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Evan & Tiki

The Mets embrace Grimace

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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E and T Short: is Grimace responsible for the Mets hot streak?

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0:00.0

The other thing I want to give the Mets credit for, they did something that takes courage as a little brother and it is paying dividends.

0:07.0

You try to, you try to be something that you're not and you evidently have it blow back in your face.

0:12.0

The fact that the Mets five days ago

0:14.8

went to a little character named Grimis.

0:16.8

They say Grimis, we want to put the ball in your hands,

0:20.1

and we want you to throw it the first pitch.

0:21.6

What was the genesis of that by the way?

0:23.6

Still don't know, but Tiki, listen.

0:25.3

Is it like an anniversary for McDonald's or something?

0:27.8

Or that I don't know, but even if they bring him back the hamburgler and all those guys?

0:31.5

This is what I was going to say even if it is an anniversary.

0:33.5

Yeah. Think about the McDonald's roster. Okay?

0:36.3

Ronald McDonald is the Yankees of McDonald's characters, right? He's the most iconic

0:41.1

the most you know, you know, identifiable.

0:44.0

The hamburgler, many ra, you know, the Atlanta Braves, if you will,

0:47.8

constantly good, always a nuisance.

0:49.8

The fact that the Mets turn to Grimace, many ways Grimis represents the Mets the forgotten amoeba blob of Major League Baseball

0:57.6

The the little brother. Oh, I see what you do it. I see what you do it. The Mets didn't go for a main character. They went undercard. They went for grimace. They acknowledge grimace of all the McDonald's characters you represent us the most. And what has happened since? It's not crisp missing five games, the fan that called

1:14.7

this a little while ago, it's that the Mets saw a little bit of themselves in Grimmus.

1:18.8

Grimmus saw a little bit of himself in the Mets, and the two married each other,

1:22.0

threw out a first pitch that was way better than

1:23.6

anything 50 cent did and guess what happened the Mets have not lost since I

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