Workman's Comp
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:55 am
Baseball players are alot like the American working stiff. There are slackers, overachievers, workaholics, thieves, the idiots, the well educated.
The disabled list reflects this more than most parallels. Most of us have no clue how hard players are working to recover from an injury. We see an estimated time on the disabled list and judge a players workout habits on whether he beats the timeframe or not. But as with the working stiff, different personalities come into play.
Chase Utley is driven. A workaholic overachiever. No qualms about him making it back before the season started. The biggest fear was him aggravating another body part while working so hard to get his hip back into shape. ARod is the same way, although comparing Utley's head to ARod's would be like comparing the Professor to Gilligan.
Then we have the other side. The guys who slow our factories and warehouses.
During the drafting season, Troy Glaus was expected to miss a month of the season, maybe a little more. Now it is well after the All-Star break. Glaus has only been in the news once since this revelation, that being another revelation of admitting to steroid use. Yeah, a slacker.
Chris Carpenter's estimated time on the d.l. is put at 6 weeks. I usually double it for the chronics.
Milton Bradley, he likes living the American dream of a two-three day work week.
Eric Chavez and Nomar, ok, Billy Beane isn't perfect.
So next time you go to work and run into a guy that just came back from four days off with the sniffles think of him as Milton Bradley.
The guy that you met a long time ago, but hurt his back and hasn't been seen since...Dustin McGowan
The guy that comes in every once in awhile, usually around pay day...Nomar
We can even go from the workplace to the schoolground. Some kids get picked on by bullies everyday and handle it better than others.
Barry Zito gets picked on and beaten up in most games but yet hardly ever misses a start. He said he even worked out this off season :rolleyes:
intimating that he's never done that before.
On the other side of the play ground is Adam Eaton, after getting beaten up a few times, he'll heat up the thermometer and stay home on days he pitches.
What players are in your work place?
[ April 16, 2009, 12:43 PM: Message edited by: DOUGHBOYS ]
The disabled list reflects this more than most parallels. Most of us have no clue how hard players are working to recover from an injury. We see an estimated time on the disabled list and judge a players workout habits on whether he beats the timeframe or not. But as with the working stiff, different personalities come into play.
Chase Utley is driven. A workaholic overachiever. No qualms about him making it back before the season started. The biggest fear was him aggravating another body part while working so hard to get his hip back into shape. ARod is the same way, although comparing Utley's head to ARod's would be like comparing the Professor to Gilligan.
Then we have the other side. The guys who slow our factories and warehouses.
During the drafting season, Troy Glaus was expected to miss a month of the season, maybe a little more. Now it is well after the All-Star break. Glaus has only been in the news once since this revelation, that being another revelation of admitting to steroid use. Yeah, a slacker.
Chris Carpenter's estimated time on the d.l. is put at 6 weeks. I usually double it for the chronics.
Milton Bradley, he likes living the American dream of a two-three day work week.
Eric Chavez and Nomar, ok, Billy Beane isn't perfect.
So next time you go to work and run into a guy that just came back from four days off with the sniffles think of him as Milton Bradley.
The guy that you met a long time ago, but hurt his back and hasn't been seen since...Dustin McGowan
The guy that comes in every once in awhile, usually around pay day...Nomar
We can even go from the workplace to the schoolground. Some kids get picked on by bullies everyday and handle it better than others.
Barry Zito gets picked on and beaten up in most games but yet hardly ever misses a start. He said he even worked out this off season :rolleyes:
intimating that he's never done that before.On the other side of the play ground is Adam Eaton, after getting beaten up a few times, he'll heat up the thermometer and stay home on days he pitches.
What players are in your work place?
[ April 16, 2009, 12:43 PM: Message edited by: DOUGHBOYS ]