Hilarious heckler at 16-inning Giants-Mets game didn’t care who won, just wanted it to be over

When I was a kid, I had this rule: “Never leave in the middle of a baseball game.” I may have had my rule, but my dad had the car keys.

So it was in 1969 that we left a perfectly good doubleheader in Anaheim because my dad wanted to get home to see man’s first steps on the moon. As if that would never happen again.

And so it was we attended a Giants doubleheader the following year at Candlestick Park on a bitter, wind-blown day. The first game went 13 innings and four hours. Halfway through the second game we bolted. Neither of us could feel our toes. I still thought it was a weak move.

So I sympathized with the heckler who enlivened the final innings of the Giants’ 16-inning amazing triumph over the Mets on Thursday night. He was a composite of my younger self, not wanting to leave a ballgame, and my father, focused on practical concerns.

Give the heckler credit — he needled both sides, he kept it clean, and he was funny. Here he is encouraging the Mets’ Todd Frazier to make something happen.

Todd whiffed, so Heckler Dude turned his attention to Steven Matz and Amed Rosario.

95.7 The Game’s host Damon Bruce was so impressed …

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