There’s apparently a possum living in the visitors’ television booth in Oakland, and it remains on the loose despite stadium staff setting traps along with other efforts to wrangle the …
As the broadcast zoomed out and showed Cohen and Darling in their makeshift booth, Cohen could be seen seated directly behind a pole and needing to lean on either side to see the field.The obstructed view was seemingly a small price to pay in order to avoid the possum smell.
Gary Cohen and Ron Darling were forced into an auxiliary booth during the Mets’ win over the A’s on April 14 due to a possum.Screengrab / SNY The team’s home since since the A’s moved from from Kansas City to Oakland in 1968, Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum is one of the most dilapidated venues across MLB.Owner John Fisher has been public about his desire to move the team into a new stadium, either staying in Oakland or moving the team to Las Vegas.
Commissioner Rob Manfred even declared the A’s “need a new stadium” when asked about the team’s exploration for a new home site in either Oakland or Las Vegas while speaking with reporters in April.Randazzo previously served as the Mets’ second play-by-play broadcaster alongside Howie Rose in the team’s WCBS radio booth, and this past offseason leftThe empty visitors’ television booth, which SNY quickly left due to a foul stench.
“It was just crawling around, minding its own possum business, walking across the counter. He wasn’t trying to horn in on the broadcast. He was just doing his possum things. Anyway, so they set traps for this possum, but he’s proved elusive.”Comin’ into the office today & just gathering some paperwork & I caught the “tail end” of the stay of our little visitor.
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