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This is a REAL LIVE PENGUIN on an office chair belonging to Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon.
“I checked with Elias. Cliff is the first penguin ever to sit in the chair of a @MLB manager. #MaddonsMenagerie,” Rays director of communications Dave Haller tweeted.
Office penguin. The best kind of penguin. (h/t Deadspin)
DOG DAYS: The Tampa Bay Rays hosted “Bark in the Park” on Sunday and many fans brought their dogs to the stadium. Pitcher David Price brought his dog, Astro — whose likeness was turned into a bobblehead and given away to fans under 14. Sounds like a RUFF LIFE. (Photo: J. Meric/Getty Images; Chris O’Meara/The Associated Press)
Pumped:
Brett Lawrie slid home, popped up in a cloud of dust and burst into an impression of a triumphant MMA fighter, full of roar but minus the blood. Around him, nearly 46,000 fans multiplied the message.
They were Toronto Blue Jays fans, and they had been waiting three agonizing weeks for a moment like this.
They will soon learn the long-term significance of Lawrie’s glorious moment and his team’s unusual 8-4 comeback win over the New York Yankees. (Photo: Chris Young/The Canadian Press)
A moment of silence: The sports world was rocked by the news from Boston, where twin blasts killed three people and injured more than a hundred during the city’s famed marathons. (Photos: Hannah Foslien/Getty Images; Marc Serota/Getty Images; Ross D. Franklin/The Associated Press)
Check out this guy.
(Source: damandsire)
THERE IS NO ESCAPE: A fan is grabbed by security as he tries to climb over the outfield wall after running onto the field and sliding into second base during a game between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Boston Red Sox in Toronto, Ontario, April 7, 2013. (Photo: Tyler Anderson/National Post)
MIRROR, MIRROR: Los Angeles Angels manager Mike Scioscia checks the lineup prior to an interleague baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds. (Photo: Al Behrman/The Associated Press)
So close: Yu Darvish almost pitched a no-hitter on Tuesday night.
Darvish was one out from a perfect game when Marwin Gonzalez grounded a clean single through the pitcher’s legs, and Texas beat the Houston Astros 7-0 on Tuesday night.
A screen shot of the play showed the ball sail what looked to be less than a foot below the pitcher’s glove and into the outfield.
“That was impossible to catch,” Darvish said through a translator. (Photos: Houston Chronicle/Cody Duty/The Associated Press)
For some Toronto Blue Jays fans, great expectations breed great impatience.
By the second inning of the first game of the greatest season in Blue Jays history, dark murmurs began to waft from the sellout crowd of 48,857. Catcher J.P. Arencibia had just struck out, aggravating a greater sin: already, he had been charged with three passed balls in his bid to corral R.A. Dickey’s knuckleball. Two had marred an inning in which the Cleveland Indians scored twice.
Mind you, the grumblers could not have been delighted with Dickey either in the Blue Jays’ 4-1 loss. He walked four, a plateau he reached only twice last year when he won the National League Cy Young Award. Only one of the walks turned into a run. He also gave up a towering two-run homer to Asdrubal Cabrera. (Photos: Tyler Anderson/National Post)
