Take This Quiz

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I don't believe I have ever posted a quiz on Pricescope before, but I really couldn't resist this one! I had been following the saga of Amar'e Stoudemire of the New York Knicks (a basketball team) versus the fire extingusiher-actually a glass encased fire extinguisher-on the radio. Then in, "The New York Times" today I saw this quiz. It challenges the reader to match the athlete with the piece of equipment he has done battle with. See how well you do at matching the man (for all the atletes are men) with the item!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/sports/basketball/stoudemire-joins-a-long-list-of-athletes-who-fought-objects.html

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[AGBF]

Below are some quotations from the article, "Anger Mismanagement: Volcanic Athletes and Impetuous Acts" by Mike Tanier which appeared in the May 1, "The New York Times".

"The fire extinguisher remains undefeated. The dugout trash can has never lost a fight. The clubhouse wall has a better winning percentage than any team in the history of sports.

When athletes fight inanimate objects, the inanimate objects inevitably win. Amar’e Stoudemire is merely the latest star to be defeated by the true champion of professional sports: arena hardware.

Stoudemire injured his left hand when he punched the fire extinguisher case outside the American Airlines Arena tunnel exit after the Knicks’ 104-94 loss to the Heat in an N.B.A. playoff game Monday night. Paramedics had to treat Stoudemire in the locker room; he left the arena with his hand bandaged and his arm in a sling. He is out of the lineup indefinitely.

The decision to punch a solid aluminum object inside a glass-and-metal case may be irrational, but the athlete who lashes out and punches something inanimate and injurious is rarely thinking rationally.

'Their emotions hijack them,' said Charles Maher, a psychologist for the Cleveland Indians and professor emeritus at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.

Stoudemire joins a long list of players who lost bouts with walls, doors, water coolers and other clubhouse furnishings. Many of these players had New York connections.

Yankees pitcher Kevin Brown broke his left hand when he punched a clubhouse wall after being pulled from a loss to the Baltimore Orioles in 2004. Brown was able to return to the mound two weeks later because he heeded the advice Crash Davis gave Nuke LaLoosh in the film “Bull Durham”: he punched with his nonthrowing hand.

Another Yankees pitcher, A. J. Burnett, sustained cuts to his hands after he slammed them into the plastic announcement holders attached to two swinging doors after getting a quick hook from a 2010 game. Burnett’s injury suggested that the design of the sharp-edged holders may have been as much to blame as the pitcher’s temper.

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The list of players with wall-related injuries is dominated by baseball pitchers.

'When they come off the field, especially following a poor performance, they typically are left alone by teammates,' Maher said. 'It is during this time period when their emotions can get the best of them.'

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(Urinals are clearly the wimps among clubhouse fixtures. Billy Martin destroyed one during an angry tirade in 1983 and escaped unscathed.) "

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[Imdanny]

SO's nephew got mad at his girlfriend and punched a concrete wall. He broke bones in his hands and they were set using metal pins.

I would probably do poorly on this quiz. I don't understand why men (and women?) do this.

 

[slg47]

I don't see the quiz? interesting article though!

my favorite is when Brian Wilson took a baseball bat to the water cooler and then the rest of the team put band-aids on it