This has moved past comical, beyond said, and all the way up to surreal. Did you know that Ken Griffey, Jr. isn’t healthy at the moment?
The team says Griffey had the surgery on Monday in Cincinnati and was performed by Dr. Timothy Kremchek. Normal recovery time is four to six weeks.
It’s the second time in a year that Griffey has undergone surgery on his left knee. He was limited by the knee at times during the 2009 season. He had it drained on multiple occasions.
I don’t think I even need to make a joke here. I’m usually not one for saying when an athlete should retire; if he can still make money playing a sport he loves, then good for him. But in Griffey’s case, maybe it’s time to walk away. He’s had like 4,000 injuries and like 50 surgeries. When is the last time he could walk 10 feet without dislocating his pelvis? At this rate the guy is going to be just a head with two little feet under his chin by 2014.
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We may not be able to throw 90 mph, but at least we can take solace in the fact that Major League Baseball players – like ourselves – are capable of being arrested and having their mugshots taken. Just like regular, everyday non-athletes, ballplayers have been booked for drug possession, drunk driving, and my personal favorite, sexual assault. Thanks to mugshots, we can bask in the misfortune and mistakes of some of our heroes, all the while feeling a sort of kinship with the athletes that screw up just like us. Or maybe it’s just that for whatever reason, we like looking at really bad pictures of people we recognize. Either way, enjoy this gallery of MLB mugshots.
Like any professional sports team with a half-ass newspaper behind him, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are searching for a win any place they can get it.
Jake Berry, longtime production director for U2, says the crew adds another touch: the luck of the Irish.
“I don’t know if the band is aware of your sad record with your football team here so the team would like us to come here because unfortunately, with our production being on the grounds for so for long, we have a tendency to ruin grass so it has to be resodded,” Berry told News Channel 8 reporter Samara Sodos. “If they resod, I hope it will give the Bucs some more luck and you can win the next eight.”
“If we change it, we turn around the pitch so it will go the other way and we’ll bring you more luck. A lot of Irish luck.”
It’s my experience that the only thing U2 brings to a stadium and it’s team are a lot of drunk one-quarter Irish people. You know what I’m talking about. Every Sully and O’[insert name here] shows up to get plastered and rock out show their Irish heritage. Whatever, that means (drinking Guinness instead of Pabst)?
If anything, I’ve got to say that U2 is bad luck. They played at Gillette Stadium earlier this year, and looked at how the Patriots are doing. They sucky long time, and the future doesn’t look bright unless Tom Brady can become half the quarterback he used to be.
So the best advice I can offer Bucs fans is to just hang in there. I mean we’re not even through hurricane season yet, and you guys want to burn through all your good luck and karma now? Granted you probably won’t get a win until week 9 when the Packers decide to take a vacation in Tampa, but there’s a win somewhere on your schedule.
