When Horseplaying Goes Wrong

After walk-off hits and homeruns, the team has a right to celebrate. I mean it is the thrill of victory and you want to express yourself.

Well on Sunday when the Florida Marlins defeated the Atlanta Braves this happened again.

During a TV interview after the game, playing too much went terribly wrong.

Chris Coghlan, the 2009 NL rookie of the year, was attempting to give teammate Wes Helms a face-pie after the game-winning hit.

It wasn't the pie that was the problem; it was the after effects that the horseplay caused. Coghlan tore the meniscus in his left knee.

What seems like a tradition has ended in injury and one must wonder if this tradition should be done away with. When is "playing too much" too much?

Tell Coghlan what he's won.

A stint on the DL. It'll be a pretty legnthy one too, probably for the remainder of the regular season. 6-8 weeks if he has surgery and then we haven't included rehabilitation, time in A, AA, and/or AAA. Not to mention shattered pride and dignity.

This has Martin Gramatica written all over it.

This has been one of those seasons where we have seen very odd injuries occur in the MLB. With the trade deadline looming, what will we see next?

Dan Haren was traded on Sunday and already has succumbed to injury on his first start for the Angels.

Next up, we don't know, but when do we tell tradition to take a back seat?