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Dave Rozema Isn't Pleased When Shown Video Of Himself Carried Off On Stretcher [VIDEO]

By: Evan Jankens
@kingofthekc

At Detroit Tigers Fantasy Camp, the former Tigers who are here are about as nice as they come.

One man in particular has really stolen the show and it's none other than former Tigers' pitcher Dave Rozema.

Rozema tells endless jokes and stories that never get old.

Most of the players are from before my time, so I decided to do a little research on Rozema. As I read about him, I saw a line about a brawl in 1982.

Of course, I didn't read the entire passage other than seeing that Rozema delivered a flying karate kick. Rozema didn't land the kick and ended up tearing eight ligaments in his knee.

tigers twins brawl 5 by Jeremy Allen on YouTube

I immediately clicked over to YouTube to see if there was video of the kick. The first video that came up said it featured the kick. There was no kick to be found in the video, but there was a guy being taken off on a stretcher at the end of the video.

So while at the pool on Wednesday afternoon, I took the video over to him and asked "who is that on the stretcher?" It was him! He joked around with me after that, but man did I feel dumb. I thought I offended the most popular guy around the camp. Luckily, I didn't.

I talked to Rozema after our game today about the base hit I got off him as well as his favorite memories of Fantasy Camp.

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