"Ode to the Mets" is a song by American rock band the Strokes, the ninth and closing track on their sixth studio album, The New Abnormal (2020).
Singer Julian Casablancas began writing the song while waiting for a subway train following the New York Mets' loss in the 2016 National League Wild Card Game at Citi Field.
A music video for the song, directed by Warren Fu, was released on July 24, 2020, coinciding with that year's delayed Opening Day for the Mets.
[7] Moretti believed the song to be about "something that you set your heart to and you love unconditionally, but continues to disappoint you", which MLB.com writer Michael Clair felt echoed "the kind of self-deprecation Mets fans are famous for".
[1] AllMusic reviewer Heather Phares described the lyrics as "Casablancas [...] telling off someone who's already long gone",[9] while Helen Brown of The Independent felt it saw the band "[looking] back on their lost years".
[5] Helen Brown felt that the song would serve as a fitting soundtrack for the closing credits to the upcoming documentary adaptation of Lizzy Goodman's 2017 oral history Meet Me in the Bathroom, which heavily follows the Strokes.
[17] In a mixed review of The New Abnormal, Sam Sodomsky of Pitchfork found the song to be one of the album's finer moments, calling it "genuinely pretty" and a "step in the right direction".
For The Guardian, Rachel Aroesti wrote that "Ode to the Mets provides a decidedly unspectacular finale",[18] while Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone found the song's "lachrymose lounge moan" to be "pretentious" and "over-the-top".