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Jimmy Fallon Got MLB Players to Slip Bizarre Phrases Into Interviews

When Mets rookie Pete Alonso started talking about jelly and English muffins during his media availability at the All-Star Game last week, it was met with universal head scratching. The New York Times called it a “colorful analogy” a New York Daily News reporter tweeted that it “may be the weirdest and most confusing sports quote ever.”

But now we know that Alonso wasn’t sharing an ancient Tampa proverb. Jimmy Fallon put him up to it, and got quite a few other players to drop bizarre phrases of their own into interviews.