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The Original Mets coach would be proud.
One night late last season, as the Mets left Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, a group of them ordered cookies for delivery. By itself, that wasn't an unusual occurrence; the only notable aspect of the order was that it included more deluxe chocolate peanut butter cup cookies than normal.
Long a favorite of several Mets players, the peanut butter cup cookie gained legendary status when, a day later, everyone who had eaten one raked at the plate. For the rest of the season, Mets players took to shouting, “Peanut butter cups!” at each other whenever of them did something good on the field.
“No one gets it but us,” Pete Alonso said.
Whether it's peanut butter power or some other force at work, the Mets believe their cookie habit really did help them succeed last summer. Early in the year, a group led by Alonso, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Brandon Nimmo, Michael Conforto and Dominic Smith formed an impromptu club, meeting up regularly after road games to eat cookies, drink milk -- “two percent,” Davis stresses -- and talk about baseball or life. Sometimes, the conversation revolved around the game. Sometimes, it pivoted to off-field topics. Often, it involved making fun of McNeil.
For the Mets, a typical session was part scouting meeting, part stress release, part team-bonding exercise. The only constant was cookies.
“It's probably not on our nutritionist's plan, late-night cookies,” Conforto laughed, “but I think it's good for us to get together and just talk.” |
https://www.mlb.com/news/mets-2019-cookie-club
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