HuskerBob Posted September 30, 2004 Share Posted September 30, 2004 This is nutz. this pitcher was shot while riding on the team bus on the way to the airport. the even more bizare is that he hapnd to be wearing a cheerleader outfit and the high boot is believed to have stopped the bullet from doing more damage than it did. dont believe me?? read for yourself! Cleveland pitcher's reaction to being shot on team bus calms rest of team BILL DRAPER Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Cleveland Indians pitcher Kyle Denney was expected to rejoin his team Thursday in Minneapolis after being struck in the calf Wednesday night by a bullet fired into a team bus near Kauffman Stadium. Denney, a rookie who started Wednesday's game against the Royals but didn't figure into the decision, stayed overnight at a Kansas City hotel after being treated and released from a hospital, team spokesman Bart Swain said. Kansas City police have received several phoned-in tips, but have no solid suspects in the shooting, spokesman Sgt. Tony Sanders said Thursday morning. "I don't even know what side of the bus it was on," Sanders said of the bullet. "It could have come from another vehicle, from the frontage road there; it could have come from anywhere." He said the bullet went through the outside of the bus, which was at the intersections of Interstate 70 and 435 as the team was headed to Kansas City International Airport. The shooting occurred soon after Cleveland finished a three-game sweep of Kansas City, handing the Royals their 101st loss of the season - the most in team history. Swain said all of Cleveland's rookies were dressed in cheerleader outfits as part of an annual ritual - Denney's choice was Southern California - and the mood on the bus was jovial until Denney was shot. "They didn't really know what it was, at first," Swain said. "Once they found out Kyle had been hit, there was some panic. But he was so calm through the ordeal, and once his calmness settled on everyone else, it calmed the situation." Swain said the team's trainers thought the high white boots Denney was wearing as part of his cheerleader outfit may have prevented a more serious injury. The bullet didn't lodge very far into Denney's leg, and trainers were able to remove it before he went to the hospital. "It's disturbing," Allard Baird, the Royals' general manager, said Thursday. "Whether it's a bus full of major league baseball players and their staff members or one person driving down the road, it's very disturbing that something like this could happen. Why anybody would just take a random shot like that is amazing to me. Thank heavens no one was hurt seriously." Sanders said shootings into vehicles occasionally happen in the metro area, just not on the interstate. "We deal with a fair amount of those over the course of the year," he said. "This being the interstate, though, we don't have people on a regular basis going down the interstate randomly firing at vehicles. The fact that we haven't found someone makes it all the more serious. It could be someone who would want to do it again." http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/n...ews/9796894.htm Quote Link to comment
AR Husker Fan Posted October 1, 2004 Share Posted October 1, 2004 Proof positive that baseball players have waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much time on their hands... Quote Link to comment
Benard Posted October 1, 2004 Share Posted October 1, 2004 Proof positive that baseball players have waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much time on their hands... every sport is like that. Quote Link to comment
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