Rat Mason
Rat Mason is a player for the Yellowstone Magic, and has been with the team since Fall Ball. Mason has played for the LA Unlimited Tacos, and for the Rising Stars during the ILB Semi-Centennial.
Official League Records
Mason joined the ILB as a lineup player for the Los Angeles Tacos with the Return of Blaseball, with the name Rat Polk.
After the Season 3 elections, Mason was briefly known as Wyatt Mason due to The Wyatt Masoning. During The Unmasoning, Mason's name was partially restored to Rat Mason.
On Season 6, Day 85, Mason suffered an allergic reaction and a drop in stats, including a decrease in batting from to , as well as a decrease in pitching and baserunning stats to 0.
During the Tacos' Season 7, Day 89 game against the Houston Spies, Mason received a -star boost to batting and pitching, and a -star boost to baserunning and defense.
During the Coffee Cup, Mason played for Royal PoS as a lineup player.
During the Season 16 elections, Mason's batting increased from 4.2 → 5.0 and batting decreased 2.9 → 2.7 as a result of the Tacos' Transfuse will.
During the Season 19 earlsiesta, Mason was given the Uncertain modification as part of the seasonal reading.
During the ILB Semi-Centennial, Mason played for the Rising Stars. In the same game, the Vault Legends failed to collect Mason three times. Mason then returned to the LA Unlimited Tacos as a pitcher.
On Season 24, Day 32, Mason retreated to the Tacos' Shadows in exchange for McBaseball Clembons at Al Pastor Memorial Park via the Ratified Fax Machine.
During the November 25, 2022 Fall Ball, Mason fell to the Yellowstone Magic.
COMMUNITY REPORTSThe remainder of this article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community.
History
Background
A transplant to Los Angeles from New York, Mason was an aspiring dancer before he surrendered to the call of professional blaseball. He is known for batting with his right hand but throwing with his left. When not on the field, he is often found in the back of one of the numerous taco trucks that surround the Tacos' stadium.
Mason lives in WeHo (The City of West Hollywood) with his husband Penny Polk, an LA native. The premiere Splorts Tabloid, the Blaseball Enquirer, has published a series of rumors that the couple are considering a divorce, citing that Polk has never been seen at one of Mason's games. Neither Mason nor Polk has commented on whether the divorce rumors are true.
The Many Faces of Rat Mason
- According to the Interdimensional Rumor Mill, some things never change, even across dimensions. Someone, somewhere, decided to catalog all the different versions of Rat Mason in a Rumor Registry, but today the version from IF-18.61 is playing. Here’s what the rumors say...
Rat Mason is a Rat
Rat Mason, a small brown rat, grew up in New York City watching Blroadway productions and dreaming of becoming a professional dancer. His favourite play, The Nutcracker, inspired his hatred of legumes from an early point in life. Rat Mason moved to LA to pursue his dreams of living a flashier life and ended up residing in Hlollywood, where he also met his now-husband Penny. He cannot speak, but is able to write in and comprehend English, Spanish, and whatever language they speak in New York. Shortly after his arrival, Al Pastor tricked him into joining the Tacos by asking his name, and providing him a piece of "scrap paper" to write on which happened to be the Unlimited Tacos sign-up sheet. While his actual name appears to be Rathaniel, he insists that you can just call him Rat because "Rathaniel was [his] father's name".
While he has above-average intelligence and a strong affinity for Blaseball, he still desires food over anything and will frequently abandon bases, consequently getting tagged out for trying to chase the smell of tacos being prepared just outside of the stadium. He gets a lot of his food from attempting to steal from teammates, or from local taco trucks. Unfortunately for Rat, he is just as bad at stealing food as he is at stealing bases. His teammates will often give him food from their tacos anyway, because he is widely considered to be a lovable nuisance.
Rat bats with a normal-sized bat, which is very large for him. Because he is only a few inches tall, his teammates usually provide him with something like a stool or a stepladder to stand on while he bats. On one occasion, the team was unable to find something for him to stand on, leading Basilio Fig to volunteer to hold him up for the duration of the game.
Trivia
Mason has missed the exit from the 405 to the 101 several times.
Mason reportedly wears jersey number 69.
Fan Works
Non Visual Works
- RAT MASON song by The Los Angeli Jukebox
Gallery
Season 3 card, by @p_a_mcg
Season 4 card, by @cozzymandiesque
Season 6 card, by @doggirlsondrugs
Rat
Ratamatronic Mason by Loxosceles
Rat Mason as a team of Rats and a Human by ShorterSneakier
Rat Mason by @Fancymancer
Rat at bat, bat it Rat by DrifterSoda
Seven of Swords, by @birbteef
| Players | Batters | |
|---|---|---|
| Pitchers | ||
| Shadows | ||
| Buried | Wyatt Owens · Wyatt Pothos · Reggie Canberra · Caleb Alvarado | |
| Former |
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| Stats | Season | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 |
| Events | The Grand Unslam · The Wyatt Masoning · Party Time Speedrun · Snackrifice | |
| Ballpark | Al Pastor Memorial Park | |
| Community Lore | ||
| Staff | Al Pastor · Lalengua · Pepito the Coyote | |
| Places | Los Angeli | |
| History | Unlimited Tacos' History · Los Angeli Research Division | |
| Fan Culture 📣 · Fan Works 💌 · Tlopps Cards 🃏 | ||
| 72° and Infinite | ||
- Players with the Ego+ modification
- Players with the Scattered modification
- Players with the Uncertain modification
- LA Unlimited Tacos
- Former LA Unlimited Tacos Players
- Former Rising Stars Players
- Players
- Original Players
- Players Formerly Known as Wyatt Mason
- Nominative Determinism
- Royal PoS
- Hall Of Fame Inductees
- Hall Of Fame Inductees For Discipline or Expansion Era
