{"id":75568,"date":"2014-08-18T16:49:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T20:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=75568"},"modified":"2019-03-06T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T22:10:09","slug":"you-belong-to-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/18\/you-belong-to-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"You Belong to the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<em>1986 Mets: A Year to Remember<\/em> is quite possibly the most amazing video yearbook for any professional sports team \u2026 ever.\u201d That\u2019s a comment from someone named the Wright Stache, who\u2019s done God\u2019s work by putting most of said video yearbook on Vimeo. But it could be anyone who grew up a Mets fan. There\u2019s the series itself, of course\u2014Game Six, Buckner, Jesse Orosco on the mound\u2014but anyone with an ESPN subscription and a memory can tell you about that. <em>A Year to Remember<\/em>\u2014known in our house simply as \u201cThe Mets Video\u201d\u2014is something different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI watched that video,\u201d said a friend of mine recently. \u201cI don\u2019t really get what\u2019s so great about it.\u201d I didn\u2019t even know how to respond to this. Is the Mets video tied up for me with my brother and my childhood and past glories and the pain of defeat and the entire nature of youth, life, and maybe death? Obviously. But it\u2019s also pretty obvious that it\u2019s just objectively awesome.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an official Major League Baseball video; I remember that it came in a blue plastic case. Why we had it, I don\u2019t know. I guess it was just what you did in the eighties. Because we weren\u2019t the only ones; a bunch of my friends also owned it, and we can all recite the narration and replicate the \u201croutine double play\u201d from the play-offs and, of course, do a hotfoot in a pinch, as demonstrated by Roger McDowell and Howard Johnson. Indeed, the Mets video occupies a place of honor in a certain varietal of NYC psyche: for those of us who were really young in 1986, that long-ago triumph was symbolized by the video. And scored by Duran Duran. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/4063280\" width=\"600\" height=\"377\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I know I\u2019m biased, but I really do think the Mets video has an excellent soundtrack. Certainly my brother agrees. But then, my brother\u2014who, incidentally, has a tattoo of Mr. Met on his upper arm\u2014has a special relationship with the film. When he was very little, he would don a Mets uniform in order to watch it. When he turned twenty-one, his college friends rented an auditorium and projected <em>A Year to Remember<\/em> on the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>Today is my brother\u2019s birthday, and in his honor, I bring you this clip\u2014and defy any New Yorker with a beating heart not to cry.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/4080197\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c1986 Mets: A Year to Remember is quite possibly the most amazing video yearbook for any professional sports team \u2026 ever.\u201d That\u2019s a comment from someone named the Wright Stache, who\u2019s done God\u2019s work by putting most of said video yearbook on Vimeo. But it could be anyone who grew up a Mets fan. 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