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Meet The Mets

Last night's Mets game was the first I can remember having attended at which the team's theme song, Meet The Mets, was not played just prior to the game. Instead, some hip-hop music was played. Last night was my first trip to Shea this season, so perhaps new GM Omar Minaya has discontinued the tradition of playing Meet The Mets. Since there was a rain delay last night, it's possible that the omission of Meet The Mets was an aberration.

Meet The Mets is admittedly sort of a stupid song, but replacing it with hip-hop is not cool.

The original 1962 version and the 1984 version of the song can both be listened to here (scroll down).

The 1984 version of the song reminds me of the Mets of the mid and late 80's, when it was played regularly before and after games on WHN and then on WFAN.

The other day, I realized that I'm getting old when a teenager asked why Mets announcer Howie Rose is now on the radio. "Wasn't he always on TV?" the youngster queried.

Oy. As Mets fans as old as me surely know, Howie was the host of Mets Extra from the '86 playoffs through the early '90's, and also hosted a talk-show on WFAN from that station's inception. During its first few years, Mets Extra was on for 90 minutes before and 90 minutes after Mets games, accounting for my poor performance as a high school student.
posted on 6/30/2005