Watch a tiny puppy squirm in Curtis Granderson's baseball mitt

Watch a tiny puppy squirm in Curtis Granderson&#039;s baseball mitt

last updated 8 January 2015

Baseball is great. Puppies are great. Put the two together and you get this:

That's the New York Mets' Curtis Granderson cradling a pooch in his glove during the team's Bark in the Park event Saturday. The promotional event, which benefits the North Shore Animal League America, allows fans and their dogs to sit in designated seats to catch the game. It's an adorable, if risky, plan. Can you really expect dozens of dogs to sit still and quiet — and to not, ahem, mark their territory — for an entire three-plus hour game?

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Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.