Greensboro, NC -- The 2007 City of Greensboro Kickball Champions took to the field last night to defend their lofty title. Playing a "new" team to the league served as a nice warm-up for Opening Night. The Ball Busters pitched a shutout through 7, and put up 5 runs in the first inning to easily win 8-2. After being a little antsy after two rainouts, I kicked a triple in my first "at-kick." A pop-up to the middle infield/short right field caused me to tag up for a sacrifice fly. The problem was their catcher, a girl was blocking the plate at the exact same time that the ball was incoming and that I was running down the third base line. I slid, took the girl out as if I pulled the rug out from underneath her, and scored. She landed on top of me. "Just ask for her number next time, Attridge" shouts a teammate.
In the 8th inning with 2 outs, one of their players kicked (or sliced) a ball with some wicked backspin in my direction at first base. I caught the ball with my hands, but the impact of the ball bent the top portion of my right pinkie finger backwards. The bone fell out of joint and I popped it back in. After a trip to the ER last night and a splint placed on the pinkie, it was determined today by the orthopaedist that I dislocated my right pinkie finger and that I would need 3 micro screws inserted in surgery. Out 4-6 weeks. Just like my torn hamstring last fall, this latest injury occurred on Opening Night. I'm going "under the knife" on Tuesday. I'm currently sporting a Carolina blue cast. I can barely type and I'm using the mouse with my left hand.
Another Opening Night, another injury...
3 comments:
Brian! What the F man! and what is the deal with people needing surgery from playing sports with rubber balls?? Our cousin had surgery on his spiral fractured arm from being hit by the ball during a dodge ball game!!!
The surgery went well.
All I can say is, #1, where were you on Saturday for the greatest time ever?
I'm sorry, I heard that you were going to be milking another injury and I couldn't bare to hear you whine about how you injured yourself AGAIN during kickball!
Some of us actually do things, important things, like get masters degrees and have to work hard to achieve a sense of worth in life...
I wish I could have been there but I was knee deep in my 30 page (really only 18 pages)research paper, that is not due until Friday, so I actually finished it and turned it in EARLY, another concept you probably know nothing about....neither do I, it's the first time in my 24 year education career that I've ever done that
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