You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone in the sphere of the New York Mets that would cross Grimace, the McDonald's mascot who has seemingly brought much good fort
You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone in the sphere of the New York Mets that would cross Grimace, the McDonald's mascot who has seemingly brought much good fortune to the streaking baseball team.
Keith Hernandez, SNY's color commentator, though, would love to pop the inflatable version of the Grimace costume. When the SNY broadcast showed one of the inflatable versions of the costume that has popped up in light of the sudden rebirthed popularity of the mascot, Hernandez inexplicably said: "Wouldn't you just love to have an ice pick and pop it?"Now, maybe this had more to do with the inflatable nature of the costume and not that it was Grimace in particular, but still, just unprompted threats of mascot violence from one of the best hitters in the game's history.
For the uninitiated, Grimace has become a borderline idol in Queens because after he threw out a first pitch at a Mets game on June 12, the Mets proceeded to go 12-3. The Mets had a winning PCT of .431 before Grimace, and after Sunday's loss, sit at .500 after Grimace. They're 2.0 games back from a Wild Card position.Josh Wilson is the News Director of the Breaking & Trending News Team at Sports Illustrated.
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