Lost Time Is Not Found Again: March 13, 2009
Lost Time Is Not Found Again is what the MPS blog crew has been reading today. Maybe.
+ Proof Barry Bonds was on steroids in 1991. Well, not really. {Gem Mint Ten.}
+ Video of Chris Bosh doing the weather last night. {Dime Magazine.}
+ An interview with EA Sports President Peter Moore. {FirstCuts.}
+ LeBron James says he’s cool with a new NBA travel rule. {TrueHoop.}
+ Non-sports: Jim Cramer on “The Daily Show” last night, if you have yet to see it. {The Huffington Post.} An iPod touch explodes in a kid’s pants. {Gizmodo.}
Quotable:
“The sentiment went something like this: Every time Prior throws a pitch, the stress on his shoulder brings him closer to blowing it out. And it did blow out. Twice.
Which leaves the 28-year-old here, in the San Diego Padres’ spring-training clubhouse, with an ice pack wrapped around his arm as he continues the comeback from his second shoulder surgery. Prior was once deemed by his personal coach “the poster child” for what a pitcher should be. Instead, he’s the poster child for pitching injuries, and he provides the perfect case study for the statisticians and biomechanical analysts chasing baseball executives’ ultimate question: How do you keep a pitcher’s arm healthy?
Prior refuses to play that game. He lost too many hours of sleep wondering why his arm hurt. Was it the motion he spent all that time honing? Or, like the arm surgeron Frank Jobe had told him, “everybody’s got a finite amount of pitches,” and maybe he hit his?
Or was it just fate that Mark Prior, who at 22 years old was one of the best pitchers in baseball, found real symmetry not in his delivery but that he fell as quickly as he had risen?” – Jeff Passan



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