Little Happy Clouds

"What the fuck is that?" a confused Cubs second baseman Mickey Morandini asked to a nearly empty clubhouse. He was staring down at a freakish piece of rounded plastic, presumably equipment, but for what purpose he could only imagine.

"C'mon Mick, you know the deal" replied a slightly annoyed Jeff Blauser, sitting at his locker taping his ankle for the Cardinals game that evening.

Except Mickey Morandini most certainly did not "know the deal." What was this thing? And what was it doing on the floor in front of HIS locker?

"Seriously Jeff, quit playing around. Is it a dog's water bowl? A goddamn hockey mask? What the hell is it?" Morandini's imagination was running wild as he picked up the foreign object to inspect it.