The Agony of Victory.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

We are the champ--YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWCH!


http://www.boston.com/sports/schools/baseball/articles/2009/06/28/fractured_fairy_tale/?page=1

]Auburn senior Chris Halliday threw the final pitch of his high school career, retiring a Plymouth North batter on a fly ball to center to seal a 2-1 victory in the Division 2 state championship game. Then came the obligatory pig-pile on the mound as Halliday was smothered by more than a dozen of his closest friends and teammates. Then came the leaping chest bump with catcher Kyle Beede. Then an awkward landing and the sound of bones breaking above Halliday�s left ankle...

[metirish]

Every time I see a pile I wonder if one of them will get hurt.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

That was the popular rumor re: Brad Lidge's knee issue, no?

[Gwreck]

I'd never heard that. Cool.

I remember Minnesota infield Denny Hocking getting hurt after his hand got stepped on in an ALDS-winning celebration in 2002. Seems to me he missed the ALCS as a result.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Insane.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

And the truly crazy thing is... it WASN'T the crazy, suffocating pig-pile that got him.

This is closer, mechanically, to when Arizona kicker Bill Gramatica was jumping up and down like an a-hole after making a figgie against the Giants... and tore his ACL.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Rick Aguilera.