Nick Markakis underwent "significant" abdomen surgery yesterday
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 6, 2012 11:21 AM EST
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PrintAccording to some updates that just came across Twitter from Dan Connolly at the Baltimore Sun, Nick Markakis had surgery in Philadelphia yesterday "to repair a torn rectus abdominis muscle". We can all think of at least one person on Camden Chat who was probably unaware that Markakis had a rectus abdominis muscle at all. The muscle is the one that in layman's terms, and with a decent workout program, will form the "six pack" abs.
There was no indication from Connolly how the muscle tear occurred or how long it had been afflicting Markakis. Last we heard about Nick's health was right after he won his Gold Glove a couple of months ago and he told MLB.com's Brittany Ghiroli that he was "75 percent healed" from the bruised pelvis bone that he sustained in mid-September, but there's no mention of a connection between that injury and this surgery. Now, according to Connolly, Markakis is "hopeful he will be ready by Opening Day", and also that he will be having a lighter workload in spring training.
The news of this surgery will be particularly disappointing to those who were hoping that Markakis would be able to work on continuing to develop power during this offseason, because Connolly also reports that Markakis "has not been able to work out this offseason due to injury."
EDIT: Connolly adds that Ryan Zimmerman of the Nationals "had the same type of surgery, missed six weeks and wasn't 100% initially". For Markakis, there will be three weeks where he does nothing and six weeks before he resumes baseball activities. That pushes us to mid-February, and no idea how close he will be to 100% at that time.
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The abdomen is not where I would have placed any muscle with the word "rectus" in its name.
On the one hand, this prevents Nick from adding the 15 pounds of muscle he needs.
On the other hand, if this was sapping his power and is now corrected, maybe he can get back to being a 45 2B / 20 HR player in 2012 and try to increase his HR in 2013.
Wish I could still find my rectus abdominis with both hands. Anyway, I guess this means no Nick in the Cotton Bowl tonight
Damn. He’ll have to watch from the sidelines like everybody else.
Sure hope he’s not on the Brian Roberts Patented Cinese Water Torture Injury Recovery Regimen.
We still suck, but on Sept. 29, 2011, we did a Very Cool Thing. Yeah, we did that.
Awesome
now he’ll be even shittier and weaker than before!
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
You were the first person I thought of when I saw this news.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 6, 2012 12:28 PM EST up reply actions
He's right though
This will have a tremendous effect on his power output. This basically guarantees us that he comes into ST in the same shape or gulp worse than he did last year.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 6, 2012 12:53 PM EST up reply actions
bold fail
I put these * around it
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 6, 2012 12:53 PM EST up reply actions
It means this year is ANOTHER lost year
but maybe, just maybe, we start seeing improvement in 2013.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
here's the story on Hardball Talk
Mark Zuckerman of CSNWashington.com notes that Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman missed six weeks after undergoing the same surgery and Markakis told Dan Connolly of the Baltimore Sun that he won’t be cleared to do anything but walk for at least three weeks.
so it sounds like he should be fine by opening day, but damn that’s gotta suck being able to do nothing but walk for almost a month.
get well soon, Nicky
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
"fine"
not sure that describes showing up to spring training without having touched a weight, ran a step, swung a bat, or thrown a ball all offseason. Prepare for his shittiest season yet.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Also his most expensive season yet.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 6, 2012 12:36 PM EST up reply actions
I know he was playing hurt with this issue at least in September
You might remember that in the last (awesome) game of the season they moved Reimold to right and took Nick out towards the end of the game. After the game Buck said that he’d been playing hurt for awhile. I don’t really understand letting a guy play with that kind of injury at the end of a 90-loss season, but whatever.
And even more perplexing
why the FUCK didn’t he get this surgery the day the season ended???
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Probably standard to see if resting is sufficient to clear it up.
It turns out there was scar tissue that they had to clean out, and I think that’s what necessitated the surgery.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 6, 2012 1:06 PM EST up reply actions
There's no fucking way it took over 2 months to determine that.
My guess is that he had a vacation planned or something. Either that or the O’s training staff just blew it.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
I"m going to place this one on Markakis
being a dumbass and downplaying it so he could play through it. Just speculation.
Tommy hunter still sucks!
Markakis, 28, said the diagnosis was a severe injury to the rectus abdominis muscle and an abductor injury on his right side “that was kind of hanging off.” The doctor also discovered past scar tissue, indicating that he might have had a similar type of injury in the past.
“They found some old damage, scar tissue that had been there for a while. At the end of the season, [the pain] kind of went overboard for a while,” Markakis said. “I guess a couple months out, I was at 70 percent, but the 30 percent never really got better.”
Markakis said Meyers called it a “very severe injury and they didn’t know the extent until he got in there and cleaned it up. They told me to walk a mile today to clear up that scar tissue, in three weeks I can resume normal lifting, four or five [weeks] light baseball activities and by six or seven I can be a full go.”
The right fielder had an MRI after the season, but swelling in the area prohibited a clear look at the damage, Markakis said. A second MRI, after Markakis wasn’t improving dramatically, revealed the extensive damage.
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
It's also a really bad idea to just start hacking away at an area you can't even fully image...
The right fielder had an MRI after the season, but swelling in the area prohibited a clear look at the damage, Markakis said. A second MRI, after Markakis wasn’t improving dramatically, revealed the extensive damage.
I'm sure you just leap to go under the knife in all possible situations too.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 6, 2012 1:19 PM EST up reply actions
If you're a professional athlete with only 4 months off
in the midst of a swift career decline??? You bet your ass I’m seeing every specialist imaginable the second the season ends to ensure I’m able to make the improvements that I haven’t made the last few offseasons out of laziness.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
What if the specialist says, "OK, let's give it six weeks and see where we are after that?"
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 6, 2012 1:42 PM EST up reply actions
Haha
If he had swelling and the MRI wasn’t clear, I can see them wanting to wait until the swelling goes down before performing a scope
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 6, 2012 3:24 PM EST up reply actions
That's a different story than what happened.
And I’d get a second opinion since waiting 6 weeks essentially wastes the entire offseason, which is what he’s done.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
I don't think this is a fair comment.
There’s no fucking way it took over 2 months to determine that.
Unless you have a medical degree, I highly doubt that you know how long it takes to diagnose, develop, and treat any kind of injury beyond the most superficial.
Of course it's just speculation
but so is the more charitable view you guys are taking.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
One viewpoint is being described as 'charitable'
The other could correspondingly be described as ‘hostile’.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Sent you an email, boss
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We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Is it possible this has been a problem for awhile?
which would help explain his power outage and overall downward trend in recent years.
I’m grasping for hope, if not this year, at least for the future.
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