Paulie4Pres

This board is bipolar.

I guess my point, at the end of the day, is that these guys shouldn't be injuring themselves as seriously as they do, as often as they do, and taking as long as they do, to recover. It seems absolutely absurd to me. Something is really off in their training/conditioning. I mean, sprinting to first base TEARS a hamstring? Jumping for a fly ball TEARS a pec muscle? Yikes. We agree way more than we disagree.

So, I would say, being able to perform at 100% of the level I did before the injury, without reinjury, means it is healed 100%. Is that completely accurate? Probably not. The human body compensates a lot. But it's close enough. And yeah, I know a few folks with recurring back pain. They tend to be those that don't really take care of themselves, unfortunately.

Yeah, it's certainly not ideal, and I should probably have it looked at, at some point. And surgery is really just never an option for me, because I coach hockey and play so much. My most painful injury though, was an oblique tear. That took me like 3 months before I didn't feel pain, even just passing a puck. Still never went completely inactive with it. Just cut activity back to where the pain was tolerable, and it eventually healed well. But that was BRUTAL. Even coughing killed me. I guess I just have a drastically different experience with tissue injuries, than what you've conveyed here. The overwhelming majority of mine, have healed 100%, and fairly quickly.

Well, next time I sustain a tissue injury, I will hit you up. It happens a few times a year, at a minimum. Maybe I'll blow your mind... Who knows. I've got a knee bothering me right now(likely PCL strain, from a slew foot), but I've taken to staying active, continuing to build strength in it, and wearing a brace when playing hockey, as opposed to rest. It's improved drastically in just a week, doing this. My injury history would probably be intriguing, as well. Considering I've been playing 150 hockey games a year for the last 10-12 years, and haven't missed more than a few weeks due to injury.

So what you're saying is, once an injury is sustained, it takes forever(relatively speaking) to get back to 100%, and you may never get back to 100%? If that's the case, I vehemently disagree. Again, decades of first hand experience and first hand observation, in a sport where tissue injuries are EXTREMELY common. Groin injuries are the worst, but even with a groin injury, I've seen guys come back stronger than they were before the injury. Myself included.

I'm really just speaking to your claims about recovery time. I find these recovery times to be absurd. Again, as an old ass man, my recovery times are shorter than that.

Yes. This is highly probable. Baseball players are probably the least athletic "athletes" of any sport. As someone who played every sport imaginable growing up, I would rank it as follows, when it comes to pure athletic ability, and pushing your physical limits: 1) Hockey 2) Basketball 3) Football 4) Soccer 5) Baseball

As a 42 year old who plays hockey 5-6 times a week, I find this post about baseball players laughable. Give me a fucking break.

This is sarcasm, right?

Being a "fan" of a team that consistently shows they don't really value winning, or respect their fans, is like staying in an abusive relationship. Respect and loyalty is a two way street. The ONLY thing a sports organization respects is the bottom line. So when you want to send a message, you do so by not giving that team money. Unfortunately in Chicago, we have a lot of masochistic fans, who just keep coming back for more. It's not admirable to stick with a team when they are terribly managed, and not competitive. That's called being a fucking sucker. You can still be a "fan" and send a message with your wallet.

For those talking about Ozzie not managing in forever, he's been involved in baseball the entire time. He watches every game this team plays. All of his analysis postgame is spot on. People like to pretend that managing an MLB team is rocket science. It's not. It's mostly common sense, and listening to the numbers. Ozzie would be a HUGE upgrade over this alcoholic, dementia suffering idiot.

How the fuck is this surprising to anyone? I would be SHOCKED if this guy lives five more years. He's 77 years old, and looks 90. What the fuck did people expect? Every time he comes out of the dugout I expect him to have a heart attack or stroke. Hiring this guy to manage one of the youngest teams in the league was a fucking disaster day 1. It just gets worse the longer it goes.

Imagine having this much talent and deciding it is time to tear it all down again, and rebuild. Instead of, you know, firing the incompetent fucking asshole in the dugout who handicaps the team every single game, and maximizing your talent. What a bunch of fucking idiots Sox fans are. Jesus Christ.

No, not really. That's why stats such as XBA exist. The majority of all balls hit are going to either be a hit, or an out, as soon as they leave the bat. That's just the game as it exists today.

He's getting booed every game I attend. Fuck this guy.

From my perspective everything you said reinforces my opinion. The fate of an entire team comes down to the individual performance of a single player, against another player. How can a sport be LESS about the team???

Does Garcia even belong in the MLB right now? How could you not find a better player defensively, or offensively, in the AAA?

It's baseball. The least team sport of any team sport. The entire game comes down to talented individuals executing....individually. Almost the entire premise of the sport is 1 vs. 1. Come on.

I mean, it's Abreu. I think you send just about anyone else there. But I saw that coming as soon as the ball was fielded. Abreu is so damn slow. Should have held him.

This is what alcohol induced dementia looks like, folks.

The ban has been lifted? Quit one board and return to another? Lol

I think my opinion of Sox leadership from the top down has been made pretty clear here. I despise JR and his stupid "old boy's club". It's one of the biggest reasons the White Sox have been the laughingstock of the AL for as long as they have been. I'd love for JR to sell the fucking team, and have a new owner clean house. Unfortunately, our best hope at this point is the old may dying, and one of his relatives actually running the organization in a competitive manner. He will NEVER sell. The same way the McCaskey's will NEVER sell. They're the Chicago Bears of the MLB, and it's a huge reason my fandom for both teams has really, really dropped off as I've gotten older. Here's to the Blackhawks. ?

Who is acting like they've never done something stupid? I don't manage a Major League Baseball team, so the stupid things I may or may not have done are immaterial to this discussion. Whether you like it or not, with increased responsibility, comes increased accountability. When you're in a leadership position, standards are, and should be, much higher. The fact that TLR has been arrested twice for DUI is pretty telling(here's where analytics comes in). This speaks to a pattern of poor judgement. It points to a pattern of stubbornness, and not learning from your mistakes(especially when you state IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN). These are not attributes I want in the guy managing my favorite baseball team.

BAC is not statistics. It's a single fucking measurement. Jesus Christ. Statistics should be a mandatory class for everyone, starting in middle school. And none of this has ANYTHING to do with analytics.