Apr
27
Still no update on Phil Hughes
ByVia Chad Jennings and Mark Feinsand, the Yankees still don’t have an update on the status of Phil Hughes, who underwent five more hours of medical examination today. They did some blood work and a dye-contrast MRI. The doctor(s) will be in the house later on tonight, and it’s possible they’ll know more then. Jon Heyman said Hughes used words like “tightness,” “soreness,” and “shooting” to describe what he’s feeling in arm. It’s not pain, but the soreness is “lingering.” I’m not a doctor, though I do play one on the internet, and that doesn’t sound good.
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So what you’re saying is he’s dead.
He’s never going to pitch again and its all Cashman’s fault.
This has got to be a blood clot or aneurysm or something along those lines.
If that’s what it was with David Cone, that’s what it must be with Hughes.
I does sound eerily similar to David Cone’s aneurysm.
As I look back on Hughes injury history, I am getting the feeling that he is potentially the “Nick Johnson” of Yankee pitchers.
I still blame society.
Blame Javy. Or Canada.
JR Richard says Hughes is lazy
I blame Javy Vazquez.
+1. Javy is always a credible scapegoat.
Javy rode a tank
Held a generals rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
When Javy saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
Javy’s been around for a long, long year
Stole many a mans soul and faith
They screamed, “Javy killed Ian Kennedy”
But after all, it was Steve Lombardi… ??
I blame A-Rod.
I am praying for a pinched nerve
No news is good news, right? right? Already went through panic period on the day that his bullpen was cut short so I’m just going to hope for the best here.
KLaw on his ESPN podcast says that the description of Phil’s symptoms is typical of pitchers suffering shoulder injuries. He’s not a doctor obviously and I hope it’s not a shoulder injury, but usually when it quacks like a duck, look like a duck, it probably is a duck…
So you’re saying he’s a Communist?
I think it was an AFLAC joke.
Which, unfortunately, becomes a horrible Gilbert Gottfried joke.
I always thought Gottfried was a commie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_test
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.....Aflac_Duck
I call your inductive reasoning comment and raise you one annoying talking corporate spokesduck.
I thought CC was the lefty
HAHAHAAH A+ Well played
so you’re saying KLaw is a duck
Or it could be bad news. Maybe the wait is caused by them trying to get a second opinion. They probably wouldn’t get a second opinion with a good prognosis maybe.
Something is wrong with his shoulder, so I don’t really see that as huge insight into the situation by Law… “My shoulder is numb.” “That sounds like a shoulder injury.” Yes. There is an injury in his shoulder. That’s a shoulder injury. Whether it’s something minor, major, or career threatening is really the question here. That his shoulder is injured has been established.
Not necessarily. Numbness could be from a pinched nerve in his neck or a plexus injury which is like a stinger football players get. Either of those would be far preferable to a rotator cuff, labrum or capsule injury to the shoulder.
Rob Dibble says Hughes needs to “suck it up,kid. This is your profession. You chose to be a baseball player. You can’t have the cavalry come in and save your butt every time you feel a little stiff shoulder, sore elbow.”
What, did Dibble get another job on the radio somewhere?! Haha.
(Very glad to have seen the Nats give him the boot after that one)
Unfortunately yes, he is still on the radio. Even worse its on a national scale. He’s on MLB network radio on Sirius XM. Luckily they hide him on the early morning show around 7 in the morning. Ironically, the MLBN radio channel is still light years more intelligent than its TV counterpart.
It’s that malignant, pernicious addiction to video games.
and porn
Worked out well for Matsui, didn’t it?
?
Godzilla was a porn freak. It was said that he traded porn with some of the Japanese reporters.
Did not work out well for Eddie Griffin (NBA).
I thought it was because he was lazy and out of shape.
Now he’s Dominican?
How can he describe what he’s feeling as “shooting” without pain? It’s shooting tightness? That makes no sense.
When you put excess pressure on a nerve it can cause accending or decending numbness or tingling…maybe thats what hes describing.
We’re Doooooooooooomed!!!! Doooooooooooooomed! We can’t even develop any pitchers, we have the worst front office in the history of mankind and we’re sending octogenarian re-treads out to pitch.
Wait, what … we’re in first place? We have a great line up? The bullpen should be solid? We have a great farm system? We can (gasp) trade for another pitcher (or three).
Obviously, not a year where everything is going right for us (like that ever happens), but I am getting a little tired of the panicking trolls.
(I might have spent a little too much tired reading RAB this afternoon).
Randy Levine DOES suck, though.
Yea, hard to argue that one. At least Cashman gets to make most of the decisions now … I think.
“we’re sending octogenarian re-treads out to pitch.”
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Clemens is back?!?
SOmeone suggested Guidry the other day, as a joke, (I think?)
It was me and it was a joke.
Very appropriate – Good joke.
Looked up what Hughes is describing he’s feeling, the closest that I could find were bone spurs (this was literally a word for word description of what Hughes has been talking about), tendinitis, or something called pseudogout.
Best case all of them can be dealt with through rest, ice, and tons of rehab even the bone spurs if they aren’t to serious. This takes months so he isn’t going on a mound anytime soon
Worst case: he has surgery
Either way he’s probably done for the year
Maybe Foreman and I should break into Hughes’ house looking for toxins?
Excellent!
At least it’s not Lupus.
That’s funny. We needed that.
Check under the sink. Oh, and in the ductwork, just in case he’s hiding off-brand liquor there.
Or…..FOREVER!!! OH NOOOOOOOES!!!
What’s with all the mock concern? This is actually a big deal, and one time where a panic-type reaction wouldn’t be totally uncalled for.
This is not good news.
What’s with all the mock concern?
You must be new here. Any and all negative discussion* must be quickly and swiftly rebutted with massive ridiculing a an over-simplified strawman version of the original concern.
*Unless it involves Jeter.
Very good work. Do you do freelance work? I have…um…my friend has a rash.
Tell him to stop visiting those “friendly ladies of the night” and some good old fashion anitbiotics
Unfortunately his symptoms also match up with thorasic outlet syndrome…which is bad…see j.bonderman. It can happen with increased weight gain (muscle or fat) and leads to weakness, numbness, pain, which can be decending from the core of the body down the effected arm.
Is this syndrone related to what a lot of RAB commenters Have? Namely Bowel Optate? That is a condition where the optic nerve somehow gets corss-connected to the large intestine. The result (and main symptom) – Everything looks kinda shitty!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNelnqsmnlM (safe)
LOL
When I think of shooting, I think of pain……..that does not sound good at all. I wonder why he’s feeling pain now all of a sudden when he hasn’t thrown in a couple of days. Maybe a result of being cooped up in MRI tubes and being poked and prodded? That’s what I have to hope for.
“shooting” is just a term to associate the spreading of the feeling not necessarily pain, but thats what we commonly link the word to.
This thread is gold good work RAB posters. So what if Hughes is out lets say what do we do? What does our starting rotation look like once we realize Hughes is not coming back for a while?
Maybe Hughes is a gun enthusiast and described ‘shooting’ as how his arm feels after firing a double-barreled shotgun.
He has dead arm from waving Rangers and Knicks playoff towels at MSG.