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The San Jose Giants are having a Mason Saunders rodeo night

I cannot believe this is a real thing.

Well, that didn’t take very long at all, now did it? The Giants are already poking fun at their former pitcher Madison Bumgarner and his cowboy alter ego Mason Saunders.

Over the weekend it was revealed that Bumgarner had been posing as Mason Saunders to secretly compete in rodeos which, by the way, is completely ridiculous and absolutely hilarious.

The San Jose Giants are going to have some fun with it. The San Francisco Giants’ minor league club is having a “Mason Saunders” promotion night celebrating former Giants’ and current Diamondbacks’ pitcher Madison Bumgarner and his cowboy alter ego Mason Saunders.

The Giants are giving away two free tickets to a future game to anyone who wears a rodeo outfit or a Bumgarner jersey and will have roping promotions to go along with that.

The kicker, though? It’s this absolutely A1 photoshop that comes with the promotion.

Don’t know who cooked that up overnight, but man that is some handy work.

The Giants are saying that this is just them paying respect to one of their legends, which would be a cool and fine gesture…if it was true. This is absolutely them poking a bit of fun at their former pitcher who moonlighted as a cowboy. And you know what? I’m here for it.

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The D-backs had no idea that Madison Bumgarner secretly competed in rodeo events

Secret’s out.

Madison Bumgarner’s cover as a successful rodeo and team-roping competitor named “Mason Saunders” was blown on Sunday when The Athletic reported that the newly acquired Diamondbacks pitcher had been competing under an alias for years.

It wasn’t much of a secret around the rodeo and roping community — they all knew that “Mason Saunders” was really the three-time World Series champion. The Diamondbacks, though, were not privy to Bumgarner’s second (and secret) professional sports life.

Diamondbacks general manager Mike Hazen spoke to reporters on Monday about the star pitcher’s rodeo career, and he said that the team wasn’t aware of it until The Athletic published its story.

Obviously, the Diamondbacks would have preferred to know about Bumgarner’s rodeo career before they gave him a five-year, $85 million contract. But Hazen wouldn’t go into details about what sort of activities Bumgarner’s contract prohibits. Sports contracts often prohibit high-risk activities like motorcycles, skydiving and horseback riding.

But it also doesn’t sound like the Diamondbacks will stop Bumgarner from participating in such events.

Yet with the secret out in the open, Mason Saunders’ time on the rodeo circuit could be over. It just won’t be the same for Bumgarner anymore.

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