Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Medical Condition of the Day

Carl Crawford of the Tampa Bay Rays is missing today's game with a "testicular concussion". Ouch!

I had never actually heard this term before, but it sounds painful. You can guess how such an injury might occur when playing baseball, and Crawford insists that he will continue to not wear a protective cup. That's playing with fire...

Update: Apparently, it's a testicular contusion, not a "concussion". That makes much more sense, though I swear the Orioles' announcers called it a "concussion" during the broadcast today. Though I have to say that I do very much like the term "testicular concussion"...

1 comment:

GFreak said...

Back in '07 or '08 there were two catchers within a week (possibly a day or two) who were put on the DL with testicular injuries due to, IIRC, foul balls.

Please forgive my unintentional pun; I can't bring myself to delete it now that it has been typed.