Comments on: A-Rod & Hip Used in Sentences For First Time

By: papasmurf

papasmurf — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:43:39 +0000

Unless AROD and the Yankz are messing with our heads again, he has decided to go under the knife now. Gotta hate the Yankz and AROD too, since he plays for them.

By: Grey

Grey — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:40:25 +0000

@papasmurf: Yeah, gotcha. That's interesting update about the beat writer, thanks!

By: papasmurf

papasmurf — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:26:42 +0000

@Grey: Yes, the talk is that the surgery will put him out about 3-4 months. What I meant is that if he has it now, the first 3 weeks or so he misses is in spring training, so he misses 3 fewer weeks of the season than he would otherwise miss if he waited to get the surgery. If he tries to play through this and finally has to go under the knife in June, he's done even for the playoffs. I was listening to the local beat reporter on the radio. He said that even last year, some people were noticing AROD was having problem opening up during ABs. However, Cashman said that AROD never complained about it (or else it would have been discovered sooner-maybe even at the end of last year).

By: advocate

advocate — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:26:06 +0000

thanks.

By: Grey

Grey — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:21:56 +0000

@advocate: Howard, Utley, Tex, in that order.

By: advocate

advocate — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:05:12 +0000

@grey,
sorry this is so late…i think arod just *ucked me, i’m in a new keeper this year and have the number 8 pick. i originally saw him going in the top 2 or 3 (if not 1) and i kind of like where i stood for the eigth pick where i was targeting a guy like cabrera, sizemore or braun. any of those that were left when i pick feels like a win, but now if everyone passes on arod what route would you go?…howard, arod at 8 (considering its a keeper league) or look at utley, rollins, kinsler, etc…even longoria? just need some advice…thanks.

By: Grey

Grey — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:20:26 +0000

@James: That's fair. The key is when will A-Rod's peak of his pain occur. I'd have to assume it's not now if he wants to play through it.

By: James

James — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:13:59 +0000

Should read Utley hurt his hip…

By: James

James — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:13:38 +0000

Utley hurt his shoulder in the Philly winter work out program. The peak of his pain happened in July and he hit 10 homers from July to the end of the season. That is about a six to eight month period before Utley started to hurt badly and struggle.

Arod had problem with his hip going back to last year. Thus, he probably will start to struggle a lot sooner than Utley did and the comparison might not be warranted.

By: Grey

Grey — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:16:57 +0000

@Johnny: That's brilliant. That's like last year when Hater Bell pointed out that ESPN had Jeter overrated then wrote a post to not overrating him. He's overrated because you overrated him! Ugh. That annoys me. "There's too much about A-Rod out there..." You're writing it! @sean: Right, how does a guy do intense offseason workouts for four months then hurt himself jogging to first? It's not like he's Manny who was playing Wii for 4 months. @Fred Barker: Might lose a sliver of value, I'm not too worried about. EDIT: Typo. Word.