Brandon Inge angles for a lucrative pillow endorsement

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 Brandon Inge angles for a lucrative pillow endorsement
We've heard about players getting hurt while sneezing , while sleepwalking through a nightmare about spiders and after kicking an iron bar stool .  But we had never heard of a pillow-lifting injury in baseball — that is, until Detroit Tigers ' everyman Brandon Inge reported  an overstuffed owie on Wednesday, earning a feather-paved (and probably overdue) path to the injury ... [link]

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Pillow Talk with Brandon Inge
Published 6/27/2008 by Ian Casselberry at Bless You Boys: Front Page Posts
... Big League Stew's getting a lot of love here today, but 'Duk reminded me of another bit of Tigers news that that was lost in lieu of two-hour rain delays and matinee baseball.  (Plus, we're getting a bit of traffic from his post, which got me to thinking that we should comment on the story.)  We're talking, of course, about the revelation that Brandon Inge aggravated his oblique injury in bed the other night. ...

PM Roundup: The Server Is Down - Watch Vanilla Sky!
Published 6/27/2008 by Cousins of Ron Mexico at The Big Lead
... to what a certain-someone says… And then a couple days later I post an 8,000 word interview with that exact person… Well… MDS interviews AJ Daulerio, who has beaten the odds to overcome a deadly disease known as “toxic shock.” After recovery, he was given a new title by his employer. (Fan House) Marshawn Lynch admits he was behind the wheel. (USA Today) Brandon Inge was injured by a pillow. (Big League Stew) Warren Sapp will be on Dancing With the Stars. ( ...

Brandon Inge vs. pillows: the truth of the matter
Published 6/27/2008 by Samara Pearlstein at Roar of the Tigers
... I’m mostly reacting to the fact that this is the headline story on Yahoo right now. The story is right here (don’t read the comments unless you want to lose faith in all of humanity. seriously), but at the moment it’s the very first thing you see when you visit the Yahoo homepage. This will probably (hopefully) change by later tonight, but the fact is that lots and lots of people who wouldn’t know Brandon Inge from Justin Verlander right now are reading this story. On the off-chance that people come looking to Tigers blogs for more on ...

From the WTF File
Published 6/28/2008 by Jeff V (noreply@blogger.com) at JV Sports
WTF.

This Week in Bloggernets: Ninjas and The Heckling Society!
Published 6/28/2008 by Dan Lamothe, Red Sox Monster at Red Sox Monster - MassLive.com
... ) -- Brandon Inge of the Tigers, talking about his pillow-related injury. Seriously. ( Big League Stew ) -- Who said golf was an elitist sport? ( ...

BLOG: 6/29/08 Quick Links
Published 6/29/2008 by Baseball Crank at Baseball Crank
*Maybe when you hurt yourself moving pillows on your bed, it's a sign you're not really cut out to be a professional athlete. *Price fixing does not sound like a useful solution to the hazards of maple bats. (H/T). Does anyone really think Major League ballplayers are currently using cheap knockoff bats? *George Carlin on Kiner's Korner. And a few of his one-liners from the later stage of his career (i.e., when he wasn't high). Some of those were only funny because of Carlin's delivery, and some have become cliches by now, but ...

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Tigers' Inge loses battle with pillow, placed on DL | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

For the past three weeks or so, the rigors of baseball couldn't aggravate Brandon Inge's side injury enough for him to be placed on the disabled list. What those rigors couldn't accomplish, a pillow did. "It was the stupidest, most freakish thing," ...
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