People say this is good for baseball because it creates viral moments and gets people talking about the game:

I dunno. Mixed feelings here. I think the spectacle of it is pretty cool. The Mutts stumbled into a viral thing that makes people happy, the media got on board, and then the front office and ownership brought in this dude to perform Narco live, keeping him here an extra night because they lost the first game he was in town for.

It’s a little cringe because it’s the Mets, and everything Mets has some amount of cringe, but it’s definitely not boring. I mean, hell, we’re talking about it on a Philadelphia sports blog. It’s the biggest thing going in baseball right now. Imagine if Metallica was set up in the bullpen and did Enter Sandman live when Mariano Rivera was coming in the game. Now that would be some cool shit. Maybe we get that dude to do the Applebee’s song when Realmuto walks up to the plate. He can perform it live from the bathroom.

It’s the marketing of the game that people identify as a weak spot for MLB. If you’re a casual sports fan and didn’t know who Edwin Diaz is, you do now. And if you didn’t know who Timmy Trumpet is, you do now. Imagine Mike Trout participating in something like this. He’d be like “nah I’m good” and continue to put up historic numbers in relative west coast obscurity.

Credit to the Mets, I guess.