Comments on: Game 66 Spillover Thread II

By: adeel

adeel — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:06:49 +0000

You would get an mri in trauma in the following settings

1) severe clinical deficit in the setting of a normal or not too bad looking head ct

You could probably see hemorrhages on GRE sequences but they wouldn’t be as sensitive as ct, so they could cofirm but not much else

2) White matter changes like the type you are talking about would probably be too mild to be picked up on MRI

By: adeel

adeel — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:00:31 +0000

Well I am not a historian, but two trends that I have observed over the past years

1) Yankees as a team do not hit mediocre pitching as good as they should (not too bad when you look at the number, but yesterday has happened all too commonly)
2) Yankee pitchers hardly ever dominate… we have come to expect 1-3 runs per game from the pitching no matter who they face
3) The team always seems better on paper than in reality

Now, I am not saying all of this is Long and Eiland’s fault but there are two questions worth asking
1) If the Yankees win the world series this year, will part of it be because of long and Eiland’s coaching or despite of it?
2) We have two coaches who may be exceptional in their ability, but were not big mlb players or have a distinguised coaching career. Maybe they are saying the right things, but the players aren’t really responding… I mean, who would you want hitting advice from Long or Jackson? Maybe Joba would respect Guidry more than Eiland; I would.

Personally, I like coaches to be ex-successful mlb players, and that may not be something that is universal to every team or even the Yankees, but based on the perfomance of the past few years… we seem to have great players but a bad team; y is that?

By: JP

JP — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:21:01 +0000

Adeel – my impression, from training as a neuropathologist, and studying for and passing those boards (2003, American Board of Pathology, you could look it up) – is that a concussion IS axonal injury, just a very mild form when the concussion is mild. Obviously, the catastrophic form of diffuse axonal injury, seen in sever head trauma, shaken/battered babies, etc., isn’t what we’re taling about. I thought there might be white matter changes on MRI in mild head trauma…no?

What would be the indication for an MRI, in the setting of head trauma? None?

By: JP

JP — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:14:32 +0000

My thought has always been that, at the professional level, coaches shouldn’t be doing much in terms of mechanics and technique. Seriously, if you’re good enough to make it to the majors, you shold have either good technique already, or the natural ability to groove your faults in such a way that you succeed anyway. I always assume coaches are more important as motivators, or as facilitators, helping the players focus on the right things and find the answers on their own.

I wonder what type of coaches Eiland and Long are – micro-managing mechanics, or mentors?

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:23:30 +0000

I don’t know why some of you are making the excuse that the rain delay effected joba tonight. Look at the other kid that face them tonight, he had to wait through the same delay just like joba. I can’t stand when ever joba has a sub-par outting or loses excuses are made for him especially by girardi. It always from girardi “oh don’t think he looks comfortable out there or his motion didn’t look right”. My question is why are all these excuses always made for joba? You don’t see excuse being made for CC, Wang, AJ, Andy or Hughes when they pitch bad. Joba has done nothing as a starter to earn that right. Joba thus far has been overrated as a starter. The yanks act like just because he was dominate in the pen he will be a dominate starter. Now his numbers in the minors were good but pitching in scranton is much different then pitching in new york. Face it joba has basically been 5 inning pitcher. What worse is his whip is 1.44 and since becoming a starter last year his whip is 1.6. Joba has also lost that same swagger he had coming out of the bullpen. He had was unhittable and he knew it. The opposition doesn’t fear him anynore. Now there is still time to fix that. It can all be fixed by putting joba back in the bullpen and putting hughes in the rotation. With joba in the pen the yanks can go 7,8,9 with bruney, joba and mo. Plus in the long run i think hughes will be a much better starter than joba because he is more efficent in throwing strikes and seems to be able to go deeper. I think hughes will become for us what Mike pelfrey is for the mets. Now i know the yanks will say they can’t do that because of wang. The only way to fix wang is to keep sending him out there every 5 day. Putting wang in the pen does nothing to help his confidence and doing that will never bring back the old chien ming wang. This would put all 3 of those guys in the spot were they belong and were they each help the team in the best possible way. Also everyone keeps saying we need help in the pen. The pen would be helped big time by putting joba were he was at his best. Some people think we should try to trade for guys like huston street, chad qualls or jose valverde. Trust none of those guy are as good as joba would be again if he would be put back in the pen. My opinion of those 3 guys is that street has alway been an overrated closer, qualls is a control guy not a strike out artist and valverde reminds me to much of latroy hawkins. Plus i can’t stand valverde’s antics. Finally, have all of you just forgotten about 1996? The main reason the yanks won the title that year is because they had the ability to make every game a six inning ballgame. Mo pitched the seven and eighth innings and wettland shut the door in the nighth. We could have the same thing with bruney in the 7th, Joba in the 8th and Mo in the 9th. We had that 3 man group together to start the year last season and it was a mistake for the yanks to brake that up, especially after bruney got hurt. It lets the old saying when its not broken don’t fix it. Joba has always said he would do anything that help the team win and doesn’t care what role he is in. I don’t know what the rest of you think but if torre was still the manager i think joba would be still in the bullpen. Joe Torre said back on the day joba got his first save that he believes he should be the next closer after Mo. The only reason i think girardi got hire is because girardi said he could fixed farnsworth. Now farnsworth has the same stuff as joba but is not half the reliever joba is. This back to the arguement i made earlier would you rather have a guys that is a 5 inning pitcher at the most will tax the bullpen or have that same guys has been the most dominated eighth inning starter in the game over the last 2 years?

By: blee

blee — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:53:45 +0000

The young bullpen the last few years have been solid.. and Robbie Cano and melky have seen imprvement under Long..

You’re telling me Pettitte, Sabathia, Burnett, Arod, Jeter, Posada, Damon, Matsui.. a team of mostly veterans needs to blame the coaches for their perforamnce? or is that a fan thing?

By: bonestock94

bonestock94 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:53:01 +0000

I would prefer to lose to every ace and beat these scrubs. I’m sick of them making pitchers I’ve never heard of look like superstars.

By: blee

blee — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:48:03 +0000

uh.. as opposed to the other yankee batters who couldnt even manage a hit? comon..

By: adeel

adeel — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:40:30 +0000

I don’t know why people defend Eiland or Long…. They are given this great bunch of players and every year it seems like the yankees end up being less than the sum of their parts. This is a great freaking team; and should dominate teams.

It’s so hard to quantify whether a coach is doing a good or bad job; but I just can’t take the Yankees of late…. They are like 4-6 against pitchers they should be 10-0 on, and most importantly, they don’t win big games (red sox series).

By: adeel

adeel — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:35:05 +0000

axonal injury would be VERY unlikely as that is usually during high speed collisions, with severe clinical symptoms out of proportion to physical exam findings (coma, lethargy).

A ct scan would be the most apropriate test, and if the yankees did not get that, especially with admitted amnesia, well that’s just bad medicine.

I don’t know bout Zach, but I am a radiologist.