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Anatomy of a Broken
2006-04-21 09:11
There's been some questions in the comments about the exact nature of Lee's injury, so I've done a little poking around. Here's what I've found regard fractures of the distal radius (Distal, by the way, is apparently a reference to a geographical region of the radius bone, namely the end furthest from the body), culled from this site, which I was led to by a search on WebMD:
That gives us an idea of the force involved in the collision with Furcal. If this is an injury usually suffered by falling oldsters with fragile bones and falling youngsters whose bones are still growing, I'd imagine there would have to be quite a bit of energy displaced when such an injury occurs to a grown, very healthy man. They say speed kills, and you have to figure in this instance, Furcal's speed was a contributor to the injury's severity. In any case, here's some additional information from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons website:
Again with the high impact, high force situations. That Lee's ulna was also involved gives us another data point about how violent the collision was. Semantically speaking, it's also notable that what's breaking here are technically bones in Lee's arm. I don't know if there's any difference beyond the semantics, but I'm just enough of a nerd to find the possibility interesting. Anyway, that's what I've gleaned from cursory surfing. Anything to add, plug away in the comments.
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I wonder if the collision would have happened even if Eyre decided to eat the ball. Furcal was down the line pretty fast.
As a friend of mine says about collisions: It's the v-squared that gets ya!
Sigh.
One thing I'm positive of is that had the ball not been thrown at all, Lee would have just been standing at first base with no play as happens on many a good bunt single.
7 "It is what it is" is a cop-out. A contractor used it once with me when he failed to get authorization for extra work, and then charged me for it. Not saying it is or isn't Eyre's fault, I'm just saying the better way to put it is that you cannot do anything about the fact the Lee's injured.
I also don't blame Furcal for several reasons:
1) It happened too fast for him to react.
2) Honestly, who was more likely to get hurt in that situation?
3) He may have been running on the inside of the base path (like any good bunter would do when bunting down the first base path in order to make the throw more difficult), but he crossed first base directly over the bag.
It was a freak accident, IMO.
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