Originally posted by Big League Stew (sports.yahoo.com)Tue Jul 27 01:13am PDT Pie gone awry: Marlins' Coghlan tears up knee in cream pie attack
By David Brown
We are through the looking glass on these postgame celebrations, people. We have our first injury caused by someone giving a shaving-cream pie to the face.
Florida Marlins outfielder Chris Coghlan tore the meniscus in his left knee, and is headed for the disabled list after he face-pied teammate Wes Helms during a TV interview Sunday.
Originally posted by Matt Tracker The Lovely Mrs. Tracker continues to mock Sammy Sosa for hurting his back by sneezing too hard (sports.espn.go.com).
OT, but my favorite weird injury was Glenallen Hall of the Toronto Blue Jays, who sleep-walked into a glass table while he was dreaming that spiders were chasing him and ended up cutting his foot.
The Marlins banned all post-game pie activities after this one. I think that's a bit of an overreaction since this seems to be more of a freak injury than anything else.
I think the Marlins should ban the post-game pie activity just because it looks stupid, to say nothing of the fact that a freak injury happened as a result of one.
EDIT: Of course, if we were banning all the things in sports that look stupid, boy, that'd be a long list.
(edited by ekedolphin on 29.7.10 0527) "Say, the next time you want to win your daughter back, you could just try giving her a pony, the apocalypse doesn’t really cut it!" --The Prince, Prince of Persia (2008)
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Originally posted by Matt TrackerI don't see how they can move around in cleats anyway. If I tried to jump wearing them, I'd torque a knee too. They may as well be high heels.
Huh? They have to jump wearing cleats all the time during games. Have you worn cleats before? They're really not all that different than regular sneakers as long as you're in a grassy or dirt-filled or muddy surface.
Now, if you're on a flat, slick surface like tile or hardwood, that's a different story. You have to practically tiptoe around to avoid slipping.
Excellent! Dave Shea has always been significantly underrated as a broadcaster. I enjoyed going way back to when he was teaming with Fred Cusick on Bruins games on Channel 38.