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redsrbetter · **Bags comes out -** 03-22-2006, 11:01 PM

LAKELAND, FLA. - For the second time in a week, Astros first baseman Jeff Bagwell was forced to leave a spring training game because of soreness in his ailing right shoulder.
Coming off the team's scheduled off day, Bagwell had hoped to play at least five innings in the field Tuesday against the Detroit Tigers, but left after two innings.
Shoulder soreness also forced Bagwell to leave a game after two innings March 14.
"I didn't feel that great today," Bagwell said. "I knew it was going to be a battle and it got to the point of 'What am I doing? What's the point?' Just to go out there and force it, there's no reason. I'm going to look at it as sometimes a day off doesn't do me well.
"It's better for me to keep throwing and keep everything going (in the shoulder) otherwise it kind of tightens up. Once I got my two at-bats, that was good enough."
As he did last week, Bagwell downplayed his early exit and said he plans to try to play first base again when the Astros meet the Cleveland Indians at 6 p.m. today at Osceola County Stadium.
Astros manager Phil Garner said he planned to talk to Bagwell further before he determined a schedule for the rest of the week.
"Obviously, it's not great," said Bagwell, who went 0-for-1 with a walk in the 10-7 loss. "I wish I could have been out there for six or seven innings, but that's not the way it was going to work today. We'll see what tomorrow brings."
Bagwell has played 16 innings at first base this spring but has yet to have to make an overhand throw in the field to test his shoulder. He made some throws in warmups, but never felt good.
"Some days, off days don't do the best for me," he said.
Bagwell, 37, the Astros' all-time leader in home runs and RBIs, has been bothered by a degenerative right shoulder condition since 2001. He played through right shoulder pain until last May and underwent surgery in June. The Astros, on the recommendation of two doctors, consider Bagwell a disabled player and filed an insurance claim in January to recoup $15.6 million of the $17 million he will earn this year.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/3739838.html

Man, does anyone think he will ever fully recover? I love Bag pipes' game and all, but man is he ever messed up.

MarinersFan87 · 03-22-2006, 11:24 PM

Bags comes out

I knew he was gay all along.

Kingdom_of_Zito · 03-22-2006, 11:34 PM

The Houston... Diamondbacks?

General · 03-22-2006, 11:35 PM

What's AZ got to do with Squatty?

redsrbetter · 03-22-2006, 11:37 PM

Man, I suck lately! Take away my supermod ability!!!!

nah, I have no clue how that happened either. I fixed it though.

DirtyKash · 03-22-2006, 11:39 PM

Originally Posted by MarinersFan87

I knew he was gay all along.

from personal experience?

Kingdom_of_Zito · 03-22-2006, 11:40 PM

Originally Posted by redsrbetter

Man, I suck lately! Take away my supermod ability!!!!!

Yeah, I'd be happy to take that off your hands!

MarinersFan87 · 03-22-2006, 11:41 PM

Second hand info. Saber.

Kingdom_of_Zito · 03-22-2006, 11:43 PM

So, you're used to sloppy seconds?

redsrbetter · 03-22-2006, 11:43 PM

Originally Posted by Kingdom_of_Zito

Yeah, I'd be happy to take that off your hands!

You would have to fight me for it and I am the greatest Taekwondo white belt ever!

General · 03-22-2006, 11:47 PM

Taekwondo, shwaekwondo. I'll lend KOZ my AK.

redsrbetter · 03-22-2006, 11:49 PM

no problem, they taught me how to dodge bullets in taekwondo.

Nothing can stop me! I am the greatest!

Kingdom_of_Zito · 03-22-2006, 11:50 PM

I have a degree in rubber spoonology. Not even the Asians have figured out how to dodge rubber spoons.

redsrbetter · 03-22-2006, 11:52 PM

Originally Posted by Kingdom_of_Zito

I have a degree in rubber spoonology. Not even the Asians have figured out how to dodge rubber spoons.

Oh yeah, well in taekwondo they teach you how to drink orange julius while milking a cow.

Jackie Chan can't even do that!