David Aardsma Injures Back Reading a Book
1-liner, Baseball, Pathetic Injuries September 24th. 2009, 11:15amEmbarrassing Injuries: Dave Aardsma, a relief pitcher on the Seattle Mariners, injured his back reading a book. Aardsma began to experience back stiffness after sitting awkwardly – “scrunched up” – while reading a book on a five-hour flight to Florida. Aardsma has played on five teams in five seasons, but this is by far his most productive season (35 saves) as a big-leaguer. [MLB.com]
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September 24th, 2009 at 11:15 AM
only a baseball player
September 24th, 2009 at 11:19 AM
The book seems incidental to the injury. You can make anything sound embarrassing if you willfully misrepresent it with your phrasing.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:19 AM
In all fairness, it was a hardcover.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:20 AM
dude…*shakes head*
September 24th, 2009 at 11:21 AM
The grammar police have impounded this post.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Aardsma began experiment back stiffness
Sent from my iPhone
September 24th, 2009 at 11:27 AM
You can make anything sound embarrassing if you willfully misrepresent it with your phrasing.
Especially if you used the phrase “scrunged up”. Though I would love to see the line on the DL: “Aardsma, David: 15 Day DL, Scrunched up back.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:28 AM
I remember making fun of Sosa when he hurt his back sneezing. Karma is a bitch because I have done the same to my back.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:28 AM
i’m glad he did this now when my team is in the playoffs.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:33 AM
If your back is damaged it’s always the smallest, most embarrassing injury that sets it off. I can’t wait to hear about the athlete who injures his back while taking a shit.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:34 AM
Linguo dead? Linguo is dead.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:35 AM
I can’t wait to hear about the athlete who injures his back while taking a shit.
$10 on this being Prince Fielder. Any takers?
September 24th, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Linguo dead? Linguo is dead.
I am amused to no end.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:36 AM
they always call it a sports hernia. when you try to shit so hard you blow out your o-ring.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:36 AM
All I know is that I almost collapsed after a massive sneeze.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:43 AM
in college, i tore ligaments in my knee when i slipped on the kitchen floor during a super soaker fight.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:46 AM
Ouch.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:46 AM
you know how iphone does autocorrect? i think this new wordpress does it, too. need to start giving things a 3rd read before posting …
September 24th, 2009 at 11:48 AM
I’d do it, but I pulled my back out humping your mom last night. Neetch.
/Clerks’d
September 24th, 2009 at 11:51 AM
in college, i tore ligaments in my knee when i slipped on the kitchen floor during a super soaker fight.
That’s tough. I once passed out sitting up on a bed in a Motel 6, at a party when i was 15. Some other yahoo shoved me off the bed, and I landed head/neck/shoulder first onto the floor. Later that night, i was arrested because I couldn’t run from the cops. After that, I got stingers all the time in my neck and shoulder during football games and practices. I was never again arrested, though.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:53 AM
No joke. It’s easier for me to do deadlifts at the gym then put on my socks and shoes.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:55 AM
I had a friend who had a pulled muscle in his back and already and had to be hospitalized after a case of that hiccups. That friend was me, and there was no hospital, but GODDAMN it hurts to have the hiccups with a pulled muscle anywhere in the trunk eh fellas?
September 24th, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Did they still leave the light on for ya?
September 24th, 2009 at 12:00 PM
I’d do it, but I pulled my back out humping your mom last night. Neetch.
/Clerks’d
+1
September 24th, 2009 at 12:40 PM
That new Dan Brown book must be a backbreaker
/crickets