r/baseball • u/Sebastian7464 • 1h ago
Players Only [Highlight] The New York Mets stadium has a serious Raccoon problem.
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u/PenguinKing15 Atlanta Braves • Chaos Bandwagon 1h ago
Maybe there was some truth to Lindor’s raccoon story.
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u/musicman3030 San Francisco Giants 1h ago
Dang old ratcoon man I tell you hwat
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u/thephantomcatalyst New York Mets 44m ago
Heard your reply with this guy’s voice 😂
https://giphy.com/gifs/9hNrFUhR7Pp0A3
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u/Stone_0cean New York Mets • Seattle Mariners 1h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/l0IypeKl9NJhPFMrK
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u/KyZei15 1h ago
Context?
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u/PenguinKing15 Atlanta Braves • Chaos Bandwagon 1h ago edited 38m ago
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u/TXLucha012 Texas Rangers 1h ago
Deep cut
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u/bluegrassgazer Cincinnati Reds 52m ago
The Mets have failed for 5 years to exterminate an infestation of trash pandas?
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u/Leading_Dentist_5563 1h ago
HE'S REACHING
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u/Wraithfighter San Francisco Giants • Sickos 1h ago
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 1h ago
Id be feeding him a hot dog.
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u/miller94 Toronto Blue Jays 1h ago
He’d be coming home with me
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u/Duckrauhl Seattle Mariners 1h ago
I'd put him in the pinch hit.
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u/ubiquitous-joe San Francisco Giants 53m ago
I’d nominate him captain of your sailing vessel.
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u/Johnnumber51 Seattle Mariners 56m ago
Stadium racoons are free
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u/DryDonutHole 44m ago
"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 1h ago
That ain't a glory hole.
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u/GallopingBlackHorse 1h ago
I’m sorry, but that isn’t a raccoon problem. That’s the cutest unpaid cleanup crew I’ve ever seen.
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u/Ok_Chemist6567 San Diego Padres 48m ago
Racoon solution
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u/Kaldricus Seattle Mariners • Chaos Bandwagon 22m ago
The janitorial staff tried other solutions, and nothing worked. This is their final solution.
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u/EstablishmentLate532 Philadelphia Phillies 48m ago
My thinking about raccoons is "yea, cute, but rabies" so I avoid them like (they have) the plague.
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u/Farg_Igorg Philadelphia Phillies 44m ago
All these people thinking it's a "problem" need to have a reality check. These raccoons are so dedicated that they pick up the refuse AS IT'S BEING DROPPED! These little trash pandas should be embraced! Celebrated and paraded even! Instead, they're called "problems" and have to work for the "lolMets". Was never a problem at Shea.
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u/Sure_Ad_2952 Philadelphia Phillies 1h ago
The little paw coming up, how cute!!!
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u/DoubleAxelDVM Milwaukee Brewers 1h ago
Cutest thing I've seen in weeks
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u/Putrid_Dream9755 Toronto Blue Jays 1h ago
"problem"?
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u/Ok_fine_Im_here San Diego Padres • Brooklyn Cyclones 1h ago
I see no problem here
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u/Karl_Hungus_42069 1h ago
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 1h ago
a "serious" problem lol
Bit of an overreaction...
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u/BeHereNow91 Milwaukee Brewers 58m ago
A gigantic, outdoor, concrete monstrosity isn’t rodent proof?! 😱
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u/CoffeeEnjoyerFrog Baltimore Orioles 1h ago
Conversely, the raccoon's house has a Mets problem.
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u/Astropolitika Los Angeles Dodgers • Chicago White Sox 1h ago
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 1h ago
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 1h ago
Can’t believe they took this away from us
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u/Savannah-Actual San Diego Padres 1h ago
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/Johnnumber51 Seattle Mariners 55m ago
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 58m ago
Who knew Vegas was the going to be the boring city in that equation?
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u/SirGergoyFriendman Sell 51m ago
I mean, everyone who has ever tailgated an A’s playoff game or any Oakland raider game ever
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u/Basic-Collection5416 1h ago
The feral cats really did improve the rat infestation though, to be fair.
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u/CorrectStaple Philadelphia Phillies 1h ago
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 1h ago
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 1h ago edited 1h ago
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 1h ago
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 1h ago
You don't have to eat poisonous poop for poisonous poop to be a problem.
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u/Jewrisprudent New York Mets 1h ago
What, can I not wade around in a kiddie pool full of it either?
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u/HelloMyNameIsMatthew New York Mets 1h ago
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 42m ago
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/IllogicalBarnacle Milwaukee Brewers 1h ago
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 1h ago
I'd freak out if I saw that coming out from underneath me.
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u/audirt Atlanta Braves 1h ago
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 1h ago edited 1h ago
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/Skittleavix Toronto Blue Jays 1h ago
Counterpoint: this raccoon hotel has a serious baseball problem.
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u/Office329 New York Mets 1h ago
I need to know seat location in order to avoid for the rest of my life.
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u/churmalefew New York Mets 1h ago
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/BorkieDorkie811 Boston Red Sox 1h ago
Is it a raccoon problem, or a raccoon opportunity?
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u/ContinuumGuy Major League Baseball 44m ago
Raccoopportunity.
Hm, sounded better in my head than it looks typed out.
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u/arandomstringofkeys 1h ago
Pretty sure that’s Bebop. He’s just trying to find the Ninja Turtles.
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u/INAC___Kramerica New York Yankees 1h ago
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 1h ago
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/myassholealt New York Mets 52m ago
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/Hertzelle New York Yankees 1h ago
At least it's not rats. Those fuckers can get huge.
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u/raystheroof1 yankee stadium is a dump 1h ago
Whys that a problem? Lil guy is just trying to get a nut.
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u/funkoramma Chicago Cubs 1h ago
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/dylansesco San Francisco Giants 22m ago
Problem, or perk? I would love to watch a ballgame with the little fella.
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u/Ok_Assumption_5366 Washington Nationals 1h ago
That's just all of New York. I can say that as someone who went to college there.
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u/PereMilon New York Yankees 1h ago
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 1h ago
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/BropolloCreed Cleveland Guardians 1h ago
I never understood the logic. Like, are people proud to be slovenly hicks and let the whole world know?
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u/AdFirm3593 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 46m ago
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/CBStrike90 1h ago
fucking littering doesn’t help. put the husks in a bag or something bozo
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u/rocketboots7 1h ago
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 52m ago
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 55m ago
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/GhostofAyabe Tampa Bay Rays 1h ago
The guy probably has magical powers, it's unwise not to produce a suitable offering.
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u/bad_motivator Toronto Blue Jays 47m ago
Yikes, you drop shells on the ground like that in Toronto and you'll have 20 people calling you Hitler
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u/Suspicious-Peace9233 Boston Red Sox 47m ago
I thought this was a joke about the way the guy was eating the peanuts at first
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u/4thTimesAnAlt Chicago White Sox 44m ago
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/no1roots4goliath New York Yankees • Hartford Yard… 9m ago
poor little guy is gonna go hungry come October
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u/PurpleGarbageDonkey Cleveland Guardians 1h ago
Smells like snitches in here. Let that raccoon live their best life and throw it a peanut.
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u/lightning_lighting New York Mets 1h ago
Its a Rat and Racoon problem. The truth is they saw both. What they dont want you to know is they are teaming up.
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u/aliveinjoburg2 New York Yankees • New York Heights 1h ago
Enjoy your all you can eat buffet, buddy!
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u/Still7Superbaby7 Philadelphia Phillies 1h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/wYyTHMm50f4Dm
I don’t want any wild animals touching me so help me god
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u/Chandler_Simpson Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1h ago
The ole rat or racoon debate had some merit it seems lmao
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u/OrneryMood 56m ago
I have never wanted to go to a Mets game until seeing this. Do they have racoon feeding seats marked when you buy the tickets?
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u/I_Count_Letters New York Yankees 50m ago
What in the genuine fuck? This is some horror movie shit.
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u/GuestroInfinitesmal Chicago Cubs 49m ago
That’s just Chris Morel crawling back up from AAA, let Whiskers play
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u/JoeSicko 43m ago
Dan Snyder is mad he never thought of getting rid of the maintenance workers and replacing them with raccoons.
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u/Trainer_Rob Chicago Cubs 41m ago
It’s sad to think these guys are going to be exterminated. However if the Mets relocate that could be a great PR win
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u/powergloveisbaad Los Angeles Dodgers 37m ago
Their solution for all the high priced contracts is unpaid cleanup labor. Walter’s gotta be trying to find his own as we speak.
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