In Weird Baseball news: The Minnesota Twins were on a 12 game winning streak which the team hasn't had since 1991, the year they last won the Baseball World Series. Professional athletes love to get superstitious, and the Twins' latest good luck charm for this win streak? An un-refrigerated "Home Run summer sausage":
Here is a video of Rocco Baldelli, Twins Manager, talking about the sausage:
Video transcript: "It's--it's bringing us a lot of hits and runs and stuff, so I'm all for it. I mean. It's a--for anyone who hasn't been following, it's a substantial...packaged...y'know...sausage that uh...uh...Jeffers has been carrying around in his bag and throwing at people when we score runs and hit homers. I'm not even an adult, but slightly concerned as like, more of an adult than maybe some of the people in the other room, that the package is gonna open up, and the thing hasn't been refrigerated in..many days? And there's no doubt that when that thing opens up, whoever's touching it is in deep--is in deep trouble. That thing is...that--there's no doubt in my mind that we are carrying something around that is very, very unhealthy to the human body."