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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-01T19:06:45.000Z",
  "site": "https://defector.com",
  "tags": [
    "Food",
    "MLB",
    "diets",
    "eggs",
    "lolmets",
    "New York Mets",
    "Ryan Lambert",
    "ordered in five-day batches",
    "throws away",
    "ritually aged",
    "from Anthony DiComo of MLB.com"
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  "textContent": "At Defector, we like weird sports eaters. The demands of elite performance encourage monomania, which is expressed by your various sports freaks as often inviolable, occasionally bizarre food restrictions. Even sports commentators and hot-takers get in on it: Skip Bayless famously eats nothing but sauceless chicken and broccoli, ordered in five-day batches; Jim Nantz religiously throws away the final bite of each halftime hot dog he's ordered as an NFL broadcaster; and Don Cherry took a midday boost from salmon-and-mayo sandwiches ritually aged to a consistency once described by Ron MacLean as \"more like a pudding.\" A true grinder will do profoundly gut-busting things in order to survive and thrive at the upper echelons of North American sports.\n\nFor pitcher Ryan Lambert, who is presently working his way up the Mets farm system, this means eating like a champion. A champion mongoose. A mongoose who has discovered a nest full of plover eggs—several, in fact. A mongoose who raids half a dozen nests full of eggs every waking day of their life. Per a report from Anthony DiComo of MLB.com, Lambert \"came across an internet video\" two years ago, and took from it the message that he should consume 30 raw eggs per day.\n\n\"Day 1, it was an adjustment for sure. But I’m not a chicken,\" Lambert told DiComo, presumably by way of heading off any accusations of cannibalism. \"I like a little adversity and challenge. It kind of gets me going.\" Lambert's commitment to dietary excellence means eating a grilled steak and sweet potato dinner \"most days.\" In a ritual that I am sure makes him extremely popular with his colleagues, Lambert will reportedly sometimes wander the clubhouse dining room \"to examine his teammates' plates for nutritional value,\" poking at them for succumbing to temptation. According to DiComo, last year Lambert ordered \"a bowl of chicken hearts\" while eating with a teammate in a restaurant.",
  "title": "Mets Prospect Might Be 80 Percent Egg At This Point"
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