Will Ferrell Played For Ten Major League Baseball Teams Today

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Good lord. There’s good hustle on a sporting field, and then there’s this.

Will Ferrell is teaming up with Funny or Die for an upcoming HBO charity special, pairing with Major League Baseball in a bid to raise funds and awareness for cancer research and support. Today, he slammed out the filming for it by gate-crashing MLB’s spring training season and suiting up for TEN different MLB franchises across five separate games.
The effort was aided due to the fact that all five games took place in the surrounds of Phoenix and Glendale in Arizona – in fact, the total driving time between all five stadiums was only 90 minutes. But that doesn’t make the effort any less herculean. Ferrell’s task for the day was to step onto the field for each of the ten teams during gameplay, and spend time in each position on the field.
His day began by suiting up for the Oakland Athletics at short stop, which he warmed up for by taking a few swings in the batting cage pre-game.

But after an uneventful but not by any means terrible first inning of play, the professional nature of sports and list management came into play. The A’s decided to trade Ferrell, receiving a CATBNL (Comedic Actor to be Named Later) from the Seattle Mariners in exchange.

Luckily for Ferrell, he only had to travel as far as the opposing dugout, as the Mariners were the A’s opponent in the game. A quick change of uniform and Ferrell took the field for Seattle at 2B.

Unfortunately for Will, the cogs of professional baseball kept ticking over, and thus following a solid effort in the field for Seattle, the Mariners unceremoniously cut him, sending him to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in a trade.

The fresh-faced Ferrell arrived just prior to the start of the Angels game, brimming with hope that a new club and a new job at centre field would be enough to revitalise his career.

Alas, his stay in Angels red was to be short lived. Rival club (and direct opponent for the afternoon) the Chicago Cubs presented an offer that could not be refused, and thus Ferrell was traded away for the princely sum of a Washing Machine.

The Cubs centre field stocks were full, however. So Ferrell was offered a position at first base, which he gleefully accepted. But keeping an eye towards the future, and realising the wealth of baseball knowledge that Ferrell brought with him to the franchise, the Cubs also took the unique step of trialling Ferrell in a coaching position with the club as well, letting him run proceedings from third base for a few innings. Though his methods were unconventional, they definitely seemed effective.

Sadly, the Cubs management ultimately decided this was not to be a season for risk-taking, and chose to pass on taking him on as a permanent member of the coaching staff. Feeling his position in the squad was no longer tenable, Ferrell requested a trade. Reluctantly, the Cubs agreed, and sent him to the Arizona Diamondbacks for a Churro Dog and a D-Bat Dog (what appears to be a giant Dagwood Dog).

Despite adequate efforts in left-field, it appears that Ferrell and Diamondbacks brass suffered a severe falling out over the course of the game, leaving management no choice but to cut him loose from the squad to avoid further disruption to the rest of the players.

Turning a crisis into an opportunity, the Cincinnati Reds swooped on the fallen star, picking him up off the waivers from Arizona, cutting fellow comedian-cum-ball player Norm Macdonald to make room on the playing list.

Perhaps wearied by the constant movement and uncertainty, Ferrell – now a third baseman – arrived at the Reds looking a little fatigued.

The Reds noticed the lack of passion, and swiftly placed him back on the waivers from whence he came.

Fearing the end of his career might be looming, Will suddenly found the fire that he’d been lacking for the past few teams. The Chicago White Sox noticed this, and made no hesitations in picking him up as a designated hitter. Recognising the urgency in which they needed him, the team spared no expense in fetching the renewed slugger.

Upon landing at the game, the team put their new recruit straight to work, sending him directly into bat in the in-progress game.

But baseball is an unforgiven beast at the best of times, and one strike out later Ferrell had his bags packed and was headed for the San Francisco Giants, without so much as a thank you from Chicago for his minutes of dedicated service.

Thinking that a late game trade would provide no consequences, the White Sox were stunned when the Giants threw Ferrell in at catcher for the dying innings of the game, which helped lift the Giants to a 7-4 victory.

But an argument with Giants manager Bruce Bochy after Bochy pulled Ferrell from the game with the result already in the bag lead to Ferrell and the Giants organisation parting ways.

Though it’s important to know that baseball is a sport of ninth chances, and thus Ferrell’s career continued after being picked up by the Los Angeles Dodgers, whose scouts had uncovered Ferrell’s hidden pitching talents the other franchises had somehow overlooked.

A stellar performance ensued, pitching a third of an inning and returning a clean sheet. And though at first that appeared to be the final curtain call on a stellar career…

…the lure of the great game proved too great, and Ferrell was coaxed out of a minutes-long retirement to, fittingly, have one final dig for the pride of Ron Burgandy’s home town, the San Diego Padres.

Despite locking down right field in a manner which wound the clock way back to his rookie days at Oakland, Ferrell’s efforts alone were not enough to put one last full stop on perhaps the greatest journeyman career the game has ever seen. The Padres went down to the Dodgers 1-0 in a tight, hard fought contest.

But then again, perhaps that’s fitting. There’s an old wrestling adage that states “you always go out on your back.” And that rings true for sport as a greater entity. Not everyone can retire with a championship, and in that sense it’s more fitting to go out with a loss. Rather than exiting to fireworks, calmly walking off the field with a quiet, dignified humility.
And that’s exactly what Will Ferrell managed to do. Where his life takes him from here is between him and the Gods. But for, at least, we can sit and bask in the on-field efforts of one of the true greats.
A career unparalleled in the history of the game. Never achieved before, and unlikely to happen again.
Drink it in, sports fans. Drink it in.

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