Adrian Beltre Hamstring Reinjured Live on Twitter
by Rev Halofan on Aug 6, 2011 3:17 PM PDT
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First you have to see Adrian Beltre running the bases hard in Arlington this afternoon, a day before he was eligible to come off the disabled list. PHOTO OF CHARGING BELTRE.
Okay, now... Don't go reading the tweets in that picture below in order. Please. For the dramatic pace and entertainment value and to appreciate what watching a slow motion plane crash is really like, you have to read these following tweets about Texas Rangers All-Star 3B Adrian Beltre from the bottom of this screenshot to the top.
Okay now that you are back at the chronological end of this post, I can continue with what transpired, tweetwise after that wham-a-thon. After that rollercoaster, the tweeatege poured in, but a picture is worth a thousand words, and perhaps a hundred tweets.
You see, after all that... someone tweeted a picture of the Rangers squad giving a lonely, dejected and possibly re-injured Beltre some space. How much space? Well... a WHOLE LOTTA SPACE to be sure...
Reminder: The Angels lost Kendrys Morales on a freak ankle injury last May and he is not expected to play again for the team until next April at the earliest. Had to put that there in case anyone wants to blame the neck and neck division race on Ranger injuries instead of good things about the Angels. You see... tweaked hammys, groins and boo-boo pain is a part of the game.
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I was waiting for a tweet like this:
Adrian Beltre is about to take a dump…
Representing the Angels in Sin City.
by maze88 on Aug 6, 2011 3:26 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Bummer for him, but that series of tweets was awesome....
From good, to bad, to ugly in six tweets.
How does this team win with this offense? Hey, anyone....DRAW A WALK!!!
Jim Scully
Jim Scully Home
Good thing we didn’t get him…having wood is such a better option, o wait.
Sexual innuendo intended
by Halos in DE on Aug 6, 2011 3:47 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
I don't get it
Adrian Beltre’s running has been stopped. He just slapped himself in the head.
So Adrian forgot that he could have had a V8???
Reading how this minor disaster developed on Twitter made me think
and I resent that! No, I mean that it made me ponder what it would have been like to have seen a real disaster, say the Hindenburg explosion, play out on Twitter.
You boys stick around--there'll be turkey and ice cream later!
remind me to put my investment capital in automobiles #ohthehumanity
by Halowitz on Aug 6, 2011 10:11 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I saw 9/11 play out live on line
Not on Twitter (not that I’ve EVER followed Twitter), but on a forum similar to this one.
The amount of misinformation and speculation was staggering.
If the Halos don't care about the way they play, then why should I?
Best of luck to Adrian
Dude plays pretty hard everyday. You don’t want to see a player like Beltre not play.
"Just another Halo victory" - Rory Markas
Hahahahahshahahahaha!
He’s on the division rival…i love him not playing. Are you one of the dudes who also said “baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well”?
"Lose your pants and only good things can happen."-MayhemInTheHood
by Mayheminthehood on Aug 6, 2011 4:31 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
It does make a more fun show to watch
when you have two top teams playing each other, especially in a rivalry, instead of one beating the pulp out of each other for 12 years.
See UCLA-USC football rivalry (gag)
I'm still bitter the Deshaun Foster was ineligible in 2001.
Thankfully some good ol’ karma bit USC in the ass in the following years.
Jeff Mathis career: WAR = -2.3, oWAR = -1.5, dWAR = -0.8 , Jeff Mathis's bank account: $2,492,000.
Free Agency: 2013.
still don't root for injury
or celebrate it when it happens. as for rivals? i worry about my team only.
+1
Cheering when someone gets injured is one of the most douche things you can do in sports. Reality check, they’re still human beings with families and a future ahead of them besides professional sports.
Do you cheer when a rival team’s best player suddenly dies in a a horrible car accident so that he can’t play in the World Series against your team? See, it’s stupid.
false equivalency
Do you feel sad inside with Rangers fans when they whine that they are not ten games ahead of us because of their injuries this season?
Adrian Beltre is a human being with a guaranteed contract. I am glad he got the money happy for his family and his retirement and wish we were the ones paying him to stay healthy. That said, the Rangers scrambling makes my team’s job easier. Acknowledging this and the joy caused by knowing the path is slightly easier is not the smae as rooting for Andrew Gallo to be let out of jail tomorrow.
Duh.
Then we should be laughing at the Rangers and their fanbase
and not at Adrian Beltre, the person, right? I’m all for cheering when the Rangers are underpowered and are too crippled to compete in the AL West, but I don’t think it’s right to say, “YES!!! SCORE!! Beltre just had a heart attack. Sweetness. I hope the Rangers have to use some of that payroll for his funeral.”
Extreme example, I know, but it’s to get the point across.
We are doing just what you said you'd be doing...except for when you make the "Beltre had a heartattack. Sweetness" part. You're the only one making that leap...Rev and I are simply saying that his minor injury makes them underpowered.
Dont mistake your extreme examples for stuff that we actually feel.
"Lose your pants and only good things can happen."-MayhemInTheHood
by Mayheminthehood on Aug 6, 2011 6:39 PM PDT up reply actions
your whole argument is to exaggerate
hammy celebration equals cheering for death and heart attacks.
your argument is exaggerated because it is weak.
Than you. Who hear celebrates when a Yankee gets injured? Who celebrated when Corey Lidle died in that plane crash? Bet you its numbers are totally different.
by Halos in DE on Aug 7, 2011 3:06 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Seriously? Is that what you took from my comment?
The dude has a pulled hammy…him not being in the Rangers lineup could help the Angels’ playoff push. I wasn’t “rooting for injury”, but I will not hide my feelings that it an help our Halos. As for your “reality check” that they’re still humans and dads and blah blah…he’s a mulit-mulit-mulit millionaire with a pulled hamstring. Sorry if he doesn’t get that much sympathy for me or the team he plays for.
Although, maybe I should look at it the way you do. It would sure make my love for this team easier to deal with when they fail, like “Damn it. The Angels missed the playoffs by 2 games. Oh well, at least Beltre is healthy and is contributing to the Rangers. Thank god.”
"Lose your pants and only good things can happen."-MayhemInTheHood
by Mayheminthehood on Aug 6, 2011 6:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Now you are just tempting fate
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Angels' 2011 W-L record with the alternate red jersey: 14-9 (Home: 6-5 | Road: 7-5 || Day: 6-3 | Night: 7-7)
Squeezers
Good if you are in the batters box.
Bad if you are on the mound.
… I’ve got nothing for the spacers….
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Angels' 2011 W-L record with the alternate red jersey: 14-9 (Home: 6-5 | Road: 7-5 || Day: 6-3 | Night: 7-7)
Plus its not like its the random usher who has been at the stadium for 40 yrs and still makes min wage. Better has money, this isn’t football when they can cut you for sneezing and not pay.
by Halos in DE on Aug 7, 2011 3:08 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
The texas heat getting to another player
angels got the division in the bag
I take it you don't have the DOV Secret Decoder Ring
You need to drink more ovaltine
-Quad Fin Rider
The Rangers fans will be laughing at us when Mathis goes down
I mean, when Mathis goes down with an injury.
"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you." - Woody Hayes
Mathis will not go down with injury
Sosh will continue to play every game, and as he steps to the plate with a bat in his hand i will be reminded that common sense and logic has no place whatsoever in Sosh ball.
CONGER, CONGER, CONGER !!!
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