Broadcasters and reporters working Tuesday night's Twins game in Oakland against the Athletics may be bumping into an animal exterminator trying to get rid of a stray opposom.
The critter showed up over the weekend in the Oakland's RingCentral Coliseum press box and efforts to corral the animal have been unsuccessful.
Hours before the game, the Bally Sports North television crew was asked to give work crews a little more room to snare the opposum.
"Not surprised in the slightest," said Twins broadcaster Kris Atteberry, who attended many games at the Coliseum while he was studying at nearby Stanford. "They've got an infestation of feral cats out there, they used to have the seagulls that would swarm in after the game."
But why would an American marsupial gravitate toward a baseball press box?
"Seems only natural," said Atteberry, appearing on WCCO with Steve Simpson. "Probably surviving on week-old hot dogs and RC Cola."
The Coliseum press box is renowned as the only baseball media center that serves RC, and it might still have their furry friend running around.
"That means Cory Provus (Twins play-by-play announcer) will be terrified for a second consecutive night," said Atteberry.
Horror stories of downtrodden conditions at the Coliseum, the A's home ever since the franchise moved to Oakland in 1968, have been circulating for years.
Among those tales include dugouts filled to the brim with raw sewage, documented on Twitter in 2013 by then-Twins relief pitcher Glen Perkins.
The Coliseum has been in bad shape for years and crowds have dwindled, with Monday's announced attendance coming in at 3,128.
Adding to the misery that's become the A's home-field experience is a roster that was gutted of its top players over the past season, while ticket prices remained the same.
The A's are trying to get a stadium built on Oakland's waterfront, but are also considering moving to a new city.
"It's pretty embarrassing, because that fan base deserves better," said Atteberry. "It's kind of sad. It's also like they (team ownership) want to bottom out in order to prove a point."
A's ownership has been visiting Las Vegas, sizing it up as a possible relocation site.