Carl Pavano’s hopes for a return to baseball have been stalled until at least next year as he continues to recover from a serious injury that required removal of his spleen, his agent, Dave Pepe, said Thursday.
“Carl will not be physically able to play this year as he recovers from his spleen removal and the complications that followed,’’ Pepe said via text. “His hope is that he can give it a try next year.’‘
Pavano, 37, suffered severe bleeding and internal injuries when he fell while shoveling snow at his Vermont home, he has said. Pavano, the former Twin, Yankee, Indian, Expo and Marlin right-hander, visited three hospitals and dealt with the loss of 6½ liters of blood, he told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. “I’m just lucky to be alive,” he told the Minneapolis newspaper in February.
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1. RMc is not going to get into too many specifics Posted: May 30, 2013 at 06:14 PM (#4456220)Yikes. I feel woozy just reading that.
If anyone could, it would be Carl Pavano. He should have some loyalty rewards points at various hospitals.
I'm guessing this is also when the mongoose made his first appearance?
Let me be the first, then: That was disgusting.
But we all claim to have 7.
Was left speechless. Never knew your spleen could explode. Perhaps it wasn't vented enough?
Seems like just yesterday I had him move in with me to make Griffey jealous. Now Griffey's never coming back, AND Pavano refuses to move out. And he keeps inviting over half the Yankees roster, with their groupies and gift baskets and all that.
Dude, this place isn't made of Doritos. Get off the couch and go get a damn job. Enough already.
I think that happened a short while later, when I went into some sort of weird regularly recurring convulsion (first time I'd ever experienced such, & so far the last) during my inital examination at the hospital. I learned a few months ago while skimming Google that the symptoms were sort of similar to those of tardive ataxia, except that that's apparently a chronic condition, whereas this persisited maybe, I dunno, no more than 20 minutes. Weird. (Detectives believe prescription medication of my mother's -- I'd begged some kind of pill off her in an effort to get some terribly needed sleep the night before; god knows, considering her proclivity for mixing & matching from our town's 2 pharmacies, it might've been just about anything -- might have been involved.)
If we had more pitchers like Pavano, we'd have a lot less pitchers like Pavano.
That happens as you get older. 21 seems young though, near peak as it were. Wait, what are we talking about?
Well, it had some outside help in exploding. And I hope you never get to experience it, too...
So then I thought, he should hire somebody to do it. But it's Pavano. He'd have to hire somebody to clear the snow, mow his lawn, cut his meat ... hell, beat his meat. Even $70 M may not be enough money to afford the safe-Pavano lifestyle.
20 years from now I fully expect to read that a 57-year-old Pavano was rushed to the hospital after cutting an artery playing bridge.
Carl Pavano pitched 4 seasons of 200 innings or more. He had another of 199.1 IP. How did he not fly into flinders during any one of those?
Also, man, the Red Sox made out like bandits in the Pedro deal, and we think of Pedro as someone who was relatively fragile.
The "Khalil Greene is a vampire" rumor never really took off, maybe we can start one about Carl Pavano.
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