Kevin "Cupcake" Mitchell revisited

[Gantry]

From my Hall of Shame page, just thought I'd make sure everyone knew how big of an idiot Mitchell is:

   * Was shot three times during his brief stint as a member of the Synod street gang in San Diego. This was previous to his baseball career, I think...

   * Before making a name for himself in MLB circles, Mitchell got into a brawl with a young Darryl Strawberry during a pickup baseketball game in 1981.

   * Sued by a former girlfriend in 1989, who claimed that Mitchell beat her and threatened her with a gun. Charges were dropped after Mitchell agreed to enter a domestic violence program.

   * Injured himself while eating a cupcake.

   * Missed a game after straining his eyelids

   * With good buddy Dwight Gooden over at his house, Mitchell cut off the head of his girlfriend's cat.

   * Missed some time because he strained a muscle while vomiting

   * Is rumored to eat Vicks Vapor Rub. Somehow I think that might be related to the vomiting injuries...

   * Was arrested in August of 1999 for felony battery after hitting his own father during a dispute. It gets better... The dispute took place because Mitchell was trying to evict his own father from a house he was renting him. Apparently daddy was a bit behind on the payments. This is easily my favorite story on the Hall O' Shame....

   * As a member of the Western League's Sonoma County Crushers, Mitchell was suspended for 9 games after punching the opposing team's owner in the mouth. Mitchell first started a brawl by rushing the mound after an inside pitch. Mitchell got his owner-shot in shortly after the prevously fight he started had ended.

   * In 2002, as manager of the Sonoma County Crushers, Mitchell was suspended for 7 games after punching an opposing team's 3rd base coach. The coach was apparently stealing signs...

[vgp100]

He really needs some anger management. How can you cut the head off a cat? That's kind of evil.

[BeefMaster]

Heh, heh... I'd forgotten just how funny the Kevin Mitchell story is.  It reminded me of something I found on ESPN's Page2 awhile back - the Page2 All-Bizzare-Injury team (Mitchell is on it, of course).  Check it out; it's full of RBIers: http://espn.go.com/page2/s/holloman/020307.html

I think Denny Hocking of the Twins deserves a mention, as well - in 2001, he hit a game-winning pinch-hit homerun, and when the team mobbed him at home plate, someone hit his helmet wrong and broke his nose.  Then last year, during the celebration after the Twins' first-round defeat of the A's, he got spiked by someone and cut his hand badly enough that he couldn't play in the ALCS.

[Gantry]

There are so many quality injuries that it's tough to choose anymore.  Mitchell's cupcake is #1 for me, but the details on it are nonexistant.  Makes me laugh every time tho...

As far as confirmed injuries, it's Vince Coleman missing the 1985 World Series after getting rolled up in the tarp machine.  Simply a classic...