Bad Bunny catches a foul ball at a Yankees game amid Super Bowl controversy

Bad bunny He can now add “foul ball magnet” to his growing list of accolades.

The 31-year-old Puerto Rican star was seen sitting behind home plate at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday, October 7, during Game 3 of the ALDS between the New York Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays.

In the second inning, a foul ball off the bat of Toronto Anthony Santander It popped up in New York’s night sky It landed right in Bad Bunny’s lap. He smiled and raised the ball to the crowd and received cheers from fans who could not believe his luck.

Single fan on X He summed it up perfectly, writing: “Even baseball players want to collaborate with him now 😎🎤”

Although his fishing was light, the rest of Bad Bunny’s week was not.

The Grammy winner remains at the center of a political storm after being selected as the halftime performer at Super Bowl LX, a move that was met with both celebration and controversy.

president Donald Trump He criticized the decision In a Newsmax interview.

“I’ve never heard of him,” he said on Monday, October 6. “I don’t know who he is, I don’t know why they’re doing it, it’s crazy, and then they blame it on some promoter who hired him to capture the entertainment. I think it’s absolutely ridiculous.”

Minister of Homeland Security Christy calls It sparked more backlash when She said Conservative commentator Penny Johnson On Friday, October 3, ICE will be “everywhere” at the Super Bowl.

“I have a responsibility to make sure that everyone who goes to the Super Bowl has the opportunity to enjoy it and leave, and that’s what America is about,” Noem said. “So, yeah, we’ll be everywhere. We’ll be enforcing the law.”

“So, I think people should not come to the Super Bowl unless they are law-abiding Americans who love this country,” she added.

Noem also took aim at the NFL as a whole, claiming they “disgust.”

“God will bless us and we will stand up and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day, and they won’t be able to sleep at night because they don’t know what they believe in,” she said. “They are very weak. We will fix it.”

For his part, Bad Bunny addressed the backlash directly while he was there Saturday Night Live monologue During the weekend.

“I’m very happy, and I think everyone is happy about it — even Fox News,” he joked.

After briefly switching to Spanish, he continued, “If you don’t understand what I just said, you have four months to learn it.”

Later in the show, he became more serious, saying in Spanish: “Our footprints and our contributions to this country, no one will be able to take them away or erase them.”

Much of the controversy surrounding Bad Bunny being named the Super Bowl halftime performer stems from an interview with Identity Magazine on September 10, when he explained why he recently refused to perform in the United States.

“There were many reasons why I did not come to the United States, and none of them were because of hatred – I have performed there many times. All (the performances) were successful,” he said. “But there was an issue — like f***ing ICE outside (my concert). That’s something we’ve been talking about and being very concerned about.”

Despite the controversy, Jennifer Lopez He supported the move During an interview on Monday, October 6, on TV today A show he claims, “I think it’s about to blow everyone’s mind. It’s an introduction for some people.”