Frayed Knot

Might this be what turned Kristy McNichol off men?

Edgy MD wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: A bit ironically, strength training of shoulders has led not only to fewer rotator cuff injuries but also to increased velocity which has in turn led to more UCL tears. One injury traded for another. Excellent point. I don't know that the cause-and-effect has been widely understood to be as official as all that, but it sure seems to be pointing that way. Yeah, I mean it's hardly a one-to-one correspondence. But once pitchers stopped being discouraged, if not flat out prohibited, from strength training the ability to forego rotator cuff surgery (I remember Todd Stottelmyre turning himself into the Incredible Bulk in an attempt not to go under the knife) or even pre-prevent it (by not being built like Gary Gentry while trying to throw 90+) that surgery fell off dramatically thus allowing hurlers to continue pitching before eventually reaching the point where the cumulative mileage would tax the UCL to its limit. In a way the tradeoff isn't so bad. Even though the downtime from TJS is so extensive, the elbow, being merely a hinge and more accessible to work on, is more likely to get the patient back on the mound essentially as good as he was prior to the injury. Shoulders, OTOH, are much tougher to get at and feature a much broader range of movement making them more complicated to fix with the odds of success more like a coin flip.

I saw Mauricio a few years back at an A-Ball game ... and he's A LOT bigger (read: thicker) now.

A bit ironically, strength training of shoulders has led not only to fewer rotator cuff injuries but also to increased velocity which has in turn led to more UCL tears. One injury traded for another.

Starting with my usual disclaimer that NYM injury news should have its own home or, better yet, homes (plural) as a certain pct of them are Not likely to be minor and certainly deserve a place for discussion on their own. This thread is intended more as a clearing house for major boo-boos involving other teams. And we're starting off with a doozy as Gavin Lux, the promising 25 y/o LAD infielder (1st round draft pick 2016) who the Dodgers were counting on to replace Trea Turner as their starting SS this season, goes down with a torn ACL here in the opening days of ST and will be lost for the entire 2023 season. Now THAT's gonna leave a mark!

On the primary market, meanwhile, you still need to pretty much (if not entirely) go through the Ticketmaster Mafia and their add-on fees.

Max says he "Loves" the clock because it turns the pace-setting from the hitters over to the pitchers, particularly when/if the batter uses up his lone allowed step-out.

Moral of the story: Don't be taking your pants off with the game, not to mention the season and the championship, still on the line. iow, the prepared players and prepared teams will be at an advantage with these new rules. Wow, what a concept!

=metirish post_id=118889 time=1677434050 user_id=72] Yeah he's a proper wanker I think

=nymr83 post_id=118877 time=1677424113 user_id=54] I like the concept of a pitch clock, just not the part where it has an effect on the outcome of games.

Edgy MD wrote: It's highly distinctive how the Pads' method seems to be to load up on shortstops and push them to other positions. All while paying them all as if they're starting (and star) shortstops.

Honestly, good for San Diego. You want to see other teams spending to win, too. Sure, except for the part about committing to eleven years to a soon to be (July) 31 y/o. And this for a guy who wasn't keen about running stuff out when he was 26. "Not really my thing". He's a terrific player but 'losing' him doesn't bother me at all.

Edgy MD wrote: A 3-3 with a homer from Alonso is an encouraging start. Especially if it gives him the idea that his lengthy pre-pitxh meditation routine isn't required for success.

And it's a GKR telecast to kick off the spring. Butto walks the leadoff batter (Berti), then K's the next three. We, the audience, are NOT seeing the pitch countdown clock but it does appear on the SNY 'bug' once it gets down to 7 seconds remaining. The bases are noticeably bigger but, despite Alex Cora's initial claim, don't quite resemble pizza boxes.

Tim McCarver made an album! https://www.bizarrealbums.com/https://www.bizarrealbums.com/ Don McGee, host of WFUV's 'Mixed Bag' program as well as a big baseball/Mets fan, acknowledged the passing of McCarver on his Feb 18th program (just catching up to it now via station archives) and he played Timmy's version of THERE USED TO BE A BALLPARK HERE. He didn't announce the vocalist until after the set was complete but I certainly knew it wasn't Sinatra's version as I was listening. So while it was definitely a less than professional vocal, it at least wasn't awful. Maybe a C+ grade? The rest of the set, in an acknowledgement to the famous story about Gibson barking at McCarver to get back behind the plate during a mound visit, consisted of the Beatles GET BACK and Ray Charles' HIT THE ROAD JACK

btw, during a trip to MLB.com a day or two ago I was greeted by a headline, You Spoke, We Listened: Rule Changes for 2023 iow they're trying to sell this as something driven by popular demand rather than a top-down 'solution' to either unrelated or non-existent problems. Can you find fans who are going to like some or all of these changes? Sure! But, like the lazy practice of what passes for today's journalism where citing what 'Twitter' is saying as the basis for a story, it's a case of cherry-picking those who agree with your pre-determined outcome as justification and/or cover for that outcome. The section explaining the rule changes is still there. The headline is not.

=nymr83 post_id=118677 time=1677031779 user_id=54] Gonna be tough to prove, though I suppose if anyone is dumb enough to leave a paper trail, it would be The Wilpons.

There was an incident years ago involving either Boggs or Gwynn (I've forgotten which now) where middler infielders put themselves in motion as a pitch was being delivered in an attempt to close up gaps that they thought the hitter might be aiming for (Tony's famed '5.5 hole' for instance). The umps immediately ruled it illegal citing distraction within the batter's sight lines and maybe some other stuff too. I have no idea where, or even if, such authority was granted in the rule book or whether it was just a 'common sense' thing the men in blue invented on the spot.

=whippoorwill post_id=118489 time=1676685556 user_id=79]92-95

=DocTee post_id=118479 time=1676668364 user_id=85] Where do these guys have Philadelphia?

Frayed Knot wrote: Minutia: - playing in four-decades - the bicentennial grand slam that wasn't (although at least he got 3 RBIs, 2 more than Ventura was credited for) - his longtime association with two HoF pitchers - room-mates with Bob Uecker (now THAT must have been one funny-ass room) His dust-up with Deion Sanders

Probably hasn't been anything on Channel 9 as good since.

His baseball career spanned a large portion of the sport itself. He didn't quite go back to the segregation days (although did debut the same year the BoSox finally got their first black player) but did admit to growing up with the prejudices that his generation in places like Memphis were taught about black people*, something most people tend to hide or deny when they spend as much time in the public eye as he eventually did. He came of age in the pre-draft/bonus-baby era and was a bonus baby himself, something which gave him much higher initial status than that of Bob Gibson who took the then less common (particularly for black players) college route to MLB. Started in a 16-team/no-division era and was still in the game or in the booth through expansion to 30 teams and multiple playoff rounds, the creation of the player's union, the DH, Astroturf, and inter-league play. Fortunately for him he won't be alive during the permanent ghost-runner era - in fact it wouldn't surprise me if that's what killed him. Minutia: - playing in four-decades - the bicentennial grand slam that wasn't (although at least he got 3 RBIs, 2 more than Ventura was credited for) - his longtime association with two HoF pitchers - room-mates with Bob Uecker (now THAT must have been one funny-ass room) * A story McCarver tells on himself was of being on a team bus drinking an orange soda (not sure why I remember the flavor of the soda although I associate orange soda with the south) when Gibson asked if he could have a sip. McCarver said he looked at Gibson's big dark lips and thought about all the things he was taught about black people and the thought of getting the soda can back after one had taken a sip of it and stammered .... uh, I'll let you have the last part when I'm almost done. Gibson, who didn't really want the orange soda as much as he wanted to test this young white boy out, gave him a sly 'I got you' look. Obviously things got better from there.

Edgy MD wrote: ... I mostly knew McCarver as the guy who hit a grand slam on July 4, 1976, but got called out for passing Garry Maddox on the basepaths. "I didn't pass him, he lapped me" was TMcC's explanation to the ump as to how he wound up on the wrong side of the fleet-footed Maddox.

=Centerfield post_id=118308 time=1676418922 user_id=65] Maybe if they didn't start immediately with the runner it would be ok.