Roy Halladay and The Battle Against Nature

Roy Halladay is one bad mother. He spits in the face of pitch counts and innings limits, he cares not for your version of the strike zone because he’ll pitch anywhere he damn pleases, and instead of lifting weights, he carries the entire city of Philadelphia on his back every time he exercises.

So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that when Halladay was on a fishing trip with Chris Carpenter and BJ Ryan, along with a number professional fisherman, that he would find himself tasked with saving a life. From the apparent 2009 Bassmaster Classic Champion, Skeet Reese:

“Me and Doc Halladay even came across a local, sitting bare naked on a tree by the river. What we were able to figure out is that he was fishing in the river for tropical fish to sell for aquariums when he got attacked by an anaconda.

The snake apparently bit him on the ass but he was able to free himself before the snake wrapped him up. Instead the snake wrapped around his motor on the back of his little 14 foot dugout canoe and tore it off the back of his boat. Doc and I helped him gather his gear and flip the boat back over and then towed him home. You could definitely see the bite mark on his ass, but he was able to fight it off; amazing.”

As they roared off into the distance, I can only hope Halladay tossed a signed ball to the local and, in all seriousness said, “That anaconda don’t want none unless you got buns, hun.”

(h/t Zoo With Roy)