12/31/2023 0 Comments Lowest limbo ever youtube![]() Now that the predictable-but-still-disappointing torn-UCL scenario has come to pass, it’s time to ask hard questions. We can and should be bummed about deGrom’s injury, but we can’t say we weren’t warned. The five-year, $185 million contract he signed with Texas last winter wasn’t insured, The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal reported, because the premiums would have been “prohibitively expensive.” Instead, the contract included a conditional option for 2028 that could be triggered if deGrom underwent Tommy John surgery (or sustained any long-lasting elbow or shoulder injury) from 2023 to 2026. The soon-to-be 35-year-old, who had Tommy John surgery after his first professional season in 2010, has made seven trips to the injured list as a big leaguer, including three previous stints for elbow- or forearm-related ailments. The reigning best pitcher in baseball-say it with me: when healthy-has a busted UCL and won’t be back in action until late 2024, if not 2025. On Tuesday, Dallas Morning News reporter Evan Grant broke the news that deGrom is broken. For them, the road to UCL surgery is paved with possible precursors. Other hurlers, like Rangers righty Jacob deGrom, are walking warnings from the surgeon general that throwing baseballs hard may be hazardous to your health. In Garcia’s case, the only sign of impending doom was his position: pitcher. Less than three weeks later, he had Tommy John surgery. He felt pain in his elbow after his fifth pitch, threw three more, and then exited the game. Last month, 26-year-old Houston Astros righty Luis Garcia, who had never been on the injured list in either the majors or the minors, started against the Giants following back-to-back scoreless outings. ![]() Some elbows blow out before the “check ligament” light comes on. One Detroit’s Chris Jordan caught up with Edwards on a recent visit home to Michigan, at Comics & More in Madison Heights, where they talked about “Defiant,” the support he’s received through Kickstarter, and why a comic book is a perfect, if unorthodox, way to teach kids Black history.Just as there aren’t always foreshocks before big earthquakes, there aren’t always velocity losses, muscle strains, or ominous MRIs before baseball players tear their ulnar collateral ligaments. The graphic novel has been backed by almost 2,000 supporters, bringing more than $150,000 on Kickstarter to help fund the project. It’s a story Edwards felt compelled to tell as a Black author and one that readers were hungry to get their hands on. ![]() He’s the reason why we have public schools,” Edwards said during an interview with One Detroit’s Chris Jordan. He’s the reason why we have Black people in the military, because they showed courage, you know, intelligence and strength. Comic Book Historian Ken Quattro’s Journey to Writing ‘Invisible Men’.Marvel comic author Saladin Ahmed discusses his Spider-Man series, independent work and diversity in comics.Smalls went on to run for Congress five times, and won, the longest-serving Black congressman during Reconstruction, among several other successes. ![]() Titled “Defiant,” the graphic novel chronicles the extraordinary life of Smalls, who as a 23-year-old slave successfully commandeered a Confederate Civil War ship and surrendered it to the Union Army, before joining the Union Army and becoming a war hero himself. Rob Edwards, a Detroit-born screenwriter best known for Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog” and “Treasure Planet,” and the TV shows “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and “In Living Color,” has a new graphic novel set to release in February 2024 detailing a little-known, yet highly prominent figure of America’s Black history: Robert Smalls.
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