 A fictionalized version of the events of the 1999 Baltimore mayoral election were presented in third and fourth seasons of "The Wire", which aired in 2004 and 2006, respectively.Many saw the connection between Carcetti and Martin O'Malley, an Irish-American Baltimore City Councillor who was elected mayor, defeating two African American opponents.Carlos Watson of MSNBC once introduced O'Malley as "one of the real-life inspirations for the mayor of the hit TV show "The Wire"", to which O'Malley responded that he was instead the show's "antidote".