Sometimes it's best if you don't involve the general public in your decision making processes.  The New York Mets learned this one the hard way.

Before the season started, the Mets decided that they wanted to have their own signature eighth inning sing-along tune - you know, like the ones a lot of teams already have.  So they put together an online poll on the team website to ask fans to choose their favorite for the spot from a list of six tunes.  It was a tough call: do you go with Livin' On A Prayer, Sweet Caroline, Build Me Up Buttercup, or I'm A Believer?  All good choices.  Or would they go with the cheesy late 80's song, Never Gonna Give You Up, by Rick Astley?  Do I even need to tell you which song was the runaway winner?

Let's set aside the fact that Sweet Caroline is synonymous with the Boston Red Sox, so using that song would be borderline sacrilege.  But anyone working in some sort of public relations position in 2008 ought to have known about the phenomenon that is rickrolling, and should be fired for opening themselves up to get rolled.  It shouldn't have been a surprise to them that the song received over five million votes.

For those who aren't familiar with the term (i.e. those that have a life), Wikipedia described it as when "...a person provides a link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand which actually takes the user to the [Rick] Astley video."  So it's basically an embarrassing prank.

Having a tremendous amount of distaste for the Mets, I think this is absolutely hilarious (shockingly, the team has said they'll re-open the vote - who would have thought fans might not like it).  But I say, the phenomenon has all sorts of potential.  Why stop at rickrolling?  How about seaverolling?  Or walshrolling (summer season style)?  How about whamrolling?  Or gibbrolling?

The possibilities are endless.

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