I had no idea were happening went well! Is anybody on the A’s ever just, y’know, healthy? I know, stupid question.

::snerk::

Smith got injured? And I didn’t know?! Damn! I am glad his surgery went well though!Oh yeah..glad Daric is ok too :)

why do they tell us about Unicorn and Swooney but think we don’t care about Staplehead and Greggles? I know it’s the off season, but still. although maybe it was good that they didn’t tell ilovegregsmith, because she probably would have been COMPLETELY freaking out until she heard he was ok. :p

Makes you wonder if they would’ve told us anything if these mystery surgeries didn’t go well…

Assistant general manager David Forst said Barton’s injury started to surface late in the season, when he also dealt with minor groin issues, but Forst but said the hip was “not a factor at all” in Barton’s performance. …

Smith’s injury, Forst said, happened at home recently.

“Apparently, he was going to sit down and braced himself on a chair when he felt a pop,” Forst explained. "The doctors speculated that maybe he had a bone spur that became dislodged, so they went in and cleaned some things out.

“It was kind of a freak thing.”

Smith is expected to be out of action for six to eight weeks. Barton will be on crutches for six weeks, and the A’s are hopeful that he’ll be fully recovered in three months.

….wow. Our team is cursed.

I had a pinched / irritated Ulnar nerve injury myself, similar to the one that affected Huston Street a couple of years ago. I must say, we read about some of the things these athletes go through day in and day out, with various ailments and we shrug it off as nothing many times. However, after experiencing my injury, I don’t know how some of these guys go out and do what they do for a living. I tip my hat off to these guys, and hope that BB hires a shaman / witch doctor for the coming season to rid the A’s of the injury curse:

Hopefully this means no injuries in 2009. Well, no significant injuries. Hannahan and Crosby don’t count.

I’m only a year older than Barton, and I thought with shoulder, achilles, and back problems I was falling apart. What’s next, Barton will be diagnosed with osteoporosis?

As for Greg Smith’s injury, can we please come up with a term less hilarious-sounding than “loose bodies”? Is that the same thing as bone chips? What ARE these bodies? Does Smith have unborn twin fetuses growing on his elbow? Did aliens or gremlins invade his body? I want answers!

if the pool incident had anything to do with Barton getting hurt
I wonder if it had anything to do with him sucking all season. Unfortunately probably not

Coincidence that this happened right after the Taco Bell taco giveaway.

from the CC Times

Smith told Bay Area News Group that a bone chip in his elbow occurred in high school but had never given him pain until this offseason. He first felt it, oddly, as he went to sit in a chair.

“A little scar tissue popped,” he said from Louisiana, where he makes his offseason home. “You know how you brace yourself, you put your hand on the arm of the chair. It just popped. Scar tissue happens like that. You can be doing anything and it will pop.”

Some A’s get a concussion going to bed and hit their head on the pillow