There’s still a month left in the MLB regular season, but New York Mets fans have seen this movie before. Even lifelong Mets fan Jerry Seinfeld is already looking for someone to blame.
The Mets held a 10.5-game lead in the NL East standings back on June 1, and since then, they’ve actually played some solid baseball (even with injuries to aces Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer). They held a 52-34 record since June 1, which is good for the sixth-best record in baseball. The problem: The Atlanta Braves went into supernova mode since June 1.
On Tuesday, the Braves — thanks to their MLB-best 62-24 record since June 1 — officially caught the Mets atop the NL East standings. As the Mets struggled with the last-place Pirates and Nationals, Seinfeld seemed to zero in on the moment everything went wrong:
Timmy Trumpet’s live performance.
Jerry Seinfeld blames Timmy Trumpet for the Mets losing their division lead pic.twitter.com/aOX5CcHM78
— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) September 7, 2022
After the Braves tied the Mets in the standings, Seinfeld commented on SNY’s Instagram post that he blamed Timmy Trumpet’s Citi Field appearance for giving the team bad mojo. He saw it as celebrating before the Mets actually won anything — even if it was an awesome scene and use of closer Edwin Diaz’s walk-out song.
Sound 'em. 🎺🎺🎺
(ft. @TimmyTrumpet) pic.twitter.com/kVXRH7u0my
— SNY (@SNYtv) September 1, 2022
Seinfeld likened it to the time the Mets welcomed the Baha Men to Shea Stadium to perform “Who Let The Dogs Out” before Game 4 of the 2000 World Series. The Yankees ended up winning Game 4 and closing out the series in Game 5.
Again, the season isn’t over, and the Mets could absolutely rebound from this rough stretch and pull away in the NL East. But in case that doesn’t happen, MLB fans wanted to inform Jerry that Timmy Trumpet isn’t the one to blame.
This was how Twitter reacted
Happy to know that I’ve lived long enough to watch Jerry Seinfeld become the old man who yells into the void about baseball being too fun https://t.co/YLgddkBi8T
— bacon egg & tommy (@MeLlamoTommy) September 7, 2022
Mets fans in scrambles https://t.co/g6VRvHPDdj
— Brian quigley (@Bpquigs) September 7, 2022
https://t.co/wsgF2Rta73 pic.twitter.com/bL1YmwxfQy
— JeffAlper (@Jalper23) September 7, 2022
counterpoint: the mets led the division until jerry did a kith photoshoot in a mets hat https://t.co/quv4YU6go0
— Robby Kalland (@RKalland) September 7, 2022
when we grow old we become the men we skewered in our youth https://t.co/yResWRm2Hb pic.twitter.com/GqquUlclbQ
— jay (@denver_crank) September 7, 2022
I do not appreciate the shot at the Baja Men here https://t.co/HwG94JqqNU
— Deg4 (@Deg__4) September 7, 2022
Narco is dead according to Seinfeld https://t.co/HVVEj1kiH6
— Steve Brudzynski (@_BigSteve89) September 7, 2022
Sounds like a Seinfeld Ep lol https://t.co/1T5fqT1K9D
— WHS (@SlackSlick) September 7, 2022
Timmy Trumpet ain’t the reason Jerry. The #Braves are the reason. https://t.co/J9miTeSzJ3
— Xavier Scruggs (@Xavier_Scruggs) September 7, 2022
He seems to be taking things well.
