Jeremy Snyder

Only here for Penn State 🏈 & New York Mets ⚾

[Jeremy Snyder @jsnyder252]

@TheHerd @colincowherd Yes, I love my college football laced with lawsuits

[Jeremy Snyder @jsnyder252]

@PSU_FB_Thoughts Section NJ. Cannot wait to get back

[The Nittany Pod @NittanyPod]

All offseason it’s “Penn State’s got a 2 or 3 game schedule”. Week 1 is here, and now it’s “Marshall might upset Penn State, they’re a potential G4 playoff representative” 😂😂

[Penn State Football @PennStateFball]

A new chapter of Penn State Football.

#WeAre

[Brandon Short @brandonshort43]

As a two-time football captain, PSU Trustee, and Letterman, I’m proud to see the Paterno Family Football Experience Room coming to Beaver Stadium. Been working on this for a while — grateful it’s finally happening. We Are!
@PennStateFball @GoPSUsports

[Blue and White @BlueWhiteSports]

To say Matt Campbell and the new staff are embracing the tradition of this place, is a vast understatement.

[Texas Rangers @Rangers]

To the newest member of the 2,000 K club 🥂

[Jeremy Snyder @jsnyder252]

Way too many Penn State fans care about James Franklin still and it's comical

[This Day in Mets History @NYMhistory]

8/12/2015 Yoenis Céspedes hits his first home run with the Mets while sporting a yellow arm sleeve matching a parakeet in the stands.

[jack @Jolly_Olive]

conquered our biggest demon in a season where it didnt matter at all

[Bad Rad Brad @B1OBEY0ND]

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

Earlier this evening @THuskerne7 one of our Nebraska brethren & reports for Sports Illustrated, was my 5,000th follower & WON the PSU 2026 jersey.
But Tyler, being the class act, NOW wants to GIVE IT AWAY!
Follow @THuskerne7. His 500th follower WINS the jersey!
Another chance to WIN & support a solid account! Tyler will announce the winner🏆 LETS GO #WEARE #GBR

[Hardcore Penn State Football @HardcorePSUFB]

I think it’s hysterical that people are trashing Penn State for having so many Iowa State expected starters on offense.

But if those same ISU players entered the portal in any other situation they would have had gone to big time schools and been highly sought after.

[Jeremy Snyder @jsnyder252]

@Verd25 I'll be going Sunday, can't wait!

[George Jarjour @GeorgeOnTap]

A Mets rookie jumped, kicked his legs apart, and slapped the grass after his first career strikeout, and half of baseball called it disrespectful to the game. Here's who he actually is, because once you know the story, "respect the game" starts to sound like the disrespectful part.

His name is Jefry Yan. He's a 29-year-old rookie. Read that again: 29, and a rookie, in a sport where most careers are over by then. He signed his first pro contract in 2013, at 16. Then he spent more than four years completely out of affiliated baseball. Out. Not in the minors, not rehabbing, out of the sport. The Miami Marlins rediscovered him pitching in a men's beer league in Arizona in 2021. A beer league. The kind you play in after your dream is supposed to be dead.

From there: Single-A, Double-A, a stint in Japan with the Seibu Lions, the Dominican Winter League, Triple-A Syracuse, and finally, thirteen years after he signed, his major league debut Wednesday night in Cleveland. He struck out the first batter he faced and did the celebration he's done at every stop of that thirteen-year climb.

Now the "unwritten rules" crowd wants him to tone it down. And here's where the whole "respect the game" argument collapses on itself.

The celebration isn't disrespect. It's the most respectful thing on the field, because it's the only honest one. Yan explained it himself: he wants to play like it's a kids' game, like he always has. This is a man who was told the game didn't want him, went to a beer league, and clawed back over thirteen years. The joy is not an act. It's the accumulated release of a decade of being nobody. Asking him to suppress it to look professional is asking him to pretend the climb didn't cost what it cost.

Baseball's "respect the game" ethic has always had this problem buried inside it. The unwritten rules police celebration hardest, and they disproportionately police the players who celebrate the way Latin players celebrate. Yan is Dominican. The flat-affect, act-like-you've-been-there ideal was built by and for a specific culture of the sport, and it has spent decades treating the expressiveness common in Dominican and Venezuelan baseball as a violation. Bat flips got the same treatment until the league finally realized it was marketing gold and started selling the highlights.

Here's the tell that the "disrespect" framing is empty. His own manager, Andy Green, said he doesn't fear teams taking offense, because Yan's reputation preceded him. The people inside the game aren't offended. The offense is almost entirely from the outside, from the guardians of an etiquette that was never really about respect. It was about conformity, dressed up as respect.

And notice what nobody's disputing: the man throws 101. He threw the eight fastest pitches any Met has thrown all year in a single inning. He earned the mound the hard way and the stuff is real. The celebration isn't covering for a lack of substance. It's sitting on top of a fastball that touches 101 and a story most players would have quit on at year three.

So the real question isn't why Jefry Yan gets a pass. It's why we ever decided joy needed one.

The game doesn't get disrespected by a man celebrating the thing he waited thirteen years and one beer league to do. It gets disrespected by pretending that celebration is the problem.

[This Day in Mets History @NYMhistory]

8/7/2022 In his first Citi Field start in over a year, Jacob deGrom carries a perfect game into the sixth inning. deGrom, Joely Rodríguez, and Edwin Díaz combine to strike out 19 Braves.

[This Day in Mets History @NYMhistory]

8/2/2015 Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, and Lucas Duda all hit home runs in a five-run third inning. New York completes a three-game sweep of the Nationals and moves into a first-place tie with Washington in the NL East.
@cgrand3

[Jeremy Snyder @jsnyder252]

@SNY_Mets @SNYtv He was off 5 days ago. Pretty gross that he can't even DH

[ClarkisKing @clarkisking1]

“Why did the MLB ban the shift?”

Manny Machado playing 3B made this play in RF

[Just Baseball @JustBB_Media]

Nolan McLean is just the 5th pitcher in MLB history to accomplish the following in his first 28 career games:

Sub-3.00 ERA
190+ K
Fewer than 200 baserunners allowed

The 24-year-old has been DOMINANT since reaching the majors 🍎

[Ben Verlander @BenVerlander]

I see I’ve accidentally upset the NBA world with this tweet.

I’m sorry.

There’s not a world where an 83 point game in basketball (36 via FREE throws) is a better performance than 10Ks and 3 HRs by the SAME PLAYER.

NOT. A. WORLD.

No discredit to Bam though. GG for sure.