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Post by noetsi on Apr 22, 2019 10:35:16 GMT -5
How does a major league athlete hurt himself so badly swinging the bat? How come this type of thing never happened to Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth  Swing the bat and out for a month....crazy. |
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Post by Renfield on Apr 22, 2019 10:49:26 GMT -5
Only thing remotely similar that I recall was several years ago the Colts offensive line was just decimated by injuries. Don't know if they fielded the same line-up two games in a row. They were bringing in people off the street. One Monday Night game I was watching late in the season saw yet another lineman (whom I had never heard of) go down with an apparent serious knee injury. The announcer said, to paraphrase: "That's Joe Schmoe, right guard for the Colts. He's been with the team since noon."
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Post by greatfatness on Apr 22, 2019 11:33:30 GMT -5
How does a major league athlete hurt himself so badly swinging the bat? How come this type of thing never happened to Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth Swing the bat and out for a month....crazy. I don’t think you know that it didn’t happen, for one thing. It is also almost certainly the case that neither of the players you mentioned were in the same physical condition as minor league players let alone current major leaguers. An oblique strain is a strain of a muscle. You can’t strain fat. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 22, 2019 11:36:22 GMT -5
How does a major league athlete hurt himself so badly swinging the bat? How come this type of thing never happened to Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth Swing the bat and out for a month....crazy. You don't have to go as far back as Ruth and Cobb. I don't recall any serious bat-swinging injuries until relatively recently. Isn't this the same injury Judge had in late 2016 when he missed the last few weeks of the season? |
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Post by michcusejoe5 on Apr 22, 2019 11:42:49 GMT -5
How does a major league athlete hurt himself so badly swinging the bat? How come this type of thing never happened to Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth Swing the bat and out for a month....crazy. I don’t think you know that it didn’t happen, for one thing. It is also almost certainly the case that neither of the players you mentioned were in the same physical condition as minor league players let alone current major leaguers. An oblique strain is a strain of a muscle. You can’t strain fat. "You cant pull fat, that is why I am never injured." - John Daly |
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Post by greatfatness on Apr 22, 2019 11:47:41 GMT -5
How does a major league athlete hurt himself so badly swinging the bat? How come this type of thing never happened to Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth Swing the bat and out for a month....crazy. You don't have to go as far back as Ruth and Cobb. I don't recall any serious bat-swinging injuries until relatively recently. Isn't this the same injury Judge had in late 2016 when he missed the last few weeks of the season? It happened to Jeter in the great 1998 season on a check swing. I don’t think this is new. I think the extent of the reporting about the specifics of injuries in this current age of electronic information and Twitter is what’s new. |
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Post by noetsi on Apr 22, 2019 12:00:26 GMT -5
Maybe we need players with more fat.
Judge and Stanton have been hurt a lot in their career it seems. Maybe they just swing harder (although a broken wrist obviously is not swing related).
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Post by greatfatness on Apr 22, 2019 12:18:05 GMT -5
Maybe we need players with more fat.
Judge and Stanton have been hurt a lot in their career it seems. Maybe they just swing harder (although a broken wrist obviously is not swing related).
If the goal is to avoid muscle injuries, players with less muscular strength would accomplish that. They’d also be slower, have less velocity when they throw the ball and have slower batspeed but sure they’d injure their muscles less often. |
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Post by noetsi on Apr 22, 2019 17:22:24 GMT -5
and would therefore not miss much of each year. It would be a tradeoff.
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Post by inger on Apr 22, 2019 17:39:27 GMT -5
and would therefore not miss much of each year. It would be a tradeoff. Nothing better than reducing your talent level to stay on the field. Yep, I could hit.290 with 35 HR and 30 SB, but I choose to maintain myself at a level where I can hit .240 with 10 HR and 10 SB for the sake of the team... <insert cuckoo bird emoji here>... |
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Post by greatfatness on Apr 22, 2019 18:10:11 GMT -5
and would therefore not miss much of each year. It would be a tradeoff. Nobody in MLB would trade talent against the risk of injury in the way you're suggesting. I know you pride yourself on offering up the wild contrarian theory even at the expense of common sense but this is a really silly [insert more honest less polite word here] argument, to be exceedingly polite. |
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Post by inger on Apr 22, 2019 18:12:36 GMT -5
How does a major league athlete hurt himself so badly swinging the bat? How come this type of thing never happened to Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth Swing the bat and out for a month....crazy. I don’t think you know that it didn’t happen, for one thing. It is also almost certainly the case that neither of the players you mentioned were in the same physical condition as minor league players let alone current major leaguers. An oblique strain is a strain of a muscle. You can’t strain fat. Just a reminder of Babe Ruth’s “Bellyache” of 1925, when Ruth was so ill both mentally and physically that he missed the first 7 weeks of the season. He has fought with his wife extensively that winter, leading to a several weeks long binge of alcohol and womanizing that eventually led to Ruth reporting to camp 40 pounds over his regular playing weight of 220 and feeling poorly. It is now speculated that Ruth was suffering from VD and alcohol poisoning. At the time the newspapers said Ruth had eaten too many hot dogs and had a bellyache that wouldn’t go away. If he had VD and alcohol poisoning today, we’d be immersed in stories, likely with dozens of women wanting to claim they had passed the VD to Ruth and hundreds wanting to sue him for passing it to them. We have no idea what happened to Ruth or Cobb... |
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Post by inger on Apr 22, 2019 18:54:44 GMT -5
and would therefore not miss much of each year. It would be a tradeoff. Nobody in MLB would trade talent against the risk of injury in the way you're suggesting. I know you pride yourself on offering up the wild contrarian theory even at the expense of common sense but this is a really silly [insert more honest less polite word here] argument, to be exceedingly polite. Lol. Silly is even silly at this point. Thanks for being nice to Russ... |
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Post by chiyankee on Apr 22, 2019 21:01:42 GMT -5
Sanchez in action tonight:
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Post by kaybli on Apr 23, 2019 3:48:28 GMT -5
Yankees' Clint Frazier: Takes ankle knock
Frazier hurt his ankle against the Angels on Tuesday, but said he intends to play through it, Bryan Hoch of MLB.com reports. Frazier jammed the ankle running the bases in the Yankees' extra-innings victory over the Angels, but he was able to stay in the game and score the go-ahead run, telling reporters afterward he intends to continue to play through the knock. "It's sore," he said. "It's a little sprain, but it's one of those things where I went through too much last year to not go out there and play. The IL is too full for us, so I'm good. I'm going to keep playing." A trip to the injured list for the young outfielder would obviously be devastating for a Yankees team already decimated by injuries, but it looks Frazier will avoid that for now.
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Swing the bat and out for a month....crazy.
