Matt McBride breaks foot during home run trot???

[El Supremo]

Sky Sox utility player Matt McBride walked through the big-league clubhouse Saturday on crutches, a day after breaking his foot during a home run trot.

McBride hit his first Triple-A homer of the season Friday, during the third inning in Colorado Springs against the Oklahoma City Redhawks. But as he jogged between first and second base, he felt a pop.

“It was like I got shot,” McBride said.

McBride broke the metatarsal bone in his right foot, he said, and may have aggravated a previous stress fracture. He’ll return “hopefully sometime in June,” he said.

McBride was hitting .265 with 9 RBIs this season for the Sky Sox, mostly as an outfielder. He’s played catcher, infielder and outfielder for the Rockies in spring trainings.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/rockies/2014/04/19/michael-cuddyers-injury-now-clock-rockies-matt-mcbride-breaks-foot-hr-trot/17244/

The Sox did win 10-9.

[bigwillq]

1. Hope it's just a fluke thing

and not an underlying cause of something else.

[KamaAina]

2. Karma

the Sky Sox were once known as the Hawaii Islanders, a Madres affiliate. (Tony Gwynn once played there.) Serves 'em right. Hawai'i, the second or third country where baseball was played (Canada is the other claimant), now has no pro baseball

[El Supremo]

3. When I briefly lived in Hawaii I kept saying...

"back in the states...." I won't say when it was, but it was after statehood.

Man, did I catch a lot of flack! "Stupid Tex-Haole!"

[KamaAina]

4. The correct phrase is

"back on The Continent".

And wouldn't that be "stupit Colo-haole"?

[El Supremo]

5. I thought "mainland" was prefered.

And back then I was from Texas.

All I knew about Hawaii was what I had seen on Hawaii 50. The native Hawaiians in Hilo had great fun with me.

[KamaAina]

6. Well, generally, yes

and that reminds me of a local joke. A guy flies in to Honolulu from Texas. Being from Texas, he naturally has a certain amount of braggadocio. So he grabs a cab into Waikiki. The cab driver, a local boy, says "How do you like our Honolulu International Airport? We built it in only two years!" The guy says, "Aw hell! In Texas we could have built that in one year!" So they head on into town and pass Aloha Tower. "How do you like our Aloha Tower? We built that in only one year." "Aw hell, in Texas we could have built that in six months." So on they go, and just before they reach Waikiki, they see a huge shopping center on their left. The Texas guy asks "What's that?"

The cab driver responds, "Dunno, brah. Wasn't there yesterday!"