Posted on 01/06/2021 10:44:38 AM PST by nickcarraway
Former MLB pitcher Tommy John has contracted COVID-19, but is minimizing the threat of the virus from a hospital bed in California.
The 77-year-old left-hander who played 26 seasons for six teams, including the Yankees, told The Daily Beast Tuesday he had no symptoms of the deadly bug despite being on oxygen at a hospital near his home in Indio, California.
“I’d leave right now if they’d let me walk out,” John said.
But John — who went on to pitch for 14 seasons after having elbow ligament replacement surgery in 1974 — accused a reporter of “making a mountain of a molehill” when being confronted with details provided by his longtime girlfriend Cheryl Zeldin, who has not been able to see him since late
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Your post is rather shrill and you sound like a true cowardly COVID disciple. You are going out of your way to justify lockdowns and destroying our economy and freedoms. Either you are full of fear or you are actively advocation foe the destruction of Western civilization.
Well NickCarroway, which one is it?
He’ll always be a Dodger to me.
I know 23 people that have Covid. When you add indirects (for instance a business associate has it, his wife and kids have it but I don’t know them) the total is 80 or so. Assume no false positives. Of these 80, one died. He was 86 years old in a nursing home. Only 3 others have been hospitalized. A 72 year old, an 87 year old and a 91 year old.
Is he getting Tommy John surgery while he’s there??
Except when it came to Detroit’s All Star second sacker, Dick McAuliffe! (Remember their 1968 brawl!?....I think it was ‘68, maybe it was in’67.)
So when Tommy John recovers from Covid, will his course of treatment then be known as Tommy John Recovery?
‘Developing an expensive vaccine for a disease with a 99.998% survival rate is ludicrous.’
it is worse than ludicrous, but it is the price for our return to any kind of normalcy...
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