Strangest Career Ending Injury

Jpotapoff · 05-21-2008, 01:38 AM

What's the most unusual career ending injuries have you seen.

In my current league I got two weird ones.

First off Floyd Bannister tore a back muscle by falling down his stairs while moving into his new house.

The next day the Twins lost Win Remmerswaal due to a fractured elbow which happened while throwing a frisbee to his dog...

Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if both reports didn't start off with a cheery
"Wacky things do happen in baseball and one just did to..."

CEI shouldn't have such cheery, non-nonchalant reports..

blackrussian · 05-21-2008, 02:53 AM

interesting. ive never seen a CEI on an off-field injury. then again, they are fairly indeterminate. if you look at the text file, the boolean for length is "light injury" (0 = doesn't matter, 1 = yes). there are no booleans for season or career ending injuries, nor length. i may just have to go through my file and add light injuries for most of these. cause at some point, someone is gonna end his career getting beat up by his girlfriend

any chance of a screenshot?

Cryomaniac · 05-21-2008, 07:11 AM

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Originally Posted by blackrussian

interesting. ive never seen a CEI on an off-field injury. then again, they are fairly indeterminate. if you look at the text file, the boolean for length is "light injury" (0 = doesn't matter, 1 = yes). there are no booleans for season or career ending injuries, nor length. i may just have to go through my file and add light injuries for most of these. cause at some point, someone is gonna end his career getting beat up by his girlfriend

any chance of a screenshot?

I repeated pretty much all of the off the field injuries in my file, made one copy a light injury, the other a non-light injury.

RMc · 05-21-2008, 07:15 AM

I added "abducted by a UFO" to my CEI file a while back, but I haven't seen it happen yet...

Markus Heinsohn · 05-21-2008, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by RMc

I added "abducted by a UFO" to my CEI file a while back, but I haven't seen it happen yet...

LMAO! That's a good one... maybe I should add it to the game...

ootp3to6 · 05-21-2008, 08:15 AM

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Originally Posted by RMc

I added "abducted by a UFO" to my CEI file a while back, but I haven't seen it happen yet...

What a hoot. How do you edit this file?

MidnightPyro · 05-21-2008, 09:13 AM

I think my favorite one of all time was the one where players would be injured because they were "'Hit' by a coyote". The mental image there makes me laugh every time, so I always try to add that one back.

Jpotapoff · 05-21-2008, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by blackrussian

interesting. ive never seen a CEI on an off-field injury. then again, they are fairly indeterminate. if you look at the text file, the boolean for length is "light injury" (0 = doesn't matter, 1 = yes). there are no booleans for season or career ending injuries, nor length. i may just have to go through my file and add light injuries for most of these. cause at some point, someone is gonna end his career getting beat up by his girlfriend

any chance of a screenshot?

Hmm I was going to say no because I already deleted the messages but they should still show up in the prospective teams' news.

The interesting thing was the reports didn't say they were CEIs, both said out for 16 to 17 months. But I noticed that the players were released (since they were in a generic uniform instead of a Yankees or Twins uniform) so I opened their profiles and saw that injury length was Career over.

CEI for falling down the stairs I can believe although fairly unlikely. But CEI from throwing a frisbee seems a bit much.

RchW · 05-22-2008, 12:09 AM

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Originally Posted by RMc

I added "abducted by a UFO" to my CEI file a while back, but I haven't seen it happen yet...

Which brings to mind one of the funniest posts/threads ever.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...orkholder.html

ctorg · 05-22-2008, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by RchW

Which brings to mind one of the funniest posts/threads ever.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...orkholder.html

I somehow missed that the first time around. It's really hilarious.

Nick Beam · 07-09-2008, 10:37 AM

Reading Phillies starting pitcher Zack Stott suffered a fractured skull falling off the back of a pick-up truck. I always wondered what the hell he was doing to get an injury like that.

05-21-2008, 01:38 AM	#1 (permalink)
Jpotapoff Minors (Double A) Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 168 Thanks: 16 Thanked 6x in 5 posts	Strangest Career Ending Injury What's the most unusual career ending injuries have you seen. In my current league I got two weird ones. First off Floyd Bannister tore a back muscle by falling down his stairs while moving into his new house. The next day the Twins lost Win Remmerswaal due to a fractured elbow which happened while throwing a frisbee to his dog... Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if both reports didn't start off with a cheery "Wacky things do happen in baseball and one just did to..." CEI shouldn't have such cheery, non-nonchalant reports..

05-21-2008, 02:53 AM	#2 (permalink)
blackrussian All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 870 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	interesting. ive never seen a CEI on an off-field injury. then again, they are fairly indeterminate. if you look at the text file, the boolean for length is "light injury" (0 = doesn't matter, 1 = yes). there are no booleans for season or career ending injuries, nor length. i may just have to go through my file and add light injuries for most of these. cause at some point, someone is gonna end his career getting beat up by his girlfriend any chance of a screenshot? __________________ v'

05-21-2008, 07:15 AM	#4 (permalink)
RMc Major Leagues Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 492 Thanks: 15 Thanked 28x in 17 posts	I added "abducted by a UFO" to my CEI file a while back, but I haven't seen it happen yet... __________________ "We're all behind our baseball team..."

05-21-2008, 09:13 AM	#7 (permalink)
MidnightPyro Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 228 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1x in 1 post	I think my favorite one of all time was the one where players would be injured because they were "'Hit' by a coyote". The mental image there makes me laugh every time, so I always try to add that one back. __________________

07-09-2008, 10:37 AM	#11 (permalink)
Nick Beam Bat Boy Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Somers Point, NJ Posts: 4 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	Zack Stott Reading Phillies starting pitcher Zack Stott suffered a fractured skull falling off the back of a pick-up truck. I always wondered what the hell he was doing to get an injury like that.

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