Update on Byrnesie
Byrnesie just gave his Friday morning radio interview and he said he has been getting conflicting advice from doctors as to surgery. He was supposed to hear from the head of orthopedics at Stanford on Monday, but that doctor hasn’t called. (The doc has been out of town). So EB figured there was nothing that serious going on because the doctor didn’t call.
Byrnesie had taken a third MRI and if it had shown an enlargement of the tear, then surgery would have been recommended for sure. But it showed that the tear had stayed the same. Even without surgery, Byrnesie faces the issue of whether to stay down for the season or to try to come back in September. Of course, if he tears it again this fall, he is out for the beginning of 2009.
He said he felt he could help the team this year and that he would let the Diamondbacks decide what he should do. Either they could tell him to “push it” and try to come back this year, or they could tell him to wait. His trainer in Phoenix is anxious to start working with him.
Byrnesie also reported that he climbed a flight of stairs without thinking about it. That looks like a good sign. But just before tearing the hammy, he ran to second on a double with no apparent ill effects, only to collapse like a felled redwood while trying to steal third.
So those of you who think he should stay down for 2008 need to write to him AND the management. We don’t want him to miss any of 2009 because he tried to come back too soon.
In other news, EB is very happy that Tony Clark is back, calling him a “calming presence” in the clubhouse last year. Eric inherited TC’s old locker and is more than willing to give it back. “It has no hits in it and landed me on the DL twice.”
Byrnesie doesn’t know why the team won’t run. Bob Melvin now not only has green lights, he has a “must steal” sign. Byrnesie says they have to run. I suspect part of the reason he wants to come back this year (and part of the reason the team may ask him to try to come back in ‘08) is that the rest of the guys won’t run without him. I’d rather he just be their running coach this year.
He also says they have to play better defense and that they started to do it shortly before the All-Star break.
Byrnesie misses the guys and will rejoin the team tonight.
Welcome back, Tony Clark!
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Kellia Ramares is a freelance journalist, poet and baseball blogger from Oakland, CA. Kellia writes (and does some audio work) about baseball, especially the Arizona Diamondbacks, on her blog, Down The Left Field Line: Life, Baseball & Eric Byrnes. (http://byrnesblog.azsportshub.com), under the name ByrnesBlogger1. She expects to expand her sports journalism from baseball fandom to stories on social issues in a sports context in a website she is building in the fourth quarter of 2007 to be an annex to the "Byrnesblog".
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