The New York Mets Got Rick Roll'd!

Here's the deal, there comes a time in every Internet user's life, where he sees a link to video that you just can't wait to see. It could be anything from a celebrity sex tape to a new game or movie trailer. You start to think that it's to good to be true, but you click on it anyways. As you sit there waiting for the video to load, you try to imagine what it's gonna look like. Before long, the video starts, but instead of seeing that great video you were expecting, you are treated to Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up. That's when you realized, you have just been Rick Roll'd. At first you might be a little a upset, but after a little while you start to laugh. Then you think to youself, "who can I get to fall for this?" Well if you're one of the many that thought, why not the New York Mets? Well my friend, your dream has come true.

Before we get to the Mets, lets learn a little vocabulary. Some of you might ask, "What the does it mean to be Rick Roll'd?" Well that's a good question. The Urban Dictionary defines Rick Roll'd as: An online prank where the user is unknowingly misdirected to a video of Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up. So like I was saying before, if you click on a video link and to your surprise you get Rick Astley. You've just been Rick Roll'd. Don't worry, It happens to everybody. I was recently Rick Roll'd on April Fool's Day expecting an interview with Steve Jobs. Now that you know what Rick Roll'd is, lets get to the real story.

So with the Mets about to start their last season at Shea Stadium, they decided to give the fans a voice. See, during every home game, the Mets play a song in the middle of the 8th inning for the fans to sing along to. Last year, the team started playing Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond. A tradition that most say was stolen from the Boston Red Sox. I guess the Mets finally got tired of hearing from angry Red Sox fans. Before the season began, the team started an online vote for a new song. They let anybody go on their website and vote for which song they would like. They had ten songs to chose from:

Brown Eyed Girl, Van Morrison
Build Me Up Buttercup, The Foundations
I Love Rock ‘N Roll, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
I’m a Believer, The Monkees
Land of 1000 Dances, Wilson Pickett
Livin’ on a Prayer, Bon Jovi
Movin’ Out, Billy Joel
Sweet Caroline, Neil Diamond
I’ll Be There For You, The Rembrandts
Waitin’ On A Sunny Day, Bruce Springsteen
and of course, they had an option for a write-in vote. Well, when the Internets got wind of this, they thought it would be funny if we can get a lot of people to write-in a very funny song. Well what better song then Never Gonna Give You Up? So people all over starting to spread the word. From Fark to Digg, everybody was told to go on the Mets website and write-in their vote. 5 million votes later, Never Gonna Give You Up was announced as the mosted voted song. Well today was opening day for the Mets and in the middle of the 8th, the fans were treated to this.



The New York Mets got Rick Roll'd. It's true, if you don't believe me, here's an article about it in the New Your Post. So what are they to do? They're stuck with the song right? Wrong. The Mets suggested the song getting the most votes didn’t necessarily result in it winning, saying the contest rules stated that Internet voters would “help decide” the outcome. So instead of having that as the new 8th inning song, since it probably isn't what the fans want, the Mets will play the top six selections, one each day during the first six games of their home stand. The one that draws the largest crowd response will be the winning song. As you saw from the video, the crowd wasn't to happy with it. So unless the rest of the songs get an even worse reaction, I don't think we'll be hearing Rick Astley on a daily bases for the Mets. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. All we can do now is wait to see who we can Rick Roll next. For now, check out this Bronson Pinchot Sex Tape, you know, the guy from Perfect Strangers.

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