Braves Have Not Hit Big Bottom Yet
Jun 22nd 2008 12:45PM by Will Brinson
Right Down Peachtree, the sports portion of (and edited by Jay Busbee, who does some fine work at a few blogs with an exclamation point), has what might be the defining quiz of the 2008 Atlanta Braves season.
They are asking readers to match Braves players and Spinal Tap drummers to their various injuries. And it’s not as easy as you’d think.
Oh, and in totally unrelated news, Chipper Jones (right quad) and Yunel Escobar (right hip) are now hurt and day-to-day. Here’s the list of injuries.
A. Spontaneously combusted in a flash of green light.
B. Hit self in the face with a batting practice foul ball.
C. Either returned to world of jazz or died.
D. Killed in swamp gas explosion while visiting the grave of Mick Shrimpton.
E. Out till the All-Star break with a bad elbow and a bad case of Shea Flu.
F. Choked to death on vomit. Not his own vomit.
G. Still active. Wrapped in bubble wrap nightly to prevent accidents.
H. May not, in fact, actually exist anywhere outside of the disabled list.
I. Fell down the Wrigley Field dugout stairs.
J. Exploded onstage.
K. Sent back into the Terminator shop for repairs.
L. His trick elbow is in, then out, then in, and now out.
M. Died in a bizarre gardening accident.
N. Out for the year with ligament replacement surgery. Will harvest the ligament from Johan Santana.
See? Not all that easy to decipher. Aside from the keywords like “Wrigley Field” and “foul ball” — then you can at least separate them into ST v. AB categories and work from there. Of course, it obviously gets tougher if you haven’t seen , but then every minute more you spend watching moving pictures or reading the internet is about as worthwhile as a Mike Hampton contract extension.


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