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Orioles’ Chris Davis Headed to DL After Sleeping on Shoulder Wrong

August 17, 2011 By 1 Comment

The sooner baseball players start taking their health more seriously, the sooner we can stop talking about weird and embarrassing injuries.  Don’t get me wrong, I’ve slept weirdly and woken up with soreness.  But I’ve never wound up on the DL because of it.  In fact my neck hurts from the way I slept last night and here I am staring at a computer screen.  The blogosphere don’t sleep.

According to the Baltimore Sun, the Orioles placed first baseman Chris Davis on the disabled list with a shoulder strain Tuesday.  Davis aggravated the injury when he slept on his shoulder wrong in Kansas City, and an MRI revealed wear and tear on his labrum and rotator cuff.  He could miss the rest of the season, which is especially unfortunate since the Orioles acquired him in a trade with the Rangers only a month ago.

Like Carlos Zambrano before him, Davis made his injury worse with an everyday activity.  Davis’ injury adds to an insane list of freak injuries we’ve had in the MLB since spring training.  Alcides Escobar learned the value of bug spray and Scott Downs found out the hard way that his kids are tougher than him.  Chris Narveson even got a lesson in how to properly use a pair of scissors.  Is the world out to get these guys or what?  At the end of the day they just need to be thankful none of them wound up with a pool cue up their ass.

H/T to SI Hot Clicks for the story.

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Chris Narveson to Miss a Start After Slicing Hand with Scissors

August 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

On the bright side: that’s better than a blister problem, right?  For pitchers, blisters can be a recurring thing and stick around for an entire season or career.  Fortunately for Brewers pitcher Chris Narveson, cutting yourself with a pair of scissors is not likely to be an injury that will stay with you for an extended period of time — granted you learn how to use them properly.

According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Narveson will miss at least one start after slicing his thumb with a pair of scissors while trying to fix some laces on his glove.  The wound required eight stitches, which is a good amount for a single finger.

“I was just fixing my glove,” he explained. “I guess the screw on the end of the thing between the scissors was sticking through the bolt a little bit, I had my thumb up there and ran it across. Next thing, I look down and I’ve got a gash in my thumb. The doctor was here and he was able to come up and stitch it up right away, so we got it taken care of. Now, it’s how fast can you heal?

Weird injuries happen all across sports, but for some reason they seem to be most entertaining in baseball.  If you recall, Alcides Escobar once missed a spring training game because a bug bit him.  Scott Downs suffered a broken toe because he was horsing around with his kids.  Carlos Zambrano needs to learn how to position himself while watching late night TV.  And we all remember the run-in Chris Dickerson had with a revolving door.  Perhaps these guys are a bit more fragile than the rest?

Thanks to Hardball Talk for the story.

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Georgia’s Derrick Lott Out 4-6 Weeks After Scooter Accident

July 14, 2011 By 2 Comments

For those of you who missed me a few weeks back, I was busy buzzing around Bermuda on a scooter endangering the life of my fiancee.  While I say that sarcastically, those things really are dangerous — especially in a country with different traffic rules.  Having ridden one before, I completely understand how a player like Georgia’s Derrick Lott could suffer an injury while using one.

Lott is said to have suffered a lower leg injury that required surgery after he crashed his scooter into a fixed object, as UGA Police Chief Jimmy Williamson shared with the Atlanta-Journal Constituion on Wednesday.  We have featured our fair share of weird injuries on LBS including this one, this one, and this one, but I must admit Lott’s is a bit more understandable.

That being said, injuries like this show us why professional athletes’ contracts have become much more detailed in recent years with regard to motorcycles.  Scooters have been a problem for Georgia for quite some time now, with baseball player Chance Veazey having been paralyzed from the waist down in a 2009 accident.

Should athletes not ride scooters because of the risk?  I guess you could say they should never leave their house if you want to argue that, but it certainly doesn’t help.

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Carlos Zambrano Injures Neck Watching Late-Night TV

May 28, 2011 By 1 Comment

If I were to tell you Carlos Zambrano suffered a non-baseball injury, you would probably think he did something stupid. Maybe you’d figure he got into a fight or punched a wall because he got a question wrong in a game of trivia.  Baseball fans are very aware of Zambrano’s anger management issues, even if he claims to have gotten them under control.  However, his latest injury — a stiff neck — actually sprung up while Carlos was relaxing, if you can believe that.

As we know, weird injuries are a part of professional sports no matter how frustrating they may be.  Guys like Alcides Escobar miss spring training because of bug bites while others like Scott Downs get hurt playing with their kids.  The Shawn Marions of the world even manage to hurt themselves walking into a glass door.  According to the Chicago Tribune via Ben Maller, Zambrano has been battling a stiff neck as a result of his poor posture while watching late-night television.

“I watch TV with my head on the pillow and the chiropractor told me to sit on my back and not my shoulder,” Zambrano said. “I have a little knot. With treatment it will go away. Sometimes it doesn’t bother me. It’s nothing to worry about.”

Fortunately, Big Z will not miss a start for the Cubs.  Not only do they need his arm, but his bat has been helping the team as of late.  Zambrano picked up a win for Chicago on Thursday and recorded three hits.  My advice to the (former?) hot head: less Jimmy Kimmel and a few more z’s.

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Shawn Marion Cut Himself Walking into a Glass Door

May 3, 2011 By 1 Comment

Dallas Mavericks forward Shawn Marion was lucky he didn’t have the difficult assignment of guarding Kobe Bryant for all of Game 1 Monday night. From the sounds of things, he has much more simple tasks to worry about.

Marion was sporting a noticeable cut above his right eyelid that required a few stitches. Marion explained he hurt himself leaving the hotel Friday morning after Dallas closed out their first-round series against Portland.

“I got into a battle with a glass door and the glass door won,” Marion said. “Dead serious. It was an accident. I was in a rush trying to get on the bus and I slipped and I had my glasses on and I cut my eye.”

So he got cut because his glasses broke. Non-prescription fashion statement glasses.

Even though Marion loses points for wearing pointless glasses, he regained them by getting stitched up by a team doctor on the plane. That’s pretty hard, Shawn, but it still doesn’t keep you from joining this infamous list.

Fist pound to Sports by Brooks Live for the story

Photo Credit: Andrew D. Bernstein/Getty Images

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Tenby AFC Soccer Player Has Pool Cue Shoved Up His Can

April 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The following occurred at an end-of-season party, but it deserves to be filed under weird injuries regardless.  It may not result in Player X missing any time in his sport, but if you think breaking a toe playing with your kids or missing a spring training game because of a bug bite is weird this will blow your mind.

According to Fox Sports, via SbB Live, a few Welsh non-league footballers for Tenby AFC were horsing around at an end-of-season party when things went terribly, terribly wrong.  I’m not talking about a party getting out of hand and a fight breaking out or police making arrests.  That sort of happened too, but we can get into that later.  The most special moment from this party happened when an unnamed 37-year-old midfielder was turned into a popsicle.  By that I mean one of his teammates jammed a pool cue up his ass.

“It was a bit of horseplay that went seriously wrong,” an unnamed source told the English newspaper The Mirror. “We’d all had a few drinks when one of the lads did a moonie. A player picked up a pool cue and it all went wrong from there.”

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Scott Downs Breaks Toe Playing with Kids

March 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment

We may be more than two weeks away from the start of baseball season, but that hasn’t stopped the weird injuries from continuing to roll in.  Last week, the Royals announced that shortstop Alcides Escobar would miss time in spring training after a bug bite became infected.  The latest weird injury victim, Angels pitcher Scott Downs, is a repeat customer.  You might recall Downs injuring his foot in 2009 trying to run out of the batter’s box.

This time, Downs has a broken toe.  Unlike his first foot injury, the left-hander suffered this setback in the comfort of his own home.  According to ESPN Los Angeles, via Hardball Talk, Downs fractured his toe while playing with his kids at his Arizona home.  He’s expected to miss at least a couple weeks, and likely the start of the regular season.

“I was just doing normal dad stuff at home,”  he said, noting that the toe swelled up and turned purple. “It’s obviously very frustrating, but I think it’s just a minor setback.”

Can’t fault a man for spending some quality time with his kids, right?  Don’t be surprised if MLB teams are including “no horsing around with your children” clauses in contracts in the near future.

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