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Brian Jordan was placed on the DL Tuesday with his patellar tendon problems and he may never come off. While Jordan will make efforts to avoid surgery, privately he has told several people that surgery would mark the end of his career.
- Will Carroll, Baseball Prospectus.
The construction of the second sentence is a little awkward - the two thoughts within it wouldn't seem to require the word "while" - but the message is still a somber one.
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