There’s been a lot of pie controversy in baseball lately. The Florida Marlins have banned shaving cream pie throwing & other such hi-jinx because Chris Coghlan somehow managed to injure his knee when he jumped to throw a pie in the face of teammate Wes Helms after he hit a game-winning home run.
As I’ve written before, a shaving cream pie in the face has become a tradition in baseball, typically when a player hits a game-winning home run, but it has been used for other feats, including Stephen Strasburg’s 14 strikeout debut.
A lot of people are talking about ways of trying to prevent these high-paid ballplayers from hurting themselves doing juvenile things (namely pie-throwing). I don’t really think that’s necessary & the folks over at the Sports Pickle make that obvious by posting the 20 Most Ridiculously Humiliating Sports Injuries of All-Time.
For example, number 4 on the list is when Nolan Ryan missed a start because he had to get a series of rabies shots after he decided to pick up some baby coyotes!
The point is, these guys are going to get injured in ridiculous and unfortunate ways and you can’t stop it. With that said, please don’t take the pie out of baseball.
If they are really concerned about pie-throwing in baseball – maybe they should just start using the classic “pie in the face” game to throw the pies – no players would get hurt that way:
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