Mateo Leaves Game with Back Injury

[Outshined_One]

And the hits keep coming! Hooray!

[Guest]

do the cubs do any stretching? I mean on days they don't pitch.

[soccer10k]

The only surprising thing is that it's not an arm injury.

[CuseCubFan69]

I didn't realize these things were contagous. I hope the Cubs are just being cautious.

[Andy]

Training staff, pitcher abuse and everything else aside, why the Cubs seem to have twice as many injuries as every other baseball team, every season, boggles the mind. You couldn't do that if you tried.

[CubColtPacer]

Training staff, pitcher abuse and everything else aside, why the Cubs seem to have twice as many injuries as every other baseball team, every season, boggles the mind. You couldn't do that if you tried.

 

The thing that scares me now is that several of these young pitchers have not had time (plus, I've only seen a couple examples that could be really used as abuse of the starting pitching this year (besides Z)) to be abused by the current staff, and yet they all still seem to be going down with injuries. I'm not sure what it is-these injuries are a lot harder to pin down.

[Outshined_One]

Didn't Eyre sign here partly because Dusty made pre-game stretching optional or something along those lines?

[goonys evil twin]

Didn't Eyre sign here partly because Dusty made pre-game stretching optional or something along those lines?

 

I was thinking it was mostly about not having to run. But for some reason, I remember the pregame stretching thing as well. For one it's worth, I've never seen anymore than a handful of players stretching on the field before the game.

[Sammy Sofa]

Yet we would see Neifi down there all the time, getting all Gumby.

[Balsa]

This is hilarious. Since Wood and Prior can't get injured, the Cubs pitching curse is transferring to the rookie pitchers.

[snoodmonger]

It's time to bring back Mack newton.

[Soul]

You know, I played baseball for quite a few years in my youth. Beyond just being a fan, when I played I never considered it a terribly taxing sport, and of the hundreds of other guys I played with there were almost no injuries.

 

Yes, I know you cannot compare this to major league baseball. But something just doesn't seem right. We shouldn't be suffering more injuries than the Bears under *any* circumstances.

 

Something is just not right with this picture.

[IowaCubsFan]

The time the Cubs usually stretch before the game is currently being taken up by corporations renting the field for their own stretching sessions.

[sethuel1]

The time the Cubs usually stretch before the game is currently being taken up by corporations renting the field for their own stretching sessions.

well played

[Guest]

but it shouldn't be just before a game anyway - these guys need to take care of their core muscles.

[CubinNY]

Training staff, pitcher abuse and everything else aside, why the Cubs seem to have twice as many injuries as every other baseball team, every season, boggles the mind. You couldn't do that if you tried.

 

If the same sort of things happens once it's an accident/bad luck, if it happens twice you have to start to wonder, if it happens three times there is a correlation. More than three times and each "sample' shows a trend.

 

Hendry has got to get rid of Rothschild, O'Neil and anyone else associated with the pitching staff when he gets rid of Dusty.

[A New Era]

If JH hires a new coaching staff next year, then the head trainer will probably come in and spot a problem in the work out routine that was causing the injuries to the pitchers. :lol:

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Back injuries are the new oblique injury (and elbow injury and shoulder injury).

[Guest]

Back injuries are the new oblique injury (and elbow injury and shoulder injury).

 

they are very much related.

[Chris]

Get all of the staff away before they have a chance to hurt Gallagher and Veal.

[Brothaman33]

for some reason Dusty has gotten injured yet...

[Guest]

for some reason Dusty has gotten injured yet...

 

you'd think he would at least get a splinter every now and then.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

"I'd do it, but I threw my back out humping your mom last night. Nooch."

[n l doormat]

Brothaman33 wrote:

for some reason Dusty has gotten injured yet...

 

stitchface wrote:

you'd think he would at least get a splinter every now and then.

 

For him to get a splinter wouldn't he actually have to move while he's glued to the bench?

[A New Era]

Brothaman33 wrote:

for some reason Dusty has gotten injured yet...

 

stitchface wrote:

you'd think he would at least get a splinter every now and then.

 

For him to get a splinter wouldn't he actually have to move while he's glued to the bench?

 

I think they were talking about tongue splinters. :)