Baseball Player Injured By Pillow
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Athletes have some strange injuries from time to time. Nolan Ryan once hurt his back pulling on his cowboy boots. Recently, Denver Broncos wide receiver Brandon Marshall said he slipped on a McDonald’s wrapper and put his arm through a TV. But this one may trump them all.
Detroit Tigers catcher Brandon Inge just went on the disabled list retroactive to June 23 with a pulled oblique muscle he hurt Monday moving a pillow for his three-year-old kid. We couldn’t make this stuff up, folks. The Tigers notoriously old school manager Jim Leyland, according to the Detroit Free Press could only say “That’s a new one.” Even if Inge’s account is the honest-to-God truth, I don’t believe I’d have ever admitted it. Check with Brandon Marshall for an excuse. Oh wait, don’t do that at all.
I’m a lifelong baseball fan and I bet any amount the next time I try to convince somebody baseball players are really athletes, they bring this injury up. Brandon Inge has just established himself as the anti-Cal Ripken.
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In fairness, Brandon Inge is not blaming his inability to properly lift a pillow for the entire extent of the injury that has him headed to the disabled list. The injury has been bugging him for a while, and this just put it over the top.
Inge said he aggravated the injury moving a pillow for his three-year-old Monday night. He said if not for that mishap, he probably would have tried to continue to play with the injury, which he said has bothered him since he suffered it on June 1 in Seattle.