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Brett Myers speaks
Brett Myers is expected to have what it likely to be season-ending hip surgery on Thursday.
Here is some of what he said following Friday night's game.
What was your reaction?
"I didn’t expect it yesterday, I didn’t expect it to be as bad as it was. (Dr. Bryan Kelly) just pretty much told me flat out today that he could give me a cortisone shot, but that’s just going to make it worse... any time 'hip replacement' comes out of a doctor’s mouth, that’s not good, as far as the damage leading to that."
What's your confidence level you can be back before the end of the season?
"I haven’t had surgery before so I don’t know what kind of pain I’m going to be in, he told me (the injury) is similar to Chase’s. But he’s more cautious with pitchers because of the constant use of the hip and the leg, and the way we contort our bodies. I told him I wanted to be back in September but he told me it was kind of a long shot."
Would continuing to pitch on it have made it worse?
"What (Dr. Kelly) told me today that there was a chance that if I did a cortisone shot, I could mess the labrum up more, wear the cartilage down more. A cortisone shot might relieve some of the pain and the pressure, but it’s not going to relieve the popping the clicking and locking up of the hip. And then he started to tell me I could hurt my arm, that I wouldn’t be using my lower half, I’d be using all arm... and then I said is there any way away form surgery, he said, 'No.' And he said if you tear it up even more, in five or 10 years there’s a possibility of a hip replacement and I was like, 'Can we go (have the surgery) now?'"
Is all of this harder knowing you're a free agent at the end of the season? I can't imagine you want Wednesday to be the last time you pitch for the Phillies.
That really doesn’t come into factor. The only thing that would is that at the end of the year, the team would know I needed surgery because I’d still be hurt and I’d have nothing to look at. If I get it now, there’s a chance by the end of the season they’ll know if I’m healthy or not.
Here is some of what he said following Friday night's game.
What was your reaction?
"I didn’t expect it yesterday, I didn’t expect it to be as bad as it was. (Dr. Bryan Kelly) just pretty much told me flat out today that he could give me a cortisone shot, but that’s just going to make it worse... any time 'hip replacement' comes out of a doctor’s mouth, that’s not good, as far as the damage leading to that."
What's your confidence level you can be back before the end of the season?
"I haven’t had surgery before so I don’t know what kind of pain I’m going to be in, he told me (the injury) is similar to Chase’s. But he’s more cautious with pitchers because of the constant use of the hip and the leg, and the way we contort our bodies. I told him I wanted to be back in September but he told me it was kind of a long shot."
Would continuing to pitch on it have made it worse?
"What (Dr. Kelly) told me today that there was a chance that if I did a cortisone shot, I could mess the labrum up more, wear the cartilage down more. A cortisone shot might relieve some of the pain and the pressure, but it’s not going to relieve the popping the clicking and locking up of the hip. And then he started to tell me I could hurt my arm, that I wouldn’t be using my lower half, I’d be using all arm... and then I said is there any way away form surgery, he said, 'No.' And he said if you tear it up even more, in five or 10 years there’s a possibility of a hip replacement and I was like, 'Can we go (have the surgery) now?'"
Is all of this harder knowing you're a free agent at the end of the season? I can't imagine you want Wednesday to be the last time you pitch for the Phillies.
That really doesn’t come into factor. The only thing that would is that at the end of the year, the team would know I needed surgery because I’d still be hurt and I’d have nothing to look at. If I get it now, there’s a chance by the end of the season they’ll know if I’m healthy or not.
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