May
09
Joba pops blood vessel in thumb
ByWhile many of us grew frustrated at the lack of Alfredo Aceves tonight, after the game Joe Girardi revealed his rationale. Turns out that Joba Chamberlain popped a blood vessel in his thumb, and his start tomorrow is in question. Given how the Yankees have treated Joba with kid gloves, I wouldn’t expect to see him starting the game, despite Girardi’s claims that the trainers think he’ll be fine. It’s not like we haven’t heard them say something one day and go back on it the next. Then again, that could be pessimism running over from tonight’s loss.
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Talk about a random injury
OK, I’ll bite. Is this a cause for long-term concern? or “oh well, he missed one start” and forgotten by June?
Nah. Just a freak thing, shit happens.
He should have been using a western grip. Safer.
I honestly can’t tell if that’s supposed to be a tennis reference or a self-pleasuring reference. Either way, kudos.
Tennis?
*Here comes the chance for multiple dirty puns and double entendre”
How one grips the shaft of the racket when playing tennis. The one’s I can name off the top of my head are Continental, Eastern, Semi-Western and Western.
Self pleasuring.
If you didn’t see Will Ferrell’s “You’re Welcome, America: A Final Night With George W. Bush”, I highly recommend it. He drops in a line about Bush and some dude that he met while doing drugs at Yale giving each other “western grip handjobs”.
Anyone know the time frame on this being healthy? I assume a few days?
So will Burnett pitch tomorrow if Joba doesn’t start?
No, Aceves.
“Ace” in Girardi-lingo.
If AJ doesn’t pitch on Tuesday there will be a lot of upset Canadians. The sports channel up here has been pimping the Tuesday pitching match up like crazy.
Student vs Teacher
Facing his former mentor
and on and on.
However, I had wondered the same thing given the off day Monday.
Pissing off Canada is an incentive for me, not a disincentive.
As nice as a sweep would have been, as long as the Yankees can take 2 of 3 in most series, they’ll be in great shape. Aceves instead of Joba certainly complicates that a bit.
how bad is popping a blood vessel? can’t be too serious if pitching might be an option, right?
Isn’t popping a blood vessel just a bruise?
same result i think, discoloration
Son of a BITCH!
I twisted my eyeball watching the post game. I think I might be out for tomorrow’s game.
If I can’t watch, MikePop said he’d fill in for me.
If I can’t watch, MikePop said he’d fill in for me.
Fuck! Kroger’s in? That’s a loss.
You trust that
incompetent jackassgreat guy? Good for you.So, can we stop with the bashing and criticizing of Joe Girardi until at least after the post-game conference now?
It’s kinda screwed how everyone was praising his bullpen management last season but now everyone can’t wait to jump on him on a move they disagree with. If you praised him last season then have trust in his judgment this season.
Let me rephrase that: I’m not saying you can’t criticize or question his moves, but he damn sure deserves the benefit of the doubt based on his performance in 2008.
Here’s a good rule. If you want to criticize, fine. But provide an alternative.
You’ll quickly find out he doesnt have any really good options right now.
I still have to wonder about not going to Brett “can go 45 pitches” Tomko until the last inning of the game.
I’m still not understanding why it’s even an issue when you use Edwar Ramirez and when you use Brett Tomko. Is there really a negligible difference when the long man is used before the middle reliever in a blowout game?
+1.
I’ll make an argument FOR Edwar and Albie over Tomko:
In a blowout loss, Girardi may as well pitch the guys who are struggling but whom he’s more likely to depend on later, to give them a pressure-free opportunity to straighten themselves out / sink or swim. It worked well here (Edwar showed more struggles and will probably be counted on less, Albie pitched fairly well and may be rounding back into form.) Throwing Tomko doesn’t really help much, since there’s a smaller chance he plays a vital role going forward.
As you recall, Farnsworth started slow last year, but Girardi kept giving him chances to right himself, and he eventually did.
Thank you. And also, people always say that the long man is the worst pitcher on the staff, so what’s really the point of arguing for getting him in a game over your middle guys?
As inconsistent as Edwar has been, he’s still a much, much, much fucking better option than Brett Tomko (and I’ll even argue Alfredo Aceves).
the long man is usually the worst pitcher on the staff, but how about when ramiro mendoza was in his prime, he could be counted on to come in and hold the opposing team for several innings
The more I look at what Ramiro Mendoza did, the more I consider him a once in a generation freak of nature.
He had a rubber arm and pitched amazingly well in crazy situations. Probably the most underrated/unappreciated guy from the title years.
Calling him a “longman” is selling him short. He was a true hybrid starter/reliever.
He was more of a damn good pitcher that had the ability to either be a starter or a reliever
True. There have been a few times where I wondered about a move then I end up sounding like a doofus due to reasonable rationale.
I am guilty of that as well.
I’m still disappointed that Hughes shit the bed and Joba’s missing his start.
So, to cheer myself up, I’m Google Image Searching more pictures of Zoe Saldana.
Here you go: http://www.kino-govno.com/imgd.....na_big.jpg
http://zoesaldana.com/complex/2.jpg
Jose Contreras was moved to the bullpen; hah!
Ozzie Guillen is a B-Jobber.
Jose Contreras has a “mouse in a chinashop” mentality.
He’ll just shit all over the place, leaving tiny, tiny droppings behind.
B-Contter?
Ozzie Guillen is
a B-Jobberbatshit insane.Fixed.
(although, you have to agree with pulling Contreras from the rotation, he’s been a traveshamockery of Wangian/Perezian proportions. 56 baserunners in 29 innings is epic fail.)
I feel kind of embarrassed to like a phrase that originated on a TV commercial.
It’s a beer commercial.
Beer commercials are the pinnacle of American culture. They are 100% good and have nothing but redeeming value.
You know, you could probably launch exploding artillery shells into Yankee stadium and have less players get injured.
Cashman should have gotten more injury-proof players.
This front office is an embarrassment.
ietc
Also, I find it endlessly amusing how Peter Abraham just assumes that every pitcher in the Yankees’ bullpen not named Edwar Ramirez would have thrown up zeroes on the board in this game.
That is what you call Grade-A horseshit.
Had Edwar thrown zeroes… we still lose this game.
http://www.mootmusic.co.uk/Images2/the_moot.jpg
So i guess that means i wont see my first Joba start live on May 21st. Great.
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OH CRAP NEVERMIND
Put a leech on that shit and, discoloration = gone.