Ding Dong Johnson

How 'bout Marquis Grissom?

I really don't want to spend that much, but I may have to. :cry:

Ponson ate the article, Vance. "The requested document was not found."

I think that is his beef. That's why I'm not in the Royals camp right now.

I'm leaving it up to you.

I don't care what anyone says, I miss Chip and Stoney.

Man, I miss Glenallen. He was so much fun to watch at the plate. Love the avatar!

Yeah, he had an OPS above 1.000 if I remember correctly. 1.071 to be exact.

3, and Jack Wilson ain't one of them. Last year, he was 19th among qualified SS with a 299 OBP. Neifi was 20th at 298.

This looks like it hurts: http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060228/capt.e2cb18adf6114fc88d57a31ec61dfcfb.spring_mets_baseball_flrd107.jpg

It's all relative. I don't think $10-12 for Lee's 850-900 OPS is too terribly obscene when people like AJ Burnett and Rafael Furcal are getting the same amount or more. The fact that he brings a good glove with him helps, but I would not consider him more than slightly overpaid.

A down year for Lee would still be far better than an average Beltre season. If he reverts to his career norms, and he's only slightly overpaid.

The 304 for his career, OBP that is.

I stopped watching those replays after Theisman's broken leg. What's the first one I decide to look at 2 decades later? Willis McGahee in the Fiesta Bowl. Man, I'm an idiot sometimes.

I don't blame you a bit. Perhaps I'm being overly optimistic based on the fact that I was in recovery mode along with him and I want so badly for him to succeed. If he can come back from this and be successful, he will easily become my favorite Cub because I know first had how excruciating the recovery and rehab can be.

Nice link. Seems there is a difference in a torn and frayed labrum. Yes, my surgeon explained the difference in great detail, and I think I will side with the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and Johns Hopkins over Will Carroll and his sources.

Here's a pretty informative site on all that is the labrum.

What about the simple fact that he would have gone 9-10 months between meaningful starts? Even if he is physically 100%, including stamina, the ability to harness the art of starting pitching might take a while to get back. I know what you're saying, but I think he'll be fine. His effectiveness should be right about where it's always been. He may have some hiccups coming out of the gate, but the good news is he'll already be on a strict pitch count. With our improved bullpen and having either Williams or Rusch to do some long relief when needed, I'm not extremely worried.

My feeling is that if his conditioning goes according to schedule, we should definitely see Kerry by April 10-15, and he should be 100% by mid-May. Following this assumption, I see no reason he is not 100% effective when he first comes back. The hard part will be the stamina to throw 90-110 pitches vs the 65-80 we'll probably see when he first comes back.

Yes, and I'll include my comment from the Will Carroll thread as well: I still keep in touch with the surgeon who performed the procedure on me (and thousands of athletes at the U of I and throughout the midwest). He's one of the best in the nation, so if any of you have any unanswered questions on the procedures themselves, I will be glad to find out for you.

A fray and a tear are not that dissimilar. Major advancements have been made in the past 3-5 years in terms of repairing a labrum, and now the prognosis is actually very good for athletes. Don't put a lot of stock in the reports of players like Rob Nenn, who often had unnecessary procedures done to mask pain instead of fix problems. Little was known about labrum repairs as early as 10-15 years ago. It's your next TJS.

I'm not entirely clear on Matty Mo's procedure, so I can't say whether or not they are comparable. I do know that the surgeon who performed my labrum repair is one of the best in the nation, and he was also a big baseball fan so we talked about it in good detail one day. In his description of events, and obviously he didn't have access to Wood's MRI results, but mine was much more serious as it was a complete tear. Wood's problem was that edge of the labrum over time may get frayed so that the edge is not smooth. It is an extremely similar procedure in that it is basically just stitched back up. Like I said, the hard part is that I was told not to lift anything at all for 2 months, nothing heavier than a gallon of milk from months 2-4, and while I could exercise, I could not lift anything heavier than 25 pounds from months 4-6. My shoulder is as weak as it has ever been, and I am slowly starting to get back to where I was. I had mine repaired on 9/12, and I am at about 95% health-wise. I am going to be starting to hit the weights quite a bit more over the next month or so, as right now I can't throw anything at all. The pain is gone for the most part, but the weakness is obvious. I don't remember the date Kerry had his done, but he should be 100% healed and in that strength-building process. I don't envision him being out until mid-May, but depending on how his conditioning goes, it may be mid-April until he's game ready.

The success rate for labrum surgery (complete tear) is around 95% over 20 years. That's a pretty darn good rate. Wood did not have a tear and he should have been at 100% in terms of healing for a month or two now. The problem with the surgery is that it requires you to not do anything for a long period of time, thus resulting in a need to build back a lot of strength after 5-6 months. Assuming there were no complications with his operation, there should be no "setbacks". Building his strength and endurance back up are really the only things to be concerned with at this point.

Is it me or does that dress make his Barriness look fat? So that's what really happened to Star Jones.

I'll go with the majority. In fact, this is one of the smarter things to come out of his mouth.