If you’re not from Cleveland, I’m sure you have not clue who Slider is. People from Cleveland love and loath this creature. He is the Cleveland Indian’s mascot and he is one of the strangest characters that you could ever think up. Once, I actually got on the internet and looked up what the hell he’s supposed to be because it’s not very clear. The Cleveland Indians aren’t really that interested in telling us what he is either. If you look on the Indian’s site you can find out that his birthdate is July 29, 1990 and that his favorite movie is Muppets Take Manhattan, but nobody wants to tell you what he is! He’s just a big, neon pink, fuzzy yellow nosed creature – a big fluffy walking carpet. What I found out is that he’s a baseball bug. It’s actually a double play on words. “Bug” was then a common nickname for someone who was considered to be crazy, erratic, or fanatical. In addition the noun form was sometimes applied to sports fans. Anyway, this photo catches a couple mini sliders in their natural habitat.