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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Actually, I have. Trot called ARod a dead-beat dad because he chose to work out for 6 hours a day (less than an average work day for almost everybody on the face of the earth) because he doesn't take his (3 month old) daughter to school in the morning like good citizen Trot does.

I read the ESPN story, and that's not what I read. And I meant paying attention to Trot over the years, not paying attention to the recent coverage. Nixon is a class act. Unlike some, he gets the benefit of the doubt. Which is why I find this A-Rod thing a little weird.

I guess you didn't predict that you'd have no response.

No, I predicted that I wouldn't need to say much more than "Willis Reed."

Did you watch the game? They said about 10,000 times before, during and after that he couldn't get a feel of the mound or how hard he was pushing off because of all the pain injections. And that the real danger was that he would further injure himself and not even know it.

Why, yes, I did watch the game. I also read, oh, one or two stories in what bilmore likes to call the MSM about it. Oh, and maybe some coverage in less-MS M. I don't credit the announcers for knowing much about what Schilling was experiencing, and I think that the things you describe are equally consistent with trying to pitch with a lot of pain.

And then I come back to the idea that I don't think he or anyone else could find the plate if he couldn't feel his foot.

So I've done a little Googling, as is my wont, to see what I can find. This article is inconclusive -- it suggests that at least in the first game, they gave him injections to "numb" the pain, but it also suggests he was feeling it, and that he thought he wouldn't be able to pitch in Game 2 of the World Series -- I know we're not talking about the World Series, sorry -- because "his foot felt numb" and he thought he couldn't pitch. Maybe they gave him some painkillers, but he was still feeling quite a bit? This article is also ambiguous.

Either way, it makes no difference to me. Pain or no pain, he pitched in the mid-low 90s, which means he wasn't that hurt.

C'mon, TM, this is just stupid. If he gritted through real pain to throw in the 90s, he was hurt, and he played through it.