Old Time Family Baseball

Don’t ever get in a fight with Miguel Olivo because he will tear you apart with his bare hands and eat your entrails raw. According to the Jim Armstrong of the Denver Post, not only did Miguel Olivo pass kidney stones yesterday and play in the game, he passed the stones during the game:

Tough? You want tough? We take you to the eighth inning of the Rockies-Diamondbacks game Monday night, when Miguel Olivo passed a kidney stone in the bathroom adjacent to the dugout.

The amazing part is what he did a few minutes later. He strapped on his catching gear and returned to his croutch behind home plate.

“Believe me, it’s not fun,” said Olivo. “Sometimes, when I’ve got that thing, I just want to die. But I can handle pain a little bit. Once it’s gone, I’m notmal [sic], I’m good. Let’s play baseball.”

 I recently had a bout of kidney stones and I had trouble not sobbing every time I went to the bathroom, much less getting back into the crouch and playing baseball. Miguel Olivo, you’re my hero.