If you hadn’t heard, the New York Mets are having a pretty horrible season after being tipped as 2023 World Series favorites in the spring.
Mets fans got a bit of a reprieve from the disappointing year with the 2023 MLB All-Star Game, but a photo posted by none other than Mr. Met the mascot got New York fans back in their feelings.
The photo was as innocuous as they come, as Mr. Met — in a clearly altered photo — posed with a few members of the Oppenheimer cast (and John Krasinski) ahead of that film’s premiere next week.
However, MLB fans quickly took to the image to make jokes about the Mets being nuclearly bad.
Linking up with the Oppenheimer cast…surprise cameo incoming? 👀 pic.twitter.com/hbUkL6SNeu
— Mr. Met (@MrMet) July 12, 2023
If you are a Mets fan, this post will be as radioactive as they come. If you are not a Mets fan, brace yourself for some absolutely atomic laughter.
Mr. Met might want to find the Barbie cast next for a photo to make up for the responses to this unfortunately hilarious meet-and-greet.
this is perfect as the Mets are baseball’s equivalent to the destroyer of worlds https://t.co/jksk6v3Lhq
— Mike Gianella (@MikeGianella) July 12, 2023
Mr. Met has become death, destroyer of worlds https://t.co/pfQ9xp4Bq0
— brian b. levinson (@BrianBLevinson) July 12, 2023
Mets commemorating absolutely nuking their Division title hopes before the break, how cool https://t.co/ehcWrLghzy
— 🍊 Andy from Tennessee (@acshelton2) July 12, 2023
I have become Met, destroyer of worlds https://t.co/Az8kkZInEx
— H. Bear (@AKHockeyBear) July 12, 2023
I mean the Mets are bombing so this is perfect synergy https://t.co/cSN2W9nXgz
— Orca Spokesperson (@nicecolddavis) July 12, 2023
Team getting blown up at the trade deadline confirmed https://t.co/izhfhxvt8m
— Panoptichondriac (@sLOculture) July 12, 2023
You’d think Mr. Met would want to avoid experiencing a post-apocalyptic nuclear hellscape on one of his few days off. https://t.co/0tX1Tzly5h
— Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan) July 12, 2023
Both Robert Oppenheimer and the Mets bullpen are best known for creating giant bombs https://t.co/V1VlZWdQPT
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) July 12, 2023
Pictured: someone associated with a highly expensive operation known to devastate an entire city
Also: the Oppenheimer cast https://t.co/L9osXFmclR
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) July 12, 2023
I can't believe they cast Mr. Met as the atomic bomb. Was not expecting it. https://t.co/yrIRxDDDF9
— Vas Drimalitis (@vasdrimalitis) July 12, 2023
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." – Mr. Met. https://t.co/YDcRsfKRkH
— Siddhartha Mahanta (@sidhubaba) July 12, 2023
finally, my theory that Mr. Met is the result of a horrible baseball-themed nuclear experiment has some legs https://t.co/DyRf7Gph5g
— Jeff Dunn (@deffjunn) July 12, 2023
Now I am become death, destroyer of baseballs https://t.co/DNDF81XUO0
— Good Idea Dave (@DaveCoIon) July 12, 2023
Exclusive sneak peek: https://t.co/VMzKZt7yKW pic.twitter.com/A81Zm3je2d
— Roger Cormier (yayroger.bsky.social) (@yayroger) July 12, 2023
Mr. Met with the only reasonable reaction to some of the things he saw in the first half of the season https://t.co/HRECeSwWuq
— Noah Grand 🏳️🌈 (noahgrand@dice.camp) (@noahgrand) July 12, 2023
@utracefan72 @Loupe7352 Did this just doom the movie to perpetual failure and disappointment? https://t.co/CG42F3JUOH
— Mike Bryant (@mwbryant22) July 12, 2023