Your voices have been heard. And by you, we mean the faceless mob that is the internet, not baseball fans who actually attend Mets games at New York's Shea Stadium. Last week, the team asked fans to vote in an internet poll on the song they'd like to hear during the 8th inning sing-a-long for the rest of the year. And some Digg, Fark, and other users decided it would be funny to write in "
Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley. (Note, this does not count as a Rickroll, because you absolutely know what you're getting if you click on that link... unless we decided to link to something else. Only one way to find out).
Apparently Mr. Astley's pop tune got the most votes and the Mets played the song during last night's season opener. But the Mets have decided that you can't trust anything you read on the internet, especially poll results. So the team will be
playing the top 6 songs once per game for the first six games of the season to see which one the actual fans in the stadium like the best. Judging by the booing in the fan-made videos floating around YouTube, we're going to go out on a limb and assume that last night may have been the last time anyone will hear "Never Gonna Give You Up" at Shea.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
4-09-2008 @ 12:57PM
Bufsabre said...
ive been to mets games, they boo everything, but honestly the team sucks so they have a reason
LET GO YANKEES!
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4-09-2008 @ 1:05PM
Anoymous said...
Bahahahhaha anon is happy
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4-09-2008 @ 2:02PM
jnetty99 said...
I was at the game yesterday, that song sucked!
the bullpen sucked even worse.
My first and last home opener at Shea.
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4-09-2008 @ 2:34PM
ranatalus said...
Why is rickrolling this fucking popular? This is quite possibly one of the dumbest internet memes to go around ever. OH NO, YOU TRICKED ME INTO LISTENING TO A MEDIOCRE 80S POP TUNE! WOW DUDE, YOU SURE GOT ME GOOD!
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4-09-2008 @ 3:29PM
Ben Belden said...
It sounds like someone fell for more than once themselves.
Actually, I find it hilarious because now that so many people have fallen victim, people have had to come up with increasingly creative ways to do it. I fell for it April 1st when I thought I would be getting "hilarious muppet outtakes" and instead saw an inspired video with Beaker singing it and Animal and the Electric Mayhem backing him up.
4-09-2008 @ 7:39PM
Rocketboy said...
Your right. It's not funny. Mildly amusing, but on the whole, not funny.
4-09-2008 @ 4:07PM
marco said...
Rick rocks! I voted for this song lol
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4-09-2008 @ 4:19PM
Grant Robertson said...
That was no where near as fun as I'd imagined it would be. Sigh.
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4-09-2008 @ 5:51PM
Danny Mendez said...
I love it.
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4-09-2008 @ 7:30PM
hnkelley said...
This just ~might~ qualify as the world's largest, simultaneous RickRoll! 100,000 screaming Mets fans!!!
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4-10-2008 @ 2:03PM
porovaara said...
The largest would have to be the Family Guy rickroll. It's not that the meme is funny in itself, however when you sucker people into watching it with a very clever one, it's damn good personal entertainment.
4-09-2008 @ 8:48PM
hazard said...
Oh that's hilarious .. Mind you I can understand how they fell for that as the other popular choices are pretty mixed bag.
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