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we could have a bat dive bombing us...

Quote:Even though Marquette guard Junior Cadougan scored a team-high 15 points and three other teammates tallied 13 apiece, none of them were the star of the Golden Eagles' 81-71 victory over Providence.

Providence coach Ed Cooley shields himself from the bat That honor goes to the rogue bat that flittered around the Bradley Center midway through the second half, disrupting the game and sending players, coaches and refs scrambling for cover.

Rogue bat divebombs the Bradley Center, disrupts Saturday’s Marquette-Providence game

And they play Ozzy Osbourne!

There has been a bat in Bartow before. Earlier this fall there was one flying around Bartow.

I have been "divebombed" by bats before, it is a very uncomfortable feeling, bats conjure up in some people, the same unbridled fear inspired by snakes and spiders.

This isn't the first time a flying rodent has disrupted a sporting event, Manu Ginobli nipped it in the bud during a home game (I think) at the AT&T Center in one occurrence, ESPN, I must say, did a very good job displaying a video segment of bats changing the mood of a sports event. I remember when he (Ginobli) swatted the bat down and tried to hand it over to a security person, he was so casual about the whole thing, but the look on that guy's face was priceless.

Didn't a skunk at one time invade a major league baseball game?

(01-28-2013 03:25 PM)Matrix Wrote:  Didn't a skunk at one time invade a major league baseball game?

Yes, Finis St John did attend a Braves game.

(01-28-2013 03:25 PM)Matrix Wrote:  Didn't a skunk at one time invade a major league baseball game?

The Cardinals had the squirrel that rallied them to a World Series Championship.

(01-28-2013 03:22 PM)Matrix Wrote:   I have been "divebombed" by bats before, it is a very uncomfortable feeling, bats conjure up in some people, the same unbridled fear inspired by snakes and spiders.

This isn't the first time a flying rodent has disrupted a sporting event, Manu Ginobli nipped it in the bud during a home game (I think) at the AT&T Center in one occurrence, ESPN, I must say, did a very good job displaying a video segment of bats changing the mood of a sports event. I remember when he (Ginobli) swatted the bat down and tried to hand it over to a security person, he was so casual about the whole thing, but the look on that guy's face was priceless.

... and it was Halloween night.

Randy Johnson killed a pigeon with his fastball once.

Poor bird swooped when he should have climbed. Vaporized in an explosion of feathers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxEUW3pQX6A

And he got ridiculed for doing it, like it was anything that he could control.