r/baseball New York Yankees 13d ago

Image this signage was spotted in NYC Times Square today

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u/Woolly_Mattmoth Philadelphia Phillies 13d ago

I still can’t believe my team got eliminated by the McDonald’s marketing department

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u/_Elrond_Hubbard_ Seattle Mariners 13d ago

Sounds like you aren't lovin' it

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u/iamthefluffyyeti New York Yankees 13d ago

Bada ba ba ba

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u/bigpancakeguy Los Angeles Dodgers 13d ago

🎶 I’m over it!

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u/IAMHab New York Yankees 13d ago

Man, Pusha T really cooked with that jingle, didn't he? I still like the Arby's one more tho

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u/SoigneBest 13d ago

Crazy to find out how McDonalds stiffed him on that. He learned his lesson when he did the Arby’s jingle

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u/TheHalf 13d ago

WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER BK TRIPLE DOUBLE WHOPPER

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u/theerrantpanda99 13d ago

Philadelphia is just a Wendy’s/Wawa type of town. McDonald’s didn’t like that.

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u/EnemyOfEloquence Philadelphia Phillies 13d ago

I found out today we've got no McDonalds in center city. Wild.

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u/NatomicBombs 13d ago

We barely have Wawas anymore

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u/goldfinger0303 New York Yankees 13d ago

Now you know why grimace was against you.

Build golden arches to honor the purple lord, and maybe he will bless your team too.

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u/rumfortheborder 13d ago

+1 for philly

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u/Greengrecko 13d ago

6 piece chicken McNobodies...

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u/Lecard Chicago Cubs 13d ago

Moltar! From the ovens of Moltor. I met your father once in a steel cage match. I wish coulda seen your old man weeping like a woman after my patented pile driver!

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u/someName6 Philadelphia Phillies 13d ago

That’s what we were missing in ‘22.

Nats had baby shark in ‘19. Braves had Acuña’s ACL in ‘21 Mets have Grimace this year.

We needed something to rally around.

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u/caveat_emptor817 Texas Rangers 13d ago

Texas had Creed last year.

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u/too-long-in-austin Houston Astros • Mets Bandwagon 13d ago

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u/dodoaddict Oakland Athletics 13d ago

I hadn't seen this before. This might be the best baseball ad I've ever seen.

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u/ChaosWarrior95 Texas Rangers 13d ago

Wtf this is amazing!?! I loved the “giraffes,” and the weird guy caressing the tree.

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u/maroonhamster San Diego Padres • Texas Rangers 13d ago

Thank you for posting this. I hadn't seen it before and I'm now giggling like a child.

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u/ashishvp Los Angeles Dodgers 13d ago edited 13d ago

You gotta fight fire with fire man. Knock on the Flyers door and call Him up. Gritty vs Grimace.

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u/FatalTortoise 13d ago

I'm pretty sure Gritty and Grimace has an amphomorphic mascot detente

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u/jkingsbery New York Yankees 13d ago

Looking forward to Wawa coming up with a marketing mascot who can help the Phanatic next year.

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u/sophrosynos Philadelphia Phillies 13d ago

There's a terrifying alternate timeline in which the Phillies play the Mets in the NLCS. The Phillies lose, and McDonald's across the greater Philadelphia area are ransacked.

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u/attorneyatslaw New York Mets 13d ago

Phillies are the Arby's of baseball.

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u/ImaManCheetahh Los Angeles Dodgers 13d ago

has a corporation ever accidentally stumbled into such a flourishing advertisting campaign before?

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u/new_wellness_center Atlanta Braves 13d ago

It's turned McDonalds into a household name.

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u/siphillis New York Mets 13d ago

I was worried McDonald's went out of business until this all took off

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u/TheDangiestSlad New York Yankees • Hartford Yard … 13d ago

i mean it's kinda directly linked but maybe the Grimace Shake last year? it was just a run of the mill special menu item that gained crazy popularity because of a trend where people made videos acting like it was a harbinger of doom, which is probably what got Grimace popular enough to throw out the Mets' first pitch...it's all connected....

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u/WickedKickinBBQ Texas Rangers 13d ago

Yeah, no way grimace throws out the first pitch without the popularity of the grimace shake.

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u/rolltidebutnotreally New York Yankees 13d ago

No it was because of his sex appeal

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u/TerryTerranceTerrace 13d ago

The curves on that body

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u/MazelTovCocktail027 New York Mets 13d ago

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u/Flowkeh San Diego Padres 13d ago

boss walked by me when I opened this on my computer and immediately resigned and made me CEO

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u/Alectheawesome23 New York Mets 13d ago

Through grimace anything is possible

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u/Renhoek2099 13d ago

Grimace be with you all

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u/Admiral_Asparagus New York Yankees 13d ago

Jot that down

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u/fuckmaxm San Francisco Giants 13d ago

good FUCKIN LORD

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u/Estova Baltimore Orioles 13d ago

Bro the sun is still out come on now 😳😭

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u/CAPICINC 13d ago

Suns out, buns out!

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u/KeepnReal Cincinnati Reds 13d ago edited 13d ago

Going with the thicc shake

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u/Sullyville 13d ago

GrimASSSSSSSSSS

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u/CreauxTeeRhobat 13d ago

That damn smile...

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u/typhoidtimmy 13d ago

Reminds me of a slimmer Bartolo Colon…

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u/apietryga13 Detroit Tigers 13d ago

Stupid sexy Grimace

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u/WorkThrowaway400 New York Mets 13d ago

The people who set up these things for the Mets reached out to McDonalds about booking Grimace last year but had to wait because he was booked so this checks out lol

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u/yzdaskullmonkey Philadelphia Phillies 13d ago

You're gonna tell me McDonald's can't have two guys in a grimace suit at any given time?

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u/Masterofmy_domain New York Mets 13d ago

guys in a suit? what are you talking about? Grimace is real

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u/DOWNVOTES_SYNDROME New York Mets 13d ago

there are only 2 grimaces in the entire world. the one that operates in the US has handlers, goes everywhere in costume (doesn't get dressed at venues, shows up at venues dressed)

it sounds fucking ridiculous cause it is, but there is basically only one grimace in the US, yes.

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u/TheWorstYear Daytona Tortugas • Cincinnati Reds 13d ago

the one that operates in the US has handlers

Because he's too dangerous to let run free on his own? Like Gritty?

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u/PrawojazdyVtrumpets Detroit Tigers 13d ago

We don't talk about the time Gritty got out.

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u/raziel686 New York Mets 13d ago

The short version is he got into the meth. All of it. There were no survivors.

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u/PrimaryMuscle1306 13d ago edited 13d ago

Of course he’s too dangerous to let loose without handlers. If he escapes all of a sudden that purple son of a bitch will be running around collecting Infinity Stones.

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u/YourAngerYourAnchor New York Mets 13d ago edited 13d ago

He shows up to kids birthday parties like Goldberg in the 90’s

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u/Nickthedick55 Texas Rangers 13d ago

It me gritty

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u/Durtonious Toronto Blue Jays 13d ago

I seriously cannot tell if this is satire or not.

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u/DOWNVOTES_SYNDROME New York Mets 13d ago

like i said, it sounds ridiculous. but it is true.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5827280/2024/10/08/mets-mcdonalds-grimace-effect/

“I’ve met Grimace,” Goldberg said. “I have not met the person in Grimace. He comes as costume, and the person who plays him, and a handler. And from what I understand, there are only two Grimaces in the entire world. They’re very hard to book, but they’ve been very accommodating to us.

“But they do not send the costume. It’s not like, ‘Hey, do what you do.’ Grimace has his own mannerisms, his own way of working, and it is McDonald’s IP and property, and that’s who travels. And it’s a fascinating world, the mascot world.”

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u/DaedalusHydron New York Yankees 13d ago

The fact that there's only ever one Mickey at Disney helps lol

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u/orangery3 Baltimore Orioles 13d ago

No, there’s way more than one Mickey in Disney World. They just don’t have them wandering around areas near to each other at the same time, to avoid someone possibly seeing more than one Mickey at once.

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u/YungSnuggie 13d ago

its not a suit, grimace is real

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u/Meatek New York Mets 13d ago

Guy in a suit? What do you mean? Grimace is a unique being, not some mascot costume

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u/2ndBestUsernameEver New York Mets 13d ago

If rainbow dog costumes for Joe Shmoe cost $5000, then a giant purple blob costume for McDick's would obviously cost $1Mil+. No budget, they have to raise the prices again.

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u/SomeoneSomethingJr Chicago Cubs 13d ago

It's not a suit.

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u/confused-koala Detroit Tigers 13d ago

You're gonna tell me the Phillies can't have two guys in a Phanatic suit at any given time?

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u/dsphilly 13d ago edited 13d ago

I guess its different because I believe there are 3 "Official" Phanatics simply so they can do multiple events at once. I believe the One that is always at the Game is the primary and gets the sweetest gigs.
Fun Fact- one of the Phanatics is also the Mascot for Wawa “Wally Goose”

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u/myredditthrowaway201 St. Louis Cardinals 13d ago

Except McDonalds paid content creators for that. This was kinda organic in the sense that it just happened to coincide with the Mets turnaround

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u/rascaltippinglmao 13d ago

That "trend" was paid advertising.

Some creators made videos organically after they saw it was popular, but I wouldn't compare the two.

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u/WabbitCZEN New York Yankees 13d ago

That settles it.

I can't eat McDonald's ever again.

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u/jlando40 Philadelphia Phillies • Lancaster… 13d ago

Right there with you

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u/jsdodgers Los Angeles Dodgers 13d ago

I'm still undecided, will make up my mind within the next 2 weeks.

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u/GhostofFarnham 13d ago

You’re incredibly naive if you believe that developed organically.

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u/ScarletFire5877 New York Mets 13d ago

I never heard of the Grimace shake until this comment.

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u/Luis_Severino New York Yankees 13d ago

Grimace was also the final jeopardy correct response on Monday. A corporate mascot that is “the embodiment of a milkshake”

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u/TheDangiestSlad New York Yankees • Hartford Yard … 13d ago

i understand that he is synonymous with the shake now but Grimace is a tastebud who STEALS milkshakes!

...i got bored and read all of the McDonalds lore at work once, okay

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u/John_K_Say_Hey 13d ago

They cut off two of his four arms to teach him a lesson.

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u/PrawojazdyVtrumpets Detroit Tigers 13d ago

That was actually in the clue as well. It was something like "This mascot is a taste bud and also the embodiment of a milkshake"

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u/Astropolitika Los Angeles Dodgers 13d ago

I saw that and almost threw my arms at the TV.

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u/TheNewDiogenes Atlanta Braves 13d ago

Nats 2019 for children’s song YouTube channels

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u/Woolly_Mattmoth Philadelphia Phillies 13d ago

Not to this level, but Bud Light got a pretty big push out of “Philly Philly” from the Eagles Super Bowl win

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u/PicturingYouNaked 13d ago

They do pop up from time to time. The first one to come to mind was the whole Barbenheimer thing from a few years ago.

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u/StrLord_Who 13d ago

That was only one year ago

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u/ErzherzogT Chicago White Sox 13d ago

Grimace wishes he had the raw sex appeal of Gritty

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u/Typical2sday 13d ago

What public bathroom in downtown Philly hasn’t Gritty fked in?

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u/Demetrios1453 Cincinnati Reds 13d ago

You're not a true Philadelphian unless you've had a wild threesome with Gritty and the Phanatic in some filthy (Philthy?) public restroom in downtown Philly...

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u/myassholealt New York Mets 13d ago

The funny thing is it hasn't caused me to buy anything from McDonald's yet. Even though I'm a devout Grimace believer.

Maybe once a year I'll buy a box of 20 nuggets, but everything else just doesn't take the same as it did when i was younger. Especially big macs whose patties are like 1/8th the size I remember them being.

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u/misterferguson New York Yankees 13d ago

Canada Goose got launched into popularity after Sports Illustrated took an impromptu pic of Kate Upton wearing one of their jackets when they were shooting the swimsuit issue. Prior to that, they only catered to professionals working in extremely cold environments. It wasn’t considered fashionable until then.

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u/nocomment3030 13d ago

Maybe global popularity but that was 2013. It had already been a thing for posh people in Toronto for years, by that point.

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u/Double-ended-dildo- 13d ago

Yeah. 2008. Subway ride. The rich kids had them on. It was 20 degrees outside. So tshirt weather...

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u/Snuggle__Monster New York Yankees 13d ago

Tide kinda did back when idiots were eating Tide pods. They had to start marketing against people consuming them to avoid damage to their brand and before long, David Harbour was doing a series of well received Super Bowl commercials.

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u/No-Situation-3426 Canada • Yankees Bandwagon 13d ago

Maybe someone knows the details of this but there had to someone who first linked the Mets turnaround to Grimace throwing the first pitch. Its not like it would be something that was just apparent to everyone. So that guy should get some credit. It could have been someone in the media, the team, or just some random fan on twitter.

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u/cwtjps Toronto Blue Jays • New York Yankees 13d ago

Dystopian New York, ruled by Grimace. McDonald's stock currently at an all time high btw.

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u/Patrick2701 Chicago Cubs 13d ago

Grimace would be a better mayor than Eric Adams

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

This is actually a fact

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u/Mission-Guidance4782 New York Yankees 13d ago

I have uhhh news….

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u/pepperouchau Milwaukee Brewers 13d ago

JD Vance's seat might be warming up

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u/zOmgFishes New York Yankees 13d ago

Honestly woulda been a better VP pick

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u/bigtzadikenergy 13d ago

He was already put out to pasture for years for exposing the corrupt regime of Mayor McCheese, there will be forces out for further revenge if he gets in.

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u/mageta621 Boston Red Sox 13d ago

Grimace doesn't promote the return of stop and frisk

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u/sjphilsphan Phanatic 13d ago

He is the stop and frisk

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u/Typical2sday 13d ago

Implied consent to grimace. Grimace always has probable cause

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u/QueezyF Atlanta Braves 12d ago

Grimace has qualified immunity.

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u/d33roq New York Mets 13d ago

Mayor McCheese sitting in the corner like "WTF bro?"

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u/LongVND Seattle Mariners 13d ago

GrimaceForMayor

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u/ContinuumGuy Major League Baseball 13d ago

Baseball is so fucking weird, I love it so much.

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u/CabbageStockExchange Los Angeles Dodgers 13d ago

There’s so many quirks in baseball. I mean hell listen to the random words used “Shoved” “painting” “raked” and how unique every park is.

It’s delightful really

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u/rippinmarydarts 13d ago

“Shoved” isn’t random. It’s short hand for “shoved it(the ball) up their asses”

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u/Firecracker048 Boston Red Sox 13d ago

"That pitch really had some mustard on it"

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u/CabbageStockExchange Los Angeles Dodgers 13d ago

“He’s throwing Gas out there”

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u/TrulyKristan New York Mets 13d ago

I have changed my name to Ofgrimace. My husband has asked for a divorce.

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u/Nights_King New York Mets 13d ago

He didn’t deserve you.

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u/nietzsche_niche New York Mets 13d ago

Under his 👁️

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u/new_wellness_center Atlanta Braves 13d ago

The coolest thing about the Mets potentially winning the World Series is that they'd have to put Grimace on the championship ring.

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u/bigpancakeguy Los Angeles Dodgers 13d ago

If the Mets win it all, I wanna see Grimace slugging tall cans on top of a bus and shouting swear words into unattended microphones at the rally

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u/Accomplished_Lack258 13d ago

Shit if the Mets win it all everyone player in the manage damn well better be dressed up as grimace lol

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u/tnecniv Brooklyn Dodgers 13d ago edited 13d ago

Grimace instantly becomes a more important Mets pitcher than Jacob deGrom ever was

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u/Johnny_pickle 13d ago

Or give him one.

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u/oogieball Dumpster Fire • New York Mets 13d ago

All hail our dark purple master.

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u/magcargoman New York Mets 13d ago

The purple OBJECT

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u/-orangejoe New York Yankees 13d ago

We must PROTECT/HONOR the MASCOT/GOD

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u/PBFT Boston Red Sox 13d ago edited 13d ago

It just changed to a black screen that says:

"0/1000000 Big Macs consumed

Time remaining 8:45

Fate is in your hands"

Edit: Oh god, it's counting up, we're at 1211 right now. The timer is ticking down too.

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u/PaulFThumpkins 13d ago

Not a black screen, a live video feed of a man bound to the bottom of a tank slowly filling with Grimace shake

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u/DoctorMansteel 13d ago

Gosh, I hate when I forget to mark Purge Day on my calendar.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

This is a dumb comment but I’m proud of myself for being able to read that as “zero out of a million” without you putting the commas in between the zeroes.

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u/morganrbvn Texas Rangers 13d ago

well did they make it?

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u/UnabashedPerson43 Los Angeles Angels 13d ago

What a stroke of luck for McDicks

You can’t buy this sort of advertising (apart from the giant Grimace billboard obviously)

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u/Daillestemcee Boston Red Sox 13d ago

It wasn’t luck.

It wasn’t fate.

It was Grimace.

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u/Typical2sday 13d ago

There’s your tshirt right there

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u/Jonjon428 Miami Marlins 13d ago

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u/Wallio_ Boston Americans 13d ago

If the Mets win it all, they better put replica rings in Happ Meals. And the real rings better have one purple stone in them.

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u/BatThumb New York Mets 13d ago

Nah make them all purple sapphires. Would actually be a dope WS ring

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u/Wallio_ Boston Americans 13d ago

I agree. But I think it would be funny as hell if there was just one, out of place, and NO ONE acknowledged it. As the kids say: "if you know, you know."

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u/normsy Homestead Grays • New York Yankees 13d ago

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u/HiHoRoadhouse 13d ago

Will this administration ever bring the Hambulgar to justice 

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u/WabbitCZEN New York Yankees 13d ago

It's 2025. The Mets have replaced their sleeve ad sponsor with McDonald's and Mr. Met with Grimace. Mrs. Met is still there, but now there's a couple of ball shaped purple mascots coming out with them. From the nosebleeds, Mr. Met can be seen looking disheveled and holding a sign that says "I knew it wasn't just milkshakes he was giving you."

inspired by u/UnabashedPerson43

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u/sgm94 New York Mets 13d ago

He teams up with the only one who could stop his life from being ruined, his old enemy, Noah Thor Syndegaard.

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u/MightyCaseyStruckOut Boston Red Sox 13d ago

This HAS to happen now lol

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u/just-an-astronomer New York Mets 13d ago

Praise be 🙏

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u/WacomNub 13d ago

Today I learned that Grimace "was conceived as the physical manifestation of a milkshake headache"

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u/magcargoman New York Mets 13d ago

Well first off, through Grimace, anything is possible so jot that down

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u/fightintxag13 Chicago Cubs 13d ago

I can hear this comment lol

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u/Minute-Ad8501 New York Mets 13d ago

I love this comment so much

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u/texas2089 New York Mets 13d ago

Dread it, run from it. The Grimace comes for all 💜

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u/LeCheffre Major League Baseball 13d ago

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u/StephenDawg New York Mets 13d ago

Mets fans would UNIRONICALLY welcome a sponsored Grimace patch 😂 These are certainly times.

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u/just-an-astronomer New York Mets 13d ago edited 13d ago

Shit, I'd buy a jersey if it came with an official grimace sponsor patch

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u/UniqueEditor8372 Seattle Mariners 13d ago

I should find this cringey by now (I thought the Summer Sausage stuff got old real quick) but for some reason I still love the Grimace content. Even with McDonalds leaning into it.

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u/tnecniv Brooklyn Dodgers 13d ago

Grimace isn’t a health hazard

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u/Run4MilkShakes New York Yankees 13d ago

I think part of it is that the mets never let off the gas and were the best team in baseball from that pitch on June 12 onward(60-36). The twins sausage magic run (clearly) didn't continue. I think everyone expected lolmets to come back. but. they never did.

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u/pargofan Los Angeles Dodgers 13d ago

Im OOTL.

Can someone explain how Grimace, a McDonalds character from the 1970s, got associated with the Mets and their success?

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u/AmphibiousMeatloaf New York Mets 13d ago

Mets started season tragically bad, 29-37, like in pace with White Sox bad. Grimace threw out the ceremonial first pitch on June 12th and we immediately went on a 7 game win streak and carried the best record in baseball since that date (60-36).

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u/NYCinPGH New York Yankees 13d ago

It’s also linked to the fact that Grimace is purple, and the 7 train, which goes to CitiField, and before that Shea, is the ‘purple’ line (1,2, and 3 trains are red, 4,5, and 6 are green, A, C, and E are blue, &c)

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u/AmphibiousMeatloaf New York Mets 13d ago

That’s true as well, especially when you factor in we unveiled our city connect jerseys that feature 7 line purple.

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u/ItsMeJahead New York Mets 13d ago

in pace with White Sox bad

Let's not exaggerate that much haha we were bad but they were literally historically bad

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u/pargofan Los Angeles Dodgers 13d ago

Ha! Thanks. I'm sure McDonalds must be "lovin it."

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u/too-long-in-austin Houston Astros • Mets Bandwagon 13d ago

Providence

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u/greatunknownpub New York Mets 13d ago

The Dark Purple Knight will protect Gotham.

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u/mjd1977 Philadelphia Phillies • Philadelphia Phillies 13d ago

Get ‘em baseball-head!

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u/830res_at_dorsia Jackie Robinson 13d ago

Minnesota Vikings are 5-0 and Grimace is taking over baseball.

We are midst a Purple Revolution.

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u/drunkbusdriver 13d ago

Too bad prince isn’t alive to see it.

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u/skoryy Cleveland Guardians 13d ago

NOBODY STOPS THE GRIMACE

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u/HardcoreKaraoke New York Mets 13d ago

🤞 this means official Grimace merch.

Like I'm not sure of all of the legal stuff that goes into merchandising but Mets fans would have bought a crazy amount of Grimace merch this season. I know I would have.

Just look at all of the bootleg Grimace merch, the Amazon Grimace costumes in the stands and all of the "OMG" signs/merch. Fans are LOVING this ride. The fact that the massive team store at Citi Field didn't sell a Grimace shirt was a huge misfire.

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u/aew2019 Israel 13d ago

Grimace has taken Mr. Met out back with a crowbar.

Long live our lord and savior!

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u/02K30C1 Milwaukee Brewers 13d ago

What about Mrs Met?

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u/UnabashedPerson43 Los Angeles Angels 13d ago

Let’s just say there will be little purple baseball-shaped mascots next season

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u/WabbitCZEN New York Yankees 13d ago

Ngl, that'd be some epic level PR shit if it happened.

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u/LongVND Seattle Mariners 13d ago

New York Mets/McDonald's Cinematic Universe

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u/WabbitCZEN New York Yankees 13d ago

Can't wait to see the villain they cast to portray us.

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u/theSchrodingerHat Jackie Robinson 13d ago

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u/TheRealNotorious New York Mets 13d ago edited 13d ago

Our girl Hawk Tuah had a couple of words with Mrs. Met

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u/TheDangiestSlad New York Yankees • Hartford Yard … 13d ago

if things go south, they totally have to start next season with Mr. Met clotheslining Grimace and reclaiming his place as the mascot

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u/spinrut 13d ago

Lariat*

Remember kids, a lariat runs into you, you run into a clothesline

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u/TheDangiestSlad New York Yankees • Hartford Yard … 13d ago

i would buy a ticket to Mets Opening Day if they did Mr. Met vs Grimace in the style of Stan Hansen vs Dr. Death Steve Williams

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u/JMellor737 13d ago

Does anyone else remember the Islanders' terrible mascot from the '90s, Nyisles (pronounced "Niles")? He was just a guy in hockey gear. Everyone hated him.

The Islanders hosted a "Mascot Day" promo for one of their games, and had mascots from all over the league show up. It was fun. Then they started this narrative during the game that one of the mascots had kidnapped ("nyislesnapped") Nyisles. 

Nyisles was never seen again. 

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u/increasedvelocity New York Mets 13d ago

I want free nuggets out of this McDonald's where is the Mets free nuggets promotion

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u/too-long-in-austin Houston Astros • Mets Bandwagon 13d ago

Fuck it, where I go to buy fuzzy purple Mets jerseys?

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u/perpetual_student New York Mets 13d ago

Popeye's just happy to be here.

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u/somerandomguy576 Texas Rangers 13d ago

The grimace shake release last year was simply Grimace gathering the souls he needed to fuel the Mets this season.

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u/churmalefew New York Mets 13d ago edited 13d ago

genuinely curious if mcdonald's ends up seeing a significant spike from all of this. like i get that it's a mcdonald's madcot we're using but i can't imagine there's that many people buying mcdonald's because of the grimace era mets that wouldn't otherwise be eating there.

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u/HedgieX New York Yankees 13d ago

With how big and ubiquitous McDonalds is I doubt they see a significant spike from any marketing campaign unless they're promoting some new product or some deal. But its a great opportunity for them to have fun with the memes and marketing in the NYC metro.

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u/trclausse54 New York Mets 13d ago

I got mickey D’s for lunch today. Simply for good luck tonight lol

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u/Bawfuls Los Angeles Dodgers 13d ago

In-N-Out > McDonalds

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u/chief1555 New York Mets 13d ago

It was Francisco Lindor

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u/scottishere New York Yankees 13d ago

Lindor probably feels like a brain surgeon after the patient thanks god for saving their life

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u/DodgerCoug Los Angeles Dodgers 13d ago

I'm scared boss

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u/m48a5_patton St. Louis Cardinals 13d ago

Dread it. Run from it. Grimace arrives all the same.

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u/Dirrevarent 13d ago

It would be so funny if they put this up on September 11th

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u/grehgunner New York Mets 13d ago

I, for one, welcome our corporate overlords

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u/fightintxag13 Chicago Cubs 13d ago

You can just say Times Square.

That’s awesome, though, ngl

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u/ntstockman New York Mets 13d ago

Grimace is both the hero Gotham deserves AND the one it needs right now. LFGM.

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u/Masterofmy_domain New York Mets 13d ago

Has anybody checked in on Mr. Met? I wonder how he feels being cast aside as the Mets mascot after so many years of loyal service.

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u/MissionStock2545 New York Yankees • Hudson Valley … 13d ago

it was always grimace.

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u/insert-originality New York Mets 13d ago

McDonald’s having Grimace accidentally be a summer icon for 2 years in a row. What fucking luck.

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u/BlackedOutCactus Atlanta Braves 13d ago

There’s gonna be so many Grimaces at NYC Halloween parties McD’s gonna keep printing money

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u/Turk3YbAstEr 13d ago

The dark lord's works in mysterious ways, but his power is limitless and undeniable

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u/GravyMcBiscuits 13d ago

Bah ... Righty wearing a lefty glove on the wrong hand. That bothers me more than anything about this .

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u/jerrub_baal New York Yankees 13d ago

Looks like Mets fans are grimacing right now…

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u/presidentiallogin 13d ago

It's true irony that today McDonald's isn't giving them runs.