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The Terrible Rick Astley Themed Dugout

Apr 10, 2008 – 1:38 PM
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This Dugout blurb comes only with the information that you need to know. One! The New York Mets are having a contest where fans help decide which song will be played and sung along to during this season's games. Two! The Mets are not particularly good at choosing songs to be associated with the Mets. Three! David Wright has a blog and probably thinks Maddox has a funny website.

Today's Dugout gets straight up RICK ROLL'D (lol) after the jump.


The Dugout

DudleyDoWright: Dear blog. It's been a while since I've updated you. Sorry, life stuff got in the way!

DudleyDoWright: This week has been exciting! The Mets have asked their fans to help choose a new sing-a-long during the eighth inning of their home games to replace Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline," because the Red Sox use that song and we don't want to be derivative.

DudleyDoWright: So, my pick for the new Mets song is "New York, New York" by Frank Sinatra, because we play in New York!

ReyesAGoodMovie: /reads over shoulder

DudleyDoWright: Isn't that just perfect? It even references Carlos Delgado's vagabond shoes.

ReyesAGoodMovie: ehhhh is ok i guess

DudleyDoWright: What, you've got a better idea?

ReyesAGoodMovie: yee, "get ready for this" by 2 unlimited, airy-one clap clap clap

boommmmm yall ready for this do do do do do do do do do do

DudleyDoWright: We're a team of action, we can't afford to have a fight song that repeatedly asks us whether or not we're ready. That song is all rising action, there's no climax.

ReyesAGoodMovie: how abou cotton eyed yo

MeetingPeopleIsEasley: I was going through my tapes yesterday and found a song called "Our Team, Our Time" that I think would go great with the Mets

ReyesAGoodMovie: i have hear that too, ow-ah tea ow-ah tie, ow-ah tea ow-ah tie

DudleyDoWright: That's a good suggestion, but I think that might get the fans a little too riled up. I want the people to have fun, but more importantly I want to make sure that they are safe.

ReyesAGoodMovie: me too

MeetingPeopleIsEasley: man, you guys have changed

DudleyDoWright: What about the pop charts? If we changed around the lyrics we could make some of the bigger hits-

MeetingPeopleIsEasley: HITS!

DudleyDoWright: - into songs about the Mets.

MattWiseGamgee: we could use "who let the dogs out" to call attention to the ongoing mystery of who released the dogs

MeetingPeopleIsEasley: how about an updated version of Meet the Mets? we could include information about what base to find Carlos Delgado

ReyesAGoodMovie: what abou meet the mets ultimate mash-up with workaholic by 2 unlimited

MattWiseGamgee: what about a new version of the World Series Shuffle?

DudleyDoWright: I'm David Wright, and I'm here to say!
I don't use drugs in a major way!

I didn't come here doopa doop double-

MattWiseGamgee: how about not a new version of the world series shuffle

Rickroll: How about the song "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley?

MeetingPeopleIsEasley: ugh, how about "Internet the Song" by Tay Zonda and the Lemon Party Trio

MattWiseGamgee: ugh, how about Mr. T in a sombrero eating Barney the Dinosaur's balls while you beat him up using the Teletubbies

ReyesAGoodMovie: ugh how abou a picture o' a duck wif wheels

DudleyDoWright: I-I-I don't know you guys, I thought it sounded like a p-p-pretty funny idea!

DudleyDoWright: /erases several paragraphs
/pretends to type about Paramore

/er, I mean, "Radiohead"

DudleyDoWright: Okay, while the fans figure out which song completely unrelated to baseball should be played during the baseball games we're going to reach a compromise.
DudleyDoWright: On Monday we play New York New York by Frank Sinatra. On Tuesday we play that song that goes "I like to move it move it" by 2 Unlimited...
ReyesAGoodMovie: argh that was reel 2 real
DudleyDoWright: ... that song that goes "I like to move it move it" by the C and C Music Factory, then on Wednesday we play Whom Let the Dogs Out and follow that on Thursday and Friday with Rick Astley and the Meet the Mets/Our Team Our Time/World Series Shuffle Mega Mix.

DudleyDoWright: the song that gets the most applause during this time will be named the new sing-a-long song of the 2008 New York Mets!

MattWiseGamgee: that sounds fair

ReyesAGoodMovie: yes that seems doable

MeetingPeopleIsEasley: Wait, we're going to measure applause? Are we going to hold our hand over each song's head to get people to cheer, and then go "IT'S CLOSE I DUNNO" to get them to cheer more? Do we have some kind of device for this?
DudleyDoWright: of course, dude, we've got an "Applause-O-Meter" that metes applause, and when it gets too out of control the big finger moves into the "danger" zone on the far right and steam comes out of the machine. It's very accurate and scientific.
DudleyDoWright: And once we're finished testing we go back to singing "Sweet Caroline" and pretending it's ours.

Rickroll: derp de derp

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