Last night during the Yankees game in the Bronx, a squirrel was spotted running along the walls at Yankee Stadium, shocking fans in attendance.

Yankee Stadium Squirrel Shocks Yankees Fans

I really can’t believe the shock and awe of these Yankees fans over a damn squirrel. I understand the Bronx and New York City in general is a “concrete jungle” (shoutout Alisha Keys) but there’s definitely still squirrels roaming around Central Park and other

Side Note: Here’s what popped up when I googled how many squirrels are in New York City.

The results are accessible through NYC Open Data, a site that publishes free public data provided by city agencies and other groups. This census, which is run by a rag-tag group of data scientists and moonlighting naturalists, spotted 433 squirrels overall.

A group of “rag-tag” data scientists only spotted 433 squirrels?

How is that actual information that anyone wants to see as the first search result on Google?

The Eastern Gray Squirrel is native to the Northeast and there are a ton of them in NYC Parks. 

It really doesn’t seem they tried too hard if they only found a total of 433 squirrels. Did they happen to attend any Yankees games? If not, someone better contact these rag-tag data scientists and let them know that the count just went up. 

That doesn’t even consider all of the rats that populate New York City.

There are an estimated 2 MILLION rats roaming New York City. Not sure how they got that number but whoever calculated that should put the rag-tag data scientists out of their misery. That seems much more accurate (probably too low) than 433 total squirrels. 

If you look at The Liberty Line slack channel, we have nearly the same amount of rats already and we’ve only been a website for 3 years.

A Piece of The Liberty Line Slack Rat Collection

After further research, the largest rat ever recorded in New York City is one-and-a-half pounds, which is typically three times the size of a normal rat. 

The weight of the largest rat would equal the weight of an average-sized Eastern Gray Squirrel.

Maybe that’s why the Yankees fans were so shocked because they have never seen that type of rodent at that weight before? Are we dealing with rat PTSD in the Bronx? 

At this point, I don’t think it would be wise to rule anything off the table, even more so when the only other group of people out there monitoring squirrel activity is a rag-tag group of data scientists. 

Now I’m in too deep about the rag-tag data scientists but really, there’s not that much more information about that group of individuals who gave up after spotting 433 squirrels. It would however, make perfect sense that THIS GUY is one of the scientists that I’m looking for.

I mean seriously, this is the face of a man that just identified squirrel number 434, right?

The Face of a Rag-Tag Squirrel Data Scientist

The rest of the people on camera treated this squirrel like they just saw an alien land inside Yankee stadium.

I mean seriously everyone relax for a minute here, it’s not like the squirrel wanted anything to do with the fans in the first place. He was just running along the stop of the wall before making a ridiculous move to get the hell outta there and sticking the landing in the process. 

If this happened at Citizens Bank Park, that squirrel would have been slapped right on a hot dog bun and either eaten by a member of the Phillies’ faithful or tossed into the air when the next Dollar Dog Wave passed through that section.

I just hope the squirrel finally found freedom and nothing too crazy happened to him. Who knows what they do with squirrels that are trapped inside Yankee Stadium. There’s a good chance the next order of chicken tenders at one of the concession stands and just that squirreled fried up.

The thought of that definitely crossed the minds of the TLL Slack last night.

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