The Junkies returned from Nationals spring training down a man in the rotation on Thursday.
LISTEN: EB Gets Food Poisoning From Tiger's Restaurant
EB's trip was unceremoniously extended when, after frightening the locals with his ghostly white face, the sickly host was held back and subjected to a battery of tests to ensure he was, in fact, still among the living.
Cakes: So we're down in the lobby -- this was around 2 p.m., maybe 2:15 -- and we're just sitting there, and we look over near like the elevator bank, and we see four EMT personnel walking out of the elevators twoards the front of the hotel. And I'm like, 'Wonder what's going on there.' And Jason says, 'Maybe they're here for Bickel.' And I was like, 'No. They're gonna send four EMT personnel for Eric Bickel, who has a case of food poisoning?' I was like, 'I'm calling shenanigans on that!'
Bish: Well, there was a firetruck and an ambulance out there. Two emergency vehicles.
Cakes: Two minutes later, we figure out they were indeed there to check on one Eric Bickel and his status. Because I guess he had somehow gotten out of his hotel room, or wandered out of his room in his sickness haze, and I guess somebody from the hotel saw him and they were terrified!
Bish: Right. They thought he was a zombie.
Cakes: They said that person needs medical attention like five minutes ago! Somebody needs to call 911!
Bish: Well, first of all, Bickel looks dead when he's 100 percent healthy. So, can you imagine how bad he looks when he's sick? So they probably thought he was from The Walking Dead.
Cakes: So those guys who were there, I guess they checked his vitals. Everything check out. But he's still laid up in his hotel room. He's scheduled to take a flight tonight at I think 6:00 or 6:15 p.m., and then arrive back here around like 11 p.m. But who knows if he's gonna be healthy enough to get on the bird today!
EB called into the show to describe his frightmare later on in Thursday's broadcast.
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