Luke Weaver has gone full cringe with the Mets ever since departing Yankees

Ever since Luke Weaver joined the New York Mets, he's been acting differently. And it's not a good brand of different, at least from the perspective of New York Yankees fans, who only a few months ago were lauding Weaver for his classy exit from the Bronx. Yeah ... not so much these days.

Weaver's entire demeanor this season — which comes through most noticeably during dealings with the press — has been, to put it plainly, off-putting. His entire persona, constructed through cringey remarks during interviews, points to a guy overcompensating for something. Naturally, Yankees fans can't stand it, especially when Weaver is on the mound against the Bombers and having any success at all (like he did on Saturday night, miraculously getting out of a no-outs, bases-loaded jam in the seventh inning).

Yankees fans hate what they're seeing and hearing from Luke Weaver in a Mets uniform

Whereas Mets supporters and/or reporters see Weaver's new personality as "thoughtful and elegant" (in the words of MLB.com's Anthony DiComo), Yankees fans aren't buying it, and there have been a few instances where it's tough to disagree with the latter stance.

Example A occurred on the night that the Mets snapped their 12-game losing streak earlier in the season. With Weaver closing things out on the mound, he talked after the game as if he was a mix between Rocky Balboa and Eminem, describing his performance with the following:

"People smell fear. I'm not the biggest guy in the room, but I ain't scared of nobody." (Said no one ever after losing 8,000 games in a row).

You know, Luke, none of us were thinking that you were scared of anybody until you brought it up. After all, you're an MLB reliever who has pitched in a World Series. But now that you've decided to announce to the world that you completely aren't scared of anyone, we're starting to think that you absolutely are.

Weaver's postgame interview after Saturday continued his 2026 trend of being sort of insufferable. He told reporters that he spoke to Mets teammate and fellow ex-Yankee Clay Holmes after Saturday's game, telling Holmes that he dedicated his gutsy performance to him and had Holmes' name written in his hat to honor him (Holmes is out right now with a broken fibula suffered against the Yankees). Weaver then immediately admitted to reporters that he'd told Holmes a lie, that his name wasn't written in his hat, and that it just "felt right to say". "Kids, don't lie to your parents," Weaver added.

While it's safe to say that Weaver doesn't have a post-MLB standup comedy gig in his future, there's also the basic idea that none of that entire Holmes story was necessary to say out loud, especially considering it involved casually lying to a teammate and then making a bland joke about it.

Whatever 180 Weaver did going from the Bronx to Queens has many of us confused and put off. Maybe it'll wear off by the time these two teams meet again in September and the torture of playing for the Mets will discourage him from this type of odd commentary.

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