Owww, That's Gonna Leave a Mark!

Nothing can make a man cringe more than see or hearing about another man getting hit in the groin. The crotch shot. Nad tap. Blow to the solar plexus. None are a pleasing thought to the male population.

In Wednesday nights game between the Seattle Mariners and Chicago White Sox, Mariners third baseman Adrian Beltre fielded a one-hopper off with his groin. That in itself is bad enough, but to add insult to injury, Adrian does NOT wear a cup! That's right folks, he took a hard one to the nuts and as a result, received an injured testicle and possibly some internal bleeding. Beltre has been put on the 15-day DL and may miss the remainder of the season if the injury requires surgery.

I wonder if the air was sucked out of the stadium after Beltre was hit? You can picture 24,000 fans cringing and sucking air between their teeth. I remember attending an Indianapolis Indians game many years ago at Busch Stadium and seeing a Nashville Sounds player take a line drive to the crotch. Thankfully he had a cup, but it still took about five minutes before he could get up and a limp off the field.

Amazingly, Beltre finished the game after the injury, which occurred in the ninth inning and was won by the Mariners in the 14th. When told he was brave to have finished the game, Beltre stated, "I don't know about brave. Maybe stupid." Beltre has chosen not to wear a protective cup because he feels it impedes his movement and is uncomfortable. So how comfortable are you now, Adrian? I think I will take uncomfortable versus a swollen and possibly fractured testicle. Wouldn't you?

No, We Haven't Forgotten About You

Don't put out a Missing Persons APB out on us yet. We really are still around, but unfortunately we have been distracted away from our duties here as most of us are "Working for a Livin'." Slut & I need to start beating up Kringlebert & Oswald to start actually writing something...anything at this point! O'Hoolix is away at a secret mascot training center with a batch of new recruits and has not had access to a computer, so we will excuse him until he gets back. So the rest of you get off your damn asses and do something for once!



Most of the LomHenn crew are fans of Huey Lewis & The News as we all grew up in the 80's and have been to several concerts through the years. (Wheeeeeeeee! - That's for you Kringlebert.) However, I have to say that the picture below is not the kind of duet I ever expected out of Huey.






Yes, that is Chris Berman singing up on stage with Huey during the song "Walking on a Thin Line." I can't imagine why Huey chose to bring him up on stage, but evidently this is not the first time it has happened. Those of us at LomHenn would have preferred "Bad Is Bad" believe it is a more apt song title for Chris Berman to sing because generally we feel anything out of Berman's mouth is pretty bad! And if this is it, then I really will want a new drug and need a couple days off.


A shout out to AwfulAnnouncing.com for jumping on this one.

Maybe we can go "Back in Time" and go to "Plan B" to keep this from happening...I know, enough of the damn HLN references already.