Yasiel Puig is getting trolled hard by a 10-year-old Cardinals fan

Yasiel Puig sees the St. Louis Cardinals as his team’s chief rival, which The Stew told you about the other day. The Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder has been knocked out of the playoffs in both of his MLB seasons by the Cards, so it makes sense he’d think that.

Puig admitted that he “dreams” about the Cardinals. But there’s more to this story — and it involves a 10-year-old Cardinals fan who lives near Puig and won’t let him forget how his last seasons have ended. He’s tried to convert the kid into Dodger blue, but that hasn’t gone so well.

MLB.com’s Alden Gonzalez writes that the kid is part of a family that Puig is close with in L.A. Whether it’s genuine or a tactic to get attention from Puig, the youngster apparently LOOOOOOVES St. Louis. And it makes Puig red in the face.

Here’s how he tells the story:

“He’s driving me crazy,” Puig said in Spanish. “I have to kick him out of that family. He has four blue things of mine in his room, and he tells me it’s because he feels sorry for me, sorry for the Dodgers. He has everything else red — the comforter, the sheets, the ceiling, everything. His room is red. And he says the best city in the United States is St. Louis” …

“His mom calls him ‘The Cardinal,'” Puig deadpanned. “We don’t even know his name anymore. … I take him to the stadium, I put the tickets under my name, I introduce him to all of my teammates, and he shows up with a Cardinals shirt. He’s driving me nuts. I can’t win with him. His cousins all have [Dodgers gear]. Not him. We have to do something. I have to make him change his mind. We won the second game and that’s it. He cried, and after that, he started laughing at us again.”

Has nobody taught Puig the No. 1 rule of troll world? You don’t feed the trolls. You don’t let the trolls know that they’re inside your head. Even if they’re 10-year-old trolls. Especially if they’re 10-year-old trolls.

Puig’s already talked about how the Dodgers “need to get through” the Cardinals. His No. 1 motivation is winning a World Series, for sure, but shutting up a yappy 10-year-old kid in the process isn’t a bad secondary goal.

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