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Everth Cabrera and Yasmani Grandal have the most fun, use rain-soaked tarp as a slip and slide

Padres use rain-soaked tarp as a slip and slide

Pop quiz, hot shot. You're a baseball player confronted with rainy skies, a soaked outfield and a slippery tarp just begging to be used. What do you do? What do you do? 

Well, if you're the Everth Cabrera and Yasmani Grandal, you treat the tarp like a slip and slide. I mean, how could you not?

Just watch the distance Cabrera gets on this one:

Slip N Slide

That could set an Olympic record ... if the IOC ever listened to my strongly worded letters and made slip and sliding an Olympic sport.  

Sadly, the surely-forthcoming Padres plans for a round-robin tournament were dashed after they were chased off the field by the grounds crew. Whether for safety concerns or because the grounds crew wanted to go for a slide, we're not sure. 

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