05-09-2009, 05:36 PM
<!--quoteo(post=36801:date=May 9 2009, 04:23 PM:name=KBwsb)-->QUOTE (KBwsb @ May 9 2009, 04:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->BT,
I'm going to let you in on a little secret that's gonna blow your mind.
Baseball players get injured a lot.
Shh. Keep it low; not many people know about it.
Like that Iron Horse 3rd baseman you were crowing about,
the spawn of Lou Gehrig and Cal Ripken, Aramis Ramirez?
Missed 13 games last year. Thirty the year before that. 30.
Two years before that? Thirty-Nine games missed. 39.
Good man to base your point around.
Alf has missed more games in the past 2 years than in all his other years combined. He's a 33 year-old man. Derrek Lee? A 33 year-old man. Milton Bradley misses more games than any other star player in all MLB. Font has never played a full season, and could certainly use some days off. Indeed, Lou even specifically said that one of the reasons he thinks the Cubs stunk the past 2 post-seasons was because the players were tired, and that he was <i>going to go out of his way</i> to give his regulars more rest.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So by saying Ramirez isn't a fragile pussy and there's no reason to <i>expect</i> him to get hurt, BT was somehow implying Ramirez is made of steel and would never, ever get hurt? Is that what you really what you got out of that?
I'm going to let you in on a little secret that's gonna blow your mind.
Baseball players get injured a lot.
Shh. Keep it low; not many people know about it.
Like that Iron Horse 3rd baseman you were crowing about,
the spawn of Lou Gehrig and Cal Ripken, Aramis Ramirez?
Missed 13 games last year. Thirty the year before that. 30.
Two years before that? Thirty-Nine games missed. 39.
Good man to base your point around.
Alf has missed more games in the past 2 years than in all his other years combined. He's a 33 year-old man. Derrek Lee? A 33 year-old man. Milton Bradley misses more games than any other star player in all MLB. Font has never played a full season, and could certainly use some days off. Indeed, Lou even specifically said that one of the reasons he thinks the Cubs stunk the past 2 post-seasons was because the players were tired, and that he was <i>going to go out of his way</i> to give his regulars more rest.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So by saying Ramirez isn't a fragile pussy and there's no reason to <i>expect</i> him to get hurt, BT was somehow implying Ramirez is made of steel and would never, ever get hurt? Is that what you really what you got out of that?
The thing you need to remember is that all Cardinals fans and all White Sox fans are very bad people. It's a fact that has been scientifically proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. Being a Cubs fan is the only path to rightousness and piousness. Cardinal and White Sox fans exist to be the dark, diabolical forces that oppose us. They are the yin to our yang, the Joker to our Batman, the demon to our angel, the insurgence to our freedom, the oil to our water, the club to our baby seal. Their happiness occurs only in direct conflict with everything that is pure and good in this world.
-Dirk
-Dirk