Why Does Everybody Want to Date Mrs. Met?

She's Married, You Cads!

Being a mascot is no easy task. Doesn’t matter if you’re talking Major League Baseball, or high school sports, mascots play a vital role in the game. Whether that role is to entertain the fans or annoy them, I’m not sure, but those costumed warriors are an indelible part of the visual identity of a team. For the New York Mets in baseball, Mr. Met is one of the most well-known mascots. His “wife,” Mrs. Met is having her moment in the sun. And because of that, as the song goes, the freaks have come out at night (and day) to shoot their shot.

Mrs. Met started off as Lady Met in the 1960s, an animated companion for Mr. Met. She looked like a star of her own Saturday morning cartoon, if there was a need for a show about a Mets fan who looked like she’d rather be anywhere else:

“Sad the garden party is canceled but Let’s Go Mets or whatever.”

But Mrs. Met as we know her came into her own in the 1970s, and she really drove home that the Mets were the baseball team for “families” in New York. By that I mean, tickets to Mets games were cheaper and it was a quick nod to the lyrics of the official Mets theme song, “Meet The Mets.”

“Bring Your Kiddies. Bring Your Wife. Guaranteed to have the time of your life.” - Meet the Mets (Theme Song, 1963)

Fast forward a few years later and the modern Mrs. Met can be seen dancing along her big, baseball-headed husband. But for some reason, people have taken a weird liking to Mrs. Met these days. I remember this baseball season where Dinger, the mascot of the Colorado Rockies, made a pass at Mrs. Met; pleading with her to leave her man(?) and go with him. The odd part? Dinger is a STEGOSAURUS:

h/t SNY

Okay fine. Dinger’s a mascot. It’s all good fun. I even chuckled when Houston Texans mascot Toro was “excited to meet” Mrs. Met. But how do you explain the discourse about her… *checks notes* “thiccness?” From user OGTriangleMedia on YouTube:

Yeah.

@jackmacbarstoolGYATTTTTTT MRS MET IS THICC?????

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You’re right JackMacBarstool on TikTok, What is going on?

There’s a part of me that understands. Not the loving on a mascot part, that will always be weird. But the House of Met does look like an ideal couple and we all have some sort of aspirational #CoupleGoals, I suppose. Right, because Mr. Red, Rosie Red, and Mr. Redlegs out in Cincinnati exist but there’s something “off” about them.

Really off.

But I suppose the news was getting to Mr. Met because he started going to the gym. Bro looks like he’s about to fight anyone who comes after his wife.

…even dinosaurs.