Lou Gehrig attempting to roll over in his grave
The MASSHOLES just can't leave well enough alone can they? I mean how far does this hatred have to go before it really get's out of hand? A report that was recently published said that Lou Gehrig may not have had ALS. The reports goes on to state that he may have been misdiagnosed with this ailment. He may have had trauma on his brain as a result of too many concussions, how do you like that. But why are we covering this story you're asking? As everyone knows ALS was pretty much renamed Lou Gehrig Disease after he died. That's not bad, huh? You're such a great ballplayer and human being they name a disease after you... OR SO YOU THOUGHT!
Where do you think this report came from that basically called Lou Gehrig a liar for having this disease... You guessed it, BOSTON!
MASSHOLES just hate anything to do with the Yankees that they will even sully the good name of Lou Gehrig, pathetic! That would be like finding out that David Ortiz isn't retarded. I mean the guy is Big Retardi, and you're telling me he isn't retarded? What do I call him now? Or that Papelbon really isn't a Douchebag, but he must be, because I call him Papel-douche, right?
This report really makes me reconsider nicknames I give to Red Sux ballplayers in the future, it really threw me for a loop. As long as Manny Ramirez can still be called a Crack Whore... what, he doesn't smoke crack?
OH NO, I'm done.
1 comments:
Hold on a minute. I'm happy to join you in insulting the Chowdaheads (a term I prefer to "Massholes"), but there's a big difference between saying Lou Gehrig was misdiagnosed and saying he wasn't such a great player.
It was 1939: Compare what we knew about medicine then to what we know now. Even the Mayo Clinic, where Gehrig went to find out what was wrong, could only work with the information that was then available. Can we really say, with even 99 percent certainty, that they got it right?
Quite a few people have lived with ALS for a long time. Stephen Hawking has had it for over 30 years. Gehrig had it for 3 years at most. (He made a movie early in 1938, and doctors looking at the film recently saw no evidence that he was yet affected.)
A misdiagnosis was very possible, even for the Mayo Clinic. And whatever else we can say about the Boston area, they've got some of the best hospitals and medical-research facilities in the world. Maybe not better than New York, but per capita, probably more good ones. These people may know what they're talking about. (They'll have to, considering the brain maladies affecting Sox fans, and the many whacked-out injuries Sox players have had over the years.)
None of which, of course, changes how great Gehrig was. He had to be: If he wasn't the best first baseman ever, then we might have to say it was Jimmie Foxx, and since the Philadelphia Athletics no longer exist, Foxx would then get celebrated by his secondary team -- the Red Sox. So we can thank Gehrig for being great enough to relegate a Sox star.
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