Post by Jeremy :P on Jun 29, 2008 7:54:28 GMT -5
Brandon Inge, 3B for Tigers, injured himself while lifting a PILLOW!
John Smoltz, the pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, burned himself a few years ago ironing his jersey while he was still WEARING IT!
More embarrassing than Adam Eaton's 6.29 ERA last year was a 2001 incident in which the then-Padre stabbed himself in the stomach with a paring knife while trying to open a DVD package. We're guessing Eaton will use his hands when he gets his brand new copy of Norbit..
Glenallen Hill sleepwalks. He also has arachnophobia. Somehow these combined in calamitous fashion. During a violent nightmare about spiders, Hill bumped into a glass table and tumbled down a flight of stairs, suffering cuts and scrapes ... and earning himself the obvious nickname "Spiderman."
Video games won't just rot your brain, they'll also put you on the shelf. Flame-throwing reliever Joel Zumaya developed inflammation in his right arm and missed three games of the 2006 American League Championship Series because he played too much "Guitar Hero"
Kevin Mitchell once strained a muscle while vomiting, but another injury takes the cake ... er, doughnut. Mitchell showed up late for Spring Training after chipping his tooth on a chocolate doughnut that he left defrosting in the microwave too long.
Reliever Matt Wise, now with the Mets, cut the middle finger on his throwing hand on a pair of salad tongs when he was a member of the Brewers in 2006. The right-hander sat out several games because the cut hurt his ability to throw his changeup.
Some injuries will make you laugh, this one will make you squirm. St. Louis reliever Randy Flores landed on the DL in 2005 with an "avulsed callus pad." What really happened? Flores felt his foot getting hot on the mound. When he peeled his cleats and socks off, some of the skin on his foot went with it.
Even venerable managers aren't immune to injuries of the weird. Giants skipper Roger Craig cut his hand on a bra strap -- no word on whose bra strap it was -- in the early 1990s. Crusty old baseball man that he was, Craig still made it to the bench to manage the game.
Sammy Sosa's final season in Chicago got off to an odd start. The slugger arrived at the clubhouse before a game in 2004 and sneezed violently twice. The sneeze set off back spasms that kept him in the trainer's room while his Cubs teammates finished off a three-game sweep of the Padres.
Credit knuckleballer Steve Sparks for reminding us all of the dangers of motivational speeches. In 1994, the then-Brewer watched a speaker tear a phone book in half. Sparks tried to replicate the trick and ended up dislocating his shoulder. No word on how quickly he was able to call a doctor.
Wade Boggs once missed seven games after injuring his back while putting on cowboy boots.
Fate piled on for Jimmy Gobble, who hit the trainer's table when he accidentally kicked a cactus playing golf and got a thorn lodged in his foot, showing why soccer is no longer played with cactus balls.
Ryan Klesko won a World Series with the Braves and starred for several seasons with the Padres, but he once injured himself ... lifting a lunch tray, proving once again that you should always be sure you have your own lunch tray, and not Shawn Kemp's.
Jose Cardenal played 18 years in the major leagues, but he probably never lived down the embarrassment of an "injury" in 1974. Cardenal missed a game that season because he couldn't blink, presumably because he was in a heated staring contest.
Leave it to Nolan Ryan to get the toughest-sounding bizarre injury of them all. The strikeout king missed a start with the Astros after he was bitten on the hand by a coyote.
Charlie Hough broke his pinky finger while shaking hands with someone.
Ricky Bones injured himself while channel surfing on a clubhouse television.
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John Smoltz, the pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, burned himself a few years ago ironing his jersey while he was still WEARING IT!
More embarrassing than Adam Eaton's 6.29 ERA last year was a 2001 incident in which the then-Padre stabbed himself in the stomach with a paring knife while trying to open a DVD package. We're guessing Eaton will use his hands when he gets his brand new copy of Norbit..
Glenallen Hill sleepwalks. He also has arachnophobia. Somehow these combined in calamitous fashion. During a violent nightmare about spiders, Hill bumped into a glass table and tumbled down a flight of stairs, suffering cuts and scrapes ... and earning himself the obvious nickname "Spiderman."
Video games won't just rot your brain, they'll also put you on the shelf. Flame-throwing reliever Joel Zumaya developed inflammation in his right arm and missed three games of the 2006 American League Championship Series because he played too much "Guitar Hero"
Kevin Mitchell once strained a muscle while vomiting, but another injury takes the cake ... er, doughnut. Mitchell showed up late for Spring Training after chipping his tooth on a chocolate doughnut that he left defrosting in the microwave too long.
Reliever Matt Wise, now with the Mets, cut the middle finger on his throwing hand on a pair of salad tongs when he was a member of the Brewers in 2006. The right-hander sat out several games because the cut hurt his ability to throw his changeup.
Some injuries will make you laugh, this one will make you squirm. St. Louis reliever Randy Flores landed on the DL in 2005 with an "avulsed callus pad." What really happened? Flores felt his foot getting hot on the mound. When he peeled his cleats and socks off, some of the skin on his foot went with it.
Even venerable managers aren't immune to injuries of the weird. Giants skipper Roger Craig cut his hand on a bra strap -- no word on whose bra strap it was -- in the early 1990s. Crusty old baseball man that he was, Craig still made it to the bench to manage the game.
Sammy Sosa's final season in Chicago got off to an odd start. The slugger arrived at the clubhouse before a game in 2004 and sneezed violently twice. The sneeze set off back spasms that kept him in the trainer's room while his Cubs teammates finished off a three-game sweep of the Padres.
Credit knuckleballer Steve Sparks for reminding us all of the dangers of motivational speeches. In 1994, the then-Brewer watched a speaker tear a phone book in half. Sparks tried to replicate the trick and ended up dislocating his shoulder. No word on how quickly he was able to call a doctor.
Wade Boggs once missed seven games after injuring his back while putting on cowboy boots.
Fate piled on for Jimmy Gobble, who hit the trainer's table when he accidentally kicked a cactus playing golf and got a thorn lodged in his foot, showing why soccer is no longer played with cactus balls.
Ryan Klesko won a World Series with the Braves and starred for several seasons with the Padres, but he once injured himself ... lifting a lunch tray, proving once again that you should always be sure you have your own lunch tray, and not Shawn Kemp's.
Jose Cardenal played 18 years in the major leagues, but he probably never lived down the embarrassment of an "injury" in 1974. Cardenal missed a game that season because he couldn't blink, presumably because he was in a heated staring contest.
Leave it to Nolan Ryan to get the toughest-sounding bizarre injury of them all. The strikeout king missed a start with the Astros after he was bitten on the hand by a coyote.
Charlie Hough broke his pinky finger while shaking hands with someone.
Ricky Bones injured himself while channel surfing on a clubhouse television.
This is from AOL
sports.aol.com/mlb/inside-pitch/bizarre-injuries?icid=100214839x1204652479x1200217166