--- title: This Mets Baseball Player Is A Bigger Friends Fan Than You description: Mets baseball player Wilmer Flores is the biggest Friends fan ever. canonical: https://time.com/4479910/mets-baseball-player-friends-video/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-06T14:45:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:11.615Z og:title: This Mets Baseball Player Is a Bigger Friends Fan Than You og:description: Wilmer Flores isn't just a big Rembrandts' fan og:url: https://time.com/4479910/mets-baseball-player-friends-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Mets Baseball Player Is a Bigger Friends Fan Than You twitter:description: Wilmer Flores isn't just a big Rembrandts' fan twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Mets Baseball Player Is a Bigger _Friends_ Fan Than You by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 6, 2016 2:45 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 6, 2016 2:45 PM UTC You may consider yourself a fan of [_Friends_](http://time.com/4179320/friends-reunion-happening-nbc/?iid=sr-link1), but you’re not as big of a fan as Mets baseball player Wilmer Flores. On Sunday, the fan favorite infielder debuted a brand-new walk-up song: the _Friends_ theme song, and the crowd at New York’s Citi Field happily clapped along as he walked up to bat. It’s not that Flores is simply a fan of “I’ll Be There For You” by The Rembrandts, or even holds the title of the world’s only diehard Rembrandts’ fan. It’s that he is truly a huge fan of [_Friends_](http://time.com/4031113/friends-horror-movie/?iid=sr-link5), which he started watching when he first moved to the United States to play baseball. According to [Newsday](http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/wilmer-flores-debuts-new-walk-up-music-friends-theme-song-1.12267082), when Flores was playing in the minor leagues, he would watch _Friends_ religiously to help him learn English. From the show and his dictionary, he learned to understand the words of Monica, Chandler, Rachel, Ross, and Phoebe, developing a deep love for the show and an abiding fondness for the characters. He’s now seen [every single episode ](http://time.com/3641309/friends-netflix-cameos/?iid=sr-link6)of the ’90s sitcom and still watches it every night before bed. It’s this deep love for the show that helped introduce him to American culture that inspired Flores’s new walk-up music. It’s enough to make you want to clap along. > [](https://twitter.com/KennyDucey/status/772616438683238400) \[H/T [Newsday](http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/wilmer-flores-debuts-new-walk-up-music-friends-theme-song-1.12267082)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4479910/mets-baseball-player-friends-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4479910/mets-baseball-player-friends-video/"},"headline":"This Mets Baseball Player Is a Bigger Friends Fan Than You","datePublished":"2016-09-06T14:45:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:11.615Z","description":"Wilmer Flores isn't just a big Rembrandts' fan","url":"https://time.com/4479910/mets-baseball-player-friends-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","Television","Baseball","Friends"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4479910/mets-baseball-player-friends-video/","name":"This Mets Baseball Player Is a Bigger Friends Fan Than You"}}]}] ```