r/baseball • u/Sebastian7464 • Aug 20 '26
Players Only [Highlight] The New York Mets stadium has a serious Raccoon problem.
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u/thecw Philadelphia Phillies Aug 20 '26
They have their part of the stadium and we have ours
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u/garrbear22622 Philadelphia Phillies Aug 20 '26
I thought we had a deal!
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u/ChristosFarr Atlanta Braves Aug 20 '26
"I am altering the deal, pray I don't alter it any further".
-Darth Trash-mouth
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u/northSideways Philadelphia Phillies • Charlotte… Aug 20 '26
Yea but they need to get their shit together and send the food down faster, did you see those weak ass kicks on the peanut shells? They're starving us down here, the Phanatic keeps getting caught trying to eat people's toes off overnight when they turn the lights off and I'm afraid he's only going to get more bold as time passes
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u/bsurfn2day San Diego Padres Aug 20 '26
I work at Petco Park and we've had raccoons there as well. A few seasons ago there was a racoon that became somewhat of a legend among employees because it thwarted all attempts at capture for months. It became known as the red vine bandit because he had been observed on multiple occasions taking packs of the candy from consesion stands and eating them high up in the steel girders with zero fucks given.
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u/mostie2016 Houston Astros Aug 21 '26
That raccoon and my ma would be best friends. There’s two things she loves in life more than anything Raccoons and Red Licorice.
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u/PenguinKing15 Atlanta Braves • Chaos Bandwagon Aug 20 '26
Maybe there was some truth to Lindor’s raccoon story.
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u/musicman3030 San Francisco Giants Aug 20 '26
Dang old ratcoon man I tell you hwat
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u/thephantomcatalyst New York Mets Aug 20 '26
Heard your reply with this guy’s voice 😂
https://giphy.com/gifs/9hNrFUhR7Pp0A28
u/Freddedonna Montreal Expos Aug 20 '26
this guy
Put some respect on Boomhauer's name
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u/crastle St. Louis Cardinals Aug 20 '26
That was the point. Except in the above gif he's talking about a dang old rubix cube I'll tell ya hwat
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u/Stone_0cean New York Mets • Seattle Mariners Aug 20 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/l0IypeKl9NJhPFMrK
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u/KyZei15 Aug 20 '26
Context?
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u/PenguinKing15 Atlanta Braves • Chaos Bandwagon Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
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u/TXLucha012 Texas Rangers Aug 20 '26
Deep cut
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u/bluegrassgazer Cincinnati Reds Aug 20 '26
The Mets have failed for 5 years to exterminate an infestation of trash pandas?
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u/avengeds12345 San Diego Padres • Peter Seidler Aug 20 '26
You want the Mets to exterminate Angels' minor league team?
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u/Wuped Aug 21 '26
The article link in story link is broken and your direct link is behind a paywall and I am feeling lazy so may never know the story lol.
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u/Leading_Dentist_5563 Aug 20 '26
HE'S REACHING
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u/Brownie_McBrown_Face Athletics Aug 20 '26
This made me laugh harder than I expected
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u/LordPizzaParty Minnesota Twins Aug 20 '26
Holy smokes what's the origin of this?
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u/Wraithfighter San Francisco Giants • Sickos Aug 20 '26
C'mon guys, toss him a peanut, don't just make him eat the shells! :D
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u/BorderOk7329 Los Angeles Dodgers Aug 20 '26
Id be feeding him a hot dog.
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u/miller94 Toronto Blue Jays Aug 20 '26
He’d be coming home with me
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u/Duckrauhl Seattle Mariners Aug 20 '26
I'd put him in the pinch hit.
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u/ubiquitous-joe San Francisco Giants Aug 20 '26
I’d nominate him captain of your sailing vessel.
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u/rhinosyphilis Aug 20 '26
I’d give him a machine gun and a starship
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u/IgnobleCampaign Toronto Blue Jays Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26
What does Raccoon need with a starship?
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u/Johnnumber51 Seattle Mariners Aug 20 '26
Stadium racoons are free
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u/DryDonutHole Aug 20 '26
"It's Stadium Raccoon Night here tonight. Get yourself a cute little fella to take home with you from anywhere under the concourse floor."
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u/mattpsx2 Looking K Aug 20 '26
That ain't a glory hole.
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u/takethreenc Tampa Bay Rays Aug 20 '26
Could feed him Sushi and then it would be a Sushi Glory Hole
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u/Jinxedchef Brooks Robinson Aug 20 '26
At $7 a pop? He better go buy his own.
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u/Formal_Owl_400 Boston Red Sox Aug 21 '26
Take him home. Teach him the floor plan of the entire stadium, where the concessions are stored, and where you will be seated. Send him in. Profit.
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u/bearsfan0143 Chicago Cubs Aug 20 '26
I'd spend more time feeding him than watching the game...
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u/hushed-shush New York Mets Aug 21 '26
I saw the clip on X. They did give the raccoon a hot dog lol
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u/Putrid_Dream9755 Toronto Blue Jays Aug 20 '26
"problem"?
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u/Ok_fine_Im_here San Diego Padres • Brooklyn Cyclones Aug 20 '26
I see no problem here
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u/Karl_Hungus_42069 Aug 20 '26
I do. Theyre just kicking inedible trash down his hole. Give him some peanuts. How stingy can you be?!
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u/84002 Aug 20 '26
a "serious" problem lol
Bit of an overreaction...
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u/BeHereNow91 Milwaukee Brewers Aug 20 '26
A gigantic, outdoor, concrete monstrosity isn’t rodent proof?! 😱
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u/DoctorRattington Minnesota Twins Aug 20 '26
Erm technically they are not rodents, they are in the same order as bears and weasels
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u/BigWilly526 Milwaukee Brewers • New York Yankees Aug 20 '26
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u/Ok_Chemist6567 San Diego Padres Aug 20 '26
Racoon solution
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u/Kaldricus Seattle Mariners • Chaos Bandwagon Aug 20 '26
The janitorial staff tried other solutions, and nothing worked. This is their final solution.
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u/EstablishmentLate532 Philadelphia Phillies Aug 20 '26
My thinking about raccoons is "yea, cute, but rabies" so I avoid them like (they have) the plague.
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u/blacksoxing Aug 20 '26
Shit's a game until they get scratched at. I frankly would have got theeeee fuuuuuck away from there. Hell nah! I refuse to act like this shit was funny. Rabies vaccines are very costly
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u/CoffeeEnjoyerFrog Baltimore Orioles Aug 20 '26
Conversely, the raccoon's house has a Mets problem.
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u/Vinnie_Vegas Aug 20 '26
Yeah, that's a good fucking point - What have the Mets done at Citi Field to justify domain over the stadium vs. the racoons?
Pretty sure the racoons are actually doing their job well - Can we say the same about the Mets' $319m payroll?
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u/EditorEducational201 Toronto Blue Jays Aug 20 '26
We'll take em if they don't want em
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u/Ashy6ix Toronto Blue Jays Aug 20 '26
I feel like his parents are here in Toronto somewhere.
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u/Sure_Ad_2952 Philadelphia Phillies Aug 20 '26
The little paw coming up, how cute!!!
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u/DoubleAxelDVM Milwaukee Brewers Aug 20 '26
Cutest thing I've seen in weeks
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u/geoffreyisagiraffe Houston Astros Aug 20 '26
Those seats just tripled in price
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u/22_Yuki Philadelphia Phillies Aug 20 '26
Petting zoo and baseball game tickets… ALL IN ONE!
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u/audirt Atlanta Braves Aug 20 '26
Racoons are so damn clever. We've had food stolen from our campsite a couple of times despite taking steps to protect it. I was too impressed to be upset about it.
EDIT: I'm not saying that this racoon is particularly clever. More just that they're impressive animals.
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u/ripkin05 Baltimore Orioles Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
Went camping when i was teenager and we had a mesh canopy over our picnic table when we went camping for my birthday. Left my birthday cake out under the mesh canopy and went to bed. Middle of the night hear a bunch of rustling going on. We all get up see what was going on, the mesh canopy zipped up part way. So we grab a flashlight and shine it into the woods. There we see the fattest fucking raccon waddling on its hindlegs and carrying the cake in both front paws. Didnt do shit let the fat fuck have it he earned it just for the laughs and story.
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u/Astropolitika Los Angeles Dodgers • Chicago White Sox Aug 20 '26
East Cost: Raccoons are a problem in the clubhouse and the stands
West Coast: We will host a ballpark giveaway celebrating our local viral celebrity
We are not the same
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u/Wyattwat Athletics Aug 20 '26
Except for the Coliseum. We had opossums, cat poop, sewage floods, and people giving head on top of the third deck. Good times.
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u/Simple_Dragonfruit48 New York Yankees Aug 20 '26
Can’t believe they took this away from us
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u/Savannah-Actual San Diego Padres Aug 20 '26
It's my god given right to suck off my bf in the nosebleed seats during a 12pm wednesday game with 1300 people
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u/FiveDollarRimjobs Cleveland Guardians Aug 20 '26
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u/Johnnumber51 Seattle Mariners Aug 20 '26
What’s even the point of the nosebleeds if I can’t be sucking people off up there?
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u/Bearded_Pip Worcester Red Sox • Boston Red Sox Aug 20 '26
Who knew Vegas was the going to be the boring city in that equation?
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u/SirGergoyFriendman Sell Aug 20 '26
I mean, everyone who has ever tailgated an A’s playoff game or any Oakland raider game ever
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u/Worthyness Sell • Looking K Aug 21 '26
Can't replace Oakland Culture and vibes. Vegas is just stale old smoke and rich people complaining about not being rich enough
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u/dylansesco San Francisco Giants Aug 20 '26
If it's any consolation, I'm sure once the A's are forced to hand out free tickets to drunk tourists stumbling down The Strip at 3am, we'll see plenty of HJs and BJs in the stands.
FJF though.
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u/ContinuumGuy Major League Baseball Aug 20 '26
Never forgive John Fisher. NEVER!
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u/Basic-Collection5416 Aug 20 '26
The feral cats really did improve the rat infestation though, to be fair.
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u/CorrectStaple Philadelphia Phillies Aug 20 '26
I saw a few Jimothy stickers around town in Brooklyn last weekend. Kinda took me out to see them pop up out here.
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u/TormentedThoughtsToo Aug 20 '26
Raccoons heading towards domestication is one of the few things I’m looking forward to in the future.
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u/Beneficial_Lion_1312 Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
If we just solve the whole TOXIC feces thing, completely doable within next 20-30 years. We might make the AMOC collapse, but at least we'll have domesticated raccoons.
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u/SoyTuPadreReal Milwaukee Brewers Aug 20 '26
I had no idea their poop was poisonous. Glad I have zero urge to eat it.
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u/INAC___Kramerica New York Yankees Aug 20 '26
You don't have to eat poisonous poop for poisonous poop to be a problem.
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u/Jewrisprudent New York Mets Aug 20 '26
What, can I not wade around in a kiddie pool full of it either?
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u/whydidijointhis Seattle Mariners Aug 20 '26
It's venomous poop. It's dangerous if the poop bites you
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u/HelloMyNameIsMatthew New York Mets Aug 20 '26
Even just a small breeze of poop particles can make your life hell. Don't even need to think about eating it
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u/Otterfan Boston Red Sox Aug 20 '26
There are parasitic worms in raccoon poop that migrate to the brain if they make it into the human digestive system in even small amounts. And despite your belief that you don't eat animal shit, you do but you just don't know it.
The parasites-in-pet-poop-making-us-crazy niche is pretty much the sole property of cats for now, and we should probably keep it that way.
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u/ContinuumGuy Major League Baseball Aug 20 '26
I mean, most poop is generally bad to just have laying around unprocessed.
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u/IllogicalBarnacle Milwaukee Brewers Aug 20 '26
your entire culture being based around influencers isn't the brag you think it is
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u/byniri_returns New York Mets • Detroit Tigers Aug 20 '26
I'd freak out if I saw that coming out from underneath me.
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u/Frosty_Dimension5646 New York Yankees • New York Yankees Aug 20 '26
Imagine wearing slides and that creepy clawed little hand reaches up and grabs a toe
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u/churmalefew New York Mets Aug 20 '26
That's not a raccoon problem that's a raccoon solution. Probably almost 60% of Mets fans aren't gonna eat the peanut shells off the floor and the Phillies dont visit every day so someone's gotta do it.
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u/Skittleavix Toronto Blue Jays Aug 20 '26
Counterpoint: this raccoon hotel has a serious baseball problem.
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u/INAC___Kramerica New York Yankees Aug 20 '26
Conversely, I see this and just shake my head at how dirty we leave the seating areas at ballparks. It's ridiculous. How is leaving a bunch of peanut shells, crushed beer cans, water bottles, etc. anything that we consider acceptable?
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u/Knomp2112 Aug 20 '26
I was scrolling waiting for the "The Mets don't have a raccoon problem, they have a shitty fans who dump garbage at their feet problem."
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u/Safe-Show-7299 Cincinnati Reds Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26
You could literally make that case for every team don’t put this on the Mets fans. This is just unacceptable to let there be raccoons in a MLB stadium
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u/myassholealt New York Mets Aug 20 '26
And that fact that staff manages to get it all cleaned in between games during a split game double header.
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u/dylansesco San Francisco Giants Aug 20 '26
I was lucky enough to get hooked up with a Catalina Club ticket at Wrigley Field last week (right under Harry Caray's booth), and all these privileged ass hats that were getting free food and drinks and snacks all game left the place an absolute mess. The view of the bleachers looked like a dump as well, but I was like wow even the spoiled brats up here have no decorum. I throw everything away myself or at the very least leave it in a nice pile with nothing spilled.
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u/sdot28 New York Mets Aug 21 '26
Dude, perfect time to say Japanese baseball is awesome. Good ballpark experience
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u/dylansesco San Francisco Giants Aug 20 '26
I was lucky enough to get hooked up with a Catalina Club ticket at Wrigley Field last week (right under Harry Caray's booth), and all these privileged ass hats that were getting free food and drinks and snacks all game left the place an absolute mess. The view of the bleachers looked like a dump as well, but I was like wow even the spoiled brats up here have no decorum. I throw everything away myself or at the very least leave it in a nice pile with nothing spilled.
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u/KazaamFan Aug 21 '26
I think about this everywhere. Restaurants and food places. Where you are supposed to clean your table, no waiter service. So many slobs just leave their junk. Idk how ppl got like this. I always take my junk with me and discard it. I see others similar to me, but there’s a good chunk of just lazy slobs in america
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u/BorkieDorkie811 Boston Red Sox Aug 20 '26
Is it a raccoon problem, or a raccoon opportunity?
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u/ContinuumGuy Major League Baseball Aug 20 '26
Raccoopportunity.
Hm, sounded better in my head than it looks typed out.
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u/Office329 New York Mets Aug 20 '26
I need to know seat location in order to avoid for the rest of my life.
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u/al3237 Aug 20 '26
i think there is some serious misunderstanding of cause and effect here, the problem isnt the racoon, but the humans that are shitty with their trash. "oh no i dropped sugar and now i got ants" dropped sugar=problem,
ants=consequences of the problem
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u/Eagle7546_ New York Yankees • Milwaukee Brewers Aug 20 '26
Hey man I’m not saying I’m the poster child of cleanliness when I’m at the ballpark but we just throwing fistfuls of shells straight on the ground? 😭
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u/funkoramma Chicago Cubs Aug 20 '26
I think raccoons are cute as hell, but one recently played in the porta potty stored at my house by the crew redoing my roof. It got fully into the potty and smeared the contents all over the inside. They are pretty nasty creatures. Only cute from afar.
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u/PereMilon New York Yankees Aug 20 '26
Peanut guys are the fuckin worst. Clean up after yourself.
Worked with a guy once who would do this IN his cubicle.
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u/Fsharp7sharp9 New York Mets Aug 20 '26
Agreed, same with sunflower seeds... just ask for an empty cup to put/spit the shells in you god damn savages
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u/AdFirm3593 Tampa Bay Devil Rays Aug 20 '26
My dad‘s in his late 70s, and has done this my whole life. We went to a game this year, and he was making an absolute mess. I told him it’s gross/inconsiderate but he couldn’t have cared less lol
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u/BropolloCreed Cleveland Guardians Aug 20 '26
I never understood the logic. Like, are people proud to be slovenly hicks and let the whole world know?
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u/invrsleep New York Mets Aug 20 '26
I’m going to a game with my son next weekend and he’s got a peanut allergy, so this definitely concerns me a bit.
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u/raystheroof1 yankee stadium is a dump Aug 20 '26
Whys that a problem? Lil guy is just trying to get a nut.
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u/rocketboots7 Aug 20 '26
Why is there so much trash on the floor? Obvious answer might be because people are nasty but, is it the norm for people eating nuts to just chuck the shells on the floor? That's disgusting to see.
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u/myassholealt New York Mets Aug 20 '26
Yes. And if they're sitting behind you and are elevated (think the accessible seating section behind the last row of an aisle, for example) you're gonna get the peanut detritus falling on you all game.
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u/Hurr1canE_ Los Angeles Dodgers Aug 20 '26
I’m a fairly new “fan” to the sport (only followed it casually growing up) and it’s kind of insane to me how much organic trash baseball produces. I see people spitting sunflower seed shells, spit tobacco, peanut shells, and well, just normal spit everywhere all the time and rarely ever into cups lol
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u/4thTimesAnAlt Chicago White Sox Aug 20 '26
Raccoons are trying to domesticate themselves, at least according to some scientists who study them. It's unfortunate that they're also training themselves to be masochists by being Mets fans though.
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u/CBStrike90 Aug 20 '26
fucking littering doesn’t help. put the husks in a bag or something bozo
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u/arandomstringofkeys Aug 20 '26
Pretty sure that’s Bebop. He’s just trying to find the Ninja Turtles.
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u/pibb01 San Diego Padres Aug 20 '26
Reminds me of those piggy banks that an animal reaches out to steal your coin.
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