The eagle had landed.
Right on the Big Maple.
It clearly took James Paxton’s Mariners commercial a little too seriously. Paxton had his hand over his chest in left field during the national anthem before the Mariners’ game in Minneapolis against the Twins and a bald eagle flew and clearly believed Paxton to be its handler because it first tried to land on him.
And then it actually did, resting its talons on Paxton’s right shoulder.
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