We adopt local vermin for mascots:
Squirrel in outfield seems to be good omen for Yankees
“Lucky” the squirrel is 4-for-4.
The brazen squirrel has appeared atop the right-field foul pole at Yankee Stadium four times this season, and each time the Bronx Bombers have won.
The bushy-tailed spectator, roosting high above the crowd on his yellow perch, has become such a fan favorite that he got a standing ovation during Tuesday night’s 12-3 win over the Seattle Mariners.
Cannella and her sister Katelyn, 21, have season tickets next to the soaring right-field foul pole and first noticed the furry fan on Opening Day in April, when the Yankees beat Tampa Bay, 9-5. They said fans were initially taunting the squirrel to jump.
“If he’s good luck, we don’t want him to jump,” Katelyn said. “We might as well call him Lucky. Whenever he’s around, we win.” Lucky also appeared at the Stadium on June 8, when the Yanks beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5-4.
The daring critter showed up in his sky-high seat on Aug. 28 to watch the Yanks beat Boston, 5-3, sparking deafening cheers when he was put on the scoreboard video screen.
The next day, the rodent’s antics were featured on NBC’s “Today” show, during which hosts Matt Lauer and Ann Curry called the media darling “cute.”
“Probably the fans at Yankee Stadium yelled all kinds of obscenities to it,” Lauer said. “That’s all right, that’s normal.”
Au contraire, Matty Numbnuts; we’ve adopted the little bastard:
Our seats were only a few rows away from right field, but the view was blocked by the foul pole and its net. Besides the great game and the win, the highlight for Tor was the Yankee squirrel. He’s a squirrel that showed up a few games ago and got a ton of television time. He sits on the top of that foul pole and every now and then climbs down it and then back up. People cheer. They take pictures and video of him. They yell at people who scare the squirrel back up the pole.
Of course, leave to one of the hacks working for The Old Gray Lady (which owns a piece of the Feckless Fenway Red Socked Fuckwits) to try pissing on our fun.
But “Lucky” can whip it out, too:
We watched him climb down over and over. One time he turned around to head back up and started shaking and then squirting streams of pee. Tor screamed “Pee! Pee!” It was hilarious.
The squirrel emptied himself one more time a few innings later and that started to freak Tor out. He was sure we were all going to get peed on even though it all rained straight down and we were way out of his range. Even telling Tor what position the squirrel would play for the Yankees didn’t calm him down or cheer him up.
The squirrel would of course be a middle reliever.
