And don't say "Because he forgot." Reading about the Rockets win last night, and this little paragraph caught my eye: "Griffin had to take a detour before entering the game. He took off his warmup and discovered he'd forgotten to put on his jersey. He went to the locker room to get his jersey before entering the game." Link: Now, I have never thought that Eddie was the sharpest tool in the shed, but I can't fathom this for some reason. Surely, he had a shirt on underneath his warm-ups. If he didn't, then he is REALLY a dodo. Anyway, has anyone else ever heard of a player forgetting to put his jersey on?
One time I forgot how to spell the word "was." We all have our own little moments of brain fart...it's just that athletes have theirs written about.
I remember Steve Lions slid into a base onetime when he was still playing baseball and he got dirt in his pants. So he calmly unbuttoned and opened up his pants a bit to shake the dirt out. The look on his face when he realized he had just partially undressed himself in front of thousands of people was priceless.
I saw him run to the locker room after checking in and actually jokingly said he forgot his jersey! thats funny yet upsetting
more trivia: the greatest of all time sports stories is when Doc Ellis was having fun with his girlfriend thinking he wasn't the starting pitcher that night....and then his girlfriend was reading the paper and said, "Doc, it says here you are supposed to pitch tonight." so, What were they doing that day, and how well did Doc pitch that night?
What happened with Pascaul Perez? Billy Koch this season actually put on the wrong uniform colors during a game. Often, he wears a jacket in the bullpen and doesn't take it off until he warms up (no matter if it's daytime or nighttime). Well, by the 7th inning, he decided to take a peek at what he was wearing. He had to quickly change and luckily he did because he was needed for the save.
I believe that Atlanta had traded for Perez and on one of his first starts, he got lost driving to the ballpark (circled the city like 2 or 3 times) and missed his start.
<blockquote><hr>"I was in Los Angeles, and the team was playing in San Diego , but I didn't know it. I had taken LSD..... I thought it was an off-day, that's how come I had it in me. I took the LSD at noon. At 1pm, his girlfriend and trip partner looked at the paper and said, "Dock, you're pitching today!" "That's when it was $9.50 to fly to San Diego. She got me to the airport at 3:30. I got there at 4:30, and the game started at 6:05pm. It was a twi-night doubleheader. I can only remember bits and pieces of the game. I was psyched. I had a feeling of euphoria. I was zeroed in on the (catcher's) glove, but I didn't hit the glove too much. I remember hitting a couple of batters and the bases were loaded two or three times. The ball was small sometimes, the ball was large sometimes, sometimes I saw the catcher, sometimes I didn't. Sometimes I tried to stare the hitter down and throw while I was looking at him. I chewed my gum until it turned to powder. They say I had about three to four fielding chances. I remember diving out of the way of a ball I thought was a line drive. I jumped, but the ball wasn't hit hard and never reached me." The Pirates won the game, 2-0, although <b>Ellis walked eight batters</b>. It was the highpoint in the baseball career of one of the finer pitchers of his time, and arguably,one of the greatest achievements in the history of sports.<hr></blockquote> I like the part about jumping out of the way of a ball that never reached him. And throwing while staring at the hitter.
Manny, I remember watching/seeing an article somewhere about how perrenial benchwarmers often forget to wear their uniforms. When they realize, they are panic stricken that the Coach will call their number. One particular case was Scot Brooks, of Rocket fame, forgetting to wear his shorts.
