That Balls Outta Here » ruptured achilles http://thatballsouttahere.com A Philadelphia Phillies Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Sat, 18 May 2013 20:02:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Scientists Already Working to Put Ryan Howard Back Together http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/10/12/scientists-already-working-to-put-ryan-howard-back-together/ http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/10/12/scientists-already-working-to-put-ryan-howard-back-together/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:03:40 +0000 Justin Klugh http://thatballsouttahere.com/?p=7187 What happened to Ryan Howard is gross.  What’s going on inside of his body is a horrible thing.  Its now a war between his injury and the ability of his body to repair itself.

Thankfully, we don’t live in an age where 3/4 of remedies are “amputation.”  This is modern medicine!  There’s lasers and shit everywhere!  Ryan will be back in no time.  Or he would be if we were still playing baseball.

It didn’t take more than one trip to the grocery store on his hoveround for the Phillies to get Ryan into surgery.  His ruptured Achilles, normally a highly debilitating condition that sidelines a player for many months, will only keep him out 5-6 months.  Which means he could be playing again by May!  Which means most early 2012 TV broadcasts will feature a replay of the last out of the 2011 NLDS many times. (more…)

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