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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Thursday, June 26, 2008
At the SABR convention Repoz and I have gotten requests for more Brandon Inge links.
We didn’t know Inge was so popular.
Jim Furtado
Posted: June 26, 2008 at 03:31 PM | 32 comment(s)
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He should have his children taken away.
That's the right guy. My personal favorite remains to be the Glenallen Hill "Spiders! Spiders!" incident.
".240 Mike."
"I'll take that, I don't care about the numbahs. I like Inge a lot."
Smoltz said he didn't. Or course, he waited for the story to circulate for almost 20 years before disagreeing.
Rickey Henderson (as a Blue Jay) missed a game after he got frostbite...in August.
That, or Dave Hollins's amazing regenerating hamate bone.
'Course, that's nowhere near as bad as Dave Brown killing a guy over some cocaine, but it's still likely to make you persona non grata in the clubhouse.
Jose Cardenal also missed a game in 1974, because he couldn't blink. He swore his eyes were stuck open.
Mike Royko wrote several articles mocking Jose's weird "injuries."
Nothing is more unpleasant than some scalded waste.
From same site: Jose Cardenal missed a game in 1972 because he was kept awake all night by crickets chirping in his hotel room.
I vaguely recall WGN setting him up with a mike during a rain delay once to do the "Jose Cardenal show". It wasn't bad. I recall him interviewing Randy Hundley. Jose aske about a 3-minute question followed by Hundley, in his deep southern drawl, responding "Jose, I can't understand a single word you're saying." Priceless to an 11-year-old.
And Royko did treat him like a "happy, wacky Latin player." Regarding Jose's eyelid proble I think Royko used the old "Jose can you see" joke.
HE ACTUALLY WASN'T THE BEST PLAYER ON HIS TEAM - THAT WAS STEVE KELLY WHO HURT HIS BACK IN COLLEGE, PREMATURELY ENDING WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN A CAREER!!!
Boy, that's my biggest pet peeve. Baseball is not, and never has been a children's game. Ray Chapman didn't die playing tag or kick the can.
I recall the opposite: that his eyelid was stuck shut. And whatever you think of the Latin stereotype, that's pretty wacky.
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