[Kendall] got to the point where he couldn’t even raise his arm. He got to the point where he had...

[Kendall] got to the point where he couldn’t even raise his arm. He got to the point where he had to take his glove and push his arm back into a throwing position — and he was still throwing runners out. It just shows you the mentality and the mental makeup of Jason Kendall. He would have played the rest of this year if the training staff hadn’t hog-tied him and made him have an MRI.

Ned Yost on Jason Kendall, who's going in for surgery on a torn rotator cuff.

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Jason Kendall

Red assed and nuts.

s.zielinski

by steve_z on Sep 2, 2010 10:29 PM EDT reply actions

He's the signpost on the border...

…between tough and crazy.

by Vlad on Sep 3, 2010 3:49 AM EDT up reply actions

+1

by Slick1 on Sep 3, 2010 11:47 AM EDT up reply actions

+2

by JRoth95 on Sep 3, 2010 2:54 PM EDT up reply actions

Who knew

That having your 36 year-old catcher play in 90% of your team’s games could cause health issues?

by biggyv on Sep 2, 2010 11:22 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

I wonder why

major league managers get a hall pass for shit like this and an NFL or NHL coach would be fricasseed. Why are idiotic comments passed over in baseball? Please tell me. Anyone?

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by David Todd on Sep 3, 2010 12:31 AM EDT reply actions

Geez.

Kendall is insane. I would have been in that MRI as soon as I knew there was a problem. Did that when I tore my ACL. Get it looked at, get it fixed and get back to normal, ASAP.

by IAPiratesFan on Sep 3, 2010 1:01 AM EDT up reply actions

I don't think that's right at all

First of all, if Kendall were a good and/or young player, then Yost would be getting flayed. But instead it’s the worst everyday hitter in baseball, playing in a market no one cares about, and so it’s only of brief interest to people like us.

But beyond that, NFL and NHL players are expected to play full contact sports with injuries that would put a utility IF on the DL for 15 days – sprained ankles, broken fingers, etc. I just heard the recording of the announcers during Leftwich’s injury last night, and as the one is describing the knee “wobbling” during the hit, the other guy is saying, “hopefully he’s able to continue.” Yeah, God forbid the guy come off the field for a play to determine whether or not it’s a torn ligament!

by JRoth95 on Sep 3, 2010 2:58 PM EDT up reply actions

This is why i love kendall

He was and still is one of my favorite baseball players. I was at the game when he broke his ankle, sitting only a few rows back from first base you could hear him yelling and cursing not because he was in pain but because he knew he was pissed he would not be able to play for a while. He has a football players mentality. Every coach I ever had in every sport always stressed play your hardest until the coach or training staff knows something is wrong with you. There are not enough players like Kendall in the game today

by pghkillers on Sep 3, 2010 1:18 AM EDT reply actions

You'd better be scrappy

when you’re OPS+ing 70.

I get what you’re saying, but give me a team of Jason Kendalls and Doug Malphabets and David Ecksteins and I’ll win like 30 games. Give me a team of assholes like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens and Albert Belle and Reggie Jackson and Ty Cobb in their primes and if I can keep them from killing each other in the locker room I will destroy you.

by bucdaddy on Sep 3, 2010 1:39 AM EDT up reply actions