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1. Walt Davis Posted: May 29, 2012 at 07:15 AM (#4141985)Million to one would have required the suitcase to lodge itself somewhere else.
I once missed two days of work because of an injury suffered while watching TV and working on my computer. I was looking at the computer, something happened on the TV and I turned my head quickly and pulled a muscle in my neck. Wound up on these delightful muscle relaxants that made it impossible to do anything but sleep or occasionally think about sleeping.
From a quick glance at his numbers, it looks like he might have finally learned to hit right-handed pitching. His numbers against LHP this year are more ridiculous than ever, but it looks like he was hitting righties for the first time in his career.
lucroy was a good hitter in the minors. his adjustment in the bigs has been laying off two pitches. the slider low and away and the fastball up and in. jonathan has driven brewer fans nuts swinging at pitches completely out of the strike zone. part of last season and most of this season he has reduced offering at those pitches so he still chases at times
it is maddening in that he will swing at pitches that are just ridiculously bad. my interpretation is that jonathan wasn't trusting himself and so was guessing like mad and therefore swinging because he had decided on the pitch and so was going to swing. he was leading the world in checked swings in 2012.
jonathan is totally at ease and knows he is a good catcher catcher. i think he still doubts himself as a hitter.
So, yes, he sprained his ankle while sitting.
The best part was that my son was all upset that we had to leave. He didn't really care that I was bleeding profusely and couldn't walk. Kid wanted to sled, dammit.
i always have sheep around to keep the weeds down around the buildings. not a big flock. 20 ewes give or take. and a buck so that i can count on lambchops. so one time i had this dorset buck who turned out to be a real pip. every time i would go in with hay while i was putting the hay in the feeder he would bang into me from behind as if to try and knock me over. if i faced him he just glared at me. but if i turned my back at all he would make his move. so i set some 2 x 4s on the top of the feeder spaced out so that one was always within reaching distance and when he got me i grabbed one of the 2 x 4s, whirled and smacked him on his horns with a good wallop. so good that the 2 x 4 snapped back and smacked me in the side of the head so that we both ended up sort of looking at one another through foggy eyes. he shook his head and walked away and i staggered out of the pen. he never bothered me after that.
The only other thing I remember about him was tv-related, and that was that he LOVED the Drew Carey show.
Cats are evil. I partially tore a ligament in my left wrist a few years ago tripping over my cat in the middle of the night. Though it managed to heal with immobilization, I seem to be unlucky with that wrist - I had injured it previously playing Beethoven.
I always said Charles Grodin was a jerk. Did you injure yourself taking the DVD out of the package or reaching for the remote control to hit play?
How did you immobilize the cat? I usually roll mine up in a towel when I need to hold him still, but that's only good for about 30 seconds or so.
You probably have, except you're not a professional athlete so those injuries don't keep you out of work. I've cut my hand a few times cooking, had to get stitches after I dropped a bottle of iced tea, broke a finger while tripping over a deck chair playing frisbee. Some of those injuries would have made it difficult to grip a bat or a ball, but they didn't affect my ability to do schoolwork or make Powerpoint presentations.
What a truly weird story. I wonder if there's more to it.
That was probably just a note for Yesterday when the team only had one active catcher.
They're also losing first basemen/shortstop combinations in letter pairs--first Mat Gamel and Alex Gonzalez, and now Travis Ishikawa and Cesar Izturis (worst indictment possible: it has gotten to the point where losing the latter two is arguably a real problem). Just in case it works with first names, if I was Corey Hart I'd be pretty leery of a Hainley Statia call-up.
How often does a team (that carries 2 catchers) need to go to an emergency 3rd catcher?
As pointed out, it was just for yesterday that it was a real concern, but the Brewers were in general more likely to need an emergency catcher than most teams, because Kottaras was one of their best bench bats and Roenicke wasn't shy about using him as a pinch hitter.
So, my cat actually lets me bathe her without taking out the claws, and all I do is hold her. Not that she loves it, but it's more of a "please stop" than a "you wanna fight?" deal when she gets a bath (which has occurred twice now.) Apparently, this is pretty unusual.
please work to avoid listing injuries.
i weary of cardinal fans wandering by and wanting to get into some kind of 'can you top this' becuase they lost their entire team in a plane crash except for albert and tony raised some of them from the dead and won the division with a team of zombies and albert.
or similar nonsense
so just don't talk about the injuries.
I once tobogganed skeleton-style face first into a metal pole. I don't recall much of the rest of the evening (in fact my memory stops at the top of the hill before I jumped on the sled), but I did spend the next day and a half in bed watching a 24 hour Corner Gas marathon because reaching for the remote was too painful.
Bryce Harper is coming for you if you insist on plagiarizing his injury yarns.
My sister's cat would let you bathe her, and she would sit very still in the water with a grumpy look on her face. But you could see she was always plotting... if you loosened your hand on her just for a second, she would bolt straight out of the sink to the floor and run. It was as if she were conserving all of her hate and anger and converting it to potential energy, wound up like a spring ready to uncoil.
I have a friend who injured his shoulder swinging at a balloon at a New Years' Eve party. It was midnight, and the balloons fell from the ceiling, and people were batting them about. He took a big swing at one and immediately cried out in pain. That was about 15 years ago, and he can still barely lift his arm over his head. He must have ripped the hell out of the works in there.
The notice was blu-tacked to a wall and it was a hot day. The heat melted the blu-tack and the poster fell on the carpeted floor. He walks down the corridor, steps on the notice and "wahey!".
I actually did slip on a banana peel on 9th Avenue in NY. I didn't actually fall, though, but it was fairly dramatic. No injuries, sorry. I did have a friend who tore his ACL slipping on a cucumber slice.
i think a grocer is trying to assassinate you
Off the field, oddest injury I can remember was breaking my little toe walking over to answer the phone. I used to study sitting on a couch with a chair facing me for a "desk," and when the phone rang I stood up & with my first step whanged my foot against one of the chair legs. Again: holy cow that hurt. I wasn't sure whether it was broken or sprained or what, so I called my Dad (a doctor), who gave me my favorite piece of medical advice ever: "Go ahead and go out drinking with your friends, but take a bunch of aspirin or Advil first. Then, tomorrow, if your toe hurts worse than your head, yeah, it's probably broken."
I'm not sure that I could survive that. Were you at least under the influence of painkillers or tranquilizers when the Corner Gas marathon was on?
Edit: forgot to add that no baseball story featuring the phrase 'suitcase injury' should pass without someone making a vague reference to Kaz Sasaki's exit from Seattle.
Now, trimming claws, I have a big cat that's very trusting and doesn't care if I'm messing with a claw.
Other cat, you have to "burrito" by rolling up in a blanket like a burrito and manipulating the claw out.
If you start them on regular baths (every week or two) when they are kittens they are somewhat more amenable. This is actually a good time to clip their claws too - they don't mind being wrapped in a towel if they are soaking wet.
Yeah, if a baseball player has his very attractive wife on a road trip, probably without their kid, I'm sure that's the Occam's Razor way that he suffers a freak injury in the hotel room. It can't be that it happened while she "dropped the suitcase on him", nudge-nudge,wink-wink.
I have done this. Of course, I broke this very same ankle three months ago while trying to kick a puck to myself. I hit a rut or something and somehow landed on the outside edge of my left skate with my full weight. At least, there was little ligament damage, so no need for a second surgery...
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