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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Baby, why’d you do it?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In the spirit of not piling on re: the Lazy Sunday LaRoche Screwup, I’m going to give This Week’s Goat a break and instead jump on the dogpile of folks dissing Kyle Davies for just sort of not happening to mention that a certain, delicate part of his physique was a mite strained.
Davies is a gamer and I love that about him. Like me, he’s a Southside Riviera native. At Winter Braves Fan Fest, we joked about growing up Southside for the allotted two minutes the team grudgingly gives players signing baseballs, etc., to actually speak with the fans who help pay their salaries. Kyle’s my boy.
But still. Dude, when you’re hurting you’re HURTING. The Boss (here at work; not Bruce Springsteen) and I deconstructed the going theories as to why Davies kept mum about his groin strain, which he aggravated Monday while pitching. Now he’s on the 15-day DL. THAT hurts.
Bossman opined that a vet would’ve said “Skip, I can’t go today. Groin’s hurtin’. Ugh.” to Bobby Cox and Cox would’ve said “Okey-dokey” (or something to that effect) and there you go. Davies isn’t a vet and he likely tried to carry the team on his back - which really strained his groin. The kid did too much. Maybe he was a little intimidated about saying anything after Lazy Sunday.
We agreed on this: Davies and the other young Braves aren’t Babies anymore. Now they’re Bonafide Braves who have to put the team first. If that means admitting injury and looking ahead to your NEXT start because you know the team needs you in the rotation - not on the DL - then so be it.
Not telling your skip that maybe you need a break because you’re hurting? That’s Baby stuff. Park it on the bench and rest up like a man.
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