I'd heard a rumor. During the Cardinals home game Sunday, the huge “A” in the “BIG MAC Land” sign wasn't lit. So after the game, I did my due diligence and sought out Jedd Gyorko.

“Jedd, I heard that in batting practice, you hit a homer that smashed the 'A' in the sign.”

“Wasn't me,” he said.

“But, like, they told me that ...”

“They might try to get me to pay for it,” he deadpanned, keeping a straight face. “So it wasn't me.”

He then slightly smirked, and shared info about the rare accomplishment, knocking out the light in the big letter, upon the lip of the third deck in left field.

“Yeah,” he waxed poetically, “it didn't shine as bright from left field tonight.”

“Honestly, I thought there was something in front of it that would block it from happening,” continued the Roy Hobbs Of Batting Practice. “It was just BP, trying to get loose more than anything. It was kind of cool to see – I don't think any of us had seen that in a while. I thought it was pretty cool.”

It's a rare accomplishment, only done a few times since Mark McGwire inspired the creative advertisement, back in the late 90s.