Baseball bubblin' (Bubble Gum Weekend)

Since it's the middle of December, I know you want to hear about baseball, don't you?

I know you do as long as bubble gum is mentioned as well.

Usually this feature profiles an old gum commercial, but this time we're profiling a music video. After all, since music videos are promotional, they're actually ads - no matter how artful they are.

Back in 1986, the New York Mets played the Boston Red Sox in the World Series. Since MTV is based in New York (and thinks the rest of the country lives in log cabins and doesn't get cable), it regularly aired a music video for a song (by a recording artist whose name has been lost to history) titled "Let's Go Mets!".

The video included numerous Mets players, fans, and New York luminaries such as then-Mayor Ed Koch.

Central to this video was bubble gum. The video featured at least 3 instances of Mets players bubbling. In one instance, an unidentified player attempts to bubble and sing at the same time - forcing him to eject his gum out of his mouth and squarely onto the field:



The Mets went on to win the World Series. And it's all because players bubbled in that video!

Why take steroids when you can just chew bubble gum?