Speaking Of Learning Nothing From Prior Mistakes

by Jeff on Aug 16, 2008 11:00 PM PDT in The More You Know Comment 19 comments

Carlos Silva is going on the DL with right elbow alibitis. Says Jim Riggleman:

As for Silva, Riggleman said he had felt some elbow pain in his bullpen session two starts ago, but didn't say anthing until after he got shelled yesterday. The plan is to rest Silva and bring him back in September. I suppose it would be nice for him to finish this season with some positive results to take into next year.

"It's something that I think if we were in a different part of the season, or the standings, he would pitch through it,'' Riggleman said.

To recap:

-Carlos Silva selfishly didn't let anyone know that his elbow hurt
-Carlos Silva got shelled
-Carlos Silva conveniently mentioned his elbow pain afterwards
-If the team were competing, Jim Riggleman would let Silva - who just got shelled while allegedly pitching with elbow pain - work through it

This is the stupidest team in baseball. The stupidest team. The stupidest team in baseball. End of story. If somebody were to ask you which team is your favorite, and you said the Mariners, and they said "you mean the stupidest team in baseball," and you said yes, you would be telling the truth.

UPDATE: Alternate version, in the event that Silva's fine and the team's making stuff up:

-Carlos Silva sucks
-He sucks so bad his team is hiding him

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Don't stop at Carlos...

For an encore can we have Willie pinch run on one leg? Of course, we’d never do this unless we had a runner on 2nd in the 9th of a tie game.

Maybe Riggleman has suffered brain damage but he’s gamely playing through the pain for the good of the team.

by PDXTai on Aug 16, 2008 11:08 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

He's not hurt

He just sucks, so they’re sticking him on the DL. They do this every year with their disaster du juor.

by davidcameron on Aug 16, 2008 11:35 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

A disaster every day is a lot of diasters

This team must be that stupid

by greymstreet on Aug 16, 2008 11:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

This team has caused me to equate "tendinitis" with "suck."

by BrianL on Aug 17, 2008 12:04 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

They need a roster spot for Feirabend... Silva sucks and magically ends up with "tendinitis"

Coincidence? I think not.

by Smith18 on Aug 17, 2008 12:48 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hey, look who I found on the DL for acute suckitis!

Perhaps Silva, Cirillo, Player A and Turbo could make a bridge team or something.

by eponymous_coward on Aug 17, 2008 12:55 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

See?

I knew I couldnt be the only one to think it.

They need to make it team policy to show the MRI results.

Its the same with the others. I didnt buy that Batista was injured, and of course Washburn last year. Same with Ramirez.

It scares me that this team is in denial about how bad they are. How can you fix something if you choose to ignore its flaws?

by Slica on Aug 17, 2008 2:04 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

While it'd be nice to see MRI results

There are these little things called HIPAA laws that mandate privacy with medical records….

by Gomez on Aug 17, 2008 2:11 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Suckitis can be serious if left untreated

Take two of these and don’t call us in the morning, Carlos.

by OlSalty on Aug 16, 2008 11:58 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

How the hell would you take the second one?

by Robert on Aug 17, 2008 8:22 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

The first one would still be traveling through the layers of fat

Which would allow plenty of time to eat a cheeseburger before pulling the trigger a second time

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Aug 17, 2008 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

"Well then good news! It's a suppository!"

by OlSalty on Aug 17, 2008 8:01 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

I'm a little drunk so this isn't fully thought out

But what certainly comes to mind is this:
In the event that Silva is fine and the team is making stuff up:
THIS TEAM IS AMAZINGLY RETARDED. You’re locked into his $48 million contract no matter what, so that’s a sunk cost (it’s spent no matter what). What you’re continuing to pay him every start is an opportunity cost, which means you’re paying Silva (in addition to his contract) the cost of an opportunitty for a replacement level player – at league minimum – to come in and start a game. When a replacement level player boasts statistics at least one magnitude better than Silva, continuing to march him out there so he can get shelled is AMAZINGLY RETARDED.
I barely passed accounting (it was my lowest grade in 4 1/2 years of college), but even I know about sunk costs and opportunity costs. Were it not for Strasburg, this team would have driven me to total despair ~~weeks~~ months ago.

Free Stephen Awesome Strasburg!

by thejew4u on Aug 17, 2008 12:56 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Silva isn't as bad as his results have been.

I hate him, but his true talent level isn’t below replacement.

J.K.L.

by acblue on Aug 17, 2008 1:33 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

True talent level or what he's been doing this year?

Do we know how RLP translates into tRA? 83+ seems abysmal, especially given how much worse it is than Weaver last year.

Free Stephen Awesome Strasburg!

by thejew4u on Aug 17, 2008 9:15 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

One thing I don't understand

Is why for someone with a normal job, if a contract is terminated, the company doesn’t have to pay you anymore, sometimes maybe a severance pay. But is it a common guideline to put in an athlete’s contract that they get paid whether they play or not? Because then what motivates them to try hard? It doesn’t make sense to me really. Are they just working hard for their next big payday or what?

JI/Robert '08!

by Fin on Aug 17, 2008 2:18 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Professional athletes have tremendously valuable skills.

From a market standpoint, at least. It’s not a normal job in any sense of the word. People that make the kind of money that Carlos Silva makes get paid, results be damned, Take a look at the severance packages of ousted CEOs of major corporations if you need further examples. Movie stars are another case in point. Whether or not this sort of thing is right or whathaveyou isn’t really a topic of discussion for this particular blog, but the point remains; it’s not an isolated circumstance.

J.K.L.

by acblue on Aug 17, 2008 2:40 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs