Get Over the Awe

Baseball fandom, and by extension Twitter, becomes incredibly thick and idiotic when something bad happens. That game in the Bronx got out of hand in a hurry after Jose Bautista left the game after he swung the bat and hit a deep fly ball foul and collapsed over in pain like a sniper had hit his left wrist.  Paul O'Neill announced, though he was sitting in the YES broadcast booth and has never gone to medical school, ever, speculated (wildly) that Bautista broke his hamate bone.

People freaked out.

Jason Frasor then coughed up a grand slam to Raul Ibanez that broke the tie and all of our hearts. People always secretly knew how much Frasor sucks (he sucks really, really hard, don't you know?) These people came out of the woodwork to tweet about how right they've always been about Frasor and his sucking, even though there is very little empirical evidence to back that up. Bottom line, despite his hot wife (yes, someone did bring that up in a tweet) and very solid career numbers, Jason Frasor sucks.

All this hand wringing and pearl clutching about the Yankees, "Oh they are just so good." and "Well, then, this is why they are the best team in baseball. Golly." and "Look at them working that count" on the part of the Toronto media is irritating as fuck. Yes, they are good. But get a new storyline already.

Bautista's x-rays came back negative for a break (eat that, Dr. Paul O'Neill.)  Mr. John told the quivering hoard of press that Bautista felt a pop in his wrist and it didn't feel too good, but he was going to get re-evaluated in the morning. Bautista didn't want to talk to any of them, so he went home to bed.

My buddy Wade (hi Wade!) tweeted something that I've decided to cling to. Wade used to pitch, and tweeted that a tendon rolling over a bone produces a popping sensation. He's no doctor, but he's done it and he says, while it hurts like a mother, with some rest/ice, it heals pretty quickly. So yeah, let's go with that.

And yes, I'm aware of the irony of taking the opinion of one non-doctor over another just because I like what one of them has to say.