New York Mets prospect Noah Syndergaard thought the middle of an intrasquad scrimmage would be the perfect time to grab a bite to eat in the clubhouse.
Man, was he wrong, and third baseman David Wright and closer Bobby Parnell made sure he knew it.
Mets prospects are supposed to stay on the field during scrimmages, not eat lunch in the clubhouse. When team captain Wright saw Syndergaard violating this team rule on Tuesday, he confronted the 22-year-old, demanding he return to the dugout. And when Parnell felt that Syndergaard wasn’t moving fast enough, he took action … by dumping his lunch in the trash.
This all happened in front of Newsday’s Marc Carig, who was conducting an interview in the clubhouse.
The incident became instant tabloid fodder in New York.
Everyone scrambled to make nice afterwards.
“I understand exactly where David was coming from,” Syndergaard told Carig. “It’s not a big deal. No feelings were hurt. I understand. It was more of a veteran teaching a younger guy a teaching point.”
Wright said he was sorry that it all happened in front of reporters, and that he apologized to Syndergaard for not being more “aware of my surroundings.” But he wasn’t backing down from the message he wanted to send.
“If you see something that could help a player out, you say it,” Wright told Carig on Wednesday. “It’s the way that we kind of get on each other that maybe some people don’t get or understand. I’ve got three younger brothers and that’s the way that I deal with them. And that’s what it’s like in here: you’ve got some older brothers and you’ve got some younger brothers.”
After spending the first 17 years of his Post career writing and editing, Matt and the printed paper had an amicable divorce in 2014. He's now blogging and editing for the Early Lead and the Post's other Web-based products.
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