Is There An MRI For Youkitis?
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 10:31 pm
This is going to be a long one so saddle up big boy, it's gonna be a long ride.
First, while thinking about it, does anybody, anybody in the whole freakin; world know how a player's health is valued?
Kevin Youkilis is a pussy. You know that. I know that. His namesake, Pussy Galore knows that.
He's the Greek God of Pox.
So anyway,Kevin cries owwie and gets benched for six days. Then, Kevin, wiping his nose and saying his boo boo is all better, takes the field only to cry again later in the day.
We know Youkilis, so this comes as no surprise to fantasy players whatsoever. The Yankees scheduled an MRI for Monday.
WHAT!?
This wasn't done before?
If only to tell Youkilis to rub dirt on it and get the hell out on the field?
IDIOTS!
Of course, this is the same organization that said Jeter would be back in April, only to find out that maybe he was pushed too soon.
The Yankees cry injury a lot. Maybe too much.
Some of it sure doesn't seem to be bad luck as much as it is bad decisions.
With Sabathia, Hughes, Pettitte, and now Nova all having injury during the last few months and seeing their lineup now, I would question the organization more than their luck.
Alright, just had to get that off my chest....I'll tell the Roger Maris story later and the way the Yankees 'handled' his injury before trading him too.
Sickening, but that was many moons ago and has nothing to do with this regime.
Stupid Yankees.
Oh screw it, now I'm pissed off about the Yankees, so I'll just tell the Maris story now and change the trail of this post.
Most of you know the hell Maris went through while pursuing and breaking Babe Ruth's home run record. It really did a number on him and he was never fully appreciated by Yankees fans till well into his retirement years.
In 1966, Mantle, Maris and the rest of the Yankees did something no Yankee team had done before them in more than 50 years.
They finished last.
In September, at Yankee Stadium, they drew a 'crowd' of 413 people.
The Yankees were flat out, a bad team.
During this year, Maris complained of a hand that hurt anytime he tried to grip or throw.
The Yankees sent Maris to a battery of doctors and then told Maris that he was ok to play. Not only did they tell Maris he was ok to play, they told the baseball writers, who wrote in their newspapers that Maris was able to play.
Maris tried. And tried again. Still, his hand would not cooperate.
With everyday he spent on the bench, the fans were thinking he had Youkitis* or at that time, thought Maris was faking it.
(*Definition- A player's disease, that could be blamed on any part of the body, but the player most likely, just does not want to either play through the injury, or worse, not want to play period. Named for a later Yankee, Kevin Youkilis)
Maris would sit on the bench and take abuse from fans. Then get interviewed after the game with slanted questions from reporters on why he was not in the game. Finally, if only for his own sake, Maris, on his own dime, sought out a hand specialist. The specialist saw a break in Maris' hand and told him the results.
With x-rays in hand, Maris went to have a meeting with Manager Ralph Houk. Before Maris could say a word, Houk made some small talk and then dropped this bombshell on Maris,
"Roger, I might as well level with you, you need an operation on that hand."
For the rest of Maris life, the phrase, 'I might as well level with you' would rebound in Maris' head.
Here was the greatest sports organization in history, treating a guy who won two MVP's for them as shabbily as a ball player can be treated.
Maris did get an operation on his hand.
Maris knew, as did the Yankees, that there was no way, Maris could put on Yankee uniform again.
He could never trust an organization that had left him twisting in a public wind.
The Yankees then, unknowingly, did Maris a favor. They traded him to the St. Louis Cardinals. With Maris' help, the Cardinals would win the pennant and World Series. He would also be widely accepted by the St. Louis community in a way he was never treated, even in his best years, by the Yankees. He would even get a Budweiser Brewery franchise that would set his family and their family's up for life.
The Yankees continued their plunge. And they never publicly apologized. Maris never made a big deal about it.
It was just the way both were at the time.
Never mind about the long post, it's shorter than thought because of the different jag when remembering the Maris problem.
You're saved....for now
First, while thinking about it, does anybody, anybody in the whole freakin; world know how a player's health is valued?
Kevin Youkilis is a pussy. You know that. I know that. His namesake, Pussy Galore knows that.
He's the Greek God of Pox.
So anyway,Kevin cries owwie and gets benched for six days. Then, Kevin, wiping his nose and saying his boo boo is all better, takes the field only to cry again later in the day.
We know Youkilis, so this comes as no surprise to fantasy players whatsoever. The Yankees scheduled an MRI for Monday.
WHAT!?
This wasn't done before?
If only to tell Youkilis to rub dirt on it and get the hell out on the field?
IDIOTS!
Of course, this is the same organization that said Jeter would be back in April, only to find out that maybe he was pushed too soon.
The Yankees cry injury a lot. Maybe too much.
Some of it sure doesn't seem to be bad luck as much as it is bad decisions.
With Sabathia, Hughes, Pettitte, and now Nova all having injury during the last few months and seeing their lineup now, I would question the organization more than their luck.
Alright, just had to get that off my chest....I'll tell the Roger Maris story later and the way the Yankees 'handled' his injury before trading him too.
Sickening, but that was many moons ago and has nothing to do with this regime.
Stupid Yankees.
Oh screw it, now I'm pissed off about the Yankees, so I'll just tell the Maris story now and change the trail of this post.
Most of you know the hell Maris went through while pursuing and breaking Babe Ruth's home run record. It really did a number on him and he was never fully appreciated by Yankees fans till well into his retirement years.
In 1966, Mantle, Maris and the rest of the Yankees did something no Yankee team had done before them in more than 50 years.
They finished last.
In September, at Yankee Stadium, they drew a 'crowd' of 413 people.
The Yankees were flat out, a bad team.
During this year, Maris complained of a hand that hurt anytime he tried to grip or throw.
The Yankees sent Maris to a battery of doctors and then told Maris that he was ok to play. Not only did they tell Maris he was ok to play, they told the baseball writers, who wrote in their newspapers that Maris was able to play.
Maris tried. And tried again. Still, his hand would not cooperate.
With everyday he spent on the bench, the fans were thinking he had Youkitis* or at that time, thought Maris was faking it.
(*Definition- A player's disease, that could be blamed on any part of the body, but the player most likely, just does not want to either play through the injury, or worse, not want to play period. Named for a later Yankee, Kevin Youkilis)
Maris would sit on the bench and take abuse from fans. Then get interviewed after the game with slanted questions from reporters on why he was not in the game. Finally, if only for his own sake, Maris, on his own dime, sought out a hand specialist. The specialist saw a break in Maris' hand and told him the results.
With x-rays in hand, Maris went to have a meeting with Manager Ralph Houk. Before Maris could say a word, Houk made some small talk and then dropped this bombshell on Maris,
"Roger, I might as well level with you, you need an operation on that hand."
For the rest of Maris life, the phrase, 'I might as well level with you' would rebound in Maris' head.
Here was the greatest sports organization in history, treating a guy who won two MVP's for them as shabbily as a ball player can be treated.
Maris did get an operation on his hand.
Maris knew, as did the Yankees, that there was no way, Maris could put on Yankee uniform again.
He could never trust an organization that had left him twisting in a public wind.
The Yankees then, unknowingly, did Maris a favor. They traded him to the St. Louis Cardinals. With Maris' help, the Cardinals would win the pennant and World Series. He would also be widely accepted by the St. Louis community in a way he was never treated, even in his best years, by the Yankees. He would even get a Budweiser Brewery franchise that would set his family and their family's up for life.
The Yankees continued their plunge. And they never publicly apologized. Maris never made a big deal about it.
It was just the way both were at the time.
Never mind about the long post, it's shorter than thought because of the different jag when remembering the Maris problem.
You're saved....for now