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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain will be examined by noted orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews on Wednesday after undergoing an MRI on his ailing right shoulder.
Chamberlain returned to New York for tests on his shoulder Tuesday. The team said before its game against the Texas Rangers that it would not reveal the results of the MRI exam until Chamberlain is seen by Andrews in Birmingham, Ala.
...no one visits Dr. James Andrews and comes back without requiring surgery.....Jorge just postponed it a few months…
mog
Posted: August 05, 2008 at 09:31 PM | 35 comment(s)
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I'll agree with those who got here first. Visiting Dr. James Andrews means something bad has happened. The only question remaining is how bad can it be.
Joba Chamberlain is in James' office! Joba Chamberlain standing right in Dr. James Andrews' office!!
And the tears you hear in Harlan's voice are coming down the faces of the coaches in that coach's room.
The time you won your Yanks the game
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.
Today, the road all pitchers come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.
Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.
Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After Dr. Andrews has stopped the shoulders.
Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Pitchers whom renown outpitched
And the name died before the man.
So set, before its echoes fade,
The strong arm on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended playoff-run.
And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl's.
Pretty good point. I'm feeling similar feelings about Aaron Rodgers. He has never started a single game in his entire career, yet he has suffered 2 season ending injuries already in his career. Yet, I have a feeling that when he sucks this year and basically becomes a flop, like 99% of NFL QBs, we are going to have to hear how the stress of the Favre situation in 2008 ruined his career.
Hopefully Joba is fine and this is just a mysterious strain, found benign, thus the visit.
Seriously, it would be pretty awesome/hilarious if Pavano was the savior of the Yankees season.
seriously, this is why you just have to take the hype with a grain of salt.
Ain't this the truth? I can't think of a situation that progressed far enough that his diagnosis was asked for and that didn't eventually end in surgery. It doesn't even matter what Andrews says immediately after the examination, whether he recommends rehab and strengthening or immediate surgery, eventually, surgery is required. I can't recall too many cases right now but there's Posada for one and another is Kelvim Escobar. Or maybe I'm just wrong.
It's unfortunate for Joba if he requires shoulder surgery but it's not the death knell. Hell, for the people who compare him to Roger Clemens, this may further the comparison since Clemens underwent shoulder surgery very early in his career too.
The apocalypse is upon us.
Master Cashman: "News is neither good nor bad, it is just news. Tell me your news."
Master Girardi: "Joba is hurt!"
Master Cashman: (long pause) "That is bad news."
He does orthodontia too?
Zach Duke visited Dr. Andrews in July of 2007, and has not gone under the knife yet.
There are other examples out there as well. But it's hard to really parse the data, since elbows are not shoulders, football injuries are not baseball injuries, etc.
Also, there's surgery and then there's surgery. Posada's shoulder procedure a few years back and the one he just had being on opposite ends of the spectrum, for example.
(knock on door)
Dr. Andrews: Who is it?
visitor: Hello, mister. I'm selling Girl Scout cookies. They're $4 a box, and most of that money goes toward paying for activities my troop does that help me become strong, smart, confident, and responsible.
Dr. Andrews: You need surgery.
Yes dis Youkilis, who is a Jew, transformed into a the form of a harm hinjury and ruined Joba's season, thereby destroying glorious Yankee season. Boston Red Sox, I love you. NOT!"
- Borat
Is this the Yankees, are the Kremlin? Somebody find a source and buy him a round or five, and get the story, would ya? They just don't scoop like they did in the old days, I'm telling you.
towne?
You never know.
On the last day of the season, Ed Whitson will explode from Joba's stomach and spill all over the mound.
Still got the Rays falling apart too?
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