Friday, August 22, 2008

Zambrano Breaks Tooth While Eating Baby, Fighting Godzilla

Maybe this is how he broke his tooth.
Eating a train can be dangerous.

It's being reported that Carlos Zambrano apparently broke his molar in the middle of the game, and yet continued to pitch:

As Zambrano warmed up for the fifth inning, trainer Mark O'Neal noted that he "made a grimace."
O'Neal rushed out and fans were left holding their breath, but before Piniella made it to the mound, the situation had been corrected. And it was nothing to spit at.
Zambrano had cracked an upper right molar but quickly spit it out and proceeded to complete seven innings of one-run ball as the Cubs won their seventh straight series and increased their National League Central lead over idle Milwaukee to 51/2 games.
And exactly how does a pitcher crack a tooth during a game? Well, how does a pitcher who e-mails too much develop cramps in his forearm?
"I think I ate too much gum, and the gum has a lot of sugar," Zambrano said. "I keep telling my daughter not to eat a lot of gum and I'm not a good example. I think my daughters will be all over me at the house. I accept it."


I don't know if I really need to say much here for this to be funny. I mean, how do you crack a tooth on gum? And just to clear things up for the wonderful journalist who wrote this story; he did not get cramps in his forearm from emailing, everyone knows that magical night was when Carlos Zambrano discovered porn on the internet.

2 comments:

Gavin said...

Oddly enough, I cracked a tooth on some Orbit gum a little over a year ago. Just took one bite, and it must have just sucked out the loose part of the tooth, needed a big filling.

btwitty said...

"but quickly spit it out..." that's weird. like the author of this post and most cubs fans, i assumed zambrano swallowed.

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