Comments on: Andrew Cashner injures right thumb in hunting accident, needs three-month recovery

By: bigmeechy74

bigmeechy74 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 05:36:29 +0000

Why is his comment getting thumbs down? What’s wrong with him pointing out that lives are taken in order for us to eat? People are weird.

By: Charles Gates

Charles Gates — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 02:43:27 +0000

We could have only hoped he sustained the injury while spatchcocking a turkey.

By: Charles Gates

Charles Gates — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 02:40:21 +0000

edit function: raise = raised, twice.

By: Charles Gates

Charles Gates — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 02:35:52 +0000

The difference in taste between a naturally raise, hormone free cow raised and fed on grass that wasn’t grown with use of synthetic fertilizer and the lowest price per pound possible supermarket steak is huuuge.

The animals we eat from typical grocery stores are so far different from what our bodies have evolved to eat. The chicken you buy has been so genetically modified that many times the breast growth out paces the bird’s ability to support it, breaking its legs.

Go to Mortons for a fine.steak, but leave the poor dear in the forest alone
Poor deer? Hardly. Go research a day in the life of a commercial agriculturally raise cow.

By: ezthinking

ezthinking — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 02:09:28 +0000

Yankees said ‘poor dear’. Priceless.

By: ezthinking

ezthinking — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 02:05:26 +0000

Like I said, farm raised tastes better – but yankeesgameday clearly lives in ‘town.’ Deer and turkey can be/are a nuisance. My city shoots them and gives them to the hunters against hunger. I hear rat tastes like sewer water. Does it, yankeesgameday?

By: cur68

cur68 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:52:06 +0000

Oh and a box of bullets is about $30 for 20 (depending on your deer rifle). So if you’re any shot at all you get your deer for about $20.67. That’s about the equivalent of 25 to 30Kg beef. Try spending $20.67 for 25 30 kg of beef.

By: ezthinking

ezthinking — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:49:44 +0000

I live in pure Midwest hunting/fishing territory – turkey, deer, elk, pheasant, quail, goose, walleye, trout, catfish, etc… and get in state tags for zip rather than $1,000.00 per day per gun we nick the out-of-stater’s we like for. While getting it is fun, if you were blindfolded and it was prepared at the same time by the same chef, tastes like shit compared to the ‘farm’ raised stuff.

And yes, there is farm raised ‘wild game’ of any kind you could imagine.

By: cur68

cur68 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:47:54 +0000

Around here there’s no such thing as a “few” dear. They’re getting close to varmint status, they’re so overpopulated. That’s why tags are so cheap. In a moment of deep irony we had one jump through the grocery store plate glass window a couple years back. It was apprehended near the meat counter. Probably horrified at all the dead cousins and little chickens it saw there.

By: yankeesgameday

yankeesgameday — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:38:07 +0000

Reread my post. I said we have so many animals whose sole existence is to be killed to feed us that I don’t understand the need some people have to go out and take the life of one of the.few free animals that are left alone in the wilderness. Hunting is no longer about feeding yourself or your family because you can buy that steak for less than the cost of that box of bullets.

I have no problem with the millions of animals going to the slaughterhouse because we need to feed the population. I do have a problem with hunters though because in this day.and age the only reason to still do it is if you love the violence, the blood, the mutilation and the fact that you think you’re a bad ass killer.

That is pathetic and frakked up. Go to Mortons for a fine.steak, but leave the poor dear in the forest alone. We kill enough animals to support ourselves. No need to kill any more than that just for fun.

By: schlom

schlom — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:37:20 +0000

Should this be technically called a cooking or food preparation injury and not a hunting injury? Plus at least we know how he actually got hurt, not some vague “falling down the stairs” injury like Keppinger suffered.

By: cur68

cur68 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:27:16 +0000

I happen to agree with you Charles. I hunt and do so for food. Plain fact is that the meat counter at any supermarket is little more than a bovine & poultry morgue. Something died and we’re going to eat it: shrikwrap & Styrofoam doesn’t change that. Might as well kill it myself: at least I’ll know how the meat was handled and that the animal died quickly while living a largely chemical free life. With 2 deer tags being about $40 you can feed a family for year on two tags. Try buying $40 worth of beef and see how long that lasts.

By: Charles Gates

Charles Gates — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:07:34 +0000

To clarify, I’m a bigger carnivore than just about anyone that reads this. I believe it’s ethical to eat meat–and more ethical to kill yourself the meat you consume.
And to head off a tangent, I am NOT talking about pure trophy hunting where the animal isn’t used for food.

By: Charles Gates

Charles Gates — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:04:22 +0000

You seem to think that the industrialization of the food chain is an entirely good thing?
Please read:
Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
and anything written by Steven Rinella

It’s either your cognitive dissonance or your ignorance that could have you believe that the piece of meat sitting plastic wrapped on top of some styrofoam at Whole Foods was not the result of a life being taken.

By: thebadguyswon

thebadguyswon — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:40:14 +0000

None of your business pinko.

By: yankeesgameday

yankeesgameday — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:25:10 +0000

Dumb assess could have just gone down to Whole Foods for a steak. We’ve industrialized the food chain to such a degree only those with the penchant for violence and taking life need ever go hunting. There’s 10 million head of cattle being raised in this country just waiting to be killed to wind up on our plates, so why feel the need to go out and kill one of the few animals that we allow to actually roam freely?

By: fearlessleader

fearlessleader — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:19:37 +0000

I was going to pile on with something derisive, but then I remembered that my team is managed by a guy who missed the whole 2000 postseason after…uh…slicing himself up with a hunting knife. Somewhere Dick Cheney is looking triumphant and saying “See? I’m not the only one!”

By: icanspeel

icanspeel — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:19:35 +0000

It’s funny because he wants to start and from what I heard the Padres would prefer him in the bullpen.. Now they may have a good excuse for him not winning a starting pitching position out of spring training.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:14:12 +0000

Some of these dudes need no-hunting clauses in their contracts.

By: cur68

cur68 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:11:16 +0000

Right. So Yount shoots Sveum, now Cashner tries digit amputation, all while hunting. What’s next? Someone gets trampled by a moose? Jeez, wrap these guys and set them on a high shelf: they’re moire delicate & accident prone than a bobblehead at Labrador tail-sweeping hight.

By: micker716

micker716 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:09:27 +0000

The Pad’s wanted Cashner to pitch Winter Ball this off-season to stretch out and get ready to pitch as a starter this spring, but he declined. I guess hunting was more important.