{"id":423060,"date":"2023-04-16T18:54:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T18:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=423060"},"modified":"2023-04-16T18:54:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T18:54:33","slug":"bizarre-mets-broadcasting-team-had-to-move-because-the-possum-poop-made-it-impossible-to-breathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/bizarre-mets-broadcasting-team-had-to-move-because-the-possum-poop-made-it-impossible-to-breathe\/","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre: Mets Broadcasting Team Had To Move Because The Possum Poop Made It Impossible To Breathe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite their complaints, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/mets\">New York Mets<\/a> supporters cannot claim to have ever witnessed a possum escape from Citi Field. On the other side, the Oakland Athletics have a major possum problem.<\/p>\n<h2>Bizarre: Mets Broadcasting Team Had To Move Because The Possum Poop Made It Impossible To Breathe<\/h2>\n<p>One possum apparently felt it would be a good idea to create a cosy nest in the other team&#8217;s announcer booth after learning that the A&#8217;s were performing exceptionally poorly this season.<\/p>\n<p>The aforementioned possum alarmed the New York broadcast crew on Friday before the A&#8217;s game versus the Mets, forcing them to move their camp.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The &quot;rally possum&quot; living at Oakland Coliseum made an appearance in the booth during A&#39;s-Angels on Opening Day.<\/p>\n<p>Teams have been unable to use the booth since, the Mets&#39; broadcast team says:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ex3PdVpGCv\">pic.twitter.com\/Ex3PdVpGCv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Front Office Sports (@FOS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOS\/status\/1647318013807415298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gary Cohen<\/strong>, who calls games for SNY, described the terrifying episode that terrified the Mets broadcasters. Cohen and the rest of the team entered their visitors&#8217; booth, where &#8220;they were immediately met by the stench of the possum having done his business in the booth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The New York Mets broadcast team said a possum left an unpleasant smell \u2014 forcing them to relocate to a smaller booth. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zy8iwiPQqo\">https:\/\/t.co\/zy8iwiPQqo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; KRON4 News (@kron4news) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kron4news\/status\/1647459995305345027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The team then packed everything and moved to a booth with a blocked-off view caused by a pole.<\/p>\n<p>But as colour analyst Ron Darling noted, he preferred &#8220;pole&#8221; to &#8220;possum.&#8221; as would most individuals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mets\u2019 SNY broadcasters forced to switch booths in Oakland due to possum poop: \u2018Reeked so badly\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xmigg8urB0\">https:\/\/t.co\/xmigg8urB0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YsBWC84oUO\">pic.twitter.com\/YsBWC84oUO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Post (@nypost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/1647663950140432386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not the first to mention it, but possum poop all over a broadcast booth is nasty. Quite an accurate portrayal of the Athletics&#8217; season thus far, no?<\/p>\n<p>The A&#8217;s lost to the Mets 17-6 that evening, and they don&#8217;t seem to have any influence on the possum that is thought to reside in the other team&#8217;s television booth.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mets TV broadcasters moved to new booth due to loose possum. \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DohXKvw26L\">https:\/\/t.co\/DohXKvw26L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Thorn (@DanThorn_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanThorn_\/status\/1647349469007208448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The unnamed possum initially emerged at the Oakland Coliseum in the spring of 2022, and it appears that a year later, he or she has quietly settled down in a cute, dusty nook of the building.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mets announcers forced to call game from different booth as possum \u2018makes a home\u2019 at A\u2019s stadium <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PHgqADsHGr\">https:\/\/t.co\/PHgqADsHGr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1647419568007069696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Huge Fight Breaks Out At Chicago White Sox Game\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/huge-fight-breaks-out-at-chicago-white-sox-game\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Huge Fight Breaks Out At Chicago White Sox Game<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite their complaints, New York Mets supporters cannot claim to have ever witnessed a possum escape from Citi Field. On the other side, the Oakland Athletics have a major possum problem. Bizarre: Mets Broadcasting Team Had To Move Because The Possum Poop Made It Impossible To Breathe One possum apparently felt it would be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":423061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,55],"tags":[7166,7167,7165,7168],"class_list":["post-423060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","category-new-york-mets","tag-broadcaster-booth-possum","tag-broadcaster-booth-possum-poop","tag-broadcasting-team-possum","tag-mets-broadcaster-booth-possum"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}