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Freak injury sidelines Inge

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 07:31 PM | 32 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: June 26, 2008 at 07:35 PM (#2833670)

Inge said he was in bed with his 3-year-old son and wife on Monday. When he stretched to adjust a pillow, he experienced pain in his midsection.

He should have his children taken away.

2. Social media assassin (Templeusox) Posted: June 26, 2008 at 07:37 PM (#2833676)

I like Inge-- I like him a lot.

3. Jimmy P Posted: June 26, 2008 at 08:04 PM (#2833730)

Still not as bad as when someone (Marty Cordova?) got sunburned in a tanning bed and couldn't play

4. RJ in TO Posted: June 26, 2008 at 08:08 PM (#2833735)

Still not as bad as when someone (Marty Cordova?) got sunburned in a tanning bed and couldn't play

That's the right guy. My personal favorite remains to be the Glenallen Hill "Spiders! Spiders!" incident.

5. Randy Jones

Posted: June 26, 2008 at 08:14 PM (#2833751)

Didn't Smoltz iron a shirt while he was wearing it?

6. Matt Waters Posted: June 26, 2008 at 08:23 PM (#2833769)

I like Inge-- I like him a lot.

".240 Mike."
"I'll take that, I don't care about the numbahs. I like Inge a lot."

7. RJ in TO Posted: June 26, 2008 at 08:24 PM (#2833775)

Didn't Smoltz iron a shirt while he was wearing it?

Smoltz said he didn't. Or course, he waited for the story to circulate for almost 20 years before disagreeing.

8. Paul The Paranoid Android Posted: June 26, 2008 at 08:25 PM (#2833778)

Don't let Adam Eaton open your DVDs, Brandon.

9. Don't want the truth; just wanna see some dingers Posted: June 26, 2008 at 08:26 PM (#2833780)

Damn that Henning calling at all hours!!!

10. Tim Stauffer, Trot Nixon's Coming (Dan Lee) Posted: June 26, 2008 at 08:34 PM (#2833794)

I'm just waiting for the real story to come out: Inge was fighting with Dan Miceli's brother.

11. Random Transaction Generator Posted: June 26, 2008 at 08:38 PM (#2833814)

Still not as bad as when someone (Marty Cordova?) got sunburned in a tanning bed and couldn't play

Rickey Henderson (as a Blue Jay) missed a game after he got frostbite...in August.

12. Jimmy P Posted: June 26, 2008 at 08:51 PM (#2833843)

Sosa sneezed himself out of the lineup, and maybe even onto the DL

13. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: June 26, 2008 at 08:54 PM (#2833850)

Steve Sparks injured his elbow after trying to tear a telephone book upon seeing it done in a motivational speech.

14. Crashburn Alley Posted: June 26, 2008 at 08:57 PM (#2833857)

Dave Hollins got bit by a spider in 2002.

15. Hang down your head, Tom Foley Posted: June 26, 2008 at 09:02 PM (#2833864)

Ray Chapman suffered a career-ending injury while playing a children's game.

16. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: June 26, 2008 at 09:12 PM (#2833881)

My favorite freak injury is probably Ollie Marcelle getting the tip of his nose cut off in a poker game (by Boojum Wilson?). A vain man, he spurned the Tycho Brahe solution, instead trying to cover the gap with a piece of tape, but fans taunted him relentlessly and he retired at the end of the year.

That, or Dave Hollins's amazing regenerating hamate bone.

17. Tim Stauffer, Trot Nixon's Coming (Dan Lee) Posted: June 26, 2008 at 10:31 PM (#2833957)

It was Frank Warfield that bit off Marcelle's nose, IIRC.

'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.

18. zonk Posted: June 26, 2008 at 10:40 PM (#2833966)

I believe Henry Cotto one punctured his eardrum with a Q-tip.

19. zonk Posted: June 26, 2008 at 10:43 PM (#2833968)

Freak injury goodness from a 1988 Seattle PI article

20. Hack Wilson Posted: June 26, 2008 at 10:54 PM (#2833977)

Bob Feller scalded himself with 200-degree water after he lost control of the hose in a whirlpool. He scalded himself from the waste down, and couldn't do anything for a week.

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."

21. Boots Day Posted: June 26, 2008 at 11:07 PM (#2833980)

He scalded himself from the waste down,

Nothing is more unpleasant than some scalded waste.

22. Hack Wilson Posted: June 26, 2008 at 11:14 PM (#2833983)

Boots I just copied it I didn't edit it.

From same site: Jose Cardenal missed a game in 1972 because he was kept awake all night by crickets chirping in his hotel room.

23. Walt Davis Posted: June 26, 2008 at 11:43 PM (#2833996)

Steve Trout fell off a stationary exercise bike.

24. Walt Davis Posted: June 26, 2008 at 11:50 PM (#2833999)

Now Cardenal was quite a funny guy (granted in the "happy, wacky Latin player" stereotype kinda way) and I think we have to assume that he was kidding around with most of these. He also wasn't a full-timer most of his career so there's a good chance he missed those games just because he was on the bench ... a lot more entertaining to tell the reporters something about crickets.

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.

25. Hack Wilson Posted: June 27, 2008 at 01:03 AM (#2834028)

Sad to say but I remember Cardenal as being the Cubs' star for a couple of years. I remember him also for being traded between games of a doubleheader to the team he was playing against in the first game.

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.

26. vortex of dissipation Posted: June 27, 2008 at 01:18 AM (#2834033)

Jose Cardenal: Eddie Vedder's favorite player.

27. Cris E Posted: June 27, 2008 at 05:22 AM (#2834132)

Jeff Kent missed time after washing his truck. Oh, and how about Barry Bonds and the so-called "federal investigation" excuse for not signing a contract. What a slacker.

28. Chase Utley, Shooty's Favorite Robot (Joey Belle) Posted: June 27, 2008 at 05:56 AM (#2834142)

Actually Kent lied about the washing his truck thing, he actually hurt himself riding his motorbike.

29. TOLAXOR Posted: June 27, 2008 at 10:13 AM (#2834161)

I ALWAYS ROOT FOR INGE BECAUSE HE'S ONE OF THE FEW PLAYERS I'VE EVER WATCHED AND ROOTED FOR IN HIGH SCHOOL...

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!!!

30. RMc is the loyal supporter of the MLB event Posted: June 27, 2008 at 01:31 PM (#2834204)

Whenever I see an athlete suffer one of these weirdo injuries, I always think, "Yeah, sure. Why can't you just come out and admit he twisted his ankle snorting cocaine off a 14-year-old prostitute's ###?"

31. DL from MN Posted: June 27, 2008 at 01:44 PM (#2834211)

"while playing a children's game"

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.

32. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: June 27, 2008 at 03:57 PM (#2834329)

Jose Cardenal also missed a game in 1974, because he couldn't blink. He swore his eyes were stuck open.

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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