Mets' Syndergaard insults Pirates on social media

The Pirates are easy prey with a 1-6 start, one of Major League Baseball's lowest payrolls and all else.

And no, I don't just mean in Pittsburgh.

Noah Syndergaard, a starting pitcher with the Mets, offered this spontaneous commentary on social media, and it's making the rounds on this Friday:

I don't have much to add here. To repeat, the Pirates are easy prey, maybe the lowest-hanging fruit in all of professional sports at the moment. And it's impossible to argue against why that is.

But I do feel compelled to add this: If Syndergaard were an NFL quarterback, he wouldn't be able to walk through Market Square unnoticed. As in, with not a soul being able to recognize him. And that's because baseball's grossly imbalanced economics are killing the sport in places like Pittsburgh, to the extent that the same Market Square thing would apply to Mike Trout, Fernando Tatis Jr., Francisco Lindor or anyone else on any other team anywhere.

And self-absorbed slams like Syndergaard's only underscore that the players themselves couldn't care less.

This is why Jameson Taillon and I had a bit of a collision on Twitter a few months ago, when he seemed completely obtuse to the realities of baseball in Pittsburgh and, since he was the union rep here for so long, I called him out on it.

No one would benefit more from a salary cap system than the players themselves. Not the Syndergaards but the players down at the lower pay scales. So to them and their agents and their union, nothing's wrong right now. The New York teams are spending like crazy, and the Pirates are ... whatever he called them.

Just the natural order of things, you know?

Whatever. At least Syndergaard knows where he can walk to find a sandwich loaded with fries and slaw where no one would bug him for his autograph.