The Ill of the Chase

[HahnSolo]

Utley to have hip surgery. Possibly out until June...

[url:374l8fpr]http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3715241[/url:374l8fpr]

[Benjamin Grimm]

It sometimes happens that after a year in which everything goes right, everything suddenly goes wrong.

(I'm mainly thinking of the 1987 Mets here.)

Maybe Utley's hip kick that off. Like Gooden's rehab did.

[HahnSolo]

Starring Daniel Murphy as Terry Pendleton.

[Zvon]

Wonder how many F bombs he dropped when they told him that.

[soupcan]

Hip surgery? For a 29 year-old?

Hmmmm. I wonder if being 29 makes it better because its easier to recover from or if needing hip surgery at 29 is a harbinger of not so good stuff.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah, that's a big blow to the Phils.

Props on the thread title.

[MFS62]

I read the thread title and thought of Ilka Chase.
Showing my age.
I'd post a link. But if you know who she was, you don't need one. And if you don't know who she was, you wouldn't care.

Later

[smg58]

Utley's the best player on that team, as far as I'm concerned. I also don't think there's anybody in baseball more clearly superior to everyone else who plays his position (factoring in both offense and defense) than Chase Utley. Losing him for any length of time could be huge.

[Frayed Knot]

On a semi-related note, the Phils & Rangers swapped former 1st round draft picks yesterday with Greg Golson going to Texas in exchange for John Mayberry Jr.

Phils maybe looking at JMJ to as a replacement for Burrell?

[A Boy Named Seo]

Hip injuries don't seem so common in baseball, so I'm trying to remember how guys have come back from those. Lowell just had a surgery, too, I guess, so who knows w/ him. Plus he's probably got 10 years on Utley anyway.

Bo Jackson wasn't the same after he wrecked his. Albert Belle was awesome, then had a sharp drop-off in his last year, then retired 'cause of his hip.

Anyone else?

Bummer for Chase. I'd be super nervous and bummed if I'm a Phillie anything.

[metirish]

I can't think of any in baseball but I can in soccer , Roy Keane had been taking painkillers for a year before finally having hip surgery in September of 2003 , it so happened that he was facing a lengthy suspension for various things at the same time. Keane came back in December of that year but has said many times that he thought that the hip problem would force him to retire at an early age, his surgeon has told him that he will require hip replacement surgery at a young age.


I would think for an athlete a gimpy hip must be one of the worst kind of problems to have.