Sunday, June 09, 2013
Piecoro: Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Brandon McCarthy recovering from seizure
(www.azcentral.com)
Right-hander Brandon McCarthy, who needed emergency surgery after being struck on the head by a line drive last season, suffered a seizure last week.
The Diamondbacks pitcher said Saturday he’s fine now and is hopeful it won’t push back his recovery from shoulder inflammation.
McCarthy was at a restaurant in north Phoenix with his wife, Amanda, on Monday night when the incident occurred.After he slumped over in a booth, Amanda climbed across, pushed the table away and called for help.
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1 2 >Some idiot in Texas has been tweeting horrible things to Mrs. McCarthy about what he'd do to her while her 'paralyzed' husband watches. There are some sick, miserable people in the world.
Humor is always appropriate. If you're thinking it's not, you're out of sorts with the universe and need to recalibrate.
Of course. Shame you aren't funny.
BE FUNNIER THEN
I was going to at least wait until he was in the clear to say:
"Jesus, Universe/Karma... the Red Sox weren't serious about signing him in 2013"
I'll back Rickey on this. Saying rude #### with the intention of pissing people off/grabbing attention is utterly assholic; otherwise, assume it's from a loving place and turn the other cheek, who the hell knows how to react to horrible stuff like this.
[edit: speculation>information]
also, this:
is pretty similar to my own sense of humor.
this:
somewhat less so.
As noted above, the problem wasn't bad timing. It was bad humor.
If you watch the vid closely, he slams his head on the ground at around the same place of impact after he falls, but before he makes the attempt to get up. That's a lot of damage to that area. Very scary.
We wish him the best over here. He's all class. The guy took a few seconds out of his busy schedule last season to tweet my daughter that he was happy to take part in a "W" for her first trip to an A's game. This was almost immediately following the game that night. Really too nice/good/funny of a guy for this to happen to.
Probably touched on in another thread: will this get the discussion started regarding more protective headgear for pitchers?
I just don't see it happening. Unless we're talking about the most unnoticeable of lining underneath the cap. I've never pitched before, but wouldn'r a lot of pitchers say having a big plastic dome on their head makes them too uncomfortable to pitch? Even in hockey there was grandfather clauses.
I'm not going to watch the video again to check, but the ball appeared to change direction enough to end up going in the shortstop direction into left field. And the ball ended up in the outfield, that is, far away. As a rough guess, Brandon's body took 30% of the ball's energy in a tiny fraction of a second. I think that's a lot of impact.
Best of luck, Brandon.
It doesn't take that kind of hitter for scary things to happen, as the batter whose line drive caused this is a little guy who's known for being the league's best bunter.
Of course not, which doesn't negate the observation. It seems as if more pitchers are getting hit in the head than pre-roid era, but that's an empirical question.
Erick Aybar packs more weight in a shorter frame than Don Mattingly. Five-ten, 180 is not a "little guy."
Hey, Rickey/Sam H, see this? Dirk Hayhurst thinks you're a jerk.
The ball deflected to the third baseman, near the bag, and quickly enough that he threw out the runner at first.
That's great.
Thanks for correction on the ball trajectory, esseff. Maybe it wasn't hit as hard as my mistaken impression.
i am not that dirk. just want to make that clear in case anyone might have thought that.
Well, he probably thinks that too. Anyway, good to see McCarthy dropping Arrested Development quotes on us via Twitter. Great sign.
That the third baseman picked up the ball near the line and still had time to throw out a fast left-handed hitter at first base could be evidence that it was hit pretty hard.
A few years ago Sam Fuld's dad wrote an article in Scientific America talking about the impact of a baseball hitting a pitcher in the head and said he was watching a game in which the ball carooned into the stands...his comment was that the farther the ball goes after impact, the better he feels for the pitcher as that is an indication that less of the force was imparted to the pitcher.
Generally speaking the balls are coming off of the bats at 90+ mph(if they are line drives) if you are watching the game, you hope those balls bounce far from the pitcher. Bouncing to the third baseman is a pretty good indication that a lot of the force was lost on the deflection.
I officially give carte blanche that if I take a liner off the skull, while in flames, and dying of AIDS...you may all take pics and post it to MLB memes.
Um. Okay. How far back in line is he?
May I humbly suggest removing your clothing, covering yourself in mustard and performing the act at a major shopping mall two days after Thanksgiving. I mean if you're going to go out in flames...
He should have his MLB blog taken away. Oh, right, he already has.
And there's no need to give Sam H. the attention he's trolling for.
I pitch slow-pitch softball (from 50 feet not 35) and have been hit on the leg and the forearm -- you could see the stitches of the ball on my skin. Then last year I took a line drive to the upper thigh and it was still an ugly black and yellow 10 days later.
So I wised up and bought a catcher's helmet, and a cup.
Good idea.
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