HR derby a bad idea for Pujols and Edmonds?

Remember the last time you swung as hard as you can at X amount of
pitches and how your rib cage was sore the next day? Or maybe you went
to the driving range and smacked about 80 balls as hard as you could.
Anyway, it takes a lot more out of you than you might think.

I don't think the derby turned out to be such a good thing physically
for those two. I know Edmonds screwed his shoulder up pretty good (not
surgery bad but extreme soreness bad) and Pujols has been nursing that
arm for quite awhile anyway.

"T_Man" <tman63841.TakeThisOut@webtv.net> wrote in message
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> Remember the last time you swung as hard as you can at X amount of
> pitches and how your rib cage was sore the next day? Or maybe you went
> to the driving range and smacked about 80 balls as hard as you could.
> Anyway, it takes a lot more out of you than you might think.
>
> I don't think the derby turned out to be such a good thing physically
> for those two. I know Edmonds screwed his shoulder up pretty good (not
> surgery bad but extreme soreness bad) and Pujols has been nursing that
> arm for quite awhile anyway.
>

Yeah but its different for us and for pro athletes. I get sore doing 20
pushups.

-Mike V