Speaking of baseball and squirrels, here’s a hapless squirrel diving from a wire into the dugout of the Philadelphia Phillies during a recent game. I hope the little guy wasn’t hurt. What’s funny is how crazy these big professional baseball players go, running for the hills, when the rodent lands among them. It’s just a squirrel!
I hope it gnawed on a few bats.
This video has been up only two days and already has over two million hits.
No wing-walking cats?
poor lil’guy – what terror. It must have been something very spooky to get it way out on that wire, with no place to go but onward and down. The fall may have done ‘im in, with no branches to compete with gravity.
I know – that was a really long way to fall. I hope the squirrel landed on a squishy human in the dug-out!
A long way to fall? I don’t know… only July, August & then we are in September!
He landed on the dugout and continued running, so I’d say he survived the fall/jump.
You can tell from the sound of the crowd that they were paying more attention to the squirrel than the game!
That’s because that squirrel is a better hitter than several of the Phillies.
Season ticket holders are paying money back to the club just so they DON’T have to watch.
He wasn’t scared, he was angry. He’s been watching terrible baseball all season and he decided to take some revenge on the team with an aerial assault on the dugout.
So if the Phillies pull another ’64-style epic collapse this year, they have a built-in excuse, the jinx of the squirrel.
I remember that collapse. The Washington Senators was my home team, and they were always in the cellar (altho AFAIK, Tom Cheney’s 21 K/O’s from 1962 has never been beaten. So at least we had something to hold onto.)
My uncle lived in Philly, and the Phillies were always in the cellar, too, so I figured it was something that ran in the family. But suddenly they were in first place!! And then it all collapsed.
I’d say it puts the excitement that baseball has to offer into perspective.
Lol
Strangely enough, the AA team here in Richmond, Va., is named The Flying Squirrels.
That is all. No great bon mot to finish up the post. :/
So, in a different environment, relatively close cousins of these squirrels have evolved the ability to glide from tree to tree (or tree to ground, of course).
How many generations before the descendants of these squirrels evolve the ability to catch a pop fly or throw a 95 MPH slider?
b&
Ben – see #5. Or, go here.
Poor squirrel. It must’ve been terrified. 🙁
At last! Some excitement in a baseball game.
You’re not satisfied by the 15 minutes of action baseball usually manages to squeeze into a two-and-a-half-hour game?
Try watching cricket!
“We could maybe take a squirrel” -Joel
Where did they find a giant squirrel?
I think the bats would be asleep!
Was the crowd cheering for the squirrel or the surviving members of the team?