Most bizarre baseball injuries

[jaybird2001wi]

I was reading through some old archives online and came across an injury that happened to Glenallen Hill. Hill had a dream spiders were attacking him and he crashed into a glass coffee table and cut himself to the point where had to be DLed for awhile. I also remember when Brewers' Steve Sparks got placed on the DL after attempting to rip a phone book in half when a motivational speaker came into the Brewers' clubhouse to motivate the team to win.

And wasn't it Sammy Sosa who got injured while sneezing? Didn't Ricky Bones get hurt while sitting on a chair in the locker room?

 

And when a player is out of the game for "flu-like symptons" it is mostly because the player is hung over from the night before?

[razzzorsharp]

Matt Wise belongs here.

[don1481]

But what about about Zambrano and his "emailing" habit?

 

Or Clint Barmes and "Deer-Meat-Gate?"

 

Or heck, just read this list of fun ones:

 

Top 10 List of Strange Injuries

[jaybird2001wi]

How about Jeff Kent's motorcycle-gate? He said he injured himself washing his truck, but actually violated terms of his contract by hurting himself while motorcycling around town.

[RockCoCougars]

Vince Coleman getting run over by the tarp.

Roger Metzger severing the tips of his fingers with a table saw.

[jaybird2001wi]

I wonder if the Vince Coleman tarp incident is somewhere on youtube. I never saw it...

That link is hilarious. John Smoltz tried ironing his shirt while he was wearing it? I am laughing at that one. The visual just seems hilarious.

[homer]

I think a lot of the bizarre injury stories are cover-ups for something else. A lot of guys have provisions in their contracts saying they can't do certain activities (like ride motorcycles) so they make stuff up to keep the team from fining them.

[zzzmanwitz]

Zumaya with his tragic Guitar Hero accident

[jaybird2001wi]

I remember when the Yankees released Aaron Boone when he injured himself playing basketball. The injury and subsequent release of Boone from the Yankees paved the way for the A-Rod trade.

[RockCoCougars]

Wade Boggs pulling on cowboy boots was a cover up.

[1992casey]

I remember Jeff Cirillo hurting himself sleeping. He wasn't DLed, but he had to be shifted to 1B for a week.

[cruiserx43]

Glenallen Hill was one of the most jacked up juicers of the late 90's. He wasn't having a dream he was having a hallucination or a nocturnal rage. He still holds the longest homer ever hit in Wrigley?

[RU Rah Rah]

Jay Witasick torqued his elbow throwing out the garbage. Bruce Bochy said afterward:

 

"He was taking some bags of trash out. They were heavy, had some watermelon in them, apparently. He tossed them into the Dumpster and strained his elbow."

[L8ManChecker]

I remember when Rickey Bones with with the San Diego Padres before coming over to Milwaukee. He was injured while watching TV. He said something fell and he wheeled around and hurt his neck. Damn.

[MadisonBrewerBlue]

most bizarre baseball injuries ? any injury involving ben sheets

[pitchleague]

"He said something fell and he wheeled around and hurt his neck."

 

I think that happens more often than you think to normal people everyday. I can think back of many times when I've been sitting doing something and something startles me enough to make me swing my head around rather quickly and TWINGE! goes the neck for a few days.