Pete Alonso Laid Josh Reddick The Fuck Out During A Collision At First Base
JOSH REDDICK GOT…
JACKED UP!!!
It’s not every day that a 6’2″ professional athlete turns into a tumbling Ric Flair in a collision while the other guy looks like he just got bit by a mosquito. But that’s exactly what happened to poor Josh Reddick when he collided with the brick shithouse named Peter Alonso. Excuse me, he recently changed his name to Pete Alonso, which I feel like turns him into a better average hitter but also trims a few home runs off his yearly total.
Regardless, if Pete Alonso is sick of being jerked around by a notoriously cheap team that may not want to start his service time this season, the Giants now have a need for a safety that can play in the box. And based on Landon Collins’ $84 million contract, the safety market is sliiiiightly stronger than it was last season.
I have been trying to stop myself from getting excited about Alonso hitting moonshots and absolutely raking because I have been hurt too many times by Mets first basemen. I would have bet my life that Ike Davis was going to be a first ballot Hall of Famer after his rookie season before Valley Fever took his baseball soul out of his body and Lucas Duda made all of us on #TeamIke look like fools when he went 30/92/.253 as a 28-year-old. Now none of them are on the Mets and the original scouting report of Dom Smith becoming the Black Dave Magadan seems like a pipe dream. But if Peter Alonso keeps mashing his dick off while occasionally going full John Lynch to any opposing player trying to steal first, I am going to have no choice but to fall in love with him. Especially with Spring numbers like this.
Ahhhhh who am I kidding? I fell in love with Alonso last season when his minor league stats were the only thing exciting about the Mets for long stretches outside of Jacob deGrom’s starts and that love turned to lust when he did this during last year’s Futures Game.
h/t nygnym