The squirrel story metioned earlier brought back a funny memory for me. I was working bases of a college game and set up in C position when I heard a comotion coming from the third base dugout. The pitcher was on the rubber so i was locked in on him. But the comotion grew so loud I had to turn my head to see what was going on. Just as I was turning my head the pitcher came set and the dugout screams "Look out Blue!". I notice a big grey squirrel headed my way and he is closing ground quick! I am frozen and can't move. He apparently thinks I am a tree or statue and tries to climb my leg. I am shaking my leg trying to get the squirrel off my leg when I hear "crack"! Oh yeah, there is a ball game going on. As luck would have it, the batter hits a shot zeroed in on my head. Here I have a squirrel attached to my leg, I am doing the one legged hot foot dance, and NOW there is a missle headed for my head! My reflexes luckily kicked in and I ducked the baseball and the squirrel let go about the same time. The fans and my partners got a good 5 minute belly laugh out of it. Yes we had a 5 minute delay for everyone to regain their composure. The squirrel went to the RF fence and sat on the top rail watching the next 2 innings of ball.
