Hey, Sidewinders fans! Your team has 98 wins and a Pacific Coast League championship in hand—but the season is not over yet. This afternoon, the Sidewinders will take on the Toledo Mud Hens in the first (at least in a while) AAA championship game. Catch that at 4 p.m. on ESPN2.
This article appears in Sep 14-20, 2006.
A poisonous snake vs. a Mud Hen. WTF is a Mud Hen anyway?
Go ‘Winders
Good question! A mud hen is a bird, also known as a rail or a coot. “The Toledo Coots” just doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, though. So this game, I think, has already happened, but you can watch the exciting action going on via the Toledo Mud Hen Web Cam (oooh…. an empty stadium in exciting Toledo!) while you munch on Mud Hen bars. And here are some more pictures of mud hens. They’re kinda cute, no?