A world away from the Los Angeles Clippers issues, the New York Mets have already engaged in their own boycott.
USA TODAY Sports' For the Win reported Tuesday that the Mets executed a successful postgame boycott of a member of the media for making fat jokes about pitcher Bartolo Colon in a newspaper article.
In a Mets win over the St. Louis Cardinals win Thursday, New York Post reporter Mike Puma's article had the headline, "Lardball," and his lead was the following:
"If the umpires searched Bartolo Colon's neck for a foreign substance on Thursday, chances are they only would have found peanut butter."
The Mets earned a walk-off victory over the Miami Marlins on Friday, but the New York Daily News reported that the Mets' postgame locker room was not in a celebratory mode.
It wasn't in any mode. It was strangely quiet.
"Instead of a jubilant clubhouse with loud music and happy players after Friday's walk-off win, the doors opened to silence, empty, spinning chairs and no Mets," the Daily News reported.
"Apparently angry about an article in the New York Post on Friday about Bartolo Colon under the headline 'LARDBALL,' the players would not talk to the media until Post writer Mike Puma left the clubhouse. Puma was asked to leave and did so without incident. Within a minute, several Mets appeared in the clubhouse. The team would not comment on the incident."
There was no word as to whether the boycott against Puma still is being enforced or whether he or the Post issued an apology to the organization.
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