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| Quote : | "Thank you, oh nerds of the internet, for being responsible for possibly our favorite prank ever.
It goes like this: A few weeks ago, perpetual underdogs the NY Mets featured an online contest, asking fans to pick which song the team would play during the 8th inning song at Shea Stadium. The team offered up 10 choices — including Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl” and Bruce Springsteen’s “Waitin’ On a Sunny Day” — but failed on many levels with what is commonly known as an “Other” option, i.e. “Fill your own song in here.” Internet nerds responded accordingly, filling in the classic 80s jam “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley.
On Digg, the link aggregating website fueled by hundreds of thousands of users, the link to the Mets Website received nearly 9,000 Diggs — which can translate to nearly 10 times as many hits — with each person voting for Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”.
Now, the final vote tally hasn’t been announced, but if successful, blue-collar New Yorkers (remember, we’re talking Mets fans, and ps, Go Mets!) will spend an entire baseball season being Rick-Rolled by hundreds of thousands of forum-trolling internet nerds. In other words, this is one of the greatest thing to ever happen to America. Pranks for the memories, Internet Nerds.
When reached for comment, Rick Astley seemed thrilled: “We know the game and were gonna play it!”" |
http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/04/08/attention-mets-fans-prepare-to-get-rick-rolled/
link to the Digg article:
http://digg.com/baseball/Digg_users_unite_Let_s_Rickroll_the_NY_Mets_all_year 4/8/2008 1:17:19 PM
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