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The whole length of the contract, it’s been one thing after another. It’s been a disaster.

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31 thoughts on “Slusser: Chavez {thisclose} to being done. Full stop.

  1. salb918 May 19,2009 7:37 am

    I have no words. I am literally near tears.

  2. salb918 May 19,2009 7:45 am

    This is not fair.

  3. Leopold Bloom May 19,2009 8:03 am

    sad panda.

  4. Razr May 19,2009 8:42 am

    You gotta feel bad for the guy on a personal level. So where does a new guy come from? Is there any 3B player in upcoming draft who is at a near-majors level? The farm? A trade? What do you guys think ?

    "Quit your jibber jabber fool!" - Mr. T
  5. FreeSeatUpgrade May 19,2009 8:45 am
    Too bad he won’t live

    Then again, who does?

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • Razr May 19,2009 8:53 am || Up

      Isn’t that a picture of ellis ( well an origami unicorn) but how does that tie in to Chavez?

      "Quit your jibber jabber fool!" - Mr. T
      • FreeSeatUpgrade May 19,2009 9:35 am || Up
        In the rest of the meme-addled cyber world

        the unicorn thing is more of a catch-all symbol of hope…doomed false hope.

        "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • monkeyball May 19,2009 9:46 am || Up

        unicorn

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • monkeyball May 19,2009 9:31 am || Up

      Wake up — time to die.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  6. doctorK May 19,2009 9:04 am

    fts

    Ani-gif credit goes to xbx

    • nevermoor May 19,2009 9:42 am || Up

      Careful. xbx will probably sue you for that.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • doctorK May 19,2009 9:48 am || Up

        I like comment editing clown porn.

      • monkeyball May 19,2009 9:49 am || Up

        Next thing you know, Moremean Dowdy will be using it.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  7. monkeyball May 19,2009 9:41 am

    Man — alla you guys (with the exception of FSU) are a bunch of **-style sanctimony-drippers. He’s been demonstrably done for at least 2 years.

    And this is holding up better than Chavez has.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • salb918 May 19,2009 9:43 am || Up

      Hey monkey…fuck off, huh? He’s my favorite goddam player.

      • monkeyball May 19,2009 9:48 am || Up

        I haven’t see you evincing much sympathy for my old fave Zito.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • monkeyball May 19,2009 9:53 am || Up

        That said, yes, it does suck, and I hope for Chavvy’s sake that he takes the smartest and safest route for his health in the near future.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  8. mk May 19,2009 10:50 am

    I admire Chavez’s devotion to unwaveringly honest self-assessment. This is a rare thing, especially among professional athletes. But I think the quote reproduced by monkeyball veers into self-flagellation. He was still very good in ’05 and ’06, certainly nothing close to a “disaster”.

    This development is about as unsurprising as can be, and looked at from a certain perspective probably constitutes a healthy catharsis for the organization, but it’s still depressing to see the career of a great player prematurely curtailed. And damn, Chavez was a great player.

    • nevermoor May 19,2009 11:16 am || Up

      Yep. But for injuries he would have been in double digit gold gloves and, maybe, in a position to challenge Brooks.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  9. batgirl May 19,2009 12:36 pm

    1. This really does suck.

    2. If his back condition is really this dire, why on earth is he trying to rehab “in the hopes of rejoining the A’s on their next homestand.” Do they mean that he would join the team to continue rehabbing or to play? Because if they mean he might play, aren’t they pushing things a bit? With this new news, might that just be rushing him back to lose him forever?

    3. This makes me sad.

    • Poppy May 19,2009 12:54 pm || Up

      I think he needs to be done. Don’t mess with a back. :(

      There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
  10. whiteshoes40 May 19,2009 12:36 pm

    Sad, sad day.

  11. Poppy May 19,2009 12:51 pm

    If that happens, Chavez will need to have his previously repaired vertebra, the L4-L5, fused with the vertebra that is currently herniated, which is the L3-L4.

    Anatomy class:
    L4 is one vertebra.
    L5 is a different vertebra, directly below L4.
    L3 is yet another vertebra, directly above L4.
    L3, L4, and L5 are three vertebrae.
    There is no such vertebra as “L4-L5.” Ditto “L3-L4.”

    So I’m guessing the DISK that is herniated/displaced is the one between L3 and L4, and that Chavy might have to have L3 and L4 fused to each other. Also that the previous surgery was on either the disk between L4 and L5, or the disk between L3 and L4 — the article has it both ways.

    And I’m annoyed that I don’t just get the “luxury” of feeling horrible for Chavy (and I really really do) without being distracted by the poorly conveyed medical stuff.

    There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
    • Leopold Bloom May 19,2009 12:57 pm || Up

      I’m appreciative of your annoyance as I had no clue.

      • Poppy May 19,2009 1:05 pm || Up

        You can, of course, collectively refer to consecutive vertebrae as “L3-L4” or “L3-4” or “L2-5” or “T10-L1” or whatever to encompass all the vertebrae you’re talking about. And you should refer to the disk between L3 and L4 as the “L3-L4 disk.” But disks don’t get fused — vertebrae do, after a damaged disk is completely removed from between them (that’s not what Chavez had done before).

        There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
    • green star oakland May 19,2009 1:02 pm || Up

      If two vertebrae are fused, don’t they become one? I know that’s not what is being said here, but in general couldn’t you describe the result of fusing L4 and L5 (say) as an L4-L5 vertebra.

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • Poppy May 19,2009 1:08 pm || Up

        Yes, I think they do refer to fused vertebrae that way, but (I think) only if it’s known or specified that they’ve been fused.

        There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
        • Leopold Bloom May 19,2009 1:13 pm || Up

          If you have fused vertebrae, do you get shorter?

          And yes, my friends call me Corky. Thanks for asking.

    • monkeyball May 19,2009 2:16 pm || Up

      As for me, I’m just intrigued that vertebrae are apparently much like highways in California.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come

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