Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Bart Rask

[Minstrel]

Angry man? I said you equivocate, which you do more than any other poster on this board (or maybe you don't).

Well, whether or not that's true (and I'm neither saying it is or isn't, mind you!), all that shows is that I'm less likely to frame my opinion as absolute truth. I realize that there's plenty that I don't know and I'm comfortable with that.

In the actual quote that you scorned, where I said I didn't disagree (but didn't necessarily agree), my reason for putting it that way was because I didn't think anything he believed was terribly far-fetched (thus I didn't really disagree) but, as speculative guesses I didn't see them as definitely the way things were...thus I didn't necessarily agree either. Within the bounds of reasonability but not necessarily what will happen.

Seems like a reasonable equivocation to me (or, perhaps, not a terribly unreasonable equivocation). I can't decide.

 

[Natebishop3]

Minstrel likes to keep his options open. He makes reservations for Chinese AND Mexican because he's not sure how he's going to feel when it's actually time for dinner...

 

[BGrantFan]

Minstrel likes to keep his options open. He makes reservations for Chinese AND Mexican because he's not sure how he's going to feel when it's actually time for dinner...

That's a coincidence, because some joker started a thread about yet another orthopedic surgeon sighting at P.F. Chang's.

 

[Shooter]

If anyone gives a fuck, here's my thought process:

- Roy has looked poor since preseason
- Roy has been hobbled for the last several games
- Roy leaves last game with acute pain

So there are the observations, here's the commentary so far as I'm aware:

- Roy says this is a condition he "will have to deal with" with for the rest of his career
- Roy says that he has "no" meniscus in either knee, that it's "bone on bone"
- *IMPORTANT* No doctors or Blazers officials refute Roy's previous comment.

So we have a player who's health has divebombed since the start of the season, and something was obviously "different" even before he started limping. But the big thing for me is that the Blazers have not refuted the claim that Roy's knees are both bone on bone.

Having so established, I find it astonishing that anyone would think this man has a career in the NBA. I don't mean to upset anyone, but honestly... tell me where I'm wrong. I see no way that he will ever return to his previous level of production, and I see ALMOST no way that he will be an All-Star level player. That COMPLETELY fucks any hopes we have of a championship in the next few years, without a doubt. We signed him to a 5-year contract, and we'll have to eat it.

Yes, yes, and yes.

What else can you say? Anyone who knows anything about the NBA knows that you have to have two healthy knees to excel. A guy can't hobble around the court and succeed in any way, shape, or form. Roy is done, as far as I can tell, and it hurts like hell. I honestly don't know what we've done to deserve this. I've been rooting for this team for 40 years, and I thought this present team might be the one to get us back to the championship.

 

[Natebishop3]

That's a coincidence, because some joker started a thread about yet another orthopedic surgeon sighting at P.F. Chang's.

Orthopedic Surgeons don't eat at PF Changs. That's soooo beneath them.

 

[BGrantFan]

Orthopedic Surgeons don't eat at PF Changs. That's soooo beneath them.

He must like the Lettuce Wraps?

 

[Minstrel]

I like PF Chang's.

 

[Natebishop3]

He must like the Lettuce Wraps?

Well..... everyone likes the lettuce wraps.... but he gets those "to go".

 

[andalusian]

I like PF Chang's.

That's an unusual name for a turtle.

 

[maxiep]

Steve Patterson is supposed to be on the show at 5:05 tomorrow to discuss Brandon Roy's medical reports during the 2006 draft and they already mentioned that SP said the only red flag was his ankle, nothing on his knees. If that's the case then that's the final straw for me with this Blazers training staff if they checked him and that's all they found.

I'm sure he'll find a way to blame it on Pritchard.

 

[jlprk]

Well, whether or not that's true (and I'm neither saying it is or isn't, mind you!), all that shows is that I'm less likely to frame my opinion as absolute truth. I realize that there's plenty that I don't know and I'm comfortable with that.

In the actual quote that you scorned, where I said I didn't disagree (but didn't necessarily agree), my reason for putting it that way was because I didn't think anything he believed was terribly far-fetched (thus I didn't really disagree) but, as speculative guesses I didn't see them as definitely the way things were...thus I didn't necessarily agree either. Within the bounds of reasonability but not necessarily what will happen.

Seems like a reasonable equivocation to me (or, perhaps, not a terribly unreasonable equivocation). I can't decide.

I can't decide whether you reasonably equivocated or, perhaps, committed not a terribly unreasonable equivocation, i.e. within the bounds of reasonability, but not necessarily what will happen. I am not entirely dissatisfied with this lack of attitude in one who has purportedly been labeled a moderator; however I am also not in the least gleeful over the excess of moderation in the color of your tone.