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Essentially, that is the Mets new theme song; at least, the part of the song that can be heard on WFAN, the radio station that broadcasts Mets games.  I will explain.

This year, the Mets moved into Citi Field, their new ballpark, after spending 44 years at Shea Stadium.  It is important to mention this because the change in ballparks also necessitated a change in the lyrics to their theme song, Meet the Mets.  Here are the older lyrics, which were sung by a really annoying female singer.

Meet the Mets, Meet the Mets

Come to the park and greet the Mets

Hot dogs, peanuts, all out at Shea

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Obviously, the Shea reference is obsolete now.  So today, on Opening Day, WFAN unveiled its brilliant alternative, which is reproduced below:

Meet the Mets, Meet the Mets

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I am barely exaggerating.  After the "greet the Mets", you can hear the singer start to say hot dogs but then all you hear is static, which I believe was meant to be fans cheering, but sounds like static.

My comment to WFAN is this: You had over 3 years to come up with a suitable alternative to the "all out at Shea lyric."  Why didn't you?  It's almost as if the producer of "Mets Extra" woke up in the middle of the night and said, "Oh shit, we can't use Shea in the song anymore!"  Off the top of my head, I came up with, "Hot dogs, peanuts, whaddaya say?" or, "Hot dogs, peanuts, come out and stay," OR, "Hot dogs, peanuts, watch the Mets play."  Now, if the singer who did the original recording is unavailable, it would sound awkward to have a new singer record the new lyric and insert it, but somehow, I think it would be okay to get a new singer; this wasn't exactly Bette Midler singing.

All that said; Let's Go Mets!  Putz and K-Rod were great today!  One game up on the Phils, baby.