Red Sox’s J.D. Martinez Says Bull Shark He Caught on Video ‘Kicked My Butt’
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In June, Boston Red Sox slugger J.D. Martinez accidentally caught a bull shark while fishing off the Florida flit with ragged MLB player Mike Napoli. They launched it serve into the water after reeling it in.
On Sunday, he instructed newshounds the bull shark offered fairly the shrink back:
“He changed into solid. He kicked my butt. It changed into if truth be told silly. We’re sitting there and we had been catching tunas. After which suddenly this bull shark comes out of nowhere and appropriate slams notion to be one of our tuna. And we’re zigzag up on this large, outmoded bull shark and we enjoy gotta wrestle him. It changed into kind of relaxing. It changed into a appropriate time. We let him proceed safe and sound. So it changed into nothing corrupt with it.”
Martinez said it might probably presumably well want been his largest snatch ever, nonetheless extraordinary he would no longer if truth be told reflect sharks depend “as a fish you snatch.”
Catching a bull shark will not be any joke. They’ll weigh anyplace between 200 and 500 kilos, per National Geographic, and are notion to be aggressive and extraordinarily unsafe because they’re in all probability to assault folks when compared to other sharks.
So yeah, fairly the snatch.