Don't let us be Rickrolled on Opening Day!
The home opener should be a time of joy and hope. Instead, the Mets' home opener today -- the final opener for Shea Satdium -- could end up being one of shame.
The Mets had this brilliant idea for letting fans vote online for their eighth-inning sing-along song. The good folks over at Fark.com started a campaign to have people write in votes for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up," a tune so dastardly catchy that it's become a web sensation. Getting someone to link to a clip of the video (often set with a loud volume and an inability shut it off without hitting CTRL-ALT-DELETE) is called "Rickrolling."
(The damn song is in my head right now. Aaaaarrrgghhh!)
So, of course, the Mets got Rickrolled. Whether it will be selected as the winning song remains to be seen, but hopefully the team will recognize what's happened and deny Astley the honor. If they don't, and that song is picked, the team will flat-out be the laughingstock of the league, if not all of professional sports.
Of course, the Mets could have just taken our advice and selected "The Curly Shuffle," a Mets classic by any measure. There's still hope.
And, oh by the way, it's OPENING DAY! Against the PHILLIES! Lots of talk about how many brawls there will be between the two teams this season. I've said it before and I will say it again and again: BRING IT ON.
The Mets had this brilliant idea for letting fans vote online for their eighth-inning sing-along song. The good folks over at Fark.com started a campaign to have people write in votes for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up," a tune so dastardly catchy that it's become a web sensation. Getting someone to link to a clip of the video (often set with a loud volume and an inability shut it off without hitting CTRL-ALT-DELETE) is called "Rickrolling."
(The damn song is in my head right now. Aaaaarrrgghhh!)
So, of course, the Mets got Rickrolled. Whether it will be selected as the winning song remains to be seen, but hopefully the team will recognize what's happened and deny Astley the honor. If they don't, and that song is picked, the team will flat-out be the laughingstock of the league, if not all of professional sports.
Of course, the Mets could have just taken our advice and selected "The Curly Shuffle," a Mets classic by any measure. There's still hope.
And, oh by the way, it's OPENING DAY! Against the PHILLIES! Lots of talk about how many brawls there will be between the two teams this season. I've said it before and I will say it again and again: BRING IT ON.
Labels: Curly Shuffle, opening day, Phillies, rickrolled
posted by Gaspo @ 7:31 AM
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