I was minding my own business on Twitter yesterday, as one does, until I stumbled across a seemingly innocuous tweet from Steve Carney.
I stopped dead in my tracks. As a Rays fan who is unfortunately not based in the Tampa Bay region, I’m lucky to get to a game once a year, let alone on the regular. So I haven’t attended any of Blake Snell’s starts in person, and therefore have not beheld this blue towering behemoth.
The photo was not only baffling, but intensely comical for reasons I couldn’t quite articulate. The Godzilla-esque creature looked as if he was trying to duck into a tunnel and the grounds crew were assisting him, a la the troupe of sidekicks from the Hundred Acre Wood assisting a portly honey-bellied Winnie the Pooh out of a rabbit’s house.