watch and be a part of. Have you ever been to a 120,000 person soccer match where the entire stadium rolls in a wave? It’s awesome!!!
I’m for the wave too but it has to be done inbetween innings or during a pitching change. I hate when the wave goes on during an inning when i’m trying to watch the game. I end up having to stand up, not because I want to be part of the wave, but because I want able to see the next pitch!
Oh come on, it comes and goes in one second. If you don’t want to stand then don’t – you won’t miss any more than if someone was passing by to get a hot dog…
Great points Matt, but please don’t do anything to encourage Sweet Caroline. It’s an embarassing attempt even if it was a successful promotion. And yet it’s not even a successful promotion.
I completely disagree with you. The Mets have caught flack this year for their lack of Mets-eske tradition inside the stadium. If they can find something that the fans want and make it Mets-mainstream inside of the stadium than I am all for it. Maybe this movement starts with a song that Mets fans can feel is their own rather than Sweet Caroline. The organization is trying to involve the fans in the in game experience; I see nothing wrong with that.
“Meet the Mets” should be put on during the second inning
“Lazy Mary” during the 7th inning stretch
“Twist and Shout” during the 8th – as a tribute to Shea Stadium.
I personally liked it when they played “Meet the Mets” (MTM)
I don’t see why it has to be a sing-a-long to a non-mets related song. heck, I can barely remember the words to “meet the mets” all the way through without fumbling, and im sure our younger generation would like it and learn to sing it.
I would definitely sing-a-long to MTM
Matt,
I love how frustrated you’ve been lately.. its about time!
Also, KickedintheMetsiclesAgain , Its one of the most embarrassing things to be at a game with someone who partakes in the wave
yep…completely agree Matt.
What happened to just a nice day out at the ballpark? Just beer, food, baseball and the pipe organ.
I am all for watching the game, but this is in between innings right? Whats wrong with getting fans together to sing a song…no it does not have to be Bostons Sweet Caroline, but Meet the Mets is a must. for 2 reasons.
1) when they play well it makes you proud
2) when they are not playing well it’s hilarious in a sarcastic way
Oh and call me cheesey but I like kiss cam, professor reyes and the airplane race too, but they all pale in comparison to the actual game, still they keep things light in between innnings. Why be against fun?
This is something MLB misses in it attempt to be more like the NBA, baseball is a conversational sport. At the park with friends, the game invites you to discuss the action as it unfolds. The pauses in the action allow you to talk about what just happen, what you think should happen next, how you would “play it”.
MLB thinks those moments needed to be filled with a visual and audio onslaught. It has gotten to the point where at times the only spot you can hear the guy sitting 2 seats from you is during the action, as that is the only time they don’t fill the silence.
The ballpark experience is better when those that control the sounds and video sights allow the game to breathe. Instead, it will be filled with the very baseball relevant “Mama Said Knock You Out”.
I agree….just stick to Meet the Mets and forget the silliness of this sing-a-long nonsense.
If they absolutely need to have one…….the choices they’ve offered up stink, btw.
How about “Don’t Stop Believing”
I vote for watching the game, banning cowbell man, banning the wave, bringing back the pipe organ and on a separate note hanging Keith Hernandez’s number 17 next to number 41.
if there must be a song why not something like “Back in the NY Groove”, “NY State of Mind” or “NY, NY”…you know – NY themed
I hate hearing NY NY, the Yankees play that after every win. Lets get our own identity!
I think the Mets should continue to use NY State of Mind by Billy Joel as often as possible. Make it our song.
Whoa, Matt! Someone’s traveling on the “vent it out” train! How do you really feel?
Look, I know us knowleadgeable guys don’t really give a crap about the singanlongs but it’s for the kiddies, Matt, for the kiddies!
All jokes aside, I love bringing my wife to the game, who doesn’t know much about baseball except the Jose Jose Jose chant and the fact that DW is cute and she loves the little segments they have in between innings. So let’s not assume that on a sellout Saturday the stadium is filled with 50,000 guys who just want to sit and watch the game…
I don’t think anyone is saying that they should stop playing all music or stop all the stuff they do on whatever they call the new Diamond Vision. The issue is that there is no balance, its all music played to overwhelm conversation and video board games all the time.
What would be nice is during some, not all, of the between inning breaks, if they shut it down. I think they think everyone in the park falls into your wife’s category and forget that some of the customers actually are there for the baseball.
I love to annoy my teenage sons by singing along.
Matt, let’s not kill my fun!
They really should just play Meet the Mets. None of those other songs qualify as “sing along” songs. Sweet Caroline works well because everyone gets to go “BAAAH BAAAH BAAAAAAAAAHH” during the chorus, but it belongs to the Red Sox so let them have it.
Also I wish they would ban beach balls. I saw two being batted around in my section last night and it’s super distracting. I went to a Dodger game at Chavez Ravine last year and I must have seen ten or twelve, and they were all anybody gave a cr*p about.
Please, please, please just watch the game!!
If anything, +1 for Meet the Mets, or the “let’s go Mets go” from 86′. Who doesn’t love Darryl in his wig belting it out!
I still have the VHS with the video for that song…classic
“the theme from MASH” LMAO
Testify Cerrone, Testify!
Couldn’t agree with you more. They have this fear of empty space, whether it’s on the scoreboard, around the ballpark, or over the loudspeakers.
Constant bombardment with split-second stimuli.
To savvy fans I believe this insinuates a lack of confidence by the Mets in their product. Allow the fans simply watch the game and let the sport speak for itself. As much as I don’t like resorting to economic reductionism and referring to baseball as a “product,” I just wish the Mets would try ‘less is more’ for once.
Yes, I am writing from the West Coast, but I am coming home for the game against Philly on 8/24, and here are my requests.
“Meet the Mets” should be sung at every game. It is a silly song, but it is part of team history. (Yes, the Mets do have a history).
I love the Jose Jose Jose Jose song. I wish we as fans had started that one more often when we had the chance. I hope folks are belting it out at every opportunity when he returns.
Also, I’ve sung this one a few times, even did it at AT&T Park last month. To the tune of “Yellow Submarine”: “We all dream of a team of David Wrights! A team of David Wrights, a team of David Wrights!” People loved it…Thoughts??
I’m willing to bet somebody in the Mets ownership said something along the lines of “Damnit, we will NOT be the only team without an 8th inning sing-along! Make it happen!!”
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? Ha ha!!!
Furthermore, I believe less modern music and more silence or organ music would evoke an old-time ambience about the place to go along with the traditional architecture. Which, given today’s stadiums’ overreliance upon constant pop music and party patrols, would give the Mets a great sense of individuality.
Hopefully I won’t sprain my ankle as I hop down from my soapbox.
Cheers, and LETS GO METS!
Do we really need to get rickrolled again?
I couldn’t agree more with Matt. I have to say though, that games at Citi are generally less filled with pa system-generated noise than Shea.
I think it’s important to provide time and space in the game for discussion and debate and whatever else happens when you sit down with friends, beer, and hot dogs.
And if they insist on having music throughout the game, a good criteria* would be to ask yourself, “Would I ever listen to this song in my car or include it on a playlist for a friend?”
*Except for that Italian song, that’s ok ;)
The Boston Red Sox are the best run organization in Major League Baseball (please try to argue against that) and they have a sing along in the 8th inning so everyone please stop your whining and try to have SOME fun at the game its between innings not during the game so please stop with the “im a purist, nonsense”…..my vote is for Mama Said Knock You Out
Agree with your rant, Matt, but sing-a-longs are between innings – now that we have a fully enclosed stadium, we must direct our attention to banning the bane of all sporting events – “THE WAVE”. That’s where I want to scream to everyone to just watch the friggin’ game.
Have they changed he words to meet the Mets?
I only ask because it just wouldn’t sound right to hear “Shea” in a song that will be played in Citi Field for years to come
They should never change the words to that song. Who cares if Shea is gone.
I say the Mets get Rick-rolled again…atleast it was funny
FWIW, the actual/original Meet The Mets song doesn’t include “Shea” in the lyrics. The “hot dogs, green grass, all at Shea” lyric was added in 1984.
I hate to sound like a broken record, since I have been saying this forever now, the Mets have a problem with tradition.
Why are they asking for songs? You have a song, it’s called Meet The Mets. Play it!
Baseball is about nostalgia, history, and tradition. The Mets have a great, long standing song that should have already been an 8th inning tradition, might as well start it now.
I’m gonna go ahead and do my best Pavarotti impression and write a new singalong, inspired by Cerrone:
Watch the game,
Watch the game.
Sit right down and watch the game.
Stay in your seat,
Don’t get up.
Maybe stop drinking beer after one cup.
Because you’re dropping five hundred bucks today,
So you might as well watch ‘em play
Sit down, be cool, you didn’t come for wiffle ball
You’re here for M-E-T-S Mets
Basebaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall.
I just laughed out loud (I would rather write it out than use “lol”). All I can say is well said. Who really cares what they play during the middle of the inning…that is when we go use the bathroom or get food or talk to our friends next to us. We do not need a sing a long!
The problem with Meet The Mets is, great as it is, the crowd ignores it. Maybe today’s fan doesn’t have the reverence for history, they find it corny, whatever, but I’ve been dismayed at the lack of participation when they’ve tried it as a singalong.
They should continue playing Meet The Mets early in games, but by far the best singalong option is New York Goove. And they need to make a video starring Mr Met. Imagine him in the back of that Cadillac!
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