2/26 15:27: TMZ says that the Royals have selected Rob Montepare as their next mascot to play Sluggerrr. Montepare will enter a mascot boot camp run by Dave Raymond, the guy who originally played the Phillie Phanatic.

In the wake of the lawsuit, Raymond will teach Montepare how to wave the air gun “along with other driss that emphasize mascot safety.”

2/23 15:55: TMZ reports that Sluggerrr the Lion, the mascot for the Kansas City Royals, is being sued for poking a fan’s eye out with a hot dog last season. The fan, John Coomer, is suing for more than $25,000 for negligence and battery claiming the Royals “failed to adequately train its agents … in the proper method in which to throw hot dogs into the stands at Kauffman Stadium.”

A lawsuit filed in Jackson Couty, Missouri claims Coomer was hit in the eye by Sluggerrr who was throwing weiners into the stand by hand. Coomer claims, “Slugger lost control of his throw or was reckless with his throw, and threw the hot dog directly into the Plantiff.”

The hot dog supposedly hit Coomer in the left eye causing a detached retina and the development of cataracts.

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