Want to Rickroll the New York Mets and fans for the rest of the year?

by Danny Mendez Apr 4th 2008

In what could only be described as genius and wonderful, a web user submitted the recent NY Mets song contest to Digg, asking Digg users to enter Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up." The winning song will be played as a sing-a-long during the 8th inning of at the Shea stadium for the rest of the year.

During this year's April Fool's Day, YouTube "Rickrolled" -- as its called -- every user that clicked on a "Featured" video on its front page. Rickrolling refers to getting unsuspecting victims to watch or listen to "Never Gonna Give You Up." There were several efforts that linked to YouTube vidoes of the music video on April 1st, but getting a giant crowd to sing it on a regular basis for the rest of the year is... well, ridiculous. Here's to supporting ridiculousness.

Note: The dancing in the video is also ridiculous, and if you happen to need an extra identity (hey, some of us don't like being counted only once), the fake name generator is always good to go.

Tags: mets, new york, NewYork, rick astley, RickAstley, rickroll, rickrolling

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Dave C said 10:39PM on 4-04-2008

Brilliant, consider it done :)

Bufsabre said 2:42AM on 4-05-2008

being a yankees fan and despising the mets this seems great to me, done

rasbill said 11:13AM on 4-05-2008

as usual everyone must drag it out so its not funny to rick roll anyone anymore just annoying

to much of a good thing

Joe said 11:59PM on 4-05-2008

This may be true, but this would be a grand finale to the Rick Roll prank era :P

ronmoses said 10:01AM on 4-07-2008

Really folks... was Rick Rolling ever funny? Seriously?

"Hey, check out this link to this awesome thing..."

"Um... I clicked it but it went to a Rick Astley video?!?"

"LOL! You've been RICK ROLLED!!!"

"Oh yeah? What's that then?"

"It's only the latest mass-approved arbitrary humor object, straight from the intarwebs! I've read at least three articles on Digg saying how funny it is. Duh, get with the meme!!!"

"Oh. Well I guess I get it then. Um... this is where I type LOL, right?"

Stay tuned next week when we all start texting each other "Guess what/That's what" messages. Comedy!!!

TheAssailant6661 said 3:33PM on 4-07-2008

F--- THE METS! GO YANKEES!!! Consider it done on multiple computers.

Samir said 8:57PM on 4-08-2008

Was at the mets game today, i'm a phillies fan, they actually played that song in the 8th inning today, found it pretty amusing.

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