When the news came down about Jason isringhausen's latest injury, a torn muscle in his pitching elbow, it seemed pretty certain that it would be a career-ending injury for Izzy. Given a couple days to consider the injury, the ways to treat it, and his future, Isringhausen sounds much further away from retirement today. His elbow was apparently feeling well enough today for him to send a text to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

"Tons of desire," Isringhausen wrote in a text message to the Post-Dispatch on Wednesday. "Mind is willing. Just gotta get the body there."

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"That is a fair statement," [Isringhausen's agent Dan] Horwits said. "Jason's desire is to play. Let's figure out if he has to have surgery and then we'll set out a plan that gets him back."

The fair statement that Horwitz refers to whether or not Isringhausen wants to go through a tough rehab at the age of 36 after one of his worst big-league seasons. The torn flexor muscle may heal on its own or it may require surgery and neither option is an attractive one at this point in Isringahausen's career. Whatever his decision is, he seems unlikely to make it for a while.