The New York Mets are off to a disappointing 6-6 start, and Pedro’s been shelved but it’s not all bad news for the Metropolitans. They have great fans and the only big league third baseman in The Big Apple that half the country doesn’t think is a douchebag.

David Wright was on Letterman Monday night to discuss his 100th home run, Mets vs. Phillies, the team’s slow start, and the reason for lengthy baseball games. From the 2:15 mark:

DL: When I was a kid, we’d go to a ball game it’d be two hours fifteen minutes, two hours and twenty minutes, you’d be home and everything would be fine. And now you guys are playing four hour games regularly. Does that take a toll on you? Do you mind playing a long game like that?

DW: You know, Guys gotta do different things. We got guys that pimp their home runs, we got guys that fist pump after strikeouts. The games a little longer, a little more interesting. It’s good, it’s good. You have a little bit more time in between innings, commercial breaks here and there. A little longer games, a little later bedtimes.

After a brief discussion in between, David Letterman goes back to pimping home runs.

DL: You’re saying that baseball games are longer now because guys are pimping their home runs?

DW: It’s more of a show than it used to be. It used to be just substance, now it’s style.

DL: What does that mean ‘they’re pimping their home runs’?

DW: A few different things. You got guys that’ll flip the bat and guys that do this and that. You know, it’s part of the game now.

DL: Did you do any pimping yesterday?

DW: Usually when I hit ‘em, I don’t know that they’re going out so I can’t pimp it until I know they go out.

DL: So you gotta wait til later. Til you’ve seen the replay.

I hope A-Rod was watching this interview. He could see how a little personality can go a long way, and he would realize that he doesn’t have to embarrass himself to be on Letterman.

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