Tag: Jeff McNeil

Mets 2B Jeff McNeil had the perfect response to a heckler who was making fun of his legs

This fan must have felt like an absolute fool.

Professional athletes sadly have to hear a lot of awful and stupid things being yelled at them by fans who never came close to having the talent they have because if the fans had that talent they wouldn’t be fans – they’d be professional athletes.

Last night in San Francisco, for instance, Mets second baseman Jeff McNeil was at the plate in a 6-2 game when a fan could be heard yelling at McNeil about the size of his legs and how he had no power and that he should work out more. I’m guessing the fan should probably work out more, too, but that’s besides the point here.

The point here is that McNeil instantly made the fan look like a fool by doing this:

How great was that? Good for McNeil.

Twitter loved it:

Jeff McNeil had a priceless reaction to Guillermo Heredia’s incredible wall-scaling catch

He was so confused.

Braves right fielder Travis Demeritte was a late scratch on Wednesday afternoon due to fatigue from playing 18 innings the previous day against the Mets. So, in a last-minute decision, Guillermo Heredia was inserted into the lineup.

Yeah, that move paid off.

Heredia made an early entry to the Catch of the Year race with a remarkable, wall-scaling grab that robbed the Mets’ Jeff McNeil of extra bases in the second inning. So much had to go right for Heredia there after he mistimed his jump a bit to recover and make the grab. He did so while seemingly reaching back for the ball.

And another look:

But as good as the catch was, the reaction from McNeil might have been even better. He was genuinely confused how Heredia — his former teammate — came up with the ball.

He appeared to shout, “WHAT?!”

Baseball fans also appreciated that reaction.

Mets fully lean into raccoon bit with ‘Rat or Raccoon’ scoreboard quiz after tunnel debacle

“Rat or Raccoon” is our new favorite scoreboard game.

We’ll likely never know the truth of whether or not a raccoon (or rat!) was making a disturbance during the New York Mets game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday. Even still, the Mets are fully embracing the meme with a new scoreboard quiz asking fans to identify rats and raccoons based on specific facts.

In case you missed it, on Friday night Mets infielders Francisco Lindor and Jeff McNeil were involved in some sort of disturbance in the New York tunnel. Though there was no video of the actual incident, it was big enough to draw the cameras towards that area after Mets players were seen running in that direction.

After the game, people were not convinced with Lindor’s explanation that it was in fact, either a rat or raccoon (or possum) that drew the pair’s attention and not an altercation of some kind. And yet, Lindor and McNeil stuck to their stories and thus, a meme has been born.

There is, of course, video to go along with the Mets new in-game scoreboard shenanigans.

You know what, I’m here for this type of fan engagement. Whether or not Lindor and McNeil were telling the truth, whatever the debacle ended up being was clearly not that serious.

Good on the Mets for capitalizing on the big story of the day in such a funny and clever way!

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Rat, raccoon or cover-up? What actually happened in the Mets’ tunnel?

I guess we’ll never know for sure what happened in that tunnel.

The New York Mets were the talk of the baseball world on Friday night, and it had nothing to do with their 5-4 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks in extra innings and everything to do with a common New York debate between rat and raccoon — and possibly a possum.

In the bottom of the seventh inning, something happened in the Mets’ tunnel between infielders Francisco Lindor and Jeff McNeil, which was enough to draw the attention from several Mets running toward it and out of sight of the cameras. Then, as if nothing had happened at all, everyone came back out on the field and the game resumed.

But, for the sake of context, it’s worth noting that a notable seventh-inning miscommunication between Lindor and McNeil — which allowed Arizona’s Nick Ahmed to reach on an infield single — happened just moments before the tunnel incident.

After video surfaced, people speculated that Lindor and McNeil had gotten into some kind of altercation, which was impossible to know for sure given there was no video of what actually went down in the tunnel.

Naturally, there were questions after the game — and it wasn’t about the Mets’ 5-4 win over the Diamondbacks in extra innings. Lindor fielded questions about the tunnel incident, for which he had an interesting explanation involving a rat, a raccoon or a potential cover-up.

“It was funny,” Lindor said. “I told [McNeil] that I’d never seen a New York rat. So went down sprinting. I wanted to go see a New York rat. And he’s like, ‘No, it’s not a rat. It’s a raccoon.’ I was like, ‘Hell no! It’s a damn rat. It’s a New York rat.'”

It seemed like a ridiculous explanation, and Mets beat writers had their doubts. But Lindor stuck to his story — no matter the skepticism — and even McNeil backed up Lindor’s story about the rat-raccoon debate.

“Like [Lindor] said,” McNeil said, “a nice debate about a rat or a raccoon. To be honest, I thought it was actually a possum. So not a raccoon, but a possum.”

But people aren’t buying it, believing that it was something else that caused half the dugout to rush down into the tunnel.

Whatever happened in that tunnel, we’ll never know. That’s between Lindor, McNeil, the Mets and the rat/raccoon/possum.

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