Vinnie Pestano endures sunflower seeds, cups of water during in-game interview

Poor Vinnie Pestano. He was just trying to give an interview and let the people of Cleveland know what they can expect from their new closer when his teammates began pelting him with sunflower seeds.

Now, we've seen such a prank before, but never quite with this level of dedication -- lasting a full four minutes and escalating throughout. Even when you think they would get bored with the sunflower seed shower, they continued to launch heaps of them at the defenseless Pestano. Eventually, Justin Masterson walks over and dumps a cup of water on the young pitcher's head because -- well, why not?

-- Dakota Gardner / MLB.com