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Should have started a Carpenter/Sheets "Who misses a start first pool?", though. I could have cleaned up!
(Of course, I'd probably have taken Sheets, too... so that wouldn't have done me a lot of good)
Authorities believe alcohol was involved!!
Maybe it will wake up whoever is asleep at the wheel.
Last time I checked inflammation is swelling. Is there any situation in which swelling is good? Not counting when attractive women are in the room....
The medical gurus will correct me, but I believe inflammation is technically heating up due to an irritation or injury (i.e. becoming inflamed). The body deals with that by rushing cooling, stiffening pus to the scene!
Anyway, if you've ever been injured, touch the injured area and you'll notice a definite temp difference to an uninjured area.
-redness
-swelling (edema)
-pain
-heat
-loss of function/impairment of function
There's a really cool study involving athletes and injection of 1 cc (about a thimble-full) of saline into their knees and testing their strength...it decreased about 15-20%. This is important because it shows the body compensates by protecting itself, even with an amount of swelling unnoticeable to the eye or even with swelling so slight it is still painless. That's part of why I get so perturbed when they say "it's just a bit of inflammation," because it doesn't really tell you if it's part of the normal post-start healing proces--pitching hurts, after all--or pathologic. When it hurts, that's usually not a good sign, though as we've seen, lots of guys are fine with rest.
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