Comments on: Bedard to have “exploratory” surgery

By: pumpkinhead

pumpkinhead — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:17:39 +0000

Maybe Silva has a similar issue… perhaps he too has a ’suck’ build-up in his arm that needs removing? I couldn’t agree more though… call it what it is.

By: msb

msb — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:04:22 +0000

The real shame is that the angry fan siege of Safeco Field would probably be to tar and feather Bedard for not “gutting it out.”

oh, that’s already happening — just read the Times blog comments …

By: smb

smb — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:47:39 +0000

The real shame is that the angry fan siege of Safeco Field would probably be to tar and feather Bedard for not “gutting it out.”

By: wabbles

wabbles — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:57:04 +0000

I’m not a surgeon but I’ve had about a dozen done to me and “exploratory surgery” is a misnomer. You don’t want to open someone up and go poking around unless you really have to and unless you know what you want to do once you get there. This idea of surgeons “just taking a look” or flying by the seat of their pants with someone’s well-being (sometimes life) at stake is ludicrous. That is why you get an endless streams of medical tests prior to surgeries, that’s the exploration. The team is trying to sugar coat things. We traded the farm (and our first and second born, Jones and Sherrill) for damaged goods and now the team is trying to prevent a siege of Safeco Field by angry fans.

By: scott19

scott19 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:54:15 +0000

Re Bedard: Gee, we couldn’t see that one coming now, could we? (Although, to be fair, we’ve at least gotten a little more out of him this season than the Blue Jays did from Mike Sirotka in the infamous “damaged goods” trade they made with the White Sox back in ‘01.)

Re Kelley: Though I missed his radio tirade last night, it sounds as if the “haze” in that studio was about as thick as it was in that scene from The Breakfast Club.

By: JMHawkins

JMHawkins — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:17:05 +0000

Well, I for one am certainly glad Adam Jones flew back from Winter Ball to have a physical. Got to make sure there aren’t any hidden injuries before a trade.

BTW, I nominate smb for comment of the month.

Kelley is a classic example of a guy who is bad at something he likes to do.

By: msb

msb — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:00:23 +0000

We saw this with Gil Meche

sort of in reverse, though. Gil complained things weren’t right, they did an MRI, sent him to Pedegana and then to Andrews, neither of whom found structural damage; Meche requested to have exploratory surgery. Andrews went in, and found a ‘minor’ fraying of the labrum, which pretty much every pitcher has. Meche still didn’t feel quite right, and so some 6 months later Pedegana went in, found & loosened an impingement.

it sounds as though (like most shoulder problems) an impingement is hard to diagnose, hard to treat, and hard to deal with if any major work needs to be done

By: msb

msb — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:58:40 +0000

what is his reasoning? you have to pay him to rehab, you’d have to pay him to stay home. Just getting him off the 40 man?

By: the other benno

the other benno — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:25:41 +0000

Over on ESPN, Buster Olney wonders if the M’s might be better off non-tendering Bedard if the damage is bad. Thoughts?

By: smb

smb — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:32:10 +0000

“he’s a classic example of a guy who is good at something he doesn’t like to do” (I guess Steve never saw Bedard pitch last year)

Kelley is a classic example of a guy who is bad at something he likes to do.