Put Crawford in a box, please. A see thru one. With an X-ray machine.
An injury-free box. An unbreakable box. Like a bubble. But angular. And unnnnnnpoppable.
Okay. So. I’m a little behind on my ESPN (I’m in Delaware, people!)- and just got the Crawford-is-too-hurt-for-opening-day-memo. And let me tell you. I’d rather get an anthrax envelope. Um. Sort of.
Seriously. When the world is starting to believe in you again, Crawford. When optimism is seeping in to replace all those ugly, ugly glares we gave you allllll summer. When the words “this is going to be Crawford’s year” are said aloud on ESPN. You waited for them to say that, didn’t you?
WHY?
And why now? Benny C offers a timeline explanation here– but it’s not good enough for me. I’ve been spouting about how he’s broken for months. MONTHS.
And you people have access to X-RAYS.
“I think whenever something like this happens we always go back and think about whether we could have found this out earlier, found something earlier. Having surgery in the first week of January is a lot better than the last week of March, but probably not as good as the first week in October,” the Red Sox GM said.
An astute observation.
“I don’t think there’s anything we could have done, practically speaking, sooner. The facts are that he ended the season and was essentially symptomatic and expressed he felt fine and felt normal, as normal as he would going into any offseason. When you have a case like that the last thing we would do is be proactive in exploring a surgical solution for a player when there’s no direct evidence that that’s needed. In this particular case I don’t think anything could have been done differently and I think the medical staff handled it as well as they possibly could, and Carl handled it as well as he possibly could.“
BAH.
“We have to trust the player,” he said. “They’re the one out there playing. If they feel like their body is good enough to play, and they’re OK to play, the last thing we would want to do is introduce a concern to them unnecessarily because then you start getting into issues of confidence and things of that nature that are clearly things we want to avoid. In this particular case there just wasn’t any indication at the end of the season this was something that should have been pursued. It happened, and better in early January then late March.”
I can’t even talk to you sometimes, Benny. I just… I can’t.
X-RAYS, people. X-RAYS.
Bah.
I’m going off to grumble about this in private.
~L
Too Soxy for my Shirt 
I have never been this annoyed at an injury before. I started to write a blog on it 10 different times and I couldn’t get it done.
OMG, Have an injury and wait 3 months to do anything about it. Who cares how much money you make, waste all of our time.
Un freaking Believe able
By the way they said they knew he was injured and just wanted to wait to see if it would heal itself. OMG
blastttt. i am in delaware. i have been drinking with a guy named owen. he says there are yankees fans here! yankeeeees. i will write a blog about this. and crawford. stupid, stupid crawford. the beer in delaware is alcoholic. owen says i am peppy. i am peppy, damnitttt
you know what isn’t peppy? the red sox. if i was carl crawford, i would never injure myself. stupid carl crawford. i need to drink water. i have another interview tomorrow. i wrote about opera today. yes i did. what a great place. owen says i’d like it here. owen is sooooo smart.
Do you feel sometimes that the wheels have come off ???
Baseball always seems to provide these “pop-up” injuries before spring training. I don’t know if the guys just want to get out of it, or if they’re just trying to extend vacation time or what. It never ceases to amaze me how we’ll find out after the New Year somebody’s got this or that going on…and it didn’t happen from opening X-mas presents but was from far before then. Bizarre.