Well, that is just plain ol’ awful.

From what it sounds like, Robertsons injury is either far less severe or way worse than my sprain. I was in general pain for almost a week before it was only painful when I put weight on my foot or touched it. However, torn ligaments are often less painful than sprains. Most who tear their ACL report a lot of swelling but a surprising lack of pain.

This moment in panic/don’t panic has been brought to you by The Library of Snuggles’ Injuries.

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Prepare the Joba signal.

After Chien-Ming Wang, I’m surprised they didn’t put Robertson in a wheelchair.

Am I the only one who just assumes athletes were drunk every time they injure themselves in some odd household accident?  I mean-moving boxes?  Maybe empty boxes of beer.

[4] I miss CMW.

[5] My wife’s first reaction.

I dunno, we know Zumaya did, indeed, injure himself on boxes (as he was in a hurry helping his parents get stuff out of their house in front of impending forest fires), so I can believe it.

Don’t get me wrong, stuff like “I fell and broke my hand while washing my car” is a lot more suspicious than “I fell down stairs carrying boxes,” so I do believe that there are guys who lie about their injuries. I just don’t think this is one of them.

Then there was John Smoltz, who tried to iron a short while wearing it…while drunk.

[I’m not sure about the very last part.]

[9] I think it’s best to assume that all non-playing baseball injuries are suffered while in some state of Pinstriperness drunkeness.

[2] “The History of My Connective Tissue” by Clay “Don’t Call Me Fragile” Snuggles.

[9] I’m something of an expert on drunken behavior, and I can state categorically this is not a drunk thing, but simply the action of a garden variety imbecile.

[9] Don’t forget David Cone having his finger bitten by a drunken Jack Russell Terrier.

Aaron Boone ballin’ That little event ushered in a entirely new culture of October suck.

So what are we now anointing Phil Hughes to be? The designated 5th inning guy?

Sam, it gets much worse than that. This terrible injury has opened a gateway to hell for many of us. I’ve cast the runes and the effen news is not good. First and worst..Schteeve ends up married to Gayle King, they buy a place in Kenosha. Oprah comes over every Friday night and makes him watch the Cubs. He loses it, murders both of them, makes sure the kids are OK, straps 40 pounds of explosives to his Robertson jersey and flattens Quincy Market during a Sox/Rays game.  Schteeve survives the blast but is never the same.
Snuggles…. gets injured at a Phil Hughes autograph signing.  He trys to get Phil to sign some naked pic’s. Phil freaks and has hard hittin’ Mark Whiten break both of his legs. These runes are very specific. Snuggles survives but is never the same.
Ugly JD gets a gig at Fox News. Gets really hammered, shows up at work and in a moment of weakness, loses an arm wrestle to one Bill O’Reilly. Mrs UJD finds out and ditches his ass for Mr. T. UJD survives but is never the same.
Pinstriper…( this is when i really began weeping )  and I venture to Finland on a quest to meet hot Lebanese chicks. We get drunk and celebrate Mo’s 770th save. I pass out in a pool of my own pee and Pin steals an airplane. He dies flying into Josh Becketts face. His last word was “whatever”  I survive but I’m never the same.
Yankeemonkey, Dave S, Yankz and Bebop visit me every festivus. They water me and change the litter. They tell me tales of the mythical President Valentine. He of the 11 rings. Villianx sometimes brings me fine ales and Girl Scout cookies. You know, the peanut butter ones. The wombat calls and tells me he always wished he was a mammal. I’m going to hit submit now.I hope yiz enjoyed this.  This is how I deal with a D-Rob injury.

One of my coworkers got a concussion doing laundry this week, so I’ll believe this is just random.

Oh man. It’s straight-up dick-on-dick crime.

http://espn.go.com/boston/mlb/story/_/id/7661787/2012-spring-training-jonathan-papelbon-says-philadelphia-phillies-fans-smarter-boston-red-sox-fans

Silver lining: Yankees have to give some rookie pitchers meaningful innings in April and May, possibly finding that someone is readier than they expected.

Dark cloud: as [14] implies, Hughes goes to pen to take Robertson’s role, cause, you know, he’s proven he can do it and all. 

Paranoia: Yanks move Pineda to pen “temporarily,” to manage his innings and acclimate him to NYC or some nonsense.  He dominates, then is returned to rotation where he struggles slightly, winds up in the pen for the postseason, dominates again, and is anointed Mariano’s heir.

On a completely different note, and forgive the personal intrusion: I would like my friends on this board to know that I am now proud father of a gorgeous baby girl.  Mother and child are happy and healthy.

(19) congratulations, but did you realize I’m about to lose my wife to Mr. T?

wait until she learns “no.”. or more precisely, noooooooooooo…

Dark cloud: as [14] implies, Hughes goes to pen to take Robertson’s role, cause, you know, he’s proven he can do it and all.

The situation where wasting $13M on Sori actually pays off. They have him to “pitch” teh ate, so they can’t really justify putting Fuse in the pen without admitting Sori was an awful, horrible signing.

Congrats, Frog!

[19] Congrats!

[19] Hey, that’s great, for you and the world.

My one piece of unsolicited hard-learned advice - don’t do axillary thermometry.

19. Awesome, many congratulations!

[19] Congrats

Thanks, all.  I hope we get a new thread in the morn.

Yay Frog.Congrats!

[15] I enjoyed it.

[19] ditto [26]

The real reason Pin killed himself: President Valentine took Fenway prohibition laws national.

Congratulations on the little tadpole.  Good luck with the metamorphosis.  Takes about 20 years.

[15] Fantastic my friend!

[19] Contrats!  My little girl is turning 8 soon.  Which means…

[31] 

12 more years of this!!

I’m going to hold off panicking about Robertson until they get a full diagnosis, and a prognosis, and any other kind of nosis that’s needed.  I think Hughes is in the rotation.  Cashman realizes the value of Hughes as a starter.  You may want to say, “but Joba…”  I think Joba is unique.  Perhaps they mishandled him and have learned, perhaps they never bought into him as a starter, IDK.  But I don’t think they have a “history” with starter/reliever problems.

So…if Robertson is out, I expect we’ll see someone like Kontos, or one of the Rule V pitchers, in the majors for the first few months.  Basically someone that’s either going to stick with the Yankees for the year, or be not long for the organization.

Congrats, Frog and congrats to your child who gets to say she was alive when Mariano Rivera was still pitching.

Perhaps they mishandled him…

I guess this will never die, but I am contractually obligated to point out that the Yankees mishandled Joba Chamberlain so badly that they had turned him into their most effective starting pitcher by the middle of the 2008 season.  Then he got hurt.  Pitchers get hurt all the time, in case no one noticed.

Congratulations! Good day.
World needed more Frogs.

[19]Congratulations!  Your gift from me is your requested new thread.

[19] Mazel tov, my dear froggington!

[35] I don’t disagree, I don’t think they mishandled Joba at all.  But I have to acknowledge that it’s possible they did so.

Really, I’m trying to head off all the complaining…complain instead that Frog hasn’t posted any pics.

I just don’t have it in me to fire off complaints at someone who is likely to go several months or even years before his next uninterrupted night’s sleep.

I drop off into a stupor for a mere 11 hours and I wake up dead ?

And if we’re in dreamland and Mo can play long enough to get to 770, why don’t we have him shift to the rotation and retire as the only pitcher with 300 Wins, 300 Saves ? Makes a better story. Ask UJD, he’s a mogul. He’ll tell ya. Better story.

Ditto [29].

[39] Traitor.

[40] Softie.

Frog - congrats.
as a long time dad and father of 4, here; some advice:
If by some miracle you sleep thru the night in two or three months from now, upon awakeing in the AM do NOT tell yuore wife “Wow! Having a baby who sleeps thru the night at such a young age is awesome” because the odds are that the baby did NOT sleep thru the night and your wife was really nice and got out of bed without waking you up and took care of the kid.

And that one comment resulted in 5 years until the next one. 

Actually, our first kid was an absolute dream as far as newborns go—slept five hours the first night home.  And after a couple of months, Mrs. in VA realized that there was little point to me waking up when all the kid wanted was her, so we worked out a much more logical arrangement where I handled all of the non-feed-me issues.

OTOH, I don’t think kid #2 slept five hours straight until he was about seven.  I still haven’t recovered.

Frog, a newborn is basically a grub.  Don’t expect much until about three months.  Then she will become steadily more interesting and infuriating.  These functions are dependent on each other and there is no limit.

Late to this party, but congrats to the Frog and Mrs Frog!

“got out of bed”

Co-sleeper is the way to go.