Amazin' Avenue Memes
by James Kannengieser on May 20, 2009 11:19 AM EDT
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First off, let me say that I hate the word "meme". I couldn't think of any other suitable title for this post though. "Inside jokes" sounds very clique-y, and doesn't really apply given the dozens (hundreds?) of regular contributors to AA. I was inspired to compile this list after seeing a few comments along the lines of "The Mets should re-sign Tuuu Timp" followed by confused replies like "What?" and "Who's that?". Here's an incomplete list of AA memes, along with a link to where it originated if applicable. Keep in mind I haven't been around here as long as some of you out there, so please add to this list.
- Tuuu Timp, Finnish baseball legend
- Voltron
- Oliver Perez = Sandy Koufax
- Oliver Perez = SO Mature
- Eddie Kunz is ruff
- Jeter's got an edge. Have you seen his outtakes?
- Grission
- Ron Darling <3 David Eckstein
- Scotty!
- Raul Ibanez is in better shape than a lot of 25 year olds (this is less amusing given Ibanez's ridiculous performance this year; the thought process behind the signing still sucks though)
- ITBSOHL - "in the best shape of his life"
- ....i don't trust the mets....
- The Site Bot
- Champtions
- Fernando Martinez nicknames: F!, Fartinez (my favorite), basically anything except F-Mart
- Shane Victorino nicknames: Dick Torino, Vic Torino, Gazoo
- Daniel Murphy nickname: Irish Hammer
- Ramon Castro nickname: Hippo
- Dick Pole
- c 1o1. The linked piece is "Bad News Mets", which scholars believe to be the quintessential c 101 work.
- Douchelord - This was actually coined by WholeCamels, proprietor of the Phillies SB Nation site The Good Phight. Mr. Camels is a rational, non-dickheaded Phillies fan and TGP is an excellent blog, so it's okay that "douchelord" was created by one of the Philth's followers.
- Last, but certainly not least: HELLO HELLO MR WILPON
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A glossary of our inanity!
"The definition of edge is going out there and getting a few wins, and then all of a sudden you don’t have to worry about anyone talking about edge anymore," Wright said. "That's a thing in the past. Go ask Omar about that."
by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on May 20, 2009 11:33 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Giuseppe Franco isn't really a meme, but I miss him nonetheless
by JoshNY on May 20, 2009 11:36 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
sigh . . .
he doesn’t own the company. He doesn’t own anything about it!
"The definition of edge is going out there and getting a few wins, and then all of a sudden you don’t have to worry about anyone talking about edge anymore," Wright said. "That's a thing in the past. Go ask Omar about that."
by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on May 20, 2009 11:40 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
There really needs to be a picture or something of Franco on this list.
No night spent pantsless is a wasted night.
by sireric on May 20, 2009 4:04 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ah yes, W.F.Champtions
I’ll update this list as any other suggestions come in the comments
by James Kannengieser on May 20, 2009 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
oh yeah, Tuuu Timp
Finland’s greatest baseball player. hes a stud.
All of the mets fans hope that we will not see the bad news mets ever again.
by kendynamo on May 20, 2009 11:50 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Do you reckon I could win some swag by getting a Tuuu Timp shirt made up and wearing it next time I get to Shea?
Oh yeah, obviously I mean the first time I get to Citi!
by deadspy3 on May 21, 2009 6:04 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don't know if these would count, as they are just nicknames, but...
…how about F! and Fartinez?
Ditto for Torino.
We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!
by kingcritical on May 20, 2009 11:52 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
i hate fartinez (the nickname, not the player)
why would we want to give our best prospect a name that suggests flatulence?
by englishgrey on May 20, 2009 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
because farts are funny
and names like A-Rod, K-Rod, F-Mart, etc. are stupid.
We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!
by kingcritical on May 20, 2009 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
well fartinez is just as lazy as f-mart
i’m gonna stick with f-mart until something better comes along
by englishgrey on May 20, 2009 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
it's not about laziness
It’s about making fun of those hyphenated names.
We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!
by kingcritical on May 20, 2009 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
yes
farts = laughs is a mathmatically proved axoim. its indisputable science. check out this classic canadian joke for example: say terrance, what did the spanish priest say to the uranian gynocologist? I dont know phillip wha- FFAAAAARRRRRTTTT!
Q.E.D.
All of the mets fans hope that we will not see the bad news mets ever again.
by kendynamo on May 20, 2009 1:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think you must also add Dick Pole jokes.
THAT was legendary.
"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw
by squid92 on May 20, 2009 11:58 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I dunno
I mean, Dick Pole jokes are great, but they’re hardly unique to AA.
by JoshNY on May 20, 2009 2:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
dont forget former IOC VP Dick Pound
All of the mets fans hope that we will not see the bad news mets ever again.
by kendynamo on May 20, 2009 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Meme
A term invented by Professor Richard Dawkins — fabulous author and evolutionary biologist — to represent a unit of cultural information (pronounced like “gene”, a unit of genetic information). I’m fine with the word “meme”.
by Eric Simon on May 20, 2009 12:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Dawkins is great
So long as he’s focusing on science/evolution and not religion. I mean, I’m an atheist and I felt like “The God Delusion” was preachy. But “The Selfish Gene” = The Awesomeness.
"All energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet
What a fool I was to defy him"
-HST
by Meddler on May 20, 2009 2:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
This
“The God Delusion” is more of an unabated bashing of believers than a defense of atheism.
by Aeoni on May 22, 2009 6:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
"Against all Gods"
by A C Grayling is like a nice old grandpa version of The God Delusion, which seems to me more like a scary angry uncle
by deadspy3 on May 28, 2009 6:41 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I also find "Fartinez" to be my favorite nickname of his.
"I was so frustrated [Saturday], I [could have said] anything," ~Oliver Perez
by Lance Johnson on May 20, 2009 1:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Fartinez is a great nickname. I would love to hear Gary say it on the air, and the little-girl-like giggling that would come from Keith after it was said.
No night spent pantsless is a wasted night.
by sireric on May 20, 2009 4:03 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
James,
I believe that C1o1 should now have a place in the meme library. He / It is getting an awful lot of mention in these here parts.
by TBlz on May 20, 2009 5:01 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I actually missed how that one got started, anyone want to explain?
by JoshNY on May 21, 2009 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah so did I
I vaguely remember seeing people cracking up about it in a gamethread a while ago, but it went over my head.
"All energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet
What a fool I was to defy him"
-HST
by Meddler on May 21, 2009 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
DP 'r' K
Double play or a strike out, which also stands for Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw
by squid92 on May 21, 2009 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Its definitely clever
but is it a meme?
by meigs1414 on May 21, 2009 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think it qualifies
"All energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet
What a fool I was to defy him"
-HST
by Meddler on May 21, 2009 5:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
in other words
when people say “no NK” they mean “don’t K or GIDP”?
by JoshNY on May 21, 2009 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm a huge fan of
douchelord and douchenozzle.
by BlackOps on May 21, 2009 4:52 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
id like to welcome The American Mr.Hockey
onto the list of all time awful fan posters. i just read thru that Do or Dye post – holy frijoles that guy is insane. how can anyone get that worked up about some random hypothetical GM move you just pull out of your ass? also that name is putrid (and i would know, ive had a terrible handle for many years know). now that i think of it, i think im going to change it to The Canadian Mr.Soccer, or The Peruvian Mr.Cricket. Something like that.
All of the mets fans hope that we will not see the bad news mets ever again.
by kendynamo on May 21, 2009 5:16 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
The first time I saw your handle
I was all like “WTF is kendy namo?” Then I went to GO METS DIE BRAVES and it all became clear.
by James Kannengieser on May 21, 2009 6:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
you know i think i prefer kendy namo
tho other times i like to pronounce it Kent I. Namo, with the accent on the I, and it kind of sounds like plane’arium, from the south park where guy can’t pronounce the T in the word planetarium.
All of the mets fans hope that we will not see the bad news mets ever again.
by kendynamo on May 22, 2009 9:36 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, he falls under the category of "WFAN Caller" type trolls.
This is on the spectrum of trolls, ranging from rational, yet exceedingly frustrating Scotties, to paperman511.
"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw
by squid92 on May 21, 2009 7:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
At least he didn't name the post "The American Mr. Hockey"
Let’s give credit where credit is due.
by Reg Dunlop on May 21, 2009 8:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He went from having faulty reasoning to saying if the mets did what he wanted, they would win the World Series.
Watching that troll battle was insane. As Ron Burgundy would say: “Boy, that escalated quickly… I mean, that really got out of hand fast.”
by meigs1414 on May 21, 2009 11:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
sorry to keep beating a dead horse but I have a question
so did he shut down the comments for that post himself or was that an admin move?
by meigs1414 on May 21, 2009 11:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hi, new here
But i had to say how hilarious some of those are. Champtions, Tuuu Timp, and that scotty troll was epic. he didn’t even know what OPS was but was adamant in his position that Wright was not a “winning player” whatever the hell that means. I read the whole freaking post laughing my ass off. (It did help ease the pain from last nights loss)
And lastly, Dick Pole should really go by Richard. I can’t even type it without giggling.
by Evan_S on May 22, 2009 2:29 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
You know what we haven't mentioned in a while?
by JoshNY on May 22, 2009 12:51 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Good catch.
"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw
by squid92 on May 22, 2009 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
add player nicknames
like hippo and dirty and slappy mcslapperson and the irish hammer and a lot of others.
When asked why I was a Mets fan, I responded, "pain is my lifeblood."
by wrightHOF on May 23, 2009 1:02 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
slappy mcslapperson
I admittedly wasn’t a poster here until the very end of last season, so I don’t know the timeframe, but I’m pretty sure Cerrone started calling him that last spring training, so unless you guys were calling him that at the end of ‘07, I don’t know if that can count as an AA meme.
by cjmulrain on May 23, 2009 1:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i think Hamma has to be included, because it can be used in many situations
it is the ultimate “meme” in that sense. Less popular now that its inspiration only hammers catchable flyballs.
also i invented Frank the Closer and millions have enjoyed that and i am dismayed since no one will buy the lunchboxes i had made now.
doesn’t listing snarky inside jokes defeat the “purpose” of such things? we could say that we may be jumping the shark here, if the phrase jump the shark hadn’t already jumped the shark.
I.M. Forme
"When you get yourself into trouble is when you feel you have to do something, and then you get yourself in trouble." --Omar Minaya
by itsmetsforme on May 23, 2009 4:15 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
while we're talking about the Hammer
don’t forget Carlos “Voltron” Beltran, Hebrew Hammer
by JoshNY on May 26, 2009 11:09 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
At this point, North Korea needs to go on there.
Because it’s used in the gamethreads like three times a game.
"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw
by squid92 on May 23, 2009 11:13 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I found the first occurrence
April 29th, when I, at first, called it a South Korea inadvertently.
http://www.amazinavenue.com/2009/4/29/858877/open-thread-mets-vs-marlins#
by PSUdevon on May 26, 2009 9:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
"a rational, non-dickheaded Phillies fan"
I know that this is relatively high praise, so please accept my sincere thanks.
FWIW, I think I got the word from an Onion article a few years back, and I liked it so well that it entered my regular vocab. Especially when I’m in Court.
And Giuseppe Franco became something of a “meme” for Phillies fans exiled in the NY metro area watching the games on SNY, like me. He was even my avatar on another Phillies message board for awhile.
http://www.thegoodphight.com
by WholeCamels on May 28, 2009 10:40 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
"douchelord" in court?
Oh man I am totally going to try and sneak that in someday.
"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez
by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on May 28, 2009 11:14 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wait, you can say things like 'douchelord' in court and get away with it?
That’s it, I’m going to law school.
by BobbyV_Incognito on May 28, 2009 6:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Lately
Alot of folks using the WTF-Mart moniker. You’d hate to see him slip into the night without anything to mark his illustrious tenure with the Mets, right?
by TBlz on Jun 10, 2009 4:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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