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Ooh, slight burn: Pence responds to trolling fans with gentle posts

Published Aug. 8, 2014 5:57 p.m. ET

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This trolling war is so civilized. 

When the Giants visited Citi Field to play the Mets last weekend, some savvy New York fans took to trolling Hunter Pence in a hilariously hushed fashion, showing up with signs mildly insulting the San Francisco outfielder with all the scratch of a de-clawed cat. 

The decidedly tame barbs quickly became a social media sensation, with #HunterPenceSigns establishing its presence and even inspiring its own Twitter account: 

It got to the point that not even Pence could ignore the social media roar (even if it was delivered in library voices). The 31-year-old All-Star responded to the gentle prodding with some entertainingly tame trolling posts of his own: 

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