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Rockies rookie really injured carrying deer meat?

Thursday, June 09, 2005

For the record, it was not a bag of groceries but a package of deer meat that led to the likely end of Clint Barmes' storybook season. The deer meat was an after-dinner gift from Rockies star and avid outdoorsman Todd Helton, according to the DENVER POST.

Barmes on Monday said he tripped going up the stairs to his apartment late Sunday while carrying groceries. The fall, he said, led to his broken left clavicle. Questions have swirled since because of the unusual nature of the injury that cost the Rockies their potential rookie of the year and all-star representative.

Barmes attempted to set the record straight Wednesday, starting with why he said he was carrying groceries and not deer meat.

"I just didn't think it was right to bring Todd Helton into something like this," Barmes said Wednesday from his apartment, with his mother, Erma, nearby. She flew in from Vincennes, Ind., to help her son.

"My feeling was some things are personal and the public doesn't need to know everything."