Mookie Betts complains about SF Giants fans: "San Fran have mean people"

In a recent podcast involving Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts and young San Diego Padres phenom Jackson Merrill, the two both agreed that SF Giants fans are some of the meanest in baseball. Cue the world's smallest violin.

The clip where the two players discuss the roughest fans in baseball can be viewed below:

Mookie Betts complains about SF Giants fans, calls them mean

"I say San Fran [sic] got some mean people out there, though," said Merrill. Betts echoed the sentiment, almost word-for-word, saying, "San Fran [sic] have [sic] mean people out there, bro."

Then, in a moment of clarity, Betts pointed out the reason Giants fans are so mean from their perspective is probably because the Giants and Dodgers are sworn rivals as the loathed Max Muncy recently pointed out.

This is not the first time a rival player has complained about Giants fans. A few years ago when Jurickson Profar was on the Padres, he complained about unruly fans who threw baseballs and beer cans at him which is truly unacceptable behavior.

However, it seems that Betts and Merrill were mainly complaining about things Giants fans say rather than them being unruly and disorderly. Something tells me fans are not going to be any nicer to either player the next time they come to San Francisco.

Obviously, their answers are influenced by the fact that they play for the two teams that most Giants fans dislike the most, but it would be interesting to see what MLB players would say as a whole if surveyed on which fans they considered the worst or "meanest."

Historically, fans of the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, and New York Yankees are considered some of the harshest. Betts talked about how brutal Yankees fans can be based on his experience when he played for Boston and said that Giants fans and Yankees fans are probably equally brutal in his eyes.

Dodgers fans could certainly be considered mean, but maybe since they tend to leave in the 7th inning to beat traffic they do not stick as vividly in the minds of players.

Giants fans should be proud that they are living rent-free in the minds of both Betts and Merrill. Surely fans are going to keep giving it to them every time they come to Oracle Park.