I don’t know how much MLB.com’s Jason Beck gets paid, but his tweets leading up to the spring training warm-up between the Florida Southern Moccasins and the Detroit Tigers regarding the absurdly large tiger beyond the outfield wall at Joker Marchant stadium alone earned him his salary early in spring training. It began with an innocent enough tweet identifying the unavoidably large inflatable feline somewhere beyond the center field fence.
As more information began to trickle in, questions I did not know I had were being answered. It wasn’t just a large inflatable tiger. It was a bouncy house, and it had a name.