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Another stupid non-sports injury: Pedro Martinez



Hurt himself applying Soul-Glo?

Two of the stupidest injuries we’ve ever heard are Brian Griese tripping over his dog on the stairs and Jeff Kent hurting his wrist while “washing his truck”. Both are dubious, especially Jeff Kent’s, which was probably a motorcycle injury. (He had a non-motorcycle clause in his contract.)

Today, Pedro Martinez went on the 15-day-DL for a hip injury. However, ESPNews is reporting that Pedro hurt his hip in the bathroom trying to change his shirt. After “tripping over the dog” and “washing my truck”, we’re afraid to venture a guess as to what “changing my shirt in the bathroom” really means.

Links:
[NY Post]: HIP TRIPS UP AMAZIN’ ACE

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Odds and Ends for Mon May 8 2006: Billy Wagner and Kobe need a hug

Just in time for this week’s three game series between the Mets and the Phillies, Billy Wagner told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he was not well liked in the Phillies clubhouse, that they wanted him to fail, and that Pat Burrell called him a rat. Poor Billy Boy. Like the Phillies wanted him to blow a crucial late season game against the Astros.

In other news…

[NBA.com]: Raja Bell’s mom talks trash to Kobe: “Need a hug, Kobe?” Ouch.

[ESPN]: Javon Walker called Favre a two-faced in an interview with Sportscenter. The gods reward him with a $40M contract.

[Balls Deep Sports]: ESPN covering Bonds too much? You don’t say

[Miami Herald]: Ahhh, good ole Miami, where athletes go to get robbed.

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Keith Hernandez named NOW man of the year



Keith is old school

During Saturday’s telecast of the Mets-Padres game, Hernandez spotted massage therapist Kelly Calabrese in the Padres dugout and said “Who is the girl in the dugout?” When told that Calabrese was a member of the training staff, Hernandez said,


I won’t say women belong in the kitchen. But they don’t belong in the dugout.

Then he added that they’re better barefoot and pregnant. OK, we made up that last part. Hernandez quickly said he was just teasing about the kitchen comment but that he felt strongly that MLB “is a man’s game and I feel very strongly about it” It’s rare that we defend stupid athletes, but people need to lay off Keith Hernandez. While inappropriate, Hernandez’s comments aren’t something you get your panties in a bunch over. (Wait, perhaps that expression was poorly chosen.)

Hernandez was reprimanded by SportsNet New York and gave the standard athlete-non-apology on Sunday: “In my discussion I made a couple of inappropriate comments. If I have offended anybody I sincerely apologize.” Gotta love the ‘if I offended anybody (then f you)’ apology.

By the way, there’s a rumor going around that Keith didn’t actually say it and it was really Roger McDowell.

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[NY Daily News]: Amid ‘kitchen’ heat, Keith sorry

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Mets employees, the line starts to you right

We mentioned that Anna Benson was divorcing Kris
Benson in Odds and Ends earlier today.  Some of you might have thought, “Yeah, she’s hot but what’s the big deal?”  Well, we just found out that Kris cheated on her with one of her friends.  

The only reason why anyone outside the NY area has heard of Anna Benson is because she went on Howard Stern and said that if she ever caught him cheating on her, she’d sleep with everyone on the entire team — coaches, trainers, players, even batboys.  And if  they were on the road against another team, she’d screw em too.  I wonder if the Orioles now qualify.

Going on Howard Stern is like swearing on a stack of bibles in a courtroom right? If we can’t have oral contracts on the Howard Stern show, then we are no better than the animals.