He got toe-jam baseball, of course.
Russell Branyan had a moment like that early Thursday morning. Branyan, who was just re-acquired by the Seattle Mariners in a trade a few weeks ago, was left out of the Mariners lineup on Thursday night because of a bad toe. A toe that was allegedly the victim of a vicious attack from a hotel room table.
According to his manager, Don Wakamatsu, Branyan went to close the curtains in his hotel room at 5 a.m. this morning when the table unleashed its attack. The table toppled over and landed on Branyan’s toe, cutting it and bruising it before making off with Branyan’s wallet.
Or more likely until Branyan said a naughty word, hopped around for a second and picked the table back up.
Now I don’t want to call shenanigans on this story without knowing any more than what Wakamatsu is telling us, but I don’t think the whole tale is being told here. I’ve been in a lot of hotel rooms in my life, and I have yet to find many tables in them that just fall over without some provocation.
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Posted: July 16, 2010 at 10:17 AM |
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1. The Essex Snead Posted: July 16, 2010 at 01:00 PM (#3591206)Only because Kent was pushed into him by Wade Boggs, who stumbled while drunkenly taking off his cowboy boots.
Well, to give him the benefit of the doubt, the sun might have been coming up (no idea when sun-rise is in Seattle this time of year).
Is this what kids nowadays are calling it? "Washing" your "truck"?
Clearly we can deduce that Branyan is more athletic and coordinated than Kobe then.
You had it coming. Look how you were dressed.
He must have been wearing this. And nothing else!
OK. Sun-rise in LA was 5:54 AM. No help for Mr. Branyan.
When I was little I wanted to read before going to bed during an overnight stay at a hotel while vacationing in North Carolina. Being the strapping young lad that I was, I tried to carry the hotel's floor lamp about 5 feet towards my bed. I set it down rather unsteadily, right onto my right foot's big toe. Suddenly there was blood everywhere and my parents were rushing to take me to a hospital in the middle of the night. Ended up with three stitches. They said the cut almost got down to the bone. Turns out the underside of the floor lamp was razor-sharp.
Probably where the last patron hid the razor blade he used to bust up coke.
If you get raped by a pack of T-words it'll be all your fault.
William Holden was actually killed by a table. How many more people are going to have to die?So was Harry Caray, wasn't he?
I thought Bob Crane was also, but no, he was murdered with a blunt object (table leg?).
Anyway, I was just reading about him on Wiki, and got side tracted reading about the other actors on the show and discovered this little nugget. Werner Klemperer, John Banner, and Leon Askin, the actors who portrayed Col Klink, Sgt Schultz, and General Burkhalter, were all German or Austrian Jews who fled the Nazi's at the start of the war, and all served in the US Army.
It took the Serbs centuries to get over being invaded by Ottomans.
When Hogan's Heroes comes up I like to bring forward the following nugget.
Bing Crosby's Hollywood Palace - Christmas 1965 Episode featuring Hogan's Heroes The actual video of the singing is also out on youtube somewhere. The gang was actually more talented in that regard than on the show that made them famous.
EDIT: The intros and the singing.
Bob Crane supposedly did the drum work in he show's opening credits.
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