Cuse of Johnny Damon...Kidding. Anyway, hope it all goes well for Lester. Never want to hear anything like that...damn.
I wish all the Sox players good health, I hate them(on the field) but I wish them well off the field and I hope they all come back healthy soon.
Well, NESN just read a statement from Lester's family saying that he has been diagnosed with a treatable form of lymphoma. Hopefully he recovers quickly from this.
I looked up the kind he has, anaplastic large cell lymphoma, and it looks like he'll need chemo and then radiation. They were saying it's fortunate in a way he was in a minor car accident recently, since he hurt his back, leading to tests.
Wow, that is lucky. My wife had a miscarriage a while back, and it led to her being diagnosed with pre-cancerous cells in her uterus. Sometimes bad things are a blessing. Good luck to him and God Bless. Fortunately, it sounds treatable, and you can't ask for more than that.
Wow, this is out of control. I never thought I would see the day where my heart would go out to Boston and its fans, but it has arrived.
There's scrolling on my television screen here: AWAITING DAVID ORTIZ PRESS CONFERENCE EDIT: Bah!! This is ridiculous. Scaring the crap out of Red Sox Nation. It's just a "David's Going to Be Fine" presser. Waste of friggin' time.
I heard last night that Ortiz is gonna be held out of today's game and play on Sunday. I don't know if that's accurate though.
As of last night, they announced that Ortiz is wearing a heart monitor and should not play at all this weekend. They will look at the results on Monday, and make a determination based on the results. I just turned on ESPN News. Waiting to see the deal with Ortiz press conference. The Breaking News only says Papelbon to have a MRI Monday.
I guess I had given up the Sox for dead at this point, so whether Ortiz comes back tomorrow or Tuesday doesn't seem so crucial to me (I'm assuming that the doctors are correct, and there is nothing seriously wrong with him). The Lester thing is of course awful, but hopefully he will recover. Purely from the baseball point of view, the Papelbon situation seems most serious. If the Sox ended up doing real damage to the shoulder of their top pitching prospect by using him as the closer this year, that could hurt them for years to come.
