Theres got to be something wrong with Ramirez.

[OleMissCub]

Something that we dont know about him, and something that could DL him at any moment. Why else would Lou have benched him twice in the past week in games that really mattered. Theres something that management doesnt want out.

 

Everyone knows what's wrong with him. He has a knee injury that he says won't be 100 percent until at least the offseason. The organization made a plan for him that involved regular days off, and they've stuck to that.

 

Exactamundo.

 

Knee injuries are a bitch.

 

I hurt my knee two years ago and it still gives me all kinds of problems on very random days.

 

5 knee surgeries, 2 re-con, and three arthro...they just DON'T get better

 

Yep, which is exactly why I'm not on the "WHY ISN'T RAMIREZ PLAYING EVERYDAY!!!" bandwagon.

 

Knees can damage one's career faster than any other ailment I think in baseball. Cases in point: Mickey Mantle could have been the greatest player of all time had he not hurt his knees. Andre Dawson would have been a first ballot HOFer had he not destroyed his knees.

[Electron Blue]

How come Alfonso Soriano can't get himself into shape to play 150 games. I mean the guy hurts himself just running the bases??

 

edit: sarcasm, Ryan?

 

how many times has he done that, significantly hurt himself running the bases? He has averaged 156 games the last five years. Being injury-prone is very hard to causaly quantify, but with Sori, you have no shot.

[ConstableRabbit]

Something that we dont know about him, and something that could DL him at any moment. Why else would Lou have benched him twice in the past week in games that really mattered. Theres something that management doesnt want out.

 

Everyone knows what's wrong with him. He has a knee injury that he says won't be 100 percent until at least the offseason. The organization made a plan for him that involved regular days off, and they've stuck to that.

 

Exactamundo.

 

Knee injuries are a bitch.

 

I hurt my knee two years ago and it still gives me all kinds of problems on very random days.

 

5 knee surgeries, 2 re-con, and three arthro...they just DON'T get better

 

Yep, which is exactly why I'm not on the "WHY ISN'T RAMIREZ PLAYING EVERYDAY!!!" bandwagon.

 

Knees can damage one's career faster than any other ailment I think in baseball. Cases in point: Mickey Mantle could have been the greatest player of all time had he not hurt his knees. Andre Dawson would have been a first ballot HOFer had he not destroyed his knees.

 

He probably also would have been if he didn't play 81 games in Montreal, which also, in turn eventually messed up his knees.

 

In short, the Expos suck.

[Soul]

How come Alfonso Soriano can't get himself into shape to play 150 games. I mean the guy hurts himself just running the bases??

 

edit: sarcasm, Ryan?

 

how many times has he done that, significantly hurt himself running the bases? He has averaged 156 games the last five years. Being injury-prone is very hard to causaly quantify, but with Sori, you have no shot.

 

And it happens for the first time magically, the first year he plays for the Cubs. How is that not a damning indictment of our training staff?

[David]

How come Alfonso Soriano can't get himself into shape to play 150 games. I mean the guy hurts himself just running the bases??

 

edit: sarcasm, Ryan?

 

how many times has he done that, significantly hurt himself running the bases? He has averaged 156 games the last five years. Being injury-prone is very hard to causaly quantify, but with Sori, you have no shot.

 

It's definitely sarcasm on Ryan's part.

[Electron Blue]

How come Alfonso Soriano can't get himself into shape to play 150 games. I mean the guy hurts himself just running the bases??

 

edit: sarcasm, Ryan?

 

how many times has he done that, significantly hurt himself running the bases? He has averaged 156 games the last five years. Being injury-prone is very hard to causaly quantify, but with Sori, you have no shot.

 

It's definitely sarcasm on Ryan's part.

 

i didn't catch it the first time, but i figured as much afterward :)

[gerby23]

Something that we dont know about him, and something that could DL him at any moment. Why else would Lou have benched him twice in the past week in games that really mattered. Theres something that management doesnt want out.

 

Everyone knows what's wrong with him. He has a knee injury that he says won't be 100 percent until at least the offseason. The organization made a plan for him that involved regular days off, and they've stuck to that.

 

Exactamundo.

 

Knee injuries are a bitch.

 

I hurt my knee two years ago and it still gives me all kinds of problems on very random days.

 

5 knee surgeries, 2 re-con, and three arthro...they just DON'T get better

 

Yep, which is exactly why I'm not on the "WHY ISN'T RAMIREZ PLAYING EVERYDAY!!!" bandwagon.

 

Knees can damage one's career faster than any other ailment I think in baseball. Cases in point: Mickey Mantle could have been the greatest player of all time had he not hurt his knees. Andre Dawson would have been a first ballot HOFer had he not destroyed his knees.

 

Not that i had a "career" per se, but it ended my college career. And at my ripe old age, I walk with a limp and have pretty bad arthritis already. Some days I can barely move when I wake up, much less run out a routine single. If he was healthy, sure, hustle all the time, but I don't want him further injuring himself over something stupid.