Even this story has trouble distinguishing between the different types of scooters (but notes that neither scooters nor e-bikes are currently banned by the standard contract). Michael Harris II rides the stand-up kind (but not, he says, on the streets). Kenley Jansen has a Bugatti but that too is the stand-up kind. So I guess I'm assuming that's what Bader was on too.
Did not remember this either:
After all, a scooter has handlebars. A hoverboard does not.
In the summer of 2018, Lehigh Valley IronPigs pitcher Ben Lively brought his hoverboard, a one-wheeled version of the device meant for off-roading that relied upon the balance of the operator, with him on a road trip to Buffalo. “At the time, that was the new thing,” Lively said. “Didn’t really know how to regulate it.” Before a game in Buffalo, a few days before he expected to rejoin the Philadelphia Phillies staff, Lively rode the hoverboard in front of the dugout. The thing dipped into a hole, and “I just went end over end,” he said. Lively separated his right collarbone. The Phillies, he said, separated cash from his paycheck. He recalled being “fined a lot of money” and “screamed at by a lot of people.”
Lively did not require surgery, but the accident still hampered his trajectory. He missed two months. The Phillies cut him loose that September. After a short stint in Kansas City, he spent the next three seasons in Korea. He did not resurface in the majors until 2023. “Of course,” Lively said, “I felt dumb about that my whole career.”
