It's all how you spin it

[Berry, Mark S]

That's funny. Did you see the initial reports after Carson Palmer's knee
surgery? The surgeon threw around a lot of words like "catastrophic,"
"devastating," "career-ending," and everything short of "amputation." I
damn near had a heart attack. Then the team spin meisters went to work
so that everyone in Southern Ohio and Northern Kentucky didn't organize
a mass jump off the bridge into the Ohio River. I've decided to immerse
myself completely in the team kool-aid and pretend the surgeon's remarks
never happened. 

Mark

-----Original Message-----
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Another "successful" surgery.  How often do you see
"Surgery Botched" headlines"  -- "The doctor was hung
over and was unable to complete the procedure...."

josh

----- Original Message ----- 
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Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 7:54 AM
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On May 31, 2006, at 1:26 AM, Kim Malo wrote:

> My point was that
> they chose instead to open the story in chain yanking alarmist
> fashion, saying the Cs were [insert a hinted at 'merely' or why would
> they use the word claim] claiming that it wouldn't affect his entire
> career, not just next season. Rather than the less exciting or
> controversial truth, as given above. And the media wonders why people
> don't trust it.
>
> Kim
> **********
Post surgery, the Herald:

<http://celtics.bostonherald.com/celtics/view.bg?articleid=141557>

{Surgery on Perk a success
By Mark Murphy
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - Updated: 03:20 AM EST

Kendrick Perkins underwent successful arthroscopic surgery on his left
shoulder yesterday at New England Baptist Hospital.
     The Celtics center had suffered his second dislocation of the year
during a workout last week at the team's practice facility in Waltham.
     Perkins had originally dislocated the shoulder in early February
and missed 14 games over the last two months of the season.
     Yesterday's procedure, which tightened up tissue, was intended to
prevent further dislocations. As Danny Ainge told the Herald last
Friday, the chance that the shoulder would pop out of the socket
increases each time it happens.
     Ainge also said that Perkins is expected to be ready for the start
of training camp in October, and that the surgery is not expected to
have an impact on his career.}

The Globe ran the AP story, verbatim, including the Twiss quote:
"We fully expect him back for the start of the season," although he
may not be ready when training camp begins about a month earlier in
early October, said Jeff Twiss..."
Seems to me, if the Herald is guilty, it's for posting it's story
before the AP version hit the wire and missed Twiss' comments.
The other Herald story, with Ainge's quote, that he would be ready,
was from Saturday, before the operation.
We covered this a bit on the podcast, last night
{http://celtics.mostvaluablenetwork.com/celtics-podcasts/celtics-stuff-
podcast-17/} and raised the question which you (Kim?) alluded to in
your prior post about whether the recent slew of injuries were somehow
traceable to trainer issues.
Anyone out there know the recent history of C's trainers? Wasn't it
just a few years ago that ours were noted as having a very good record
in avoiding injuries?

JB
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