That jackass Jeff Kent fractured his wrist “washing his truck.”
Is there a link to the video anywhere? Youtube doesn’t seem to have it and I would love to see this!
Yep. And for the record, he got game.
Alternately, I will say of Bradley, “And he came to play!”
Why do you hate the letter “C”? 
It’s the result of a trauma he suffered as a school boy where he was attacked by a bat.
A cat?
No, a bat. (In this instance, a baseball bat.)
No, a bat.
Edited to add: garygnu, you, sir, are a dick. Sneaking in here like that on me.
But can you say the letter “k”?
Red Sock Wade Boggs injured his back pulling on his cowboy boots.
The Blue Jays’ Glenallen Hill missed some time when he cut himself in his hotel room. He had a nightmare about spiders, jumped out of his bed, and fell into a glass table.
Marty Cordova burned himself in a tanning booth so badly he missed several days of play because he wasn’t allowed to go out in the sun.
Kerry Wood, who’s been injured in pretty much every way possible, missed some time with a rib cage injury sustained falling out of his hot tub.
Carlos Perez suffered a broken nose in a car accident. He was trying to pass the team bus when it happened.
Jeff Juden missed some time when he got a tattoo and suffered an infection from it.
Dwight Gooden missed a start due to being hit with a golf club a teammate was swinging in the clubhouse.
Kevin Mitchell was famously felled by tooth pain caused by a donut.
No, he’s a silly bunt.
Cardinals catcher Mike Matheny cut himself with a gift hunting knife in 2000, missing the playoffs.
What, he popped it straight up while trying to move the runner over?
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Yes, it’s Milton Bradley. The story behind his name is a little sad; his mother’s boyfriend, Bradley’s father, was named Milton Bradley, and he filled out the birth certificate when Bradley’s mother was still unconscious, against Bradley’s Mom’s wishes. He was a drug addict and kind of a bum, and Bradley has always been kind of ashamed of him, but kept the name because, according to him, it motivates him to be more than his father was.
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Yes, “Niq” is weird. Sorry. Do you pronounce it “Neek”?
I am sad to report the Kevin Brown incident: In the middle of a pennant race in September of 2004 this overpaid, injury prone jerk had a foolish rage moment and punched a clubhouse wall with his left hand. He broke his hand and missed the rest of the regular season, but of course got back in time to give up that damn homer to David Ortiz in game 7.
This Isringhausen, with the 2.32 ERA this year? http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=116414
RE: Kevin Brown’s self infliction
Ah, like Tavarez then did for Bellhorn in the 8th to gift Game 1 of the WS.
Not sure why but this one cracked me up more than any other.
I doubt it exists. I’ve seen retrospective footage on tv, and even the network didn’t seem to have a shot of it actually happening. It was before the game, and I bet no one had a camera on him at the time. Most of the cameras probably weren’t running at all. They only have shots of him being attended to, and getting unstuck, IIRC.
As for the Isringhausen “derailment”, I realize that maybe it was meant that he temporarily was derailed. Was that the intent?
Oh, how did I forget Mark Quinn, rookie slugger for the Royals in 2000, injured himself playing Bruce Lee with his brother.
Well, it’s great that he uses his past to motivate him, but the guy hardly has a, you know, monopoly on hard-luck stories.
Hey, I checked the thread and no one brought up the David Wells “stool tripping” incident.
Yah, “horsing around”. This was back when he hadn’t played for Boston yet so his reputation was that of a Yankee. Our city rolled our eyes pretty hard. Me? I always sort of liked the guy. But this was a stupid injury (though not all-time). I don’t know if we’ll ever know the true story.