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Field reporter Julia Morales is pretty cheerful about Astros pouring sunflower seeds on her head

Julia Morales is cheerful about sunflower-seed shower

If a player gets interviewed during a game, you can bet his teammates will try to disrupt it as much as possible, preferably with sunflower seeds. Here's an example:

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It's such a common practice that some players have developed new tactics to deal with it:

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But during Thursday's Astros-A's game, George Springer and Marwin Gonzalez decided to do the uncommon. Everyone expects the player to get showered in snacks. But NOT THIS TIME:

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Luckily, field reporter Julia Morales was a pretty good sport about it. After all, she has been "Phantom-of-the-Opera"-ed by the Phanatic, and this seems much less ominous in comparison. 

And it's not the first time something like this has happened: 

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