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Saturday, August 11, 2012
Boston Red Sox third baseman Will Middlebrooks broke his right wrist when he was hit by a 95 mph fastball in the ninth inning Friday night, the Boston Globe reported, citing an anonymous source.
The Red Sox will call up Danny Valencia from Triple-A Pawtucket, according to the Globe.
The curse of youkike?
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1. OCD SS Posted: August 11, 2012 at 07:27 AM (#4206020)Sometimes wrist injuries don't ruin hitters' careers, right? There's a chance?
Youkilis was not part of that mission, and Valencia and Punto are not, either.
I guess Valencia is the right guy for the next month or two...whatever.
A joke your'e missing. The BPro database would use the first five letters of a player's last name, then the first two letters of his first name in its list. This format led to Youkilis being labeled youkike.
So that's what's being referenced. I still think it's a somewhat ugly statement, especially for the lead-in to a thread - the whole point of changing the ID was that we shouldn't be repeating racial slurs just because a random algorithm happened to produce them.
He wrote: I'm using my ignore hammer, and I'd probably recommend Jim use the ban-hammer.
I would be curious as to how many broken bone injuries happen in a given year(on the field)
Professor of Pharmacology--and yes I do know Carter Burwell. And I didn't realize that repeating the Bref "mistake" would cause such a uproar here. Sorry
Interestingly, I was the first on BTF to use "Chadwick ratio"--but I dint make it up--I read it somewhere, but for the life of me I can't remember where
(I did, however, make up "dumber than ten dogs")
Overindulgence in pharmacologicals?
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