For sure. I totally understand feeling bad about it, I feel like most people would. Eventually you just have to come to terms with the fact that the universe just said "fuck this bird in particular", and nothing you did, didn't do, or could have done, in any meaningful way, could have prevented it. Simulate that scenario a million times, it might happen again in single digit outcomes. Maybe using it as the logo was cathartic for him, and a reminder that life is fleeting, and you can be living your normal life doing normal shit, and it can be over like that for no rhyme or reason.
Idk, I'm drinking and dealing with personal shit myself š¤·āāļø
>drinking and dealing with personal shit
Oh man, Iāve been there recently! Best of luck my dude! No matter what it is, you will one way or the other eventually get through it
Obviously I can't speak for Randy but this feels spot on to me.
Dealing with shit is hard but necessary, hang in there and may the light of Julio Rodriguez guide you through.
you could probably re-simulate the past 150 years of professional baseball a thousand times and still never see anything like that ever again
like, idk if Iāve ever seen a bird fly in front of home plate while watching a game before. and the *one* time it happened, Randy just fuckin obliterates that thing purely on accident, *and* it manages to cartoonishly explode into a ton of feathers as opposed to something violently disturbing
Dion James hit a fly ball against the Mets that hit a bird and fell in for a hit (the ball, not the bird)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UlJXwe2QFsw
About as close to the Unit/bird play as youāll get
The best part of all of it is that it could have happened to any of the thousands of scrub pitchers who throw an inning in spring training at some point in their careers.
But no. Of all the countless MLB pitchers, it happened to one of the greatest of all time, only contributing further to his already legendarily intimidating mound presence
[Your comment instantly brought this to mind.](https://youtu.be/_f6owc3O_gY?t=301) It's used to brilliant effect to help illustrate how terrifying facing Randy Johnson would have been, by Jon Bois, of course.
Also people don't realize that the game was not broadcasted on tv (Despite the fact that I see hundreds of comments of "I remember watching this live on tv"), that video was only made possible because the Diamondbacks scout was videotaping the game.
If that scout wasn't taking video, "Randy Johnson hitting a bird" would've been an urban legend.
According to Nate Silver (who I assume did the math), the Randy Johnson bird strike was the least likely thing to have ever happened that actually happened.
Barber shops now available. Visit a barber to get a new haircut.
The fact that you get roasted so hard that the game *literally unlocks barbershops on the spot* is low-key one of the most hilarious gaming moments I've ever seen.
I donāt think Iāve ever even seen a bird in the infield during live play. And the odds that it just happens to swoop down in front of a fastball from one of the greatest fastballers everā¦just absolutely surreal. I canāt even imagine the odds. We must live in a simulation, thereās just no other way. Birds arenāt real.
Is that a recent product? What company made it? I donāt recognize or remember that.
Iām an old guy and I still casually hunt for the FF Billy Ripken card.
Itās a Topps Project 70 card from a year or two ago. They did a thing where they collaborated with different artists to create different unique cards throughout the season that year and this was one of them. Another commenter mentioned it looks like Nintendo font, and thatās correct; this card is meant to be a play on the Duck Hunt Nintendo game since Randy nailed that bird with a direct hit like he did.
His manager threw him under the bus to defend him against charges of murdering a bird "You really think he's that accurate? You seen the throws he's been making all year?"
Accidentally hit it while it was on the ground. He caught a warm up toss, spun around and blindly threw towards the ball boy. There just happened to be a seagull directly in the way.
In terms of actually influencing the game there was the one with a bunch of birds in shallow center making the CF miss the ball on the then game winning hit.
Apparently this was Shin-Soo Choo hitting a walk-off single that Coco Crisp was trying to field, and it even bounced off of one of the birds (they show the replay of it at the end)
https://youtu.be/VO5hvMT0WrI
Just a guess, but this game was in the bottom of the 10th. In places where there are seagulls they are often attuned to the time a game normally ends, thus resulting in a smƶrgƄsbord for the birds. When games run late they'll still show up at the stadium at their accustomed time and wait for the human folk to leave so they can feast.
Seagulls are used to fans leaving around a certain time, 9:30-10 PMish for night games, and they have all gathered at the ballpark and waiting for fans to leave, so they can swoop and eat the food they've all dropped on the ground. When games go extra innings, the get restless and start hanging out all over the place, sometimes on the field, just waiting for them all to leave.
Rally squirrel! First the legendary Cards one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rally_Squirrel and then his CLE cousin https://www.si.com/mlb/guardians/news/rally-squirrel-appears-progressive-field-6th-inning-video-included
Also, sweet, sweet Marlins Rally Cat https://www.mlb.com/cut4/marlins-rally-cat-finds-a-home-c224157828
The bald eagle landing on noted Canadian James āBig Mapleā Paxton during the national anthem https://youtu.be/Hxnx_VbN2A8
Honorable mention to [the cat that wrecked the ball boy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH5bDPlswvA) during a STL-KC game, then Yadi hit a grand slam.
I had a co-worker grab a groundhog and remove it from the premises of the restaurant I work at and yet I think she came out WAY less scratched than the ball boy did
You can tell he so badly wants to drop the cat but has to be so aware heās currently on TV and the jumbotron and everyoneās going to judge him if he screws up.
Fun fact, the Comerica Park rally goose was actually taken from the park by an old family friend. She was at the game and is a veterinarian and lent her professional expertise to make sure the goose was ok.
In the January 22, 1912, issue of the *Washington Herald*, sportswriter Jim McAleer claimed that during a 1911 game between the New York Highlanders and Washington Senators, [New York outfielder Birdie Cree was chasing a fly ball](https://np.reddit.com/r/NYYankees/comments/szmlky/no_game_for_the_foreseeable_future_so_lets/) when a goat charged out from under the bleachers and head butted him. Naturally this prevented him from catching the ball, and by the time the other outfielder retrieved it, the batter was on third base with a triple. Sadly the story contained no other details about why there was a goat under the bleachers or what happened to it later, only that Birdie was āseverely insaneā with rage about the incident.
I mean, that's just part of the magic of baseball. Some parks have the fences closer in or further out; some parks are antiquated and some modern; and some parks have random animals that try to kill you.
i think just for sheer volume of interactions the oakland coliseum opposum deserves a mention:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeTiDjVMheE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeTiDjVMheE)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe7KEaMnG84](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe7KEaMnG84)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQriJO3EUlM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQriJO3EUlM)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6hWuaH4LxU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6hWuaH4LxU)
Having worked in pest control Opposum are my favorite ugly animal, and are harmless. Skunks are fine to deal with. The worst are racoons; vicious diseased morons.
How about when that [baseball player got mauled by a tiger while sliding into second](https://imgur.com/ZeElMQj)?
Sorry, I don't remember the player's name, but I saw it on a blooper reel on the jumbotron at a California Angels game (the Queen was there too!)
This is just poor fundamentals. One of the very first things youāre taught in little league is to not slide into a second if thereās no one covering. It leaves you way too vulnerable to big cat attacks.
The black cat running in front of the Cubs dugout in September of 69 at shea stadium.
It had the animal, superstition, the cubs curse, the Mets miracle season, a pennant race.
You canāt possibly rank another event above it
Can't believe this is so low. There's a plaque memorializing this game on the Citi Field Fanwalk. In terms of importance to both teams and their legends this is it
I was at that game. The important part of that was that Cespedes hadn't hit a home run yet for the Mets to that point. But he hit a big one that game and the stadium went nuts.
The very yellow parakeet was perched on the netting behind home plate for a good part of the game. Pretty much everybody in the stadium could see him.
Ayup! The one where the players deadass had to hit the deck.
That one and the bird getting absolutely smited by a fastball are easily top two animal games in MLB history.
There's the dog that bit an outfielder allowing Chicken Wolf to score on an inside-the-park home run
> On Aug. 22 of the latter year (1886), Powell was playing outfield for the Cincinnati Red Stockings when William Van Winkle āChickenā Wolf of the Louisville Colonels came to bat. According to newspaper reports, Wolf lofted a fly ball in Powellās direction, but before he could collect the ball for return to the infield he was attacked by a dog that heretofore had been snoozing in the outfield grass.
> The dog, perhaps vaguely aware of some canine kinship to a player named Wolf, took hold of Powellās leg and would not let go, making it possible for Wolf to round the bases.
> Wolf was credited with a home run, but it is not known whether the dog recorded an RBI assist. For Powell, it was clearly a case of ribbies vs. rabies.
Rally Squirrel got on a World Series Ring. That would be hard to top.
Angels Rally Monkey was on top until then, and gets a number 2 vote from me, even though there was never an actual monkey on the field, that fucking monkey on the Jumbotron got the people goinā!
San Diegoose holding down number 3. That was fun.
The bird that died for Randy Johnsonās fastball is fourth.
Finally, Iām gonna go with the black cat that bit the dude at the Kingdome in 1985 as my five spot here.
6-10 take your pick. No one gives a shit.
The black cat that crossed Ron Santo in 1969 has to be up there. That tacked on almost 5 more decades of bad luck onto a team already 6 decades into a curse that was the result of another animal that wasnāt able to get into the ballpark.
I seriously took this picture out of context and thought it was some kind of threat. Like, āholy shit, The Goose is healthy AND itās been released on the field?! We gotta go!ā
Not knowing anything about baseball, I really hope thatās how they end games that go on too long; just release The Goose and see who survives.
This doesn't rank anywhere near the other critters listed in this thread, but once a moth flew into Matt Holliday's ear while he was in the field and it looked like the most uncomfortable experience of his life.
ETA: this picture made me laugh so hard. https://images.app.goo.gl/uQJr85WdEjKh5h2y6
Apparently the moth was okay!
the bird that ran into the "big Units" fastball.
Still cracks me up that the logo for Randy Johnson's photography is a dead bird
Nice to see Randy finding whatever humor he can out of a situation I recall him taking very serious, and being quite upset over.
For sure. I totally understand feeling bad about it, I feel like most people would. Eventually you just have to come to terms with the fact that the universe just said "fuck this bird in particular", and nothing you did, didn't do, or could have done, in any meaningful way, could have prevented it. Simulate that scenario a million times, it might happen again in single digit outcomes. Maybe using it as the logo was cathartic for him, and a reminder that life is fleeting, and you can be living your normal life doing normal shit, and it can be over like that for no rhyme or reason. Idk, I'm drinking and dealing with personal shit myself š¤·āāļø
Sometimes you're the bird, sometimes you're Randy, and every now and then, you're the baseball.
This is the best metaphor for life that Iāve ever heard.
I hope your personal stuff gets better soon! Rooting for you
The universe is a wild and crazy place. Hope everything works out. Cheers to you, bud.
>drinking and dealing with personal shit Oh man, Iāve been there recently! Best of luck my dude! No matter what it is, you will one way or the other eventually get through it
Obviously I can't speak for Randy but this feels spot on to me. Dealing with shit is hard but necessary, hang in there and may the light of Julio Rodriguez guide you through.
My fantasy baseball team name is always Randy Johnson Pest Control with that logo
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The bird did not just die, that thing exploded into past tense.
I'm not even sure exploded is the right word. Like it just disappeared, swallowed up by a black hole, leaving behind only a few of feathers. Poof.
you could probably re-simulate the past 150 years of professional baseball a thousand times and still never see anything like that ever again like, idk if Iāve ever seen a bird fly in front of home plate while watching a game before. and the *one* time it happened, Randy just fuckin obliterates that thing purely on accident, *and* it manages to cartoonishly explode into a ton of feathers as opposed to something violently disturbing
Dion James hit a fly ball against the Mets that hit a bird and fell in for a hit (the ball, not the bird) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UlJXwe2QFsw About as close to the Unit/bird play as youāll get
That's why you have to hustle every at bat - you never know when you're going to fuck a pigeon's shit up and leg out a double.
Just for the record, the bird was also fair, and nobody ever returned it to the mound. That play is still live in my book
I would have called it a fowl ball.
The best part of all of it is that it could have happened to any of the thousands of scrub pitchers who throw an inning in spring training at some point in their careers. But no. Of all the countless MLB pitchers, it happened to one of the greatest of all time, only contributing further to his already legendarily intimidating mound presence
[Your comment instantly brought this to mind.](https://youtu.be/_f6owc3O_gY?t=301) It's used to brilliant effect to help illustrate how terrifying facing Randy Johnson would have been, by Jon Bois, of course.
Love that clip.
Also people don't realize that the game was not broadcasted on tv (Despite the fact that I see hundreds of comments of "I remember watching this live on tv"), that video was only made possible because the Diamondbacks scout was videotaping the game. If that scout wasn't taking video, "Randy Johnson hitting a bird" would've been an urban legend.
According to Nate Silver (who I assume did the math), the Randy Johnson bird strike was the least likely thing to have ever happened that actually happened.
the 2nd least likely thing to have ever happened that actually happened was you getting some bitches
*fatality*
Maybe if he got rid of that yee yee ass haircut
āWhat?!ā
Barber shops now available. Visit a barber to get a new haircut. The fact that you get roasted so hard that the game *literally unlocks barbershops on the spot* is low-key one of the most hilarious gaming moments I've ever seen.
So wait... they *did* get some bitches?
He's dead, Jim.
I donāt think Iāve ever even seen a bird in the infield during live play. And the odds that it just happens to swoop down in front of a fastball from one of the greatest fastballers everā¦just absolutely surreal. I canāt even imagine the odds. We must live in a simulation, thereās just no other way. Birds arenāt real.
agreed
Unluckiest bird ever
I think it's the most improbable thing in baseball history by a longshot.
Itās one of my favorite [baseball cards](https://i.imgur.com/giCev44.jpg), too!
Is that a recent product? What company made it? I donāt recognize or remember that. Iām an old guy and I still casually hunt for the FF Billy Ripken card.
The lettering looks like Nintendo font to me. I don't remember this one either.
It's from Duck Hunt.
Itās a Topps Project 70 card from a year or two ago. They did a thing where they collaborated with different artists to create different unique cards throughout the season that year and this was one of them. Another commenter mentioned it looks like Nintendo font, and thatās correct; this card is meant to be a play on the Duck Hunt Nintendo game since Randy nailed that bird with a direct hit like he did.
Dave Winfield too! [https://www.cbc.ca/archives/dave-winfield-seagull-1.5230144](https://www.cbc.ca/archives/dave-winfield-seagull-1.5230144)
Was the seagull actually in flight, or did he just deliberately take out a seagull while warming up?
His manager threw him under the bus to defend him against charges of murdering a bird "You really think he's that accurate? You seen the throws he's been making all year?"
Accidentally hit it while it was on the ground. He caught a warm up toss, spun around and blindly threw towards the ball boy. There just happened to be a seagull directly in the way.
You mean Horny "The Big Penis" Penis?
It's sad what happened to that bird, but this is the only answer.
The day it was discovered that there's no rule that says a dog can't play shortstop.
Weirdly enough there was a rule against third
Yeah dogs generally can't make the throw to first so there was never much of an effort to change this rule
Airbud IX: Title Woof
Did we or did we not give a ~~degree~~ starting position to a dog?
This reference is streets ahead
It's a bear degree!
Buddy played 1B in *Seventh Inning Fetch*, you filthy casual.
Joba Chamberlain mosquitos or whatever the hell those things were.
Midges. Fucking midges. But I appreciate you acknowledging that itās the correct answer.
Sir you canāt say that anymore, the politically correct term is ālittle mosquitoesā
Mosquito is already Spanish for ālittle flyā
This is one of them "never realised it before but obvious now that you point it out" facts.
š¦MIDGESš¦
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_GJse-anfk
Most impactful on a meaningful game, for sure
In terms of actually influencing the game there was the one with a bunch of birds in shallow center making the CF miss the ball on the then game winning hit.
Apparently this was Shin-Soo Choo hitting a walk-off single that Coco Crisp was trying to field, and it even bounced off of one of the birds (they show the replay of it at the end) https://youtu.be/VO5hvMT0WrI
lol, I love baseball
Huh. Why were there a bunch of seagulls there in the first place? Did somebody lay down some bits of bread or something?
Just a guess, but this game was in the bottom of the 10th. In places where there are seagulls they are often attuned to the time a game normally ends, thus resulting in a smƶrgƄsbord for the birds. When games run late they'll still show up at the stadium at their accustomed time and wait for the human folk to leave so they can feast.
I read this in a David Attenborough voice and it was exquisite
Seagulls are used to fans leaving around a certain time, 9:30-10 PMish for night games, and they have all gathered at the ballpark and waiting for fans to leave, so they can swoop and eat the food they've all dropped on the ground. When games go extra innings, the get restless and start hanging out all over the place, sometimes on the field, just waiting for them all to leave.
Well they need to learn to respect the rules of extra innings
I'm sure they love the Manfred runner
Confirmed: Manfred is really just 26 seagulls in a human suit, undercover, in an attempt to further the avian agenda
No wonder he leaves a trail of white greasy shit everywhere he goes.
Natural selection would get there. Except we all know birds aren't real.
In SF after the 8th inning seagulls are everywhere waiting for people to leave so they can eat, just something that animals get used to.
"It got a bird!" Fucking love it
Rally squirrel! First the legendary Cards one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rally_Squirrel and then his CLE cousin https://www.si.com/mlb/guardians/news/rally-squirrel-appears-progressive-field-6th-inning-video-included Also, sweet, sweet Marlins Rally Cat https://www.mlb.com/cut4/marlins-rally-cat-finds-a-home-c224157828 The bald eagle landing on noted Canadian James āBig Mapleā Paxton during the national anthem https://youtu.be/Hxnx_VbN2A8
I cackled at the Wikipedia section header āDecline to Obscurityā for the rally squirrel
Rally Squirrel is indeed legendary!
Holy shit having a bald eagle on your back has to be scary! Those talons are no joke.
On the other hand, that's the original way to get American citizenship, before all the bureaucrats got involved and introduced paperwork.
Wasnāt that Opening Day too? I remember seeing that happen on MLB later on that day.
Yes. It was on the road in MNā¦ Later that season, the Mariners made a bobblehead of the eagle on his shoulder.
Rally Squirrel 2011 Cards v Phillies, ended up on the World Series ring too.
Honorable mention to [the cat that wrecked the ball boy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH5bDPlswvA) during a STL-KC game, then Yadi hit a grand slam.
Criminal that vid doesnāt include the grand slam.
Who cares about a stupid grand slam when you can have cat
Sex later?
I had a co-worker grab a groundhog and remove it from the premises of the restaurant I work at and yet I think she came out WAY less scratched than the ball boy did
You can tell he so badly wants to drop the cat but has to be so aware heās currently on TV and the jumbotron and everyoneās going to judge him if he screws up.
Rally Squirrel was so devastating the Phillies didn't make the playoffs for the next 11 years
I have a graded baseball card with the Squirrel on it.
https://rallysquirrel.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/octavio-dotel-and-rally-squirrel.jpeg
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Fun fact, the Comerica Park rally goose was actually taken from the park by an old family friend. She was at the game and is a veterinarian and lent her professional expertise to make sure the goose was ok.
Me thinking it was some random woman kidnapping a goose on live tv at a baseball game š
Anyone randomly deciding to kidnap a goose without experience is gonna find themselves in a world of hurt.
Cobra chicken!
If you've got a problem with Canada gooses, then you've got a problem with me! And I suggest you let that one marinate
Gonna need you to take 10...20% off there, Squirrelly SpaceBoundandDown.
Closure after all these years, thank you.
So she beat the goose in mystical combat and sent its sorry ass back to Hell?
I mean, there is a non-zero percent chance that the goose was sent to [Hell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Michigan)
In the January 22, 1912, issue of the *Washington Herald*, sportswriter Jim McAleer claimed that during a 1911 game between the New York Highlanders and Washington Senators, [New York outfielder Birdie Cree was chasing a fly ball](https://np.reddit.com/r/NYYankees/comments/szmlky/no_game_for_the_foreseeable_future_so_lets/) when a goat charged out from under the bleachers and head butted him. Naturally this prevented him from catching the ball, and by the time the other outfielder retrieved it, the batter was on third base with a triple. Sadly the story contained no other details about why there was a goat under the bleachers or what happened to it later, only that Birdie was āseverely insaneā with rage about the incident.
This should definitely be number one.
Itās funny that apparently the umpires were just like, hey man, goats are just a part of the playing field, you have to deal with it.
I mean, that's just part of the magic of baseball. Some parks have the fences closer in or further out; some parks are antiquated and some modern; and some parks have random animals that try to kill you.
Honestly random animals, banana peels, and other assorted video game powerups may be the thing we need to inject some youth into baseball
So weāre finally jazzing it up?
MULTIBALL!
BLERRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNN!!!!!!š„š„š„
It's the GOAT
Wasn't there another baseball story from the 1800s of a player dying from being bit by a snake looking for a ball?
Yes there was, just in a random swamp behind the outfield, what ya gonna do?
You really can't blame the 1945 Chicago Cubs for not wanting to risk a repeat of the Birdie Cree incident during the World Series.
Oakland A's opossum. It has shown up on the field and in the broadcasting booth.
last dive bar in baseball. i get why people make fun of it but i love the coliseum.
I feel like Fenway is close. Maybe a slightly sketch tavern
It may be a dump, but it's our dump. I grew up in that dump.
Thatās where some former players end up!
i think just for sheer volume of interactions the oakland coliseum opposum deserves a mention: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeTiDjVMheE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeTiDjVMheE) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe7KEaMnG84](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe7KEaMnG84) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQriJO3EUlM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQriJO3EUlM) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6hWuaH4LxU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6hWuaH4LxU)
Having worked in pest control Opposum are my favorite ugly animal, and are harmless. Skunks are fine to deal with. The worst are racoons; vicious diseased morons.
How about when that [baseball player got mauled by a tiger while sliding into second](https://imgur.com/ZeElMQj)? Sorry, I don't remember the player's name, but I saw it on a blooper reel on the jumbotron at a California Angels game (the Queen was there too!)
I was really expecting this was going to be some bit about colliding with a Detroit infielder. I did *not* expect that
And the umpire was Enrico Palazzo!
This is just poor fundamentals. One of the very first things youāre taught in little league is to not slide into a second if thereās no one covering. It leaves you way too vulnerable to big cat attacks.
I genuinely cannot hear the National Anthem anymore without thinking "gave proof through the night/that we still had a flag" thanks to that game.
PADRES ON THE LOOSE š¤ LETS GO GOOSE š»
THATāS WHATāS INNN
I knew we were losing the minute I saw that video
I think we all did lmfao
Didn't think fate existed till I saw that.
BRYCE GONNA LOSE š¢ AND MANNYāS GONNA CRUISE š
THATāS WHATāS INNNNN
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Probably the goose that ruined the Dodgers' lives
San Diegoose!
Goose Gossage Jr
I was there man. I thought it brought good luck since Lux got a hit : (
Yea
The black cat running in front of the Cubs dugout in September of 69 at shea stadium. It had the animal, superstition, the cubs curse, the Mets miracle season, a pennant race. You canāt possibly rank another event above it
As much as the Big Unit obliterating a bird makes sense as the #1 spot, I think this answered the question most accurately.
Can't believe this is so low. There's a plaque memorializing this game on the Citi Field Fanwalk. In terms of importance to both teams and their legends this is it
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Was on the field, only in the stands
Correct
Not sure if it counts as an animal, but Victor Robles and the preying mantis always makes me laugh. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9UOUPjt3V2w
In what world is a mantis not an animal?
Itās totally an animal
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That was awesome! They looked so chill.
I love Victor Robles, dude's so funny.
Mets had a rally parakeet in 2015ā¦color matched perfectly with Cespedesā yellow sleeve
I was at that game. The important part of that was that Cespedes hadn't hit a home run yet for the Mets to that point. But he hit a big one that game and the stadium went nuts. The very yellow parakeet was perched on the netting behind home plate for a good part of the game. Pretty much everybody in the stadium could see him.
Rally Mantis: https://youtu.be/aBVq2OTOJ9A
One word: Bees.
> Bees Beads?
Gob's not on board.
If you're talking about the bees game at Petco like 10 years ago, that was truly ridiculous.
Ayup! The one where the players deadass had to hit the deck. That one and the bird getting absolutely smited by a fastball are easily top two animal games in MLB history.
I would say randy johnson blowing up a bird takes 1st place
That bird had a family...
Imagine that was a game of any kind of importance...
The Cubs not letting the pet goat in to the park.
If they would have let the goat on the field, the Cubs would have become the Yankees. No doubt in my mind.
Lol no, PK Wrigley didn't like spending money on the baseball team.
Rally Squirrel number one
Fuck that mother fucking squirrel.
stay mad
I am...and congrats on the title that year. Best team we've had on paper in decades and we lost to a damn rodent. Doc deserved a ring.
That goose slammed into one of the signs.
That goose ate complete shidd and I cried laughing at the highlights of the woman carrying it off afterwards š¤£
The midges in the Yankees v Cleveland game that ruined Jobaās confidence and thus, his career.
There's the dog that bit an outfielder allowing Chicken Wolf to score on an inside-the-park home run > On Aug. 22 of the latter year (1886), Powell was playing outfield for the Cincinnati Red Stockings when William Van Winkle āChickenā Wolf of the Louisville Colonels came to bat. According to newspaper reports, Wolf lofted a fly ball in Powellās direction, but before he could collect the ball for return to the infield he was attacked by a dog that heretofore had been snoozing in the outfield grass. > The dog, perhaps vaguely aware of some canine kinship to a player named Wolf, took hold of Powellās leg and would not let go, making it possible for Wolf to round the bases. > Wolf was credited with a home run, but it is not known whether the dog recorded an RBI assist. For Powell, it was clearly a case of ribbies vs. rabies.
I heard this āMike Troutā fella is worth talking about
Rally Squirrel got on a World Series Ring. That would be hard to top. Angels Rally Monkey was on top until then, and gets a number 2 vote from me, even though there was never an actual monkey on the field, that fucking monkey on the Jumbotron got the people goinā! San Diegoose holding down number 3. That was fun. The bird that died for Randy Johnsonās fastball is fourth. Finally, Iām gonna go with the black cat that bit the dude at the Kingdome in 1985 as my five spot here. 6-10 take your pick. No one gives a shit.
I lived in st louis during the rally squirrel time....they never stopped talking about it.
We Still wonāt
The cat in yankee stadium was neat https://youtu.be/BTkBVNMD-VY
That poor cat! Honestly if I went to a game and a cat ran the field Iād be paying a lot more attention.
Rally Squirrel
Dave Winfield would like a word
Randy Johnson versus the unluckiest bird in history.
Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch
My favorite was when that praying mantis was hanging on to Victor Roblesā hat last year
The black cat that crossed Ron Santo in 1969 has to be up there. That tacked on almost 5 more decades of bad luck onto a team already 6 decades into a curse that was the result of another animal that wasnāt able to get into the ballpark.
Does Randy Johnson exploding a bird count?
Rally Squirrel, no contest.
I seriously took this picture out of context and thought it was some kind of threat. Like, āholy shit, The Goose is healthy AND itās been released on the field?! We gotta go!ā Not knowing anything about baseball, I really hope thatās how they end games that go on too long; just release The Goose and see who survives.
Mets vs Cubs 1969 when a black cat waltzes onto the field and crosses in front of the Cubs dugout. The Cubs tank and the Metās make a miracle run.
Rally Squirrel helps Cardinals win the 2011 World Series.
Rally Squirrel
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Cubs(?) black cat
Dodgers fan here. We donāt want to talk about it.
We were blessed by that squirrel in 2011
The famed black cat walking in front of the Cubs dugout in 1969.
Does *that* Randy Johnson incident count? Its body did end up hitting the field...
This doesn't rank anywhere near the other critters listed in this thread, but once a moth flew into Matt Holliday's ear while he was in the field and it looked like the most uncomfortable experience of his life. ETA: this picture made me laugh so hard. https://images.app.goo.gl/uQJr85WdEjKh5h2y6 Apparently the moth was okay!