Brewers' catcher Lucroy: My wife is getting hate mail for causing freak injury

Jonathan Lucroy (20) of the Milwaukee Brewers watches this ball go over the left field wall for a two run homer in the bottom of the 2nd inning against the San Francisco Giants during the game at Miller Park on May 23, 2012 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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(CBS News) Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy will undergo surgery today to put a pin in his broken right hand - but it's his wife who is really feeling the pain.

Lucroy was injured Sunday night when his wife, Sarah, moved a suitcase in their hotel room and it fell on his hand - and now, the catcher says, she is "getting killed" by hateful messages on Facebook.

From SportsRadio 1250 WSSP, via MLB.com:

"It's tough for me, because this is already a freak thing as it is," Lucroy said. "My wife has been getting hate mail on her Facebook, like, messages and stuff. It's really sad that these kinds of things happen from a freak thing. I mean, she didn't do it on purpose. It was an accident. Stranger things have happened.

"It's been a battle for me, personally, because there's no one to blame, and my wife is getting killed by this. It's not like she's not hurt enough already, not feeling guilty enough already. I really wish people would just leave her alone, leave us alone, just let us try to move forward, and get this behind us, because this has been a brutal couple of days."

Before the injury, Lucroy was enjoying the finest offensive season of his career - hitting .345 with 30 RBI in just 43 games.

This is the second time this month that a pro athlete's wife has been the target of online harassment. Two weeks ago, Lakers guard Steve Blake and his wife were deluged with online threats after Blake missed a potential game-winning shot in the playoffs.

[wlhoppers]

What a sad commentary on the stupidity of some people.

[audemus]

There are fans, and there are morons...I think we know which group to put this bunch in.

Violence and the threat of violence has the potential to turn the American sporting scene into the cesspool of insanity that a lot of sporting events have become in Europe and elsewhere. It's bad enough when players and management have to deal with this sort of thing, but when fans in the stadiums, and now family members of the athletes themselves are targeted and harassed, clearly a line has been crossed that should not be tolerated. I don't know what can be done legally to discourage this trend, but clearly the time to take action is now, not later....we don't need any more tragedies.

[pbaird2]

Amazing how rabid fanatics can be whether politics, religion or sports. Apparently, common sense and logic are not natural in the human condition and as a society we have failed to instill these character traits in our people.

[formerlyluvnut]

Funny.