Derailed by a bat

Holy PR Batman! This past Wednesday was another normal day for me (which means it was anything but normal) after Batgate took hold. If you didn't hear, a bat flew into the game and around the Gamblers players during a game Tuesday night at the Resch Center. The players, fearing for their safety, struck the bat with a hockey stick and killed it. The game was delayed for about 5 minutes during the whole ordeal. FOX 11 had the incident on video as part of the Resch Center's feed and played it on the sports that night. The next day FOX 11 did a full blown story on the incident, talked with a doctor who said the bat should have been killed, with PETA who said it shouldn't have been killed and with Gamblers Coach Jon Cooper who said he was relieved no fans or players were bitten by the bat. The story grew legs, or should I say wings, and took off. The story and video was picked up by media around the country and my phone didn't stop ringing. It aired on FOX national news, CNN, ESPN Sportscenter, Yahoo Sports, several major newspapers around the country as well as TV stations throughout the state. Coach Cooper was also on Canada's largest talk radio station the next day. Amazing how your day gets derailed by something like that. I spent hours on Wednesday dealing with the media on this story either looking for comments or by fulfilling requests for a copy of the video. The funny part is Coach Cooper happen to label it as Batgate during the FOX 11 interview and that term stuck and made headlines around the country. Holy smokes Batman!