A brave Mets fan finally told Neil Walker that fans call him ‘daddy’

Surprisingly, he seems okay with the whole thing.

Whenever you start a conversation with “I’m not trying to make things weird,” there’s a strong chance that you are, in fact, about to make things super weird with whoever you are talking to at that very moment.

Fortunately for a Mets fan who broke some exciting (?) news to New York second baseman Neil Walker on Tuesday night at a charity event, that opening statement turned out to be wrong for once and the conversation did not, in fact, get super weird.

A little weird, maybe. But not super weird.

The fan, labeled as “Julia” on Twitter, took a video of the encounter, in which she told Walker what Mets fans have been up to for a while now — the practice of calling him “daddy” at every opportunity.

Now, if you’re a denizen of the internet and have a cursory knowledge of things around these parts, then you have probably come across this practice as part of one celebrity fandom or another. Neil’s fans have a Twitter account for it and everything.

But for Walker, who is a 31-year-old married baseball player, it might not be as obvious a meme. Luckily for this bold Mets fan, he shakes it off in the video and immediately laughs about the reveal.

When some person you don’t know walks up and starts talking to you about how most of your fanbase calls you dad and daddy, “I guess I’m flattered” is probably the best-case response for both sides.

Julia did admit afterwards that he could have easily called security on them but didn’t, which is almost surprising based on the conversation’s topic.

The whole thing went down at a charity event, though, so you could also view the it as Julia doing a charitable thing by telling Neil about what’s been going on behind his back here. And Neil did a charitable thing by not immediately getting her kicked out.

A win/win!