The person underneath the Mr. Met concert went from singing ‘Oh-Ophelia’ to saying ‘Oh-Oh No’ on Friday night after clumsiness struck at an inopportune time.
On Friday, the Denver, Colorado-based folk band The Lumineers took to the stage at Citi Field in Queens, New York – home of the baseball’s New York Mets.
With the Mets out of town to take on the Kansas City Royals, the popular indie band performed to a large crowd on a tour promoting their latest album, ‘Automatic’.
Playing to that audience, the band decided to bring up the baseball team’s popular mascot Mr. Met as they played their song ‘Ophelia’ – which has over 1.5billion streams on Spotify.
Lead vocalist Wesley Schultz attempted to throw a tambourine over a piano and across the stage to the anthropomorphic baseball, but Mr. Met pulled a ‘Luis Castillo’ and dropped it.
But that wouldn’t be the end to the embarrassment. As Mr. Met crossed the stage – appearing to wear suspenders rather than his typical jersey – he didn’t see where he was going and fell right off.
New York Mets mascot Mr. Met suffered a pair of blunders at a Lumineers concert on Friday
First, he wasn’t able to catch a tambourine thrown to him by singer Wesley Schultz
Adding insult to injury, the anthropomorphic baseball fell off the stage (but was unharmed)
Credit to him, Mr. Met popped right back up and held the tambourine up as a sign that he wasn’t harmed. He was helped up on the stage and continued to dance.
If there was any concern for Mr. Met, he took to X and let those worried know that he was okay.
‘Don’t worry, I don’t oppheeliiia too bad. Thanks for having me, @thelumineers!,’ read a tweet from the official account.
Fans couldn’t help but laugh at the absurdity of the entire situation, joking about it on social media.
‘this is so f***ing funny i hope they’re okay but also mr. met going to the lumineers concert dressed like he’s a 2010s hipster at a rustic barn wedding is such a good bit,’ one fan said.
Another post read, ‘You try catching a tambourine when the circumference of your head is infinitely larger than your body.’
‘Two errors in one play sums up the Mets the last month,’ joked another post.
While Mr. Met may be hurting, his team isn’t after the Mets came from behind to beat the Royals 8-3.
Mark Vientos gets credit for a three-RBI double to take the lead, which was then boosted by a three-run home run by Francisco Lindor and a solo blast by Juan Soto to reach the final score.
