Twinkie Town: Zumaya Burns Hand During TwinsFest
"Joel Zumaya's arm was treated for burns on his pitching hand. While attending Glen Perkins' meat smoking tutorial in the concourse, he reached through the grill to grab burning coals as Perkins had his back turned. When asked why he reached for the orange, glowing coals, Zumaya sighed and answered: 'I don't even know anymore.' "
Seriously, what is wrong with this guy?
FYI, this is just satire. Great post though. --Rob
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Saw the headline and didn't blink an eye
Tells me a lot that Rob had to add the clarification.
"Some guy told me I should walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded" Ken Singleton
It's just so believable
The only way I knew it was fake was by reading the other 9 things on the list.
Fooled me, too
nothing would surprise me with Joel
Chicks dig me, because I rarely wear underwear and when I do it's usually something unusual
True
The Onion also has a good story out on Zumaya. According to that one, he plans to throw one last spectacular pitch.
I'm a proud fan of the Minnesota Twins and Dallas Cowboys!
"Life is precious and time is a key element. Let’s make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own." – Harmon Killebrew
I would like to see Dallas vs the Giants on Thanksgiving, Make it happen NFL!
Link is below this post.
I'm a proud fan of the Minnesota Twins and Dallas Cowboys!
"Life is precious and time is a key element. Let’s make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own." – Harmon Killebrew
I would like to see Dallas vs the Giants on Thanksgiving, Make it happen NFL!
I wasn't going to click the link
was just going to go about my day, not reading italics
Every day each of us says the dumbest thing we are going to say that day.
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I had no reason not to believe that headline
it also seems quite hilarious that the boys over in Minny are already making fun of him basically being a moron and getting hurt doing stupid shit.
I really liked Zumaya in 06, then it just got very frustrating to the point I forgot he was a part of the organization on numerous occasions and was actually annoyed when he would have a decent spring/start to the season b/c I knew the wasted talent was about to go back to the DL at any moment.
by WorldSeriesTiger on Feb 1, 2012 9:13 AM EST up reply actions
Twinkie Town is good at it
all we get is “Ra BUM!” Stupid above-average Minnesotans being above average.,
by Kurt Mensching on Feb 1, 2012 9:27 AM EST up reply actions
One from Boston and one from Ohio
I’m not sure this is helping matters!
by Kurt Mensching on Feb 1, 2012 10:31 AM EST up reply actions
that is the first time I saw that and its fantastic
by WorldSeriesTiger on Feb 1, 2012 11:50 AM EST up reply actions
might I recommend everyone make a daily practice at glancing at the fanshots in the right sidebar?
We have a couple of people who do a great job of finding and linking to stories of interest. not all of them are promoted to the front page but it’s worth looking over their finds
by Kurt Mensching on Feb 1, 2012 11:55 AM EST up reply actions
Bad Karma
due to the Tigers turning him into a reliever. His production as a starter couldn’t have been any worse than this. They should have left well enough along and let his arm just flame out.
Whenever I read about Zumaya having a another one of his career ending injuries for some reason it reminds of the Indians decision in March 1957. Maybe because both pitchers had such great potential only to have their careers basically destroyed because of freak injuries.
March 19, 1957 – Indians reject Boston’s offer of $1 million for Herb Score
May 7, 1957 – Indians’ pitcher Herb Score is hit by a line drive off Gil McDougald
Score would have probably gone on to become one greatest pitchers of his era if the only the Indians had sold him to the Red Sox. Seriously what happened to Herb Score was a true baseball tragedy
His first 73 games and 73 starts in MLB commencing when he was just 22 years old before the McDougald episode.
Wins – 38
Losses – 20
CG – 30 (They used to go 9 in those days)
IP – 512
K – 547
ERA – Around 2.60
WAR – 15.0
Here is the box score from the last game he pitched vs the Tigers before the tragedy.
I enjoy the humor as much as anyone. But my interest in BYB is to read factual stories about the Tigers and baseball. So I wish we could reduce the number of “satire posts” and post more about things going on or even opinions about what is going on with the Tigers and baseball.
Flame away. But that is just how I feel about it…
If you can find actual news about the Tigers right now
Well, we’d all love to see it. Until then, we’re going to have some fun.
You joined just to say that?
"Some guy told me I should walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded" Ken Singleton
by NCDee on Feb 1, 2012 8:51 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
In all honesty
When I originally posted the link and the quote I didn’t know it was satire. I was browsing the twins page and saw Zoom’s name and read it, copied, pasted and went on my merry way. I didn’t look at the other things in the article and it wasn’t until Rob pointed out that it was satire that I realized the error I made.
The really sad thing is that something like that was so believable out of Zoom that I didn’t even really blink an eye about it and/or think that it would be fake.
This is so much more believable
than the Prince signing. Of course we all fell for it at this point in time.
by manic in Detroit on Feb 1, 2012 10:37 PM EST reply actions
Wait . . .
. . . you mean that this business about signing Prince Fielder was just satire?
I am so gullible . . .
by rea on Feb 2, 2012 2:02 PM EST up reply actions
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