[Bob Seger]

Point taken, but again its a bit unfair to lump all of us into one category. There are plenty of us with legitimate knowledge of this sport and our team, and our players.

If Tommy John is as common as a sprained ankle, why all the stigma ??

You cant help but lump together. You and Big Dawg never post on here unless the conversation involves anything that gets said negatively about Shepherd, and you and he seem to be about the only two that really have a reality grasp on anything involving the game. Perhaps there are more as you suggest, but I cant name another Lawrence fan that posts on here. Sorry, I do have to include Mr. Hustle as well. He is very knowledgable. But that's about it. EDIT:Now I see that foxtrot has a very good understanding, but he has not been around before now.

As far as the Tommy John issue, I think that Foxtrot explained what I was meaning pretty well. I can certainly understand Chandler maybe being very emotional about the surgery, but anyone who really knows anything about the surgery knows that it is just a bump in the road anymore. Anybody thats has an understanding of the issue knows that anymore it is a very common issue along with the other two common injuries that I mentioned. If you throw long enough the chances are very high that one of them is going to come up and bite you. As far as a stigma it is associated only with those that really dont have an understanding.