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MVP Pitcher Madison Bumgarner Has A Secret Life — As A Champion Cattle-Roper
February 24, 2020
Major league pitcher Madison Bumgarner carries the 2014 San Francisco Giants championship pennant while riding a police horse before a game in 2015. The Athletic reports that Bumgarner has been competing at rodeos under an alias.
Major League Baseball's opening day is a little more than a month off. But one of the boys of summer has been cross-training in the off season — by roping cattle. Professionally. Under an alias.
Madison Bumgarner, the left-handed pitching ace who was 2014 World Series MVP with the San Francisco Giants, has been entering — and sometimes winning — rodeo events under the name Mason Saunders.
The delightful revelation was reported Sunday by The Athletic, in the rare instance of investigative reporting unearthing evidence that the world is secretly better than we knew.
It turns out the news was hiding in plain sight if you knew where to look — on the Facebook page of Rancho Rio, "Arizona's premier equine facility," which hosts a plethora of cattle roping competitions northwest of Phoenix. One such event is team roping, in which one horseback rider ropes the front end of a steer while a second rider ropes the hind.
"Jaxson Tucker & Mason Saunders took home the biggest paycheck of the day topping the #12.5 Big Gamble," the arena posted in early December. "The duo roped four steers in 31.36 seconds to pocket $26,560 in CASH!"
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/24/809024375/mvp-pitcher-madison-bumgarner-has-a-secret-life-as-a-champion-cattle-roper
February 24, 2020
Major league pitcher Madison Bumgarner carries the 2014 San Francisco Giants championship pennant while riding a police horse before a game in 2015. The Athletic reports that Bumgarner has been competing at rodeos under an alias.
Major League Baseball's opening day is a little more than a month off. But one of the boys of summer has been cross-training in the off season — by roping cattle. Professionally. Under an alias.
Madison Bumgarner, the left-handed pitching ace who was 2014 World Series MVP with the San Francisco Giants, has been entering — and sometimes winning — rodeo events under the name Mason Saunders.
The delightful revelation was reported Sunday by The Athletic, in the rare instance of investigative reporting unearthing evidence that the world is secretly better than we knew.
It turns out the news was hiding in plain sight if you knew where to look — on the Facebook page of Rancho Rio, "Arizona's premier equine facility," which hosts a plethora of cattle roping competitions northwest of Phoenix. One such event is team roping, in which one horseback rider ropes the front end of a steer while a second rider ropes the hind.
"Jaxson Tucker & Mason Saunders took home the biggest paycheck of the day topping the #12.5 Big Gamble," the arena posted in early December. "The duo roped four steers in 31.36 seconds to pocket $26,560 in CASH!"
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/24/809024375/mvp-pitcher-madison-bumgarner-has-a-secret-life-as-a-champion-cattle-roper
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