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Mark Prior Suffers Rehab Setback
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Shocking News: Mark Prior Injured Yet Again
by 100%InjuryRate
>7 days ago

In what has now become an official yearly tradition, like the Kentucky Derby, Christmas, and St. Patrick's Day, Mark Prior is injured yet again.

In his last rehab outing, Prior threw 10 or 15 pitches and had a feeling "like a firecracker going off in the back of his shoulder."

That's, uh, never good. Prior is also going to be seeking a second opinion on his shoulder from noted surgeon Dr. James Andrews. By the way, any time you see "pitcher" and "Dr. James Andrews" in the same sentence, that's usually code for "your career is over."

Obviously it's been quite a frustrating career for Prior who started out with so much promise. Here's a list of injuries, at least all the ones we know of.
  • Midseason 2003 - Shoulder after on-field collision with former Atlanta Braves second baseman Marcus Giles. Time missed: 3 Starts
  • Preseason 2004 - Achilles tendon injury. Time missed: 2 months.
  • Preseason 2005 - Elbow strain. Time missed: Several weeks.
  • May 27, 2005 - Throwing elbow from comeback line drive off the bat of Brad Hawpe. Time missed: Several Weeks
  • Preseason 2006 - Strained shoulder. Time missed: 3 months.
  • July 14, 2006 - Strained left oblique in batting practice. Time missed: 2 starts.
  • August 1st, 2006 - Struck by lightning. Time missed: 1 start.
  • August 14, 2006 - Shoulder tendinitis. Time missed: Rest of season.
  • Spring Training 2007 - Shoulder surgery. Time missed: Whole season.
  • March 26, 2008 - Shoulder surgery recovery. Time missed: Still has yet to play.
What's funny about that list is somehow I actually thought it'd be even longer. And it's admittedly pretty long already.

Of course the question now is, when will people just give up on him? Or the better yet, why haven't teams given up on him already?
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66 days ago
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Now that Prior isn't on the Cubs and isn't even in the bigs, we should probably start piling sh*t on his unfortunate story.  That's way too Chicagoan.
 
66 days ago
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Who's this Mark Prior you speak of?
 
66 days ago
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RenegadeLG wrote:
Now that Prior isn't on the Cubs and isn't even in the bigs, we should probably start piling sh*t on his unfortunate story.  That's way too Chicagoan.
Hey I didn't write this. But I agree with you.
 
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You forgot to list the second time he was struck by lightning....
 
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CriticalFanatic wrote:
Hey I didn't write this. But I agree with you.
lol, I know you didn't, and you hardly resemble the typical baseless Chicagoan to which I refer.  He was a bad investment, but they've had plenty more. 
 
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RenegadeLG wrote:
lol, I know you didn't, and you hardly resemble the typical baseless Chicagoan to which I refer.  He was a bad investment, but they've had plenty more. 
I think what annoys me most about our sports fans here, and I would never argue against our fickle nature, is that fans got upset with Mark Prior. Like he somehow chose to get injured or that it was his fault that Moises Alou spazed out at Bartman for that he was to blame for Alex Gonzalez bobbling a routine grounder.

We take our frustrations out in the most irrational ways. A lot of sports fans do, but we Chicagoans are rather impressive in our ways.
 
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Placing bets here:  Who will be the first pitcher to throw another pitch in the majors?  Prior or Hampton?
 
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tpowell25 wrote:
Placing bets here:  Who will be the first pitcher to throw another pitch in the majors?  Prior or Hampton?
Or neither?  Give Prior that advantage for being younger I suppose.
 
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(Edited 05/15/08 2:13PM by kantwistaye)
tpowell25 wrote:
Placing bets here:  Who will be the first pitcher to throw another pitch in the majors?  Prior or Hampton?

Double posts suck.
 
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I expected the curse of former Cub players to come back and bite us in the a$$. Leaves the Cubs  and goes on to win the Cy Young or something. Its just a shame really. I hope he can make a come back, but at this point, it doesnt seem likely.
 
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(Edited 05/15/08 7:20PM by primo)

I guess we really want the Mark Prior prior to all of the injuries.

 

Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk
 
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Is anybody really surprised?
 
 
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