Tag: Slides

Matt Vierling avoided a tag with the smoothest slide and fans love it

What a slide!!

Move over, Trea Turner. There’s a new smooth slider in town.

Matt Vierling, as you can see in the screenshot above, had a throw from left field beat him by a mile as the Detroit Tigers outfielder was heading toward second base. But Marcus Semien was north of the bag and had his back to the play. So as the infielder turned around, Vierling came a bit up from his slide, slid past the bag a bit and touched second base with his left hand.

WOW. Maybe he learned this one from his teammate, Javier Baez, who is an all-time great slider. Check this out and some reaction:

Mama bear, cub ride school playground slides; ‘Try not to smile’

A mama bear and her intrepid cub could not resist the temptation recently to climb aboard a playground apparatus and zip down its slippery slides.

A mama bear and her intrepid cub could not resist the temptation Tuesday to climb aboard a playground apparatus and zip down its slides.

“There was a little playground takeover this afternoon as teachers were leaving for the day,” reads the Facebook description by Isaac Dickson Elementary School in Asheville, N.C. “Watch the whole video and try not to smile.”

The footage, captured by Betsie Stockslager Emry, shows mama bear acting like any responsible parent, going first on the larger slide, then encouraging her cub to try the smaller slide.

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“You can do this one, honey. It’s a smaller one,” one of the teachers mimics mama bear in the video. “You can do it!”

The teachers seemed to enjoy the bears’ playtime as much as the bruins enjoyed their bonding experience, and the school assured that “all kiddos were safely inside at this time.”