Comments on: Dodgers struggling “to find an MRI tube large enough” for Jonathan Broxton

By: schiver

schiver — Thu, 05 May 2011 15:26:10 +0000

Maybe the Dodgers can find a coupon for an MRI at the animal clinic from this site. That would solve all their problems!

By: samiratou

samiratou — Thu, 05 May 2011 14:27:45 +0000

Wait a minute–last time I had an MRI (a decade ago) on my knee, I didn’t get put in a big tube. They had a table with a small “tube” that fit just around my knee. Couldn’t they do the same thing for an elbow–why would they need the full tube?

Not a doctor, neither do I play on one HBT, but it seems like we have the technology for this not to be an issue.

By: cleverbob

cleverbob — Thu, 05 May 2011 11:50:00 +0000

It’s not his shoulders, it’s his waist…

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inaejones — Thu, 05 May 2011 10:32:39 +0000

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By: kiwicricket

kiwicricket — Thu, 05 May 2011 03:43:42 +0000

A guy paid 5million a year (for his services as a professional athlete) is too fat to fit into an MRI machine? Sure, I will laugh at that.

By: cur68

cur68 — Wed, 04 May 2011 21:59:32 +0000

MRI machines vary a bit in size. The ones we use have about an interior bore around 125 cm (4 ish feet) give or take. I’ve been in one for the purposes of a blown out knee and badly damaged shoulder (its real uncomfortable knowing your friends are looking at your insides).

I’m not Broxton’s size or heft and I found it claustrophobically small because the table you lie on moves up and down to get the particular area they are imaging right in the middle. For the shoulder I nearly had my nose touching the top. Broxton will need a very big machine. That tip about the vet machine for horses could be a good one. That might actually wind up being where they’ll go.

By: Jonny 5

Jonny 5 — Wed, 04 May 2011 20:11:58 +0000

Okay, I’m always up for busting stones, but the dudes shoulders are like 36″ apart. That’s probably what the issue really is. Back to your regularly scheduled fatty bashing.

By: benyamen

benyamen — Wed, 04 May 2011 20:10:18 +0000

Yo closer’s so fat that when he sits around the dugout he really sits AROUND the dugout.

By: skerney

skerney — Wed, 04 May 2011 19:58:58 +0000

UC Davis has a large animal clinic. They do MRIs on horses. Just trying to help.

By: Amsterdamned

Amsterdamned — Wed, 04 May 2011 19:53:47 +0000

“Of course, given their current payroll situation maybe the Dodgers are just shopping around for a bargain on the MRI.”

Low blow, Aaron, low blow.