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This is a smashing story, by überpromising journalist James Schapiro, about the veritable kid who kind of owns Mets Twitter, partly (but by no means solely) from getting owned by Noah Syndergaard.
For a professional baseball player with 1.2 million Twitter followers, most of Noah Syndergaard's Twitter timeline is pretty ordinary stuff. He makes jokes about beat reporters and fellow ballplayers; there's the occasional tweet advertising a product; he tweets about the book club he started this spring. But among those typical ballplayer Tweets, Syndergaard is also participating in a strange Twitter narrative that probably leaves most Mets fans mystified. He's relentlessly roasting an account named Richard Staff.
“If this is SAFE, then Rich's wife might actually come back,” Syndergaard tweeted on April 11th, accompanied by a video of Alec Bohm of the Phillies scoring a controversial go-ahead run in that night's Phillies/Braves game.
“And my parents naming me Dick Staff,” Syndergaard tweeted, after Staff shared a picture of his vaccination card with the caption “The only things that can hurt me now are Noah Syndergaard's tweets and the Mets.”
“I see everything, Richard,” Syndergaard tweeted on February 21st. “Including your future, minus your wife.”
It's a confusing scene: why exactly is Noah Syndergaard on Twitter relentlessly bullying a Mets fan whose profile picture is Keith Hernandez, who appears to be a middle-aged divorced man? Well, he isn't. But the true story is, if possible, even stranger. It's the story of a young Twitter comedian, a confluence of viral forces, and a baseball player with lots of time on his hands. |
https://sheabridge.substack.com/p/the-jester-king-of-mets-twitter
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