Mets player gets pumped at plate with 'Friends' theme
Could Wilmer Flores be any more of a Friends fan?
The New York Mets third baseman walked up to the plate on Sunday to the sitcom's famous theme song, "I’ll Be There for You" by The Rembrandts.
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Flores isn't just a casual fan, either. The 25-year-old from Venezuela is basically obsessed with the show, according to ESPN.
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“I don’t know. I just can’t stop watching it,” he said after the game. “I don’t know -- on the road, when I’m home, every day -- I don’t want to watch anything else. I don’t know why. There’s something about that show."
Sadly, reporters didn't ask if Flores thought he was a Joey, or more of a Chandler. (Nobody wants to be Ross.)
Hopefully this sparks a trend in Major League Baseball. Imagine Seattle Mariner Robinson Cano walking out to the Frasier theme or the Yankees getting pumped up with the bass line from Seinfeld.
The Mets ended up winning the home game against the Washington Nationals 5-1. We're assuming Flores -- who was 3 years old when the show premiered in 1994 -- celebrated with a cup of coffee at Central Perk.
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Keith Wagstaff is an assistant editor at Mashable and a terrible Settlers of Catan player. He has written for TIME, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, NBC News, The Village Voice, VICE, GQ and New York Magazine, among many other reputable and not-so-reputable publications. After nearly a decade in New York City, he now lives in his native Los Angeles.
