Bryce Harper, Scott Van Pelt Interview, Butchers 'Meme' Pronunciation

Bryce Harper is good at baseball--Internet jargon, not so much. In a recent interview with Scott Van Pelt--on the day he was crowned National League MVP, no less--the Washington Nationals star outfielder butchered the pronunciation of the word "meme." And it was great. "Meme-erable," even.

"I want to close with an idiotic question because I think I'm good at those," said Scott Van Pelt. "I'm looking at your hair right now, and obviously I have none... Would you rather be as bald as I am for the rest of your life, or never have a season again where you hit double digit home runs?"

Harper paused, for the sake of not wanting to make something out of nothing, and, in an ironic turn of fate, created something out of nothing. "May-may's." Watch:

Within minutes of the miscue, the memes Harper was looking to avoid began making their way onto the internet.

Now, to be fair to Harper, this is a tricky question. His hair is fantastic and losing such a feature would no doubt be troublesome. However, Harper is also a notorious home run hitter. For instance, he hit 42 of them this year. And hitting, say, 7, would be like a fish losing the ability to swim. So you see, it poses some problems.

He does have the luxury of falling back on the super warm and cuddly blanket of knowing he was really ridiculously good this year. He garnered all 30 first-place MVP votes, making him just the seventh unanimous MVP in National League history and the youngest ever to do it at just 23 years of age. He tied for the NL lead in home runs (42) while also bolstering the second-best batting average in the NL (.330). Not to mention, in his first full season playing right field, he earned the honor of Gold Glove finalist. 

Pretty impressive. Let's see how Harper feels about all of this. "Very excited, very humbled," Harper said, via ESPN.

A man of few words, it appears. Let's see how he did it. "All I wanted to do was stay healthy and stay on the field every day," Harper said.

Hmm, maybe it's as simple as that when it comes down to being really ridiculously good at a sport. Just stay on the field (and away from the internet, too).