Hello again, everybody! It has been a long time to see you! In case you have been forgetful, allow me to give your start a jump. I am of course the resident expert on medicine for this website blog, as well as a part-time film actor and all around successful Sicilian fancy man, called Dr. Ricardo Salvay! And boy oh boy has my expertise been given quite the exercise this major baseball season, most definitely for the pitchers!
If you look at all the faces that have gotten hurt up until now, you might say it is a row of murderers. Homer Bailey, Alex Cobb, Yu Darvish, Brandon McCarthy, Josh Johnson, Jose Fernandez, Matt Moore — all of these, good pitchers, and more! Clearly, this is bad for the baseball sport and the baseball fan, but also and most of importance is how bad the pitchers are for this! Also clearly, I have some thoughts I want to share with these feelings about getting hurt so much. I am sorry to apologize if these are my deep thoughts, but I never can speak my mind clearly when these things come to happen.
First and most forward, the Tommy John surgery is a craze that is running out of course! There are so many getting this, or have already gotten this, and might even get this again. And what for? To get that extra MPH on their fastest balls, of course! As shown by research all over the place, getting put under the knife means everything for their speed, and the money that is attached. So now are these pitchers doing themselves on purpose to get under this magical knife? Who knows? What can be said? But there is lots of proof, and some others as well, that openly suggests it is true and otherwise.
Which is how I can say that I am out against these surgeries, once and forever. If the baseballs are serious about getting rid of the PED crack-downs, then what is keeping them stopped over cancelling this illegally obvious enhanced performing? What is a scalpel other than a needle that doesn’t inject anything? Science moves faster than that, and baseball — if not sports everywhere — need to find themselves getting there ahead of time. It, and they, need to get the front out and see what’s happening already and in the future, and then put one foot in front of the other with some authorities.
As a matter in fact, let me put these feet out one step further on this short pier and maybe say that we ban all surgeries from baseball and sports? After all, what good is a game of chance like sports if there is no chance you can not keep playing after getting hurt and doing some of the rehab and maybe hoping with prayer you come back at 100% or close to better? I reserve my mind to say something else, but it feels like right now, if you cannot get some dirt on it and keep continuing, then you cannot rightfully keep playing. However, this is just me spitting on balls, as is said. I mean nothing but to not bite the hand that has the food I chew on. And as long as the checks keep paying, I will keep having advice. Until then!
Dr. Salvay is an online-accredited doctor practicing in parts unknown. He can be seen as a featured extra in the upcoming 50 Cent / Bruce Willis poker-cyber-thriller, Microchip & A Chair.