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Now that's a freaky injury!!

Frayed Knot Sep 19 2010 06:40 PM

... although maybe it was bound to happen at some point. MLB.com -- Cubs outfielder Tyler Colvin is not expected to play again this season. He'll spend at least the next several days at Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center undergoing testing while doctors seek to prevent him from having a collapsed lung. Doctors are using a pneumothorax procedure to prevent a collapsed lung, since air entered Colvin's chest wall after a broken bat punctured his chest on the left side near his collarbone in Sunday's 13-3 win over the Marlins at Sun Life Stadium. The procedure involves having a tube in the chest opening to keep air from harming the lung. The freak accident happened as Colvin was running the bases in the second inning. Catcher Welington Castillo's bat broke as he was hitting a double to left field. Colvin looked around from near third base to see where the ball was going and Castillo took off running. Neither one of them realized what was about to happen. When Colvin saw the ball was going to be a hit, he turned just in time to feel the sharp edge of a bat piercing his chest. He still scored and apparently tried to shrug it off. "I thought he was fine," pitcher Jeff Samardzija said. "We were kind of joking around; I saw a little something on his shirt. I said, 'Hey, man, maybe you better get inside.'" A team spokesman said Colvin suffered minimal external bleeding, though the depth of the wound was not immediately clear. The incident left some Cubs pretty upset with the maple bat that was used by Castillo and is popular among players. "That's the danger of a maple bat," Jeff Baker said. "I saw an umpire get slashed on the neck in Kansas City. It's just not worth it to me to use that kind of bat. I don't want that on my conscience." Manager Mike Quade, who didn't realize Colvin was hurt until well after the incident, was just as outspoken. "I'm amazed it doesn't happen more often," Quade said. "Over the last 10 years, I've seen a lot of projectiles out there. Sometimes I've seen it happen three or four times a night where bats get snapped in half. Years ago, I don't remember that happening that often." Castillo said he has used maple bats "my whole life." But the catcher felt terrible for Colvin, who was his teammate in the Minors for three years. "I just hope he comes out of this OK," Castillo said. Quade speculated that Colvin's physique could play a role in overcoming this bizarre injury. "He's such a strong guy in the upper body," the manager said. "Maybe that helped him."

Benjamin Grimm Sep 19 2010 06:55 PM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

Manager Mike Quade??? Until I read this, I was unaware that Lou Piniella was no longer managing the Cubs. I guess I missed that story while I was in Europe.

G-Fafif Sep 19 2010 07:01 PM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Manager Mike Quade??? Until I read this, I was unaware that Lou Piniella was no longer managing the Cubs. I guess I missed that story while I was in Europe. Grimm Van Winkle awakes to a disturbing new world...

Willets Point Sep 19 2010 07:03 PM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

Sounds like grounds for opening a criminal case against Roger Clemens. BTW, call me a Luis Castillo, but reading about punctured lungs gives me the heebie-jeebies.

G-Fafif Sep 19 2010 07:06 PM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

Willets Point wrote: Sounds like grounds for opening a criminal case against Roger Clemens. BTW, call me a Luis Castillo, but reading about punctured lungs gives me the heebie-jeebies. Why does Willets Point hate America?

metsmarathon Sep 19 2010 09:18 PM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

hey, cool. pneumothorax. don't see them in the baseball news all too often. little known fact: it was a wacky combination of a collapsed lung, youthful exuberance, and, surely, morphine that's responsible for my running career. the kid should be fine.

themetfairy Sep 20 2010 05:36 AM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

metsmarathon wrote: little known fact: it was a wacky combination of a collapsed lung, youthful exuberance, and, surely, morphine that's responsible for my running career. He's not just making this up - he told me that story a full week ago.

Edgy DC Sep 20 2010 06:56 AM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

Welington Castillo --- that's a name.

Frayed Knot Sep 20 2010 07:41 AM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

themetfairy wrote: little known fact: it was a wacky combination of a collapsed lung, youthful exuberance, and, surely, morphine that's responsible for my running career. He's not just making this up - he told me that story a full week ago. So how do we know he wasn't making the story up then too. Huh? HUH?

themetfairy Sep 20 2010 07:57 AM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

Frayed Knot wrote: little known fact: it was a wacky combination of a collapsed lung, youthful exuberance, and, surely, morphine that's responsible for my running career. He's not just making this up - he told me that story a full week ago. So how do we know he wasn't making the story up then too. Huh? HUH? Well, he wasn't making it up in response to this event (unless he has a time machine....). marathon - do you have a time machine?

seawolf17 Sep 20 2010 08:07 AM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

Frayed Knot wrote: little known fact: it was a wacky combination of a collapsed lung, youthful exuberance, and, surely, morphine that's responsible for my running career. He's not just making this up - he told me that story a full week ago. So how do we know he wasn't making the story up then too. Huh? HUH? Yeah, exactly. I mean we know the kinds of things that some of us (coughcoughCFcoughcough) have told the Pool over the years (coughcoughLatviacoughcough).

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 20 2010 08:18 AM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

seawolf17 wrote: little known fact: it was a wacky combination of a collapsed lung, youthful exuberance, and, surely, morphine that's responsible for my running career. He's not just making this up - he told me that story a full week ago. So how do we know he wasn't making the story up then too. Huh? HUH? Yeah, exactly. I mean we know the kinds of things that some of us (coughcoughCFcoughcough) have told the Pool over the years (coughcoughLatviacoughcough). Sometimes not even intentionally. Apparently-- as Spitter found-- BetterHalfer was yelled at Springsteen's tour manager (and snarked at by Scialfa), and NOT Nils Lofgren (as I'd sworn). [The "Simpsons" thing, though... all too true.] Also, once, a hemopneumothorax completely changed my opinion on wearing white to work. But that's not as fun of a story as mm's, I bet.

themetfairy Sep 20 2010 08:49 AM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Also, once, a hemopneumothorax completely changed my opinion on wearing white to work. But that's not as fun of a story as mm's, I bet. Fun or not, I'm curious.

MFS62 Sep 20 2010 09:35 AM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

IIRC several wood bat leagues were looking into banning maple bats last year. I don't recall any specific instances like this one, but maybe it would be a good thing. Later

Frayed Knot Sep 20 2010 10:39 AM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

seawolf17 wrote: little known fact: it was a wacky combination of a collapsed lung, youthful exuberance, and, surely, morphine that's responsible for my running career. He's not just making this up - he told me that story a full week ago. So how do we know he wasn't making the story up then too. Huh? HUH? Yeah, exactly. I mean we know the kinds of things that some of us (coughcoughCFcoughcough) have told the Pool over the years (coughcoughLatviacoughcough). Nah, I whole-heartedly believe the CF/Latvia stuff.

Willets Point Sep 20 2010 11:30 AM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

Going back to the article. I know that ash is the typical wood for baseball bats. Players quoted in the article blame maple wood for the fracturing. Is there a lot of variety in wood used in bats or is it just these two?

Centerfield Sep 20 2010 11:41 AM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

Frayed Knot wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: little known fact: it was a wacky combination of a collapsed lung, youthful exuberance, and, surely, morphine that's responsible for my running career. He's not just making this up - he told me that story a full week ago. So how do we know he wasn't making the story up then too. Huh? HUH? Yeah, exactly. I mean we know the kinds of things that some of us (coughcoughCFcoughcough) have told the Pool over the years (coughcoughLatviacoughcough). Nah, I whole-heartedly believe the CF/Latvia stuff. You should see my child support bills.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 20 2010 11:44 AM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

Willets Point wrote: Going back to the article. I know that ash is the typical wood for baseball bats. Players quoted in the article blame maple wood for the fracturing. Is there a lot of variety in wood used in bats or is it just these two? Mostly those two, methinks. Supposedly, maple bats snap and fly rather than shattering/splintering... so, following that logic, you're more likely to get high-speed heavy projectiles from maple. themetfairy wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Also, once, a hemopneumothorax completely changed my opinion on wearing white to work. But that's not as fun of a story as mm's, I bet. Fun or not, I'm curious. I was doing first-responder ridealongs in Israel with Magen David Adom (Red Star of David, the Red Cross equivalent there) at the time. About three weeks in, we got called to a morning car accident scene (involving an ill-advised IDF "chase" in rush hour), and some poor guy in the "chased" car apparently got stabbed with a pen (we believed) he had around the dashboard area. He leaked out a bit as we neared Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital; I was so adrenalin-filled (HOLYFUCKINGSHIT! BLOOD-FILLED BODY CAVITY!), that it didn't register until maybe a half-hour later that he'd mostly leaked on me. As it turned out, I had worn a nice-ish white Oxford (since I and the other members of my party were scheduled to meet/eat with the head of the Jerusalem MDA to discuss some issues post-shift, and the last few shifts had been relatively "quiet," so I was loath to bring an entirely different set of clothes); having to discard the shirt and my undershirt after our shift, I ended up going to dinner with the muckety-muck and my colleagues in a borrowed MDA zip sweatshirt with nothing underneath. [The patient-- a tubby, youngish Arab-- survived at least until surgery, according to one of the ER's attending docs whom we talked to on a late-day visit.]

themetfairy Sep 20 2010 12:54 PM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

Maybe not fun, but a very cool story LWFS! How long were you in Israel?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 20 2010 01:52 PM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

Two and a half months, most of it in Jerusalem, working on the ambulances. Lots of car accidents; apparently, Israelis are terrible drivers.

Gwreck Sep 20 2010 04:09 PM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Sometimes not even intentionally. Apparently-- as Spitter found-- BetterHalfer was yelled at Springsteen's tour manager (and snarked at by Scialfa), and NOT Nils Lofgren (as I'd sworn). This is much less exciting than "cursed out by a member of the E Street band," sadly.

Edgy DC Sep 20 2010 06:31 PM Re: Now that's a freaky injury!!

I dunno. I kind of like the Scialfa bit. "Listen missy, you may be married to the Boss, but my husb... well, you win that one actually. But that doesn't mean you can be a bitch." "OK, you're right, I guess it does."