BRODIE: MICKEY MY MAN ... UNTIL HE’S NOT
Eaton rips Frazier for getting a little mouthy — again
Yet another long, eventful day in Mets Land concluded with ... Todd Frazier getting verbally destroyed by an exteammate? You can’t predict Mets chaos. Frazier and Nationals right field er Adam Eaton, who played together for the 2016 White Sox, had to be separated in the middle of the third inning Monday night in the Mets’ 5-3 victory over the Nationals. While Frazier declined to discuss specifics afterward, saying, “It was nothing,” Eaton said a lot more than nothing, savaging Frazier.
“He’s very childish,” Eaton said. “I’m walking with my head down. The play’s over. I’m walking away. I hear him a couple of times. I’m a 30-yearold man with two kids. I’ve got a mortgage and everything. And he wants to loud-talk as he’s running off the field. I’ve got to be a man about it. I tried to stay patient with the childishness and like I said, it is what it is. I’ve got to stand up to him eventually.”
“The play” was Eaton’s 4-6-3 double play that ended the top of the third. As Eaton headed to his right-field position, with a coach getting his glove, he and Frazier crossed paths as Frazier jogged from his thirdbase position to the Mets’ dugout behind first base.
“He’s chirping all the way a c ross t he i nf i el d,” Eaton
said. “He must really like me because he wants to get my attention, it seems like every time we come here to town. He really cares what I think about him, I guess. I don’t know what his deal is. I don’t know if he wants to talk to me in person or have a visit or what it is.
“... He’s one of those guys that a lways s ays it loud enough so you can hear it, but you can’t understand it. So like I said, he’s making a habit. I ignored him a couple of times as he’s chirping coming across, and I had it to the point where ... you’ve got to be a man at some point. So I turned around, had a few choice words with him.
“It’s funny, I was walking towards him. He didn’t really want to walk towards me. But as soon as someone held him back, then he was like all of a sudden was really impatient, trying to get towards me. Like I said, just being Todd Frazier. What’s new?”
Eaton offered similar, if less expansive, thoughts last year following a less intense onfield exchange. Asked Monday night if he was surprised this feud was still going on, Eaton said, “Yes, absolutely.”