Every day you come to the ballpark, you have a chance to see something you’ve never seen before.
That was a quote from SNY play-by-play man Gary Cohen over the weekend…and we can only wonder what he was thinking when he saw this during the Mets-Marlins game on Tuesday night:
No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you; that indeed appears to be someone dressed as an anthropomorphic piece of breakfast cereal calling balls and strikes alongside home plate umpire Nestor Ceja at loanDepot Park in Miami.
We’ve heard robot umpires and electronic strike zones are coming, but we didn’t think Snap, Crackle, and Pop were going to be the rest of the crew?
The life-size Cinnamon Toast Crunch was there through the bottom of that inning, but was gone from the best seats in the house by the time Miami batted in the third.
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Chances are, the intruder went to go get a drink (we hear he doesn’t get soggy in milk), but not before MLB’s Cut4 had some fun with it:
Give it credit, though: unlike the 30,000 or so fans usually dressed at empty seats at Marlins games, at least there will be proof it showed up.
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