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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Friday, November 20, 2009
Prior art?
Stephen Strasburg, the Nationals’ prized pitching phenom, twisted his left knee while shagging fly balls during batting practice before the Phoenix Desert Dogs’ regular season finale in the Arizona Fall League on Thursday, and has been scratched from Saturday’s scheduled start in the AFL championship game, the team said in a news release Thursday night.
According to the release, the injury is not considered serious, and an MRI exam taken shortly after the incident showed only “inflammation.” Still, Strasburg is scheduled to fly to Los Angeles on Friday to be examined by orthopedist Lewis Yocum.
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Naw, I'm kidding. Go to Oakland Aroldis. Ariel Prieto is waiting for you!
never heard of 'im
Should they carry him around on the backs of eunuchs, too? He's what, 19? 20? Either this was a fluke injury or he is going to be one fragile baseball player. You can only protect a guy so much.
Now, I understand why people would use TINSTAAP to indicate that pitchers frequently get hurt or simply fail to develop, but that's not quite the initial meaning. Right?
(I'm not really sure why I'm even posting this, as I don't really oppose to the current usage, but I wonder what the originator thinks about it...)
Huckabay says that from the beginning the term was meant to mean both things.
Huckabay says that from the beginning the term was meant to mean both things.
Do you have a cite for this? I've also never imagined it being used in the first sense, only in the 2nd sense. But the first statement (some preternatural talents burst onto the scene before they ever get the label "prospect") does seem to follow as a corollary from the second (pitching talents are riskier "prospects" than most think).
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