AP Roy Halladay recently went on an Amazon fishing trip with former Toronto Blue Jay teammates Chris Carpenter and BJ Ryan and friends, where they probably spent most of their time telling Ryan to shut up about the secret pitches they use. Oh, Halladay also saved a local who had been bitten by a gigantic anaconda. The snake also pulverized the man’s boat, and the baseball players towed him back home.
When Halladay’s crew got there the local already had a chunk of his butt bitten off by the snake.
“The Amazon is nothing like I had pictured in my mind. I thought I would be hearing the sounds of birds and animals all day long, but it wasn’t like that. We saw macaws and parrots flying in pairs occasionally, and we heard and saw monkeys, but for the most part, the river was silent, almost eerily silent most of the time. We had plenty of wildlife encounters though. Along with the fishing, we decided to go hunting one night, and Carpenter and B.J. both shot a caiman; which is like an alligator. 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 a** 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 a**, but he was able to fight it off; amazing.”
If you were wondering, the very injury-prone Carpenter injured a foot on the journey when he cracked it on the side of the boat, resulting in a black and blue mark. Ryan probably tore a rotator cuff trying to cast his rod.
Now here are some Halladay highlights so you can see him saving the city of Philadelphia, in his element this time.
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A Jungle Out There [Skeet Reese]
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- l0yalr0yal - Jan 4, 2012 at 4:00 PM
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He “saved” someone?
Okay, my neighbor the other day. Saw him a few blocks from our house, he had ran out of gas. I swooped in, opened my door, took him to Conoco, offered him my gas can, and heroically drove the 12 blocks back to his broken down car.
Good deed? Absolutely.
Saved? Really?
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- sasquash20 - Jan 4, 2012 at 7:49 PM
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your a douche bag
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- saints97 - Jan 4, 2012 at 11:17 PM
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You’re not an English teacher.
Perhaps Carpenter was the one that got hurt because of the excess jewelry he was lugging around. Halladay does not have such burdens.
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- l0yalr0yal - Jan 5, 2012 at 10:05 AM
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Sasquash… Nothing better to do than check my profile and follow me around leaving derogatory comments with your exceptional grammar and phenomenal punctuation? This makes number three in the last week.
I’ve got no beef with Roy Halladay, but he didn’t save anyone. Yahoo sports blogs noted that he “heroically rescued” this man. All he did was give him a ride. It’s no more than what I did for my neighbor last week.
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- Josiah Schlatter - Jan 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM
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Hey hey hey. Can’t we all agree that if Roy Halladay never existed, we’d all be dead?!
