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From The Associated Press:
Barry Bonds underwent a second operation on his right knee Thursday morning, a setback that could complicate his hopes of being ready for Opening Day.
While the San Francisco Giants offered no timetable for the slugger's return, it took the seven-time NL MVP more time than expected to recover from the original surgery on the knee Jan. 31.
The Giants said in a statement that Bonds had arthroscopic surgery to repair tears in the knee. The operation was performed in the Bay Area by Art Ting, the same doctor who performed Bonds' earlier surgery.
Bonds, 40, has "experienced periods of swelling in his knee following an incident when he accidentally hit his knee on a table at SBC Park Feb. 4. Neither rest nor his current rehabilitation program has helped alleviate the periodic swelling," the Giants said in a release.
That being said, I doubt we've seen the last of Mr. Bonds.
Jon: since you turned off comments regarding the Juice/steroids thread, I couldn't resist observing that this Baseball Toaster thingy has resulted in strange breadfellows...
I just thought it would be best if all the steroid comments went on Will's page, since he is covering it so well, and I'm not covering it at all.
That being said, the other Dodger Thoughts comment areas are supremely lonely today...
Those who dismiss the Giants' chances this year are whistling in the dark.
Although to be honest, I have no idea what that metaphor really means.
Since the possibility they're talking about is missing opening day as opposed to missing a chunk of a season, I would imagine the surgery isn't very serious, wouldn't you?
Um, Jon? There's a whole bunch of NCAA basketball on the tube, and a concomitant about of (shhh) money on the table.
I wrote, "Go Dodgers!"
Keep your chin up, kid.
There's not much to say during a rainy spring when Derek Lowe is pitching well, Jose Valentin is hitting home runs, Jeff Kent is catching the ball, and I have no idea whether Choi is playing well or not. Anyway, I never think to listen to KFWB at 8 p.m. April come she will, and then I'll start getting my dander up.
Meanwhile, to those who say the Giants are done, I think they're right, not because Bonds is done--he'll be back. But because a team this old and injury prone cannot prevail, and the Giants have no depth. Who will they play in right with Bonds out-Pedro Feliz? Today's news was inevitable and will be repeated all season--a veteran goes down, a mediocrity replaces him.
What's funny is that the media for the most part will ignore even the possibility of what Ratt just described. They'll jump on DePodesta the moment Drew misses a game, but they'll give Sabean all kinds of rope even as one fogey after another has to miss playing time.
Bad news about "whistling in the dark." Turns out you made a Sigmund Freud reference:
Sigmund Freud, in 'The Problem of Anxiety' (1925): 'When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearer for doing so.' I guess it sort of means, maintaing one's optimism when a more defeatist countenance would be appropriate.
My natural instincts are telling me to make all sorts of Freudian cracks, but it just seems too easy; someone else should fill in though.
Jon, besides the obvious basketball (betting pool)fever, maybe the relative silence of posters is due to your treachery in picking the Giants to win on the Baseball Analysts site. Were you overcome at the thought of Gordon Biersch garlic fries, or held hostage in some other manner (forced to watch the chase scene through SF from Bullitt again and again; forced to listen to the entire catalog of "Dick's Picks" Grateful Dead concert tapes ad nauseum)?
Lastly, would Timmerman be better off under a Freudian analysis if he used an alternative cliche and whistled past a graveyard, as opposed to whistling in the dark?
Perhaps I do need a Freudian analysis. I seem to be the only male who envies one of his own uniquely male body parts.
The more troubling analyst is the Nietzschean; male body parts become very assertive and yet lonely & riddled with syphilis.
If DePo were to have an analyst, what kind would/should it be? (Nobody say Ayn Rand, please!)
Aye, there's a lot to be said for prominent Adam's apples.
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