NDBrewerfan

Anundsen has been unreal so far this year. Could he blow up like sinkerballer Trevor Cahill did last year? Is his stuff that good?

I see you have Evan Frederickson listed as a middle reliever. Do you see him solely as a relief prospect currently?

big rhino on one of the cams now

I also believe that Birmingham has a ton of orthopaedic residents/fellows because everyone wants to say they trained under Dr. Andrews, so unless you are Joba Chamberlain there is a high probability that a fellow will be performing the majority of your procedure.

GERD = acid reflux. And not all heart trouble is intense. Diabetics classically have "silent" heart attacks. Angina, which is ischemic heart pain, is often intermittent in character and does just "go away". Yet if you are fairly young and have a relatively clean bill of health cardiac would be pretty low on my list of causes as well, but I think a check-up with an EKG would probably be reassuring.

The rookie league squad is still only 6-18, but they seem to interest me a lot more this year than in the past few years of lurking with that solid pitching staff.

melvin in the box for the top of the 5th with shapiro on the phone on ESPN. Melvin really stressed that the move of Braun to LF and the presence of Hart in RF and Prince at 1st totally blocked LaPorta making him expendable. It sounded like the move of Hart to CF was not that realistic. I thought they would discuss Rickie a bit more after he hit the bomb, but Melvin just made a comment about his work ethic and his talent, and they moved on to discuss the mechanics of the trade process.

Periard with another really nice line today (4 hits 0 ER through 7). Do we know how hard he throws?

There are 4 ligaments in your knee not 3 - ACL, PCL, MCL, LCL. You certainly cannot "feel" if you ACL is torn by extending your knee. Below your knee cap is your patellar tendon which tightens. This is totally different then your ACL which is deep in your knee, and it is actually common practice to take a 1/3 of your patellar tendon and use this as a graft to replace the ACL. The two most common mechanisms to cause an ACL tear are a blow from the side which causes a shearing force of the ACL onto the PCL and a hyperextension of the knee which shears the ACL off when it contacts the femur. It looked like this was more of the hyperextension type injury from what I have seen. Probably the object most at risk for further injury by continuing to pitch with a torn ACL is the meniscus since the ACL prevents rotational movement. As your knee becomes more lax the femur can rotate on top of the tibia and cause shearing forces on the meniscus leading to further meniscal damage. The classic test to check for an ACL tear is a Lachman's test which is done by bending the knee and fixating the foot then seeing if the tibia will sublux forward from the femur. Yet often this is difficult to assess due to either swelling or patient guarding by contracting the hamstring which can prevent the tibia from moving forward, so there are reasons why a definite diagnosis could not be made immediately.

Any love for Jeff Manship at ND. He seems to be putting together a pretty quality year for a kid that looks to be finally over his TJ surgery. Is he considered draft eligible this year or next because of his injury?

Teagarden?

If he signed quickly, what level would you expect Braun to start at? A? A+?

brevard county in the 12th now villaneuva with a nice line

A little offense in Huntsville. Stars up 5-0 in the sixth. Khalid pitching a one hitter so far and helping himself out with a double.

0 for 20 in the 7, 8, and 9 spots kinda hurts.