Comments on: R.A. Dickey’s Mt. Kilimanjaro trip has the Mets nervous

By: mrznyc

mrznyc — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:10:23 +0000

Look at the bright side Mets fans – This is about the only thing anyone is going to write about the Mets this off season – At least until the “Blessed Event” we all so anxiously await – The Wilpons sale of the team.

By: cur68

cur68 — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:15:58 +0000

Ok, I might be kidding a little about RA taking over the world, but its because i enjoy hyperbole and the notion that a guy born without the principle ligament involved in pitching is a damn good pitcher. I am not kidding about the UCL thing, though. Read this,

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/376916-a-missing-ligament-and-the-knuckleball-the-story-of-ra-dickey

Neat, eh?

By: notsofast10

notsofast10 — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:27:37 +0000

Are you kidding me or are you serious?????? Guess he just has a rubber arm

By: cur68

cur68 — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:13:35 +0000

notsofast: astutely observed. Others have noted the same thing. Then they examined RA's arm. Guess what they found out? RA Dickey will never have TJ surgery. He is a mutant. He was born without an Ulnar Collateral Ligament: this is the offending ligament that needs reconstruction in TJS. Get it? He doesn't have an ulnar collateral ligament to tear!!!! When I tell you he will climb Kilimanjaro and claim his place as the ruler of all Earth, I tell you this because RA Dickey is a Superior Being among lesser creatures. Prepare yourself for the coming RA Dicky Armageddon....

By: hiyamaya00

hiyamaya00 — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:18:48 +0000

There is a much greater chance that he gets injured by one of the Mets doctors than he does on the mountain!

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:41:14 +0000

florida727 has stated before that he admires Tebow and I have no issues with that. I think of Tebow as one of the greatest college quarterbacks of all time, but I am reserving judgment until his NFL career pans out one way or another as far as what kind of professional he will be. I think there’s a good possibility that he will prove a lot of naysayers wrong and be an interesting and successful departure from the usual style of pro QBs. For all I know he may be a stand-up guy who is wholly admirable in most other personal respects. However, I find his constant evangelizing and gratuitous witnessing utterly obnoxious. I know a lot of sportswriters and bloggers are hoping he implodes out of resentment or ridicule of his religiosity. I’m not one of them; what he believes, as I indicated above, is his business and only mine because he insists on making it mine through his persistent onfield theatrics and interjection of his “faith” into all sorts of otherwise unrelated interviews or answers to game questions that he gives. So, as long as he insists on laying it out there for my commentary, I feel free to respond that I don’t want it. I just wish he’d save his preaching for off the playing field, play football and keep his infantile religiosity to himself.

By: luckywi

luckywi — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:03:11 +0000

You can understand the Mets’ position — there are details in the article about the small but real risks Dickey faces on his trek — but I can’t help but think that, when he is an old man, Dickey will remember being on top of Kilimanjaro more fondly than he will remember hitting the treadmill in his Nashville home while counting the days to spring training.

Or his time playing for the Met’s for tht matter….

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:12:46 +0000

edog623 – thanks for the clarification. All of the brochures I read in response to this teapot tempest seemed to warn inexperienced climbers about that last segment to the peak.

By: notsofast10

notsofast10 — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:14:43 +0000

The Mets should be more concerned with his throwing motion! He is TJ waiting to happen in that picture!

By: edog623

edog623 — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:58:19 +0000

As an experienced rock climber, I would like to say that climbing Kilimanjaro is NOT “highly technical mountain climbing.” It is a very manageable multi-day trek which depending on sources, 10 to 16 thousand people summit every year with a success rate around 60%. It is completely non-technical. The dangers posed are primarily due to altitude sickness. A good athlete who will train, and then take the time needed to adjust to altitude should not be in any serious danger. If you start to get sick, you turn around and descend. Better yet, a true professional guide can help you make those choices.

By: danrizzle

danrizzle — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:51:32 +0000

There is no spirit of the contract, and there are no implicit terms in the contract, where the party on the other side is the New York Mets. If the Mets didn’t want him to climb mountains, they should have put something in the contract to that effect. If they wanted to make his salary voidable in the event that he gets hurt climbing mountains, then they should have done that, and for all I know, they have done that.

I’m waiting for the headline: “R.A. Dickey asks Mets not to sign Jason Bay to a long-term deal or to invest team money in Ponzi schemes.”

By: crisisjunky

crisisjunky — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:09:26 +0000

He could play a little catch at base camp. If his knuckleball enjoys the rarified air, perhaps he
feigns injury up on the mountain and later sign a deal with the Rox.

By: jimeejohnson

jimeejohnson — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:06:41 +0000

Take it easy, folks. Kilimanjaro is the lowest of all the highest mountain peaks in the world, even lower than the one down under (Australia). I would damn him to you-know-where if he attempted to climb Mt. McKinley or Mt. Everest. Now that would be arrogant!
Seriously, though, he signed the contract, signifying his priority. If he gets hurt his contract is void.

Let’s hope he makes it.

By: cur68

cur68 — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:20:03 +0000

Wow, well florida727 really told you guys off, Gator & ‘lions. Betcha don’t dare sneak another comment on here that might exposes what a calamitous waste those multiple graduate degrees you guys have are. Mind you, having read that definition of ‘superstition’ provided & the associated rant (I tried to duck the metaphorical spittle but I fear some got on my suit: yucky) I can’t see where you fellas erred. I confess that I hold all mythologies in equal regard, be they christian, voodoo, or orthodox rooster worship so maybe I’m just a jaded fool with a limited grasp of the world outside my basement redoubt. Anyhow, you’ve been told. Or something.

By: cur68

cur68 — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:09:17 +0000

Looks like I’m forgetting Caroline Dhavernas, too. Right. So that’s Morrisette, Dhavernas, & I can deal with Lavigne providing she doesn’t try to “sing” or do anything else that requires her to have any musical talent. Cool. Now, when RA begins to crush the forces of Earth under his cleated feet I shall be prepared in my basement lair to withstand the ravages. Or something.

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:29:45 +0000

Joel Zumaya has stopped playing Guitar Hero. He now plays drums on Rock Band.

By: foreverchipper10

foreverchipper10 — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:10:31 +0000

With that war face this man will climb the mountain in record time.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:02:13 +0000

Eeeyup. One excellent working definition of superstition is “the other guy’s religion.” But it’s not the belief that rankles. It’s the obnoxious proclivity of evangelicals to rub everyone else’s noses in their particular cult fairytales as loudly and as theatrically as possible – which is what makes them “asses.” You’d think they never read Isaiah 30:15: “In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.”

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:55:00 +0000

Hemingway. Melville. Dickey would love this entire conversation.

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:19:38 +0000

As Margot killed Francis Macomber, Sandy Alderson will have to kill Dickey before he returns to New York. He will just be too awesome.

By: Reggie's Bush

Reggie's Bush — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:18:04 +0000

I expected the comments to rip the Mets but I forgot people are sane here.

This is no big deal, just a cool headline/way to mention what Dickey is doing. No difference from not paying someone who gets an injury playing basketball or in a motorcycle accident. No different than the Tigers telling Zumaya to stop playing Guitar Hero lol

By: Kevin S.

Kevin S. — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:42:00 +0000

There is no reason or knowledge that forms the basis of belief in any deity, much less the particular variety of Christianity Tebow subscribes to. Religious folks don’t like hearing it, but their beliefs fit that definition of superstition to a tee.

By: firedude7160

firedude7160 — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:28:43 +0000

Even though I disagree with most of Paper’s comments, you referring to him and Old gator as idiots is laughable. They are 2 of the more educated commenters around

By: kevinf003

kevinf003 — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:32:39 +0000

lol baseball players doing something to to help out call girls……….

By: florida727

florida727 — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:26:19 +0000

Normally I wouldn’t waste my time responding to comments like the ones “oldgator” and “paperlions” made, but I’ll make an exception just to show to everyone reading these posts exactly how much of an @$$hole and idiot these two clowns actually are…

dictionary.com — definition of “superstition”: a belief or notion NOT based on reason or knowledge; irrational FEAR of what is unknown or mysterious, especially in connection with religion

Okay, you hate Tebow, I get that. But before you call someone out as being superstitious or an @$$ or both, try learning the meaning of such multi-syllabic words. That way you don’t come off as being a one-word descriptive character yourself… the one word being “idiot”. Look up the definition of that one yourself if you’re having trouble figuring it out.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:49:16 +0000

That’s a more reasonable explanation than plate tectonics, which has so far failed to explain how you can ride around on a vortex of magma without burning your ass all to hell.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:47:25 +0000

No, it didn't. She read somewhere that there was another Japanese saying that anyone who climbed Fuji even once was an idiot. I wish she woulda told me before I busted my kiesters and laid the groundwork for my late middle aged sciatica.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:44:04 +0000

I agree, but I never got the sense that Dickey was the impressionable type.

By: spudchukar

spudchukar — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:42:04 +0000

While the wisdom of trekking Kilimanjaro is certainly debatable, the Mets should be careful. Somehow voiding a contract with them doesn’t seem particularly threatening.

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:35:28 +0000

kiwi, You are forgetting Caroline Dhavernas!