The dangers of fishing! (Baseball related)

You could miss a spring training start or two:

Peavy cuts finger while preparing to fish

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) -- Jake Peavy arrived at Boston's spring training complex on Monday with a large white bandage covering his left index finger, the result of a weekend accident.

The right-hander, scratched from his scheduled spring training debut Monday against Pittsburgh in Bradenton, said he was hurt Saturday.

''Just getting ready to go fishing,'' he said. ''I promised my little boy I would take him fishing, so we went to Bass Pro and we bought us some rods and reels that were comboed.

Peavy said he was ''trying to cut the wire tie that was holding them together, using the knife with my right hand and holding the rod with my left, and when I broke the wire tie, it struck the knuckle pretty good.''

Since Peavy didn't want to disappoint his son they drove to teammate John Lackey's house. But while pulling the knife out of his hand, Peavy said he struck a vein and got a good amount of blood on his shorts.

Peavy said he threw away the shorts at Lackey's house and changed. Lackey told Peavy he should get the wound examined.

Peavy then went fishing and didn't catch anything.

''I couldn't tell my 5-year-old I didn't want to go fishing anymore,'' Peavy said. ''It was his last day here. I couldn't say, 'We'll go tomorrow.' It wasn't the biggest deal in the world. Not much we could have done except - the biggest thing was, they were freaking out, thinking I was cleaning fish with the knife.''

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/peavy-cuts-finger-while-preparing-204506070--mlb.html

BTW, Adam Dunn would never had made such a rookie mistake.

clippers for wire, not a knife....says the guy with scars all over his left hand .

Huh, I kinda like Peavy now. Funny story and I think he did the right thing! At least he wasn't riding a moped or "washing his truck" LOL