OH OH OH-OH, OH-OH OH MAHHHHH GOD!
You heard that during Usher’s halftime show at the Super Bowl, but it’s a different OMG levitating the Mets now – as they have gone from Grimace’s gang to rocking out to “OMG” by teammate Jose Iglesias, a snippet of which Boomer & Gio played Friday morning after Iglesias and his teammates were rocking out to it at an event at Citi Field Thursday.
Maybe there was a reason Joe Benigno kept wanting to call him “Julio Iglesias” on last Saturday’s show, but all due respect to Julio, Enrique, and the rest of the musical Iglesias clan,
“I’m downloading this, man,” Boomer said after hearing the snippet. “Didn’t he say something about the guys were trying to get him to release it earlier?”
“JD Martinez made him release it a week earlier than he wanted to because of all the hype around it, and I am not being facetious like I was with Yung Joka's music, but unless someone presents me with a better example, that is the best song by an athlete that I have ever heard,” Gio admitted. “I don't even think it's close now. I know Justin Tucker can sing opera and he's very good at that, but this, to me, from an active athlete no less, is as good as it gets.”
There’s a lot of OMG and Oh My God and variants to sift through (Usher included), but Gio found this one where he gets his music, and we got to hear a lot more of it.
“I like legit love this,” Gio said.
“We’re becoming like a crossover station right now,” Boomer laughed. “I’m feeling the vibes from this!”
Just the latest musical phenomenon in Queens.
“This is gonna sound crazy, but nothing makes me feel better about this the Mets’ chances of being relevant the rest of the year than that song, and I’ll tell you why,” Gio said. “In the past, when the Mets have had special seasons, they get weird songs attached to them. In 2000 it was Who Let the Dogs Out, and in 2022 it was Timmy Trumpets. Now, these seasons ended poorly, but they were great seasons, successful seasons, and now I feel like there’s an anthem to this season now, and the popularity of watching him dance around and perform it at Citi Field last night.”
“The thing about this anthem is that this is a player on the team that probably wasn't gonna be here in the first place,” Boomer replied. “This is one of David Stearns’ guys, and now with this song and the way the players are reacting to it and the way that I'm sure all the fans are gonna react to it, especially this weekend against the Astros, you can't cut the guy.”
Gio couldn’t figure out the anthem for 2015, so Fleegs reminded that was the year Wilmer Flores was crying on the field and the Friends theme song was memed a lot…so yeah.
“This is just one of those things man; Grimace, the gay Mets, and now, Oh My God,” Gio said.
“And it's also J D Martinez; they sign him late coming out of spring training, he ends up missing the first month of the season or whatever it was, then he comes back and he's a legitimate professional,” Boome replied. “He somewhat of a quiet leader in the clubhouse, and guys can go and talk things out with him, and he is a guy that was all over this song. He was the one that opened the, the media's eyes to this song, and I got to believe some of these guys are living their best life right now. This is what these guys have dreamed of, and they're all doing it in the middle of this song and they've turned their season completely around here in the month of June.”