Posted by Travis Rodgers on Feb 25, 2010

Jim Leyland Run Over By Golf Cart #MLB

Best hat ever.

I’m a baseball guy. I am one of the few people who can find a great deal of pleasure watching the Pirates play the Astros in the middle of June. What can I say, I like baseball.

But even the most diehard baseball fan is going to have a hard time defending the inexplicable number of stupid injuries that seem to afflict only baseball players. Video game mishaps, deer meat injuries, and countless others that have included Q-tips, feathers, socks, and a Barca-lounger.

Even by baseball standards, MLB spring training 2010 is off to a fast start with regard to stupid injuries. First it was Orioles pitcher Brad Bergensen injuring his arm by throwing too hard during a commerical shoot. That bit of stupidity forced the Orioles to implement a set of rules on what their players can and cannot do during commercial shoots. A moron’s guide to self-preservation as it were.

Not only are the players vulnerable, but apparently so are the managers. Tiger boss, Jim Leyland broke the small toe on his foot when it was run over by a golf cart drvien by coach Gene Lamont. It’s a good thing Lamont has been Leyland’s right hand guy for so long, because if it had been anyone else, I think Leyland would have stabbed them to death with a golf tee.

Leyland, who might be the baddest ass manager in all of MLB, was pseudo-bent that word of his injury leaked out. “Who told you? Was it Mac?”

The front seat of Leyland's golf cart.

Easy Skip, no need to get hostile. Who would have thought it possible for Leyalnd to get injured. The guy looks like an piece of beef jerky that has been left in the sun for 40 years. I didn't think anything could break his fossilized bones. They have to be hard as rocks. Not that Leyland is going to miss any time. I'm sure he just rubbed a carton of Marlboro Reds on his foot and stood up to hit the next shot.

Baseball season hasn’t even offcially started yet and we have already been witness to a TV injury and a golf cart mishap. 2010 is going to be a great year.

View Comments to “Jim Leyland Run Over By Golf Cart #MLB”

Wayne Bergeron says:

March 2, 2010 at 2:41 pm

First and foremost: What is up with that hat? Abraham Lincoln called and said that the stove pipe hats are horribly out of fashion. Maybe it has to do with him being a smoker and since stoves smoke...no, there's no explaining it.

Frankly, how does one get hit by a golf cart? That's a kin to when the local dragster who regular goes 50 mph in a 25 zone slams into the street sweeper and says, "Dude, it came out of nowhere. It was so quick!" Smokin' Jim has some 'splainin to do.

Sunflower fingers, getting sunburned in a tanning bed, repitious bubblegum jaw syndrome, and Nintendo elbow. Baseball certainly has its own "world" injuries. Now they can add golf cart toe to their long list of unlikely injuries.