How many freak accidents can one team have...........

[RynoRules]

Compilations of injuries on other teams may not be as magnified due to stronger benches and/or farm systems that allow for them to withstand injuries to multiple key players.

 

Find me a team that has had (relatively) the same amount of serious injuries to key players as the Cubs have had and used their farm systems to keep them on top. Last year's Braves are the only team I can think of that comes close, except that their pitchers were healthy all year, IIRC.

[tinkers1]

Hey Coach C I['m guessing that Glen Allan Hill falling out of bed while dreaming about spidars and hurting himself thus going on the DL is THE most freak accident of all time.

[David]

Hey Coach C I['m guessing that Glen Allan Hill falling out of bed while dreaming about spidars and hurting himself thus going on the DL is THE most freak accident of all time.

 

I thought he sleep-walked into a glass table...

[Careless]

Hey Coach C I['m guessing that Glen Allan Hill falling out of bed while dreaming about spidars and hurting himself thus going on the DL is THE most freak accident of all time.

espn had a list of amusing injuries last season. there were a fair number and they were pretty good.

[wondernorm]

Can other teams compile lists like this for their players over the same time span?

 

I'm betting yes.

I really doubt it, especially when you take into account the relative importance of the players. In many cases these are key players the Cubs have lost. I can't think of many examples over the last four years of players getting injured the way Cubs' players have.

 

I would bet most teams would have relatively the same amount. Just look at the Cardinals (Rolen, Sanders, Walker, Edmonds, Isringhausen, Williams, Matheny, etc.) and the Astros (Bagwell, Pettite, Berkman, Backe) It just seems like the Cubs have more.

[tinkers1]

Yeah Glenallen Hill was famous for his fear of spiders, and I'll never forget hearing about how he was having a nightmare about them and fell out of bed. He was also terrified of going into the ivy at Wrigley for a ball because of his fear of spiders.

[BigSlick]

In such a short time span? In the last 4 seasons Bill Mueller slides into a wall to catch a pop up and breaks his knee, Mark Prior collides with Marcus Giles running the basepaths and hurts his shoulder, Eric Karros, has another player run into him at first and try to knock the ball away breaking his arm, Mark Prior gets hit by a comebacker on the mound and suffers a compound fracture, and now D Lee has a collision with Raphael Furcal and breaks two bones in his wrist. All teams have injuries but their usually your normal back strains, groin pulls, sore arms etc. that occur during a season but we've had a lot of freak injuries in a short amount of time its true if not for bad luck we'd have no luck at all.

 

Rex Grossman just tore his ACL reading this again...

 

Believe me, its not just the Cubs. Its all Chicago sports.

[BWcubs21]

Yeah Glenallen Hill was famous for his fear of spiders, and I'll never forget hearing about how he was having a nightmare about them and fell out of bed. He was also terrified of going into the ivy at Wrigley for a ball because of his fear of spiders.

 

 

LOL, I never knew that one.

My favorites are John Smoltz ironing the shirt he was wearing and Vince Coleman being eaten by the tarp machine.

[TB_11]

In such a short time span? In the last 4 seasons Bill Mueller slides into a wall to catch a pop up and breaks his knee, Mark Prior collides with Marcus Giles running the basepaths and hurts his shoulder, Eric Karros, has another player run into him at first and try to knock the ball away breaking his arm, Mark Prior gets hit by a comebacker on the mound and suffers a compound fracture, and now D Lee has a collision with Raphael Furcal and breaks two bones in his wrist. All teams have injuries but their usually your normal back strains, groin pulls, sore arms etc. that occur during a season but we've had a lot of freak injuries in a short amount of time its true if not for bad luck we'd have no luck at all.

 

Rex Grossman just tore his ACL reading this again...

 

Believe me, its not just the Cubs. Its all Chicago sports.

 

That Michael Jordan guy did only have one injury in his career, and he had it very early in his career.

[BigSlick]

In such a short time span? In the last 4 seasons Bill Mueller slides into a wall to catch a pop up and breaks his knee, Mark Prior collides with Marcus Giles running the basepaths and hurts his shoulder, Eric Karros, has another player run into him at first and try to knock the ball away breaking his arm, Mark Prior gets hit by a comebacker on the mound and suffers a compound fracture, and now D Lee has a collision with Raphael Furcal and breaks two bones in his wrist. All teams have injuries but their usually your normal back strains, groin pulls, sore arms etc. that occur during a season but we've had a lot of freak injuries in a short amount of time its true if not for bad luck we'd have no luck at all.

 

Rex Grossman just tore his ACL reading this again...

 

Believe me, its not just the Cubs. Its all Chicago sports.

 

That Michael Jordan guy did only have one injury in his career, and he had it very early in his career.

 

Hah! You think the Bulls are untouched by injuries? What about Curry and that heart of his?

[tinkers1]

Actually I think Glenallen Hill did two stints on the DL related to spiders neither of which was while he was with the Cubs tho.

[texascub]

As famous as Glenallen's fear of spiders is, I'll always remember him for the homerun he hit that broke the window in the apartment building down the left field line.

[Big Z 38]

My bet for the next freak injury:

Aramis Ramirez tears a butt muscle on a check swing

[tinkers1]

Hey Texascub I think you are referring to the game where he hit the homerun onto the rooftop of the building across the street.

[texascub]

Hey Texascub I think you are referring to the game where he hit the homerun onto the rooftop of the building across the street.

 

The one I'm talking about broke a window about half way up in the apartment building down the left line. It might have been in BP, but I remember him even offering to go help the guy replace the window that he broke. I don't really remember him hitting one onto the rooftop but with his power it really wouldn't surprise me either. I also remember the time the ump told the pitcher to throw the ball while Glenallen was still out of the batter's box and he still managed to hit it into RF. I wish that we still had characters like GA Hill and Julio Zuleta on the team to lighten the mood a little when things like the Lee injury happen; they may not help a whole lot but they make the team a whole lot more fun to watch.

[tinkers1]

Well he did indeed hit on onto the rooftop across the street, and they said its the only ball that had ever been hit there.

[Big Z 38]

Well he did indeed hit on onto the rooftop across the street, and they said its the only ball that had ever been hit there.

He hit one over the center field scoreboard. I think Sosa once hit a 500-foot HR on the fly down Kenmore Ave.

[CubRock2]

Well he did indeed hit on onto the rooftop across the street, and they said its the only ball that had ever been hit there.

He hit one over the center field scoreboard. I think Sosa once hit a 500-foot HR on the fly down Kenmore Ave.

 

What, are you on crack? Over the scoreboard? I remember Sosa hitting it, but going over it is like a 600 foot shot. I don't think that's been done.

[Big Z 38]

Well he did indeed hit on onto the rooftop across the street, and they said its the only ball that had ever been hit there.

He hit one over the center field scoreboard. I think Sosa once hit a 500-foot HR on the fly down Kenmore Ave.

 

What, are you on crack? Over the scoreboard? I remember Sosa hitting it, but going over it is like a 600 foot shot. I don't think that's been done.

Yes. He hit it over the scoreboard. They were saying if it had been a few feet lower, it'd have hit the scoreboard. And no, it is not 600 ft. There's a rooftop w/ a 465 ft. marker

[tinkers1]

Nope not over the scoreboard during the NLDS against the Braves Sosa hit a homerun into the camera well below the centerfield scoreboard and they said as far as they know nobody had ever actually hit the scoreboard. As for Glenallen Hill his landed on the roof of the Bud house across the street from Wrigly and he's the only one who has ever had on land on the rooftop.

[Roast]

Well he did indeed hit on onto the rooftop across the street, and they said its the only ball that had ever been hit there.

He hit one over the center field scoreboard. I think Sosa once hit a 500-foot HR on the fly down Kenmore Ave.

 

What, are you on crack? Over the scoreboard? I remember Sosa hitting it, but going over it is like a 600 foot shot. I don't think that's been done.

Yes. He hit it over the scoreboard. They were saying if it had been a few feet lower, it'd have hit the scoreboard. And no, it is not 600 ft. There's a rooftop w/ a 465 ft. marker

 

No, sosa's blast did not Go over the scoreboard, It was to the left of it, it did however roll down Kenmore

[tinkers1]

I remember the one that rolled down Kenmore but I think he's talking about the one in the playoffs in 2003 that landed in the centerfield camera well.

[CubRock2]

Yes. He hit it over the scoreboard. They were saying if it had been a few feet lower, it'd have hit the scoreboard. And no, it is not 600 ft. There's a rooftop w/ a 465 ft. marker

 

You're an idiot. Despite Sammy's disposition for "enhancing" his performance, he didn't hit it over the socreboard.

 

The CF wall is 400 feet. NO WAY is the tiptop of the scorebard 465, not to metion the trajectory of hitting it that much higher. It would take a shot much longer than 465 to clear it.

 

Nobody's every hit it over the scoreboard.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Yes. He hit it over the scoreboard. They were saying if it had been a few feet lower, it'd have hit the scoreboard. And no, it is not 600 ft. There's a rooftop w/ a 465 ft. marker

 

You're an idiot. Despite Sammy's disposition for "enhancing" his performance, he didn't hit it over the socreboard.

 

The CF wall is 400 feet. NO WAY is the tiptop of the scorebard 465, not to metion the trajectory of hitting it that much higher. It would take a shot much longer than 465 to clear it.

 

Nobody's every hit it over the scoreboard.

 

That's not necessary.