Injuries can absolutely destroy a great baseball team, just take the 2009 New York Mets for example. Injuries have decimated their $145 million roster sending the majority of their starting roster to the DL, but at least none of the Amazin’s are out with injuries like these.

Baseball players have suffered some pretty strange injuries off the field so we’ve gone ahead and complied 10 of the best. One of the players below actually burned himself while ironing a shirt…that he was wearing at the time. (more…)

Over the last year, people have grown more and more in love with animals. They can’t stand seeing anything happen to one of the world’s lovely little creatures – that is until now.

We all saw the pictures (and I got to see the video!) of Pedro Martinez releasing a chicken (rooster…whatever) into a cockfight in the Dominican Republic. For a couple of hours, it was everywhere. The result? Even the most inside net hounds can’t track down the video, and everyone seems to be defending the Dominican right and legality to strap razor blades to the feet of 2 pissed off chickens and let them go at it.

WOW! Oh how times have changed. No PETA rally, no Chicken Lovers’ Coalition, no Al Sharpton, no calls for lethal injection – nada, nothing, zip.

…Huh…it makes me wonder, what if Pedro were a Yankee…

(Cue dream sequence) (more…)

USA Today has confirmed thats Cy Young award winning pitcher Johan Santana has been shipped off to the New York Mets.

The New York Mets have agreed to a trade for two-time Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana, giving up four prospects to acquire the left-handed ace of the Minnesota Twins, according to two high-ranking Twins officials with knowledge of the talks and a person close to Santana.

The deal is pending the Mets and Santana reaching agreement on a six- or seven-year contract extension and that Santana passes a physical; they have been granted a 48 to-72-hour window to do so. Santana has a no-trade clause that he will waive if agreement is reached on a contract extension.

The Mets paid a high price in prospects to land Santana, agreeing to send the Twins outfielder Carlos Gomez and pitchers Phil Humber, Deolis Guerra and Kevin Mulvey.