Baseball players are pussies.

[Seattle or Bust]

But here is the reality check: when a player tears a hamstring or tweaks a groin, "walking it off" just isn't an option anymore because of how the modern game is played and managed. Baseball is no longer an endurance sport of jogging and pacing; it is a game of violent, explosive bursts where a player must go from a dead standstill to a 20 mph sprint in a split second, or rotate their core with enough torque to launch a baseball 450 feet. If a groin or hamstring strain is only 90% healed, that missing 10% means they can't beat out a double-play ball or track down a liner in the gap—and worse, an explosive misstep will instantly turn a minor tweak into a massive tear that sidelines them for months. Ultimately, teams protect their multi-million-dollar assets because a healthy triple-A replacement is always more valuable to the front office than a hobbled star operating at half power.

This says it all very well. Seems to boil down to teams protecting their million dollar investments.

Those guys are really striving on every play, giving it all. All I could think with all the hamstring problems is to get a morning stretch class going. Make the whole team do calisthenics for a half hour like we did in 7th and 8th grade.
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"Giving it all is rich."

Specially when it comes to Randy Arozarena.

[Peepaw]

But here is the reality check: when a player tears a hamstring or tweaks a groin, "walking it off" just isn't an option anymore because of how the modern game is played and managed. Baseball is no longer an endurance sport of jogging and pacing; it is a game of violent, explosive bursts where a player must go from a dead standstill to a 20 mph sprint in a split second, or rotate their core with enough torque to launch a baseball 450 feet. If a groin or hamstring strain is only 90% healed, that missing 10% means they can't beat out a double-play ball or track down a liner in the gap—and worse, an explosive misstep will instantly turn a minor tweak into a massive tear that sidelines them for months. Ultimately, teams protect their multi-million-dollar assets because a healthy triple-A replacement is always more valuable to the front office than a hobbled star operating at half power.

This says it all very well. Seems to boil down to teams protecting their million dollar investments.

Those guys are really striving on every play, giving it all. All I could think with all the hamstring problems is to get a morning stretch class going. Make the whole team do calisthenics for a half hour like we did in 7th and 8th grade.

"Giving it all is rich."

Specially when it comes to Randy Arozarena.
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Ya got me there. He plays a little cringe sometimes in LF.

[D-train]

Brother you need to change your handle I can't deal with pee paw.

[GL_Storm]

Brother you need to change your handle I can't deal with pee paw.

It's terrible.

[Seattle or Bust]

But here is the reality check: when a player tears a hamstring or tweaks a groin, "walking it off" just isn't an option anymore because of how the modern game is played and managed. Baseball is no longer an endurance sport of jogging and pacing; it is a game of violent, explosive bursts where a player must go from a dead standstill to a 20 mph sprint in a split second, or rotate their core with enough torque to launch a baseball 450 feet. If a groin or hamstring strain is only 90% healed, that missing 10% means they can't beat out a double-play ball or track down a liner in the gap—and worse, an explosive misstep will instantly turn a minor tweak into a massive tear that sidelines them for months. Ultimately, teams protect their multi-million-dollar assets because a healthy triple-A replacement is always more valuable to the front office than a hobbled star operating at half power.

This says it all very well. Seems to boil down to teams protecting their million dollar investments.

Those guys are really striving on every play, giving it all. All I could think with all the hamstring problems is to get a morning stretch class going. Make the whole team do calisthenics for a half hour like we did in 7th and 8th grade.

"Giving it all is rich."

Specially when it comes to Randy Arozarena.

Ya got me there. He plays a little cringe sometimes in LF.
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If I thought Randy or Donovan were the type of players to give it their all. I wouldn't say a thing.

When I watch this team show up every other day half asleep... then I question whether these injuries are an excuse for a fun little vacation or legitimate.

The fact that it takes an athlete 10 days to work up to wearing cleats when running... I mean, holy fuck.

[bpj]

Brother you need to change your handle I can't deal with pee paw.

I'm guessing it's what his grandkids call him or something, guess we'll hear when peepaw logs in!

[DavidGee24]

This thread is just laughable.

None of us wants to see our better players on the IL and are frustrated that they can't play, but that's life. Shit happens. You pop something and the last thing you want to do is take the field at 75% or roundabouts. Cal hurt his oblique and went, what, 0-38? Imagine if he'd kept playing through it, continued to hit like shit, ended up tearing it and was out for the season.

Most of us give the players grief, but it should only be performance- or hustle-related. I'm quite sure that players on the IL aren't lounging around going ah, this is the life. Especially Donovan, he's got to be sick to death of not being able to play ball.

They do the same thing in other sports, even hockey, and those guys are tough AF. I'd bet that SoB would go right to the IL after breaking a fingernail playing tiddlywinks.

[rockycola]

Brother you need to change your handle I can't deal with pee paw.

Prejudiced judgment, perhaps Darren?

[rockycola]

Brother you need to change your handle I can't deal with pee paw.

I'm guessing it's what his grandkids call him or something, guess we'll hear when peepaw logs in!

That's exactly what his handle means and is, which he fondly explained.
It's a good name.

[Peepaw]

Brother you need to change your handle I can't deal with pee paw.

I'm guessing it's what his grandkids call him or something, guess we'll hear when peepaw logs in!

Peepaw is mainly a southern colloquialism for grandfather. I had nothing to do with it, but my lil' grandson of 3 named me*. My daughter in law is from Florida so I challenged her about teaching him to say it, but she swore innocence. A sister living in the south says she's heard it a lot.

*My father called his grandmother Severina "Ban" at the same age and that led to Joe-Ban for her husband Joseph, and such as it ever was for them!

Verification, and I don't work for the company, but search on the A smiley company and see what you get with Peepaw. It's quite popular. T-shirts, coffee cups