Give Me A Break. . .Everyone Is Upset About “LARDBALL?”

Just to give you a brief recap on the events that occurred last night, Mets beat writer for the New York Post, Mike Puma was asked to leave the clubhouse after Curtis Granderson’s walk-off single. This is because he wrote an article headlined as “LARDBALL” The article was released the morning after Bartolo Colon’s start against the Red Birds. Apparently this article was poking fun at Bartolo’s weight. SO? This blog rips Bartolo because of his weight all the time. We love Bartolo. Maybe not the amount of money he is receiving from this team as a 40 year-old, but he entertains us. Especially at the plate. We don’t intend to offend anyone.

In the wake of Michael Pineda’s second pine tar incident that led to a 10-game suspension, Puma wrote in the first paragraph and tweeted:

If the umpires searched Bartolo Colon’s neck for a foreign substance on Thursday, chances are they only would have found peanut butter. 

If the umps searched Bartolo Colon’s neck they would probably find peanut butter.

— Mike Puma (@NYPost_Mets) April 24, 2014

Corny, but it made me smile. Kudos to Puma taking a rip at our crosstown rivals.

Instead of celebrating the walk-off win, the clubhouse was silent. The players waited until Puma was gone. I guess public relations had to escort Puma out of the clubhouse. But what else is new? Mets PR can be bothered by any little thing. Earlier this month I had the opportunity to cover Daniel Murphy’s first game back from paternity leave for Time Warner Cable News:NY1. Jay Horwitz came up to me to question why I was there. Since I was a new face in the clubhouse, I guess he thought I was going to ask Murphy about his leave of absence. Just because I was the new guy, they thought I was trouble. Give me a break. So does this mean I am not allowed in the clubhouse anymore because I’ve called Bartolo, “André the Giant?” I did what I had to do and that was to ask strictly baseball related questions:

I know there are Mets fans out there that can get a good laugh out of a Bartolo Colon roast.  I am one of them. 

@NYPost_Mets you did nothing wrong, don’t listen to these idiots and please don’t apologize. Thanks.

— D (@Hey_its_Don) April 26, 2014

//platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsFYI,  Mike Puma didn’t write this headline, and doesn’t control what gets printed. According to a friend of mine, Seth Everett, “The New York Post has a history, and Puma is taking a hit for things out of his control.”