From Hickey via USSM: Erik Bedard has a torn labrum.
We knew what it was after the MRI — it’s a tear in the labrum and a cyst,” Bedard said. “Surgery was always an option, but you want it to be the last option. You’re never 100 percent sure what will happen in surgery.
I'd have some commentary but I honestly feel too queasy to point out anything except:
Anyway this labrum’s great – it belongs to Erik Bedard
-Scrappy, 3 days ago.
FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING DOG.
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Jeff's note: I'm not at home, but I just heard the news. Figures. For the Mariners, this has for all intents and purposes pretty much been sealed as the worst trade in team history. For us, it probably means no more Erik Bedard ever again, and shattered hopes for a competitive team in 2009. For everyone who thought it appropriate to call Bedard a pussy (or insinuate as such), I cordially invite you all to go fuck yourselves. In Riggleman's own words, Bedard gave this team everything he could - and probably more - and in the end it's not the pitcher you should hate, but the ex-general manager who thought the pitcher worth crippling the farm. You can't help getting hurt. You can help taking an obvious bad gamble. God dammit, Bavasi. God dammit. This organization has now been set back even further than I feared, and it's all thanks to you. Tomorrow morning I hope someone farts in your coffee.
It's fun when a worst-case scenario comes to fruition. Really keeps you grounded.
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Fu:
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Robert - September 17, 2008
Like it was ever going to be something else.
My money was on rotator cuff, but that’s just because I’m not pessimistic enough.
My bad.
marc w - September 17, 2008
I did anticipate a major shoulder injury
But like most bad things in life, it’s not real until I know it’s real.
And now good grief I’m upset.
Graham MacAree - September 17, 2008
I was upset, but the bourbon makes it more 'darkly comic'
Someone – or someTHING – fucking detests the Seattle Mariners.
marc w - September 17, 2008
THERE IS NO FLEUR!!!
Aaron Campeau - September 17, 2008
?
Graham MacAree - September 17, 2008
Now may not be the time
But damn the french really took some liberty with their artist representation of this
Robert - September 17, 2008
...
Aaron Campeau - September 17, 2008
(That's a pansy, for those of you who don't get it)
Graham MacAree - September 17, 2008
Now is not the time for political quarries
Robert - September 17, 2008
This is a neutral quarry:
Graham MacAree - September 17, 2008
Dammit.
That was funny, too.
Aaron Campeau - September 17, 2008
You guys need a new category for this
“The second most awful news possible”
Robert - September 17, 2008
After what?
Mariner John - September 17, 2008
SHUT THE FUCK UP.
DO NOT answer this. Not now.
marc w - September 17, 2008
The LHC has created a black hole and we're all going to die.
BrianL - September 17, 2008
At this point, I'm not sure that would be so bad.
Aaron Campeau - September 17, 2008
At least I wouldn't notice
Graham MacAree - September 17, 2008
Maybe the black hole would have a completely different effect than is now thought, and we'd be transported to an alternate universe.
Aaron Campeau - September 17, 2008
I would like to shapeshift into a black hole
Jeff Sullivan - September 17, 2008
I would like to shapeshift into a new labrum.
Aaron Campeau - September 17, 2008
Please give me a hug right before you do
Graham MacAree - September 17, 2008
Anything for Graham
Jeff Sullivan - September 17, 2008
That's how this whole thing started.
Stupid kid, trying to shift into a lion. Missed the mark by that much, and suddenly Bedard’s under the knife, the kid is a sentient tendon, and it’s all a fucking mess.
marc w - September 17, 2008
I'll just keep that crowbar I was going to mail to some random LHC scientist then.
BrianL - September 17, 2008
No no no no no
Graham MacAree - September 17, 2008
Sorry, I thought he meant in terms of degree of injury.
The alternative is obvious and horrible.
Mariner John - September 17, 2008
You know, there was all that noise about the large hadron collider creating a black hole
and everyone was worried and calculating the odds and so on.
Where were these people when Bavasi was hired?
Bearskin Rugburn - September 17, 2008
You do know they haven't started colliding particles yet, don't you?
Gomez - September 17, 2008
?
I was talking about the black hole that was our FO.
Bearskin Rugburn - September 17, 2008
You do know that everyone worried about the LHC destroying the world is a fucking moron, right?
Graham MacAree - September 17, 2008
Blow me
Gomez - September 17, 2008
Science degrees: Useful for not being wrong all the fucking time.
Graham MacAree - September 17, 2008
I was throwing you a bone
Gomez - September 17, 2008
It sure has provided Coast to Coast AM with plenty of material lately.
BrianL - September 17, 2008
Dave pointed this out at USSM
but there are a lot of people who owe Bedard a huge fucking apology right now.
I’m so glad I braced for this news.
BrianL - September 17, 2008
So... can we cancel the deal with Angelos now?
Cause Jones has this terrible hip condition, and its only getting worse.
Bearskin Rugburn - September 17, 2008
Chris Tillman hates old people.
Also, he smokes POUNDS of weed.
Kam Mickolio may or may not have been in a Utah branch of the KKK.
Just sayin’.
George Sherrill? Just… LOOK at him.
marc w - September 17, 2008
Remember when we consoled ourselves by saying
Erik Bedard would at least net us type-A compensation when he left?
blarghfuckshithellihatethisgoddamnteamsometimes
BrianL - September 17, 2008
Also I feel terrible for Erik
Graham MacAree - September 17, 2008
Yeah, it pretty much blows all the fuck around.
Aaron Campeau - September 17, 2008
Throws his career into jeopardy
and has endured verbal abuse all season for something that was outside of his control.
Jesus Erik, I’m sorry.
BrianL - September 17, 2008
Don't you apologize
The apologies should be coming from all those loudmouthed motherfuckers who tend to accumulate elsewhere.
Jeff Sullivan - September 17, 2008
Like they're going to issue an apology.
BrianL - September 17, 2008
WHY THE FUCK WERE YOU TWO MAKING LIGHT OF HIS SITUATION
Robert - September 17, 2008
Classic, just before he hits free agency
for as much grief as people give athletes for trying hard ONLY to get a big paycheck, you’d think there’d be at least a courtesy nod to those who get hurt before they really cash in.
Bedard’s 2007 was amongst the best seasons of the decade, and thanks to the weird world of the CBA, he’ll never be compensated for it.
marc w - September 17, 2008
So he's not faking?
JI - September 17, 2008
Pussy ass French shouldered fagg
Aaron Campeau - September 17, 2008
PROVE to me that he didn't hurt his own shoulder after people called him a pansy.
He’s just shirking his responsibility.
marc w - September 17, 2008
prissy gaylord
Aaron Campeau - September 17, 2008
Swishy McIheartdick
marc w - September 17, 2008
Dick Gozinme
Aaron Campeau - September 17, 2008
Fagg Nonviolentresolutionson
(his shit’s all retarded)
marc w - September 17, 2008
Go read some Fagatha Christie
Bearskin Rugburn - September 17, 2008
Yeah, I BET you read, you pansy. Go read a BOOK about taking it in the ass, pal!
marc w - September 17, 2008
I think I hated this trade more than some
and this is past the worst case scenario I had in my head
As Dave said 80 innings and a non-tender for the entire fucking farm.
I suppose we can be glad we didn’t extend him.
JI - September 17, 2008
I was trying to think of something to take the edge off of the FUCK NO and I think that's it
I wasn’t sure they’d do it, but they certainly had a chance to extend him early on. Not sure Bedard or the M’s would’ve wanted to go that route so early, but it could’ve happened.
Here’s hoping he goes Chris Carpenter on the league (not the Northern League) in a few years.
marc w - September 17, 2008
I kinda wish they had extended him
the man deserves his pay and they deserve to lose their money. This way, by ‘10 they’ll forget, while if he was on an 8 year contract, kicking around the clubhouse, maybe they’d remember their incompetence.
Bearskin Rugburn - September 17, 2008
I hope he gets a decent contract some day, but I'm glad the M's don't have a long term
obligation here. We have enough of those.
Hey, the exchange rate’s better now, so he can probably afford a decent house up there anyway. But I don’t want to pay 8 years for the poor decision of a long-since-fired GM.
marc w - September 17, 2008
He probably will never be the same.
JI - September 17, 2008
Well, yeah. Never speak ill of the labrumed.
marc w - September 17, 2008
Signs a huge contract and doesn't pitch for two years?
JI - September 17, 2008
My god every Cardinal pitching contract is a fucking abortion factory.
JI - September 17, 2008
Dan Haren seems to be doing quite well
Robert - September 17, 2008
rec'd
JI - September 17, 2008
I saw the title before reading your entry, but I immediately knew
So it goes.
Gomez - September 17, 2008
Who would like to compile a list of people who need to kiss Erik Bedard's ass?
JI - September 17, 2008
Silva
Bearskin Rugburn - September 17, 2008
That was not 'would like to devour'
Graham MacAree - September 17, 2008
Oh how original
Robert - September 17, 2008
You fucking bit me
Graham MacAree - September 17, 2008
You get bonus points for using "devour"
JI - September 17, 2008
Damn. I wanted to bust out "mASSticate."
marc w - September 17, 2008
Silva likes to masticate in public
JI - September 17, 2008
Silva is responsible for this shit burkake
Robert - September 17, 2008
what does our backup cather have to do with this?
Bearskin Rugburn - September 17, 2008
catcher.
catheter. fuck me.
Bearskin Rugburn - September 17, 2008
The list would be a fucking mile long.
I mean, just look at the local people
Geoff Baker
Steve Kelley
John Hickey
Dave Grozby
Mike Gastineau
Dave Mahler
Ian Furness…okay the entire staff at KJR
BrianL - September 17, 2008
This would be a good time to sign him to a 3-year extension
ThundaPC - September 17, 2008
I wouldn't be the worst contract in history.
JI - September 17, 2008
Yes you would
Short people can’t pitch
Graham MacAree - September 17, 2008
Short people got no reason to live.
At least that’s what Randy Newman told me.
BrianL - September 17, 2008
Or play goalie
Robert - September 17, 2008
Wrong
i could serve as an adviser while I on the DL for the remainder of my contract.
that would make marginally better than the average retard.
JI - September 17, 2008
I still find it funny that short people can't donate sperm
It must suck to not be wanted.
Edgar for Pres - September 18, 2008
wr9iong
eponymous_coward - September 18, 2008
Fuck life
OlSalty - September 17, 2008
Cry.
seattlesundevil - September 17, 2008
Seriously, what the fuck
We get it God, there’s no fucking floor, WE KNOW. STOP TRYING TO PROVE IT TO US FOR FUCKS SAKE WE GET THE POINT
OlSalty - September 17, 2008
I tried to tell people
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/9/17/616325/bedard-to-be-cut-open-poke#8808850
Matthew - September 17, 2008
Is it too late to blame you?
JI - September 17, 2008
:(
Robert - September 18, 2008
Yeah, guys don't get cut open because they're doing well
Gomez - September 18, 2008
...
Aaron Campeau - September 17, 2008
LL is great because it promotes dog murder and no one questions it.
JI - September 17, 2008
Just this dog.
Aaron Campeau - September 17, 2008
An intelligent dog should be the most sacred of all.
JI - September 17, 2008
Bullshit, people only like dogs because they're stupid and loyal.
Aaron Campeau - September 17, 2008
I never liked dogs to begin with.
JI - September 17, 2008
true, true
Bearskin Rugburn - September 18, 2008
I would gladly put a big red bow on this dog and send it to Michael Vick
OlSalty - September 17, 2008
That's the spirit!
JI - September 17, 2008
Dont mean to be mean here
but could this be karma for you guys getting so excited over Lackey and Escobars injuries?
anaheim angels - September 20, 2008
No
Jeff Sullivan - September 20, 2008
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