Watch those tricycles, Charlie!
Charlie Manuel assumed his customary spot Sunday at Osceola County Stadium. He did not expect to be struck by a man riding a tricycle. Nothing like some spring training humor.
Watch those tricycles, Charlie!
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — It is a spring training tradition for the manager and some of his coaches to sit in lawn chairs next to the team's dugout. Charlie Manuel assumed his customary spot Sunday at Osceola County Stadium with pitching coach Rich Dubee to his left and catching coach Mick Billmeyer to his right.
He did not expect to be struck by a man riding a tricycle. Ah, the hazards of being a big-league manager.
The Astros, like most teams, organize gimmicky in-between innings contests. One of them was a two-man tricycle race from dugout to dugout, along the warning track.
"I saw him coming," Manuel said. "I thought, 'We better get over.' He got me. Big ol' three-wheeler."
The tricycle ran over Manuel's toes. The manager jumped up to avoid further contact. Everyone around him, including Dubee and Billmeyer, could not stop laughing.
"Dubee is supposed to stop him there," Manuel said. "He's supposed to save me. He just let me get run over."
After the Phillies one-hit Houston in a 7-1 victory, Manuel recounted the collision outside the visiting clubhouse. Phillies senior adviser Dallas Green, who scouted the game, saw Manuel.
"Watch those tricycles," Green yelled.
Nothing like some spring training humor.
"That was pretty good," Manuel said.
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Did it knock some sabremetrics into him?...— ExiledinFla- "'Sabermetrics'.....makes baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!"
Only a-holes embrace "sabermetrics." - Sue! Just watch, the toe injury will make his head bobble when he goes to the mound.— COskier
- i hope doc didnt throw at the guy riding the tricycle!!— thekruker
- @ExiledinFla: Only if his brains are in his big toe. Come to think of it.....— ghost of callison
- Yet another WHEELS issue— NewMick314
Binocs Billmeyer could not see this coming?
Ok, exploratory look into standup comedy complete with a FAIL.- Was it a Hoveround?— Joseph DeSantis
- Tricycle now wheel chair next.— Phil Lee
- Rumor has it that it was a failed Mets plot to knock the tactical brain of the Phillies out of commission for the first half of the season to improve their own chances of winning the pennant.— Jacob
- And then cameras caught the Phillies' 3rd baseman clearly signalling the pitcher on the mound to bean the culprit in the ribs... Oh wait, that was Mexico.— atb124
