Kevin Brown joins the mob in trolling the New York Mets

The New York Mets do their part to make themselves the punchline, and national announcers are often eager to deliver the joke.

Kevin Brown was on the call for the Mets and Baltimore Orioles Wednesday night on ESPN. Brown is also the Orioles lead TV announcer on MASN. And when a fly ball split three Mets defenders to drop between them, Brown was quick with a quip.

A ball lands in between Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto & Bo Bichette for a double for Christian Encarnacion-Strand pic.twitter.com/yL7wxtfdOZ

— SNY (@SNYtv) September 16, 2026

“The ball will drop!” Brown noted. “Lindor, Bichette and Soto, about a billion dollars’ worth of Mets out in left field, and none of them could pick it up!”

Full disclosure, I’m a Mets fan. And nothing Brown said there was wrong. The ball embarrassingly fell between shortstop Francisco Lindor, third baseman Bo Bichette, and left fielder Juan Soto. Although their contracts have nothing to do with it. That’s a play every MLB team should make, whether the players involved are earning a billion dollars or the league minimum. But it was embarrassing, nonetheless. And if Brown’s call comes on a local broadcast for the Mets or Orioles, it’s not even worth citing as a quip. But Brown seemed too eager to troll the Mets for a national broadcast.

Joe Davis found himself in a similar spot for Fox earlier this season when Mets outfielder Carson Benge dropped a fly ball against the New York Yankees.

“Oh no! Oh no, the Mets!” Davis called, with a slight hint of a chuckle at the end.

And like Brown, Davis didn’t necessarily say anything wrong. If this were a local call, there probably wouldn’t be much to discuss. But coming from Fox’s lead national announcer, the call came across as Davis mocking the Mets, which rubbed some New York media members, including Evan Roberts and Sal Licata, the wrong way.

The Mets have spent the week being mocked by their own fanbase as they welcomed Pete Alonso back to Citi Field for the first time as a visiting player with the Baltimore Orioles. Even Stephen A. Smith took time away from football on ESPN to get in on the act. The Mets, now 69-83,  made it easy for Brown to pile on Wednesday night, but just because trolling the Mets always seems like the cool thing to do doesn’t mean it’s the professional thing to do.