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Barry's World is the FanHouse's look into the season that is Barry Bonds.

According to the description on YouTube, this is footage from former big leaguer Vince Coleman's wedding, which was apparently sometime last winter in Hawaii. Coleman must have taken for granted that none of this invited guests would turn out to be amateur paparazzi, but the guy with this camera spent a good four minutes filming Barry Bonds, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and Marcus Allen sitting around a table and socializing with other guests. Riveting, I know.

Maybe it would have been entertaining had you been able to actually hear everyone, but I regret I'll never get those four minutes back. But then, as a reward for pleasuring my inner voyeur, after those four minutes of boredom Bonds actually got in front of a microphone and spent a few minutes giving a mildly amusing toast to the happy couple.

This isn't the side he chooses to show the media, but it's actually kind of cool to see him so relaxed and having a good time. Plus, he got a few big laughs out of the crowd, which was probably the last time he ever got such a welcoming reception on the road.

One of the bright spots for the Pittsburgh Pirates this year has undoubtedly been Ian Snell. In 95 and 2/3 innings, he's got a 2.63 ERA, a 1.14 WHIP, and 78 strikeouts to go with only 29 walks. After giving up 25 homers last year, he's on pace to give up about half as many this year. Those are some impressive numbers and they put him among the National League elite. After reading those stats, you can imagine why every Pirate fans' heart skipped a couple beats when they heard he would miss his next start. Well, until we heard why. Then we just laughed. From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

The right-hander blistered his finger while cooking in his kitchen.

"I was cooking a chicken breast for a salad and burned my finger," Snell said. "I'm all right, but the salad wasn't too good."

The thing is, by baseball standards, Snell's injury isn't even that strange. There's an entire web page full of weird baseball injuries. Here are some of my favorites:

• Rickey Henderson missed several games because of frost- bite. In August.
• Vince Coleman missed the 1985 World Series when he got rolled up in the tarp machine.
• Chris Brown missed a game with a strained eyelid after sleeping on an eye a funny way.
• Glenallen Hill missed a few games after falling out of his bed while having an arachnophobic dream about spiders. He dreamt that spiders were devouring him, jumped off his bed, fell through a glass table, and crawled through the shards of glass.

Do yourself a favor and finish the list. As for Snell and the Pirates; they're lucky. Snell is only missing one start and should pitch again on Saturday.