There’s a part of every baseball fan that wants every player to act like a character from the film Major League, but the law of averages dictates that most players are, more likely than not, completely boring. New York Mets outfielder Yoenis Cespedes is not boring, however. Yesterday, he basically showed up to the team’s spring training facility in Port St. Lucie in a custom-made three-wheeled Polaris Slingshot that looks like it came out of an episode of Wacky Races.
Today? Cespedes upped the ante by rolling into work in a nearly $400,000 custom Lamborghini. But while that’s impressive, we’re not here to provide daily coverage on the exceedingly expensive exotic-vehicle-a-day habits of Yoenis Cespedes (unless, of course, he unveils some kind of flying hybrid). We are, however, duty bound to let you know that Yoenis Cespedes has hate in his heart for square waffles and that he will go to extremes to get his hands on round waffles. Or rather, he’ll allow others to have an extreme experience in pursuit of round waffles.
“It’s enough of a sticking point that on Wednesday morning, Cespedes wondered if a Mets staffer might be willing to make a quick run to the store for a round waffle maker. […]
Cespedes insisted that the staffer take his black Lamborghini Aventador — the one customized to have flames shoot out of the tailpipe.”
According to the report, the unidentified Mets employee also had to go to a Target to get the waffle maker after coming up short at Wal Mart. Or, at least, that’s the story said employee is sticking to. So many stores, Yoenis. So many stores.
Do you think the employee just thought about making a run for it? If we’re talking about some clubhouse kid and not, like, Mets manager Terry Collins just looking to blow off some steam by running errands (I really hope the unidentified employee is Terry Collins), you have to imagine that Cespedes’ lambo is worth, like, a decade’s worth of salary. Maybe it would have been worth it to keep going? I don’t know. What I do know is, DAYUM, the Mets are splurging after making it to the World Series last year. In more austere times, someone would have tossed Cespedes a bag of generic round waffles and told him to go run laps. Now it’s raining Hamilton Beach appliances up in Metsville!
(Via Newsday)
