given our recent stretch of luck, i'd have to think the worst possible scenario for the white sox is what will happen.

 

however, i must say that i'm not a real doctor, i just play one on internet message boards.

 

Did you recently stay at a Holiday Inn Express?

Did you recently stay at a Holiday Inn Express?

 

nah. they don't have the coin-operated beds.

I still think you are wrong. I thought Joe was wrong for not having the surgery last fall, for both the team and his career, I said so at the time, and I've been proven right. I will dispute you on one issue; surgery is not always the last option; it's the last option if you're about to die and you have no other choice. Joe had a finite probability of a disaster with either of the 2 options: surgery or rehab. The team reccommended surgery, and at least the first doctor the team sent him to reccommended surgery. I believe it was the 2nd doctor, reccommended by his agent, who suggested the rehab option.

 

To my eyes, yes, surgery was riskier without taking anything else into account, but when you take into account the fact that he was 2 years away from FA at the time, and the fact that he'd already tried to rehab his back from 05-06 and it wound up really hurting him again at the end of 06, and combine that with the suggestion from the team doctors, then I think the calculation winds up favoring the surgery as the best option, and again, I think I've been proven correct.

I am just saying he is not an idiot for that, he just tried the least evasive route medically and it did not work out professionally/financially. I agree with you, he should've had the surgery, I said that back then as well. There were a ton of people calling for the surgery on this board because we all saw how Crede performed with an aching back (Sep 2006). We all were right. Hoorah Beer!