I am now a fan of the World Baseball Classic. I just finished watching Team USA beat Team Canada. The game was better than I expected. It seems a bit more personal this time around for Team USA. I was impressed by the emotion and desire to win that players showed. I was impressed with how the players felt the need to represent not only this country, but this countrys past time. Then it donned on me. For the last few weeks I have heard players "think, debate, ponder" whether or not they would play in the Classic. The reason for not playing? Most say its fear of getting injured. So I did some researched. What I found is professional baseball players have found several ways to hurt themselves while their not on the diamond. Here are a few of my favorites.
Breaking your wrist washing your truck. Yep, true story that happened to Jeff Kent. Broke his left wrist washing his own truck in a self service car wash in Arizona. Brett Barberie let his love for hot and spicy food cost him a few days at work. Seems Barberie rubbed his eye with chili peppers on his hand and was unable to see for a few days. Adam Eaton, formerly of my beloved San Diego Padres made the "wise decision" to open the plastic wrapper of a DVD with a paring knife. He didn't realize the stupidity until he accidentally lunged the paring knife into his stomach.
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