Mr. Met?

I came across this little tidbit about Julian Casablancas, the lead singer of the Strokes, on Austin Scaggs' blog. He's a Mets fan. Writes Scaggs: 

If you happened to watch that game, you would have seen plenty of Strokes sightings -- every time a left-handed hitter stepped up to the plate, we were on TV! And the game was awesome. Our ace Johan Santana threw a gem and the Mets snuck out with a 1-0 victory.

I would have thought Casablancas was a Tigers fan, probably because the cap seems more Strokes-appropriate. But, no. Casablancas is, apparently, a lifelong fan of the Metropolitans. Here he is a few years ago talking about what it was like as a kid watching his favorite team with Yankees 2000, a pro-Mets and anti-Bombers website devoted, almost exclusively, to promoting a so-called Yankees curse.  

The Mets were kind of like, watching the last few years before 2006, they would get ahead and you still would feel like, like somehow they’d kind of let you down. They’d blow the lead and crush your spirit.

See, now it all makes sense. Casablancas can relate. When it comes down to it, the Strokes are really just the rock n' roll version of the Mets: overhyped, outmatched, and, ultimately, disappointing.