Hazing can be good for you
How a rookie Indians pitcher got shot while riding the team bus in weird enough, but how he avoided serious injury is very amusing:

[Team spokesman Bart] Swain said all of Cleveland's rookies were dressed in cheerleader outfits as part of an annual ritual -- Denney's choice was Southern California -- and the mood on the bus was jovial until Denney was shot. ...

Swain said the team's trainers thought the high white boots Denney was wearing as part of his cheerleader outfit may have prevented a more serious injury. The bullet didn't lodge very far into Denney's leg, and trainers were able to remove it before he went to the hospital.


And in another baseball note, it was fascinating watching Vin Scully do play-by-play on two games at once last night. He was calling the action as usual for the Rockies-Dodgers game, but since this is the time for scoreboard watching, you could tell he had the telecast of the Giants-Padres in the booth and giving updates in that game in between the action at Chavez Ravine. It was very entertaining, considering I didn't find the Padres game on my other TV until after the Dodgers finished. And it was amazingly seamless and calm; to think, many announcers can barely call the game in front of him, and Vin is doing double duty just when the action is getting good.