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Idiotic baseball injurys
Roger Craig cut his hand on a bra strap
Ryan Klesko once pulled a muscle picking up a lunch tray
Jose Cardenal missed a game due to lack of ability to blink
Ruben Sierra sprained his ankle chasing his daughter on an escalator
Paul Shuey suffered a knot in his shoulder while holding his baby and falling asleep
Greg Minton drove a nail through his pitching hand trying to shoe a horse
Tagg Bozied pulled a bill gramatica after rupturing a tendon celebrating a grand slam
Scott Williamson slammed his bathroom door against his foot breaking two toes
Charlie Hough injures thumb giving secret handshake
Jack Clark injures leg trotting out a homer in spring training
Mark Wohlers listed on DL for "inability to pitch"
In '91 Padres reliever Larry Andersen pulled a muscle getting into his jacuzzi
Ken Griffey Jr. once missed a game when his protective cup slipped and pinched a testicle
Carlos Perez broke his nose in a car accident, as he was trying to pass the team bus
Vince Coleman missed the 1985 World Series when he got rolled up in the tarp machine
Jeff Juden had a start early in the 1994 season pushed back after getting an infection from a tattoo
Dwight Gooden missed a start when Vince Coleman accidentally hit him with a golf club in the Mets' clubhouse
Steve Sparks dislocated his shoulder while tearing a phone book in half (my personal favorite)
Terry Harper injured his shoulder after giving another player a high five
George Brett hit his foot on a chair and broke his toe while running from the kitchen to the TV to see Bill Buckner hit
Tom Glavine broke a rib in 1992 after vomiting up airplane food
Jason Isringhausen broke his hand while punching a trash can just weeks after stabbing himself in the leg trying to open a package
Ricky Bones went on the disabled list in 2000 after injuring himself while changing channels on the clubhouse TV
Chris Brown once begged out of the lineup because of a strained eyelid. He claimed he "slept on it wrong."
Matt Anderson once tore a muscle in his shoulder after participating in an octopus-throwing contest
Adam Eaton once landed on the DL when he stabbed himself in the stomach with a paring knife trying to open a DVD box
Rickey Henderson missed a couple games due to frostbite on his foot
Brian Jordan strained his back carrying his daughter around at Disney World
Rick Aguilera strained his wrist lifting his wife's luggage onto the team truck
Mickey Tettleton developed severe athlete's foot from tying his shoelaces too tight
Pascual Perez missed a start in Atlanta when he circled the city for more than two hours searching for the exit ramp from Highway 285 to Fulton County Stadium
Pitcher Steve Foster injured his shoulder knocking over milk bottles during a segment with Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show."
Milwaukee's Dave Nilsson missed part of this season with Ross River Fever, a mosquito-borne virus that annually affects 200 out of Australia's 17 million residents
Paul Molitor dislocated a knuckle when it got stuck in another player's glove
Florida's Randy Veres hurt his hand pounding on a hotel room wall trying to get the people in the next room to quiet down
Greg Harris (RP-Texas) injured his shoulder trying to flick sunflower seeds into the stands from the Bullpen
Baltimore's Mark Smith was hurt when he stuck his hand in an air conditioner to see why it wasn't working properly
Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller was scalded with near-boiling water when he lost control of a hose for the whirlpool, burning himself below the waste. He was unable to perform baseball activities for nearly a week
Wade Boggs getting hurt putting on his cowboy boots
Kevin Mitchell chipping his tooth on a cookie that he had put in the microwave
Lionel Simmons couldnt play because of "nintendo thumb" (too many video games)
Juan Gonzalez throwing out his back tying his shoe
John VanderWal hurt his back while shoveleng snow
John Smoltz getting a welt from trying to iron his hsirt while it was still on him!!
Jon Nelson broke his hand hitting a drinking fountain
David Wells injuring his groin in the '03 ALCS when stepping out of the dugout as the benches cleared after Pedro Martinez nailed Jorge Posada
Terry Mulholland getting poked in the eye with a feather from a pillow
Chris hanson hit his leg with an axe
John Smiley breaking his finger while slamming it in the door of a taxi cab
Glenallen Hill fell off his bed and through a glass table while having a nightmare about spiders.
Clint Barmes fell down the stairs carrying meat that Todd Helton gave him.
Marty Cordova got placed on the DL because of sunburns he got at a tanning salon
Sammy Sosa threw his back out sneezing
Greg Vaughn straining his back while taking luggage out of his car.
Felix Rodriguez tore a ligament slipping in the shower
David Cone getting bit by his mothers dog on his hand
Mike Matheny slicing his hand while opening a birthday gift from his wife. The gift? A very large, very sharp hunting knife
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"It's always a bad play when the other team scores." - John Madden
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