As Fletch reported yesterday, Noah Lowry's agent contends that the Giants misdiagnosed Lowry's arm issues, put him under the knife for the wrong surgery, assigned him the wrong rehab program, and jeopardized his career. The Giants are denying this. From Calvin and Hobbes, November 18, 1990:CALVIN. Your foot hurts? What kind of stupid problem is that?This morning's Dugout is after the jump.
SUSIE. You're the doctor! You're supposed to find out what's wrong with it.
CALVIN. It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.
The Dugout
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**OnlineHost** Welcome to San Francisco Giants 2008 Chat! |
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LowryHole: Something's not right with my arm. I think I need to see the team doctor. |
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BochyBall: The team doctor? What's he talking about? |
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RideTheSabean: /shrug |
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BochyBall: OH! Wait! /rummages through Barry Bonds' old locker, finds dozens of used syringes |
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BochyBall: Hmm. Sorry, our team doctors are all empty. |
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LowryHole: So we don't have a team doctor. |
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BochyBall: No, kid, we barely have a team. What's wrong with your arm? |
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LowryHole: It, uh, hurts, and it's hard to pitch with it. |
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BochyBall: Can you run with it? |
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LowryHole: what? |
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BochyBall: Ohhhh okay okay okay...arm arm arm armmmmm |
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BochyBall: what do we know about arms |
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RideTheSabean: you can use them to manipulate the environment around you and stick up your middle finger at people |
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BochyBall: Anything else? |
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RideTheSabean: no |
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BochyBall: And since you're a pitcher, Noah...whew! That must really be tough, since you use your arm a lot. |
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LowryHole: You know what, I think I'll just load up WebMD and perform field surgery on myself |
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BochyBall: No way! We can fix this! We just need to employ some good old fashioned problem solving. We need to think outside the box. |
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BochyBall: Okay, tell you what. Take this ballpoint pen and jam it into your arm. If the arm turns blue it means you have Schrödinger's Cat. |
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LowryHole: what in the f*** are you talking about |
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BochyBall: This is the kind of stuff Dr. House does! Haven't you ever seen House? |
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LowryHole: Yeah, but you're no Hugh Laurie. |
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BochyBall: No, you're Noah Lowry! Get it? |
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RideTheSabean: haaaaaaa |
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BochyBall: Sorry. Anyway. Let me go down a checklist of everything I know about human anatomy and medicine. |
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LowryHole: to answer your first forty or so questions, no, i can't do the regeneration thing that wolverine can do, i'm not the guy on that episode of 20/20 who had acute elephantatitis, and no, i have not recently ingested those suicide pills they give to CIA spies |
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BochyBall: Thanks. Okay, have you eaten raw egg yolks lately? Those can be bad for you. |
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LowryHole: no, why would that even matter |
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BochyBall: Because! Think about it! They have bacterias in them and then can get, uh, get into your arm system. |
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RideTheSabean: actually i think the food goes straight down to your feet and then the devil reaches up from hell and grabs the food out of your toes and makes pol pot eat it |
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BochyBall: No, but his feet don't...your feet don't hurt, right? |
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LowryHole: no |
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BochyBall: Good, good. Maybe you should take some herbal medicines. |
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LowryHole: why |
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BochyBall: Well, they like, see, you have toxins in your body, and they're basically these little brown, uh, specks that are all in your muscles and bones and stuff, and, you, and |
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RideTheSabean: and if you take ginseng it goes into your |
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BochyBall: yeah it goes into your body and tells your liver to make more blood and |
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LowryHole: no |
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RideTheSabean: and the liver starts making new blood because your old blood has all the toxin crap in it, and then you, and |
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BochyBall: and then you shouldn't take it if you're diabetic, because within 72 hours, when diet and exercise aren't enough, lipitor can lower cholesterol up to 61%, they may be a result of a rare but serious side effect |
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LowryHole: okay now you're just regurgitating whichever pharmaceuticals you happen to have seen before |
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BochyBall: and then at 9/8 central, SOMEONE. WILL. DIE. |
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BochyBall: what can you do to keep your children from horrible murderers, our i-watch investigative team has the story tonight |
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LowryHole: all right, you know what, i'm just going to have the doctors remove one of my ribs |
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BochyBall: Why? |
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LowryHole: so they can use it to make Eve, who can then tempt me into eating fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, so i can figure out what the f*** is wrong with my arm |
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**OnlineHost** Noah Lowry has left the chat room. |
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BochyBall: Well, it's his loss. He didn't even let us perform a bloodletting! |
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RideTheSabean: awwwww |
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RideTheSabean: /puts away rusty spike, hammer, book of Psalms |




















Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-21-2009 @ 11:29AM
Donut King said...
I would've guessed this incompetence about pitching arms with the Cubs or Reds. But the Giants? BLASPHEMY!
By the way, SonOfJorEl has your next Dugout all lined up for you:
http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2009/05/19/khalil-greene-needs-protection-from-khalil-greene/
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5-21-2009 @ 5:11PM
lilreuven said...
Thanks for posting this dialogue between Lowry, Boche, Sabean as a little comic relief. I can honestly say that besides not being funny, I can admit to being dumber for wasting my time reading this BS.
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5-22-2009 @ 11:15PM
albanyshaker said...
Cool!