{"id":34096,"date":"2020-07-25T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/essential-workers-sing-national-anthem-for-mets-home-opener\/"},"modified":"2020-07-25T02:17:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T23:17:00","slug":"essential-workers-sing-national-anthem-for-mets-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/essential-workers-sing-national-anthem-for-mets-home-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"#Essential workers sing national anthem for Mets home opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Essential workers sing national anthem for Mets home opener<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 24, 2020 |<\/span> 7:17pm <\/p>\n

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\n Patrick Connolly, a Bus Operator based at the Yukon Depot on Staten Island, left, and Troy McCullen, a Train Service Supervisor, right, participated in a video of MTA employees singing the national anthem.<\/span>
\n Stephen Yang <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\n The Mets home opener kicked off with a pandemic twist Friday \u2014 instead of a single voice belting out the national anthem from the field, essential workers and first responders were invited to sing the famed tune via video.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother was watching it. That\u2019s my number one fan,\u201d said MTA train service supervisor Troy McCullen, laughing from the agency\u2019s headquarters when his part flashed across the screen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

McCullen, along with bus operator Patrick Connolly, are among other essential workers and first responders who were invited to film themselves singing the national anthem for the Mets home opener Friday afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n

A montage of the clips were played before the game<\/a> and the two workers <\/span>were elated for the chance to have their voices heard on the big screen on such a momentous day for the New York baseball season, which has been delayed for months due to the coronavirus pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI had to contact someone and the first thing they asked was am I a Mets fan?\u201d recalled Connolly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor today I\u2019m a Mets fan,\u201d he insisted, but he\u2019s actually \u201ca die hard Yankee fan.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m not a Met hater. They are like the willful little brother. It\u2019s like \u2018another mistake, what are you doing?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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McCullen and Connolly watching the anthem video they participated in.<\/span>Stephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before the pandemic, Connolly would perform as a mariachi singer in New Jersey and has been singing since he was a little kid.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t do it \u2019til deep in my 30s, I just had a lot of insecurities about it. I was always self conscious about people staring at me while I was singing,\u201d the bus man, who lives on Staten Island, said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

McCullen wasn\u2019t so shy \u2014 he said he \u201cgot the bug\u201d for singing when he was in school and started performing in plays as a teenager.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI sing at some of the ceremonies so it was a referral,\u201d McCullen, who lives in Queens, said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAlmost every day I wake up singing.\u201d <\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“#Essential workers sing national anthem for Mets home opener” July 24, 2020 | 7:17pm Enlarge Image Patrick Connolly, a Bus Operator based at the Yukon Depot on Staten Island, left, and Troy McCullen, a Train Service Supervisor, right, participated in a video of MTA employees singing the national anthem. Stephen Yang The Mets home opener…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43965],"class_list":["post-34096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-essential-workers-sing-national-anthem-for-mets-home-opener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}