If you’re a comic book nerd or a Trekkie or a James Bond fan – and I am all of those – you may have heard of the term continuity. Â Basically it’s the way those particular universes make sense.
Until now I felt Mr. Met continuity was to pretend that the current swishy version was the same character as the paper mache head from the 60’s and 70’s.
Clearly this is not the same person. Â Mache Head hung around with Lady Met. Â Swishy is married with kids (according to an ESPN commercial).
I’m guessing that the character Mr. Met has been embodied by two different people, much like Dick Grayson became Batman when Bruce Wayne died (or whatever is happening these days. Â Very confusing).
Maybe Mache Head gave up when Seaver went to Cincinnati, and young Swishy decided to don the persona.
If you’re thinking, wow this is nerdy, what a loser – I’m writing it at 10pm on Friday and I am wearing a Mets sweatshirt. Really. Â Oh, and yes I hope “Swishy” catches on.
Maybe the original Mr.Met had enough with the Mets disrespect of him. They brought in Mettle the mule just like they brought in Bat-Mite. Then the Tom Seaver fiasco put him over the edge. So he vowed never to wear the Paper Mache’ head again. He put it up in the back of his attack and forgot about it. Now Mr. Met’s son helping his mom and dad clean out the attic stumbles upon the box with the big secret. Mr. Met’s head. Now being a Mets fan his whole life he asks his dad how he got the head. Mr.Met tells his son about his time at Shea and his vow never to don the head on again. His son sees it differently. “Swishy”, as his dad nicknamed him as a boy, realizes its time for a Mets icon to return. “Swishy” knew he would never be able to take his dad’s head and uniform without him knowing, so he began to make his own. Then, one day in 1994 Mr Met made his redebut…Bringing back the tradition of Mr. Met to Shea Stadium and the NY METS…or you can just read the wikipedia entry here…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Met