[Goober5000]

Found this on Wikipedia:

On April 4, 2008 Several web communities including Fark, Digg, YTMND, WoW Forums, and 4chan, urged their readers to vote "Never Gonna Give You Up" for the 8th inning sing along at Shea Stadium for the New York Mets season. The Mets had posted a web poll to select a song, and left a blank field for write ins.

More info here: http://www.rickrollthemets.com/

Actual voting site: http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/nym/fan_forum/singalong_vote_form.jsp


Fair warning, they ask you for real-life contact info, so Titan can't participate.  Also, if you put in fake stuff, they may throw out your vote.

[achtung]

This could be epic.

[Mefustae]

As win as this could potentially be, you just know the seething masses will leap on the opportunity to hear the theme from Friends.

[Mika]

Speaking of Rick Rolling, I just found out a couple of outrageously hilarious clips of Rick Rolling. You don't want to know how I ended up with them...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeuEMeg8eQE&feature=related
This one actually has one posing as Rick in the middle of a basketball game!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeuEMeg8eQE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AdFA6WWJ7E
And then of course the muppet version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkjv9WbrxHQ&feature=related
I seriously have to consider doing this during boring meetings. Only if the older persons understood the joke.

I probably have not been Rickroll'd enough in my life... since I find the above definetely worth watching. Good luck in getting it played in a larger game.

Mika

EDIT: Corrected the muppet link.

[Flipside]

I love this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aJjMOy-Ops

[Mefustae]

I love this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aJjMOy-Ops

Wow, kind of feel sorry for the monsters there. You can really hear their pain.

[Mika]

The Doom version is hilarious.

Mika

[Rictor]

Too bad you have to enter a US ZIP code, otherwise the Internets would spam this into oblivion.

Someone needs to start Rick Rolling prominent politicians and celebrities.

[phreak]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg

[Goober5000]

Update:

So, FARK and DIGG rallied their troops, and got 5 million people to vote for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up in the team’s eighth-inning sing-a-long contest.

Instead of declaring Astley the winner, the team will hold a live, run-off vote.

Tomorrow, during the eighth inning, they’ll play Never Gonna Give You Up, followed by Living on a Prayer on Wednesday, I’m a Believer on Thursday, Movin’ Out on Friday, Sweet Caroline on Saturday and Build Me Up Buttercup on Sunday.

…i actually like this solution…instead of just ignoring the FARK.com results, which are very real, Rick Astley and their efforts are recognized…however, as it was explained to me by the team, knowing full well that only a small, small percentage of those 5 million votes came from actual Mets fans, by playing the top six songs at Shea, the team can now gauge how their own, real fan base takes to each tune based on audience participation, which will ultimately determine the stadium’s new sing-a-long song…

…the funniest part about this entire thing is that, i never, in a million years, thought i would dedicate this much time and space to Rick Astley on MetsBlog.com…and i laugh every time i write his name…well played, FARK…well played, indeed…this may be one of the biggest Rickrolls ever…

Five million votes is pretty amazing.  That's nearly two percent of the entire population of the US.

[Mefustae]

Five million votes is pretty amazing.  That's nearly two percent of the entire population of the US.

Let's hope that Uwe Boll petition can match it.

[achtung]

Naturally, they aren't going to use it again.

[Goober5000]

All year would be amazing, but the fact that they even played it once is terrific.  Props to the Mets for not categorically throwing out the write-in vote.

Unfortunately, the game didn't go too well for them:

The Mets (2–4) lost to the Phillies (4–4) by the score of 5 to 2 in the final opening day at Shea Stadium this afternoon.

This quote from the blog comments is hilarious:

LOL The Mets embarassed themselves and then got Rick Rolled, this day couldn’t get any worse for them.

[phreak]

I rickrolled the bar today.. they actually had the song on the jukebox.

[achtung]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lMbDW2JrP_c

Footage, get it while it lasts.

[Colonol Dekker]

HLP...............Why has the world gone so mad?



Simon Cowell is gonna pay for this...