r/baseball • u/silly_card_collector Pittsburgh Pirates • 3h ago

Players Only Jackson Chourio has befriended a praying mantis

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u/GhanimaAtreides Houston Astros • New York Mets 3h ago

Not only that but he signaled how many outs to the Mantis. One of my favorite baseball clips of all time. 

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u/Hoshbrowns Chicago White Sox 2h ago

What are the rules on this? To me it seems like the nationals got away with having an extra player on defense. Maybe bugs don't count but when I watched the AirBud movies, Buddy always counted as a player.

Man talk about one of the greatest all around athletes ever. Dominated in baseball, football, soccer, basketball, and volleyball. Bo Jackson got nothing on Buddy. Bo knows who the better athlete really is

TLDR: a bunch of nonsense but this brewers dodgers game is getting intense. Omg back to back as I'm typing this

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u/manosiosis Boston Red Sox 2h ago

Ain't no rule says a bug can't play baseball

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u/Hoshbrowns Chicago White Sox 2h ago edited 2h ago

Haha this conversation reminded me of that time a pigeon joined the Raiders in kick coverage.

Edit: Pigeon here's the video of him lining up, waiting for the kick, and flying with the coverage as they run down the field. Haha the pigeon even curls into the middle of the field as with the defense when the returner gets tackled

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u/Bobblefighterman Yomiuri Giants 2h ago

Hell, in the cricket a seagull blocked a shot going for 4. Stopped 2 runs, the bloody legend.