Every team has injuries, but has any team had the kind of injuries that have afflicted the Chicago Cubs over the past few decades?
They weren't trying to win the World Series...they were trying to win America's Funniest Home Videos.
Pitcher Mike Harkey was a first round pick of the Cubs who had a very promising 1990 season, winning 12 games. The following year he was goofing around in the outfield before the game doing handsprings and cartwheels. He landed wrong, tore up his knee, and was never the same pitcher.
- Outfielder GlenAllen Hill hit one of the most ridiculous home runs in Chicago Cubs history.
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Unfortunately, he also once landed on the disabled list after being injured during a nightmare. He thought he was being attacked by spiders.
- Infielder Randy Veres hurt his hand pounding on the wall of his hotel room. He was trying to get the people next door to make less noise.
Pitcher Mike Morgan was minding his own business in his backyard, when he slipped on a boulder near his swimming pool, and was hurt badly enough to miss the first month of the season.
- Infielder Bret Barberie once missed a game after he accidentally rubbed some chile juice into his eyes.
- Reliever Mike Remlinger once accomplished the impossible. He hurt his hand while sitting in his Lazy-Boy recliner.
In his last season with the Cubs, Sammy Sosa missed an entire month after he injured his back during a violent sneeze.
- And last year during spring training, after having scores of legitimate arm injuries and valiantly working his way back to the majors several times, pitcher Kerry Wood slipped and fell in a hot tub.
You want to know the saddest part about all of these injuries? None of them were captured on video, and therefore, none of them won the $10,000 AFV prize.