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I’d go out on that limb and say many of us have played real hard from about 16-30 ish, till kids come.

I mean running hard. Nightly. Thank goodness to Dr Pepper, my go to.

George Zipp wrote: ↑21 Jun 2025 07:43 am

Ozziesfan41 wrote: ↑20 Jun 2025 18:35 pm

RamFan08NY wrote: ↑20 Jun 2025 18:25 pm

OldRed wrote: ↑20 Jun 2025 17:55 pm Did you ever go wo work with a hangover, a bruised hand, a bruised rib or a bruised pulled muscle? Seriously, how many of these baseball players could even play in the NHL? Or be a labor, or an iron worker on a major construction when on a job the temperature is approaching 100?

Have you ever been sick Red? Did you go to work every time?
Do you want the cook at your restaurant preparing your food if he/she has the flu? Do you want a surgeon working on you or your family with a broken finger?

And how many of those heroic construction workers do you know of that could pitch a baseball 100 mph? Or hit a 87 mph curve?

You're trying to compare apples to typewriters.

And comparing NHL players who play 82 games in temperature controlled arenas to 162 games in every thing from freezing cold to heatwaves to rain

You've made two posts on this topic so far that I"ve read. In the first you mentioned "if all baseball players had to do was skate around the ice on a bad leg......."

In both posts you've failed to mention that with this impression of ice capades you think hockey players exhibit that there are guys that are built like brick shithouses skating at 15-20 miles an hour trying to murder you. Have you ever been slammed into a solid piece of boarding or glass with very little give? Ever been whacked non stop with a stick on an injured hand, leg, etc? I mean you legit think hockey is nothing more than skating and baseball guys are tough because they play in the heat.

Ridiculous take. The OP premise is silly but if you think baseball players, or any athletes for that matter, are tougher than hockey players, you clearly don't know the meaning of the word tough.

There are no tougher athletes than hockey players. If someone doesn’t believe that, they should go read about the injuries guys in this year’s Stanley Cup Final played with for months.

An Old Friend wrote: ↑21 Jun 2025 08:27 am

acousticglue wrote: ↑20 Jun 2025 18:32 pm Soccer players stand around half the time. Run they butts off as well at times.

They run like 6-8 miles per game.

I can walk over 6 miles in 90 mins….

Carp4Cy wrote: ↑21 Jun 2025 09:49 am

An Old Friend wrote: ↑21 Jun 2025 08:27 am

acousticglue wrote: ↑20 Jun 2025 18:32 pm Soccer players stand around half the time. Run they butts off as well at times.

They run like 6-8 miles per game.

I can walk over 6 miles in 90 mins….

Dang. Why aren't you playing in the EPL?

I would venture to say that going to work with a known malady, whether self-inflicted or not, is irresponsible behavior.

OldRed wrote: ↑20 Jun 2025 17:55 pm Did you ever go wo work with a hangover, a bruised hand, a bruised rib or a bruised pulled muscle? Seriously, how many of these baseball players could even play in the NHL? Or be a labor, or an iron worker on a major construction when on a job the temperature is approaching 100?

Even better, we used to burn one on the way in to work just to GET our heads right.

sikeston bulldog2 wrote: ↑21 Jun 2025 10:52 am

OldRed wrote: ↑20 Jun 2025 17:55 pm Did you ever go wo work with a hangover, a bruised hand, a bruised rib or a bruised pulled muscle? Seriously, how many of these baseball players could even play in the NHL? Or be a labor, or an iron worker on a major construction when on a job the temperature is approaching 100?

Even better, we used to burn one on the way in to work just to GET our heads right.

Illegal drugs?

sikeston bulldog2 wrote: ↑21 Jun 2025 08:51 am I’d go out on that limb and say many of us have played real hard from about 16-30 ish, till kids come.

I mean running hard. Nightly. Thank goodness to Dr Pepper, my go to.

Yeah, 18 into my early 30’s was kind of an ish show. I also used to crush Dr Pepper, gave up soda about 7-8 years ago… just black coffee to get my caffeine these days. I drink too much of it.

My grandmother told me many years ago that if you drink it black, you can have as much as you want

An Old Friend wrote: ↑21 Jun 2025 11:00 am

sikeston bulldog2 wrote: ↑21 Jun 2025 08:51 am I’d go out on that limb and say many of us have played real hard from about 16-30 ish, till kids come.

I mean running hard. Nightly. Thank goodness to Dr Pepper, my go to.

Yeah, 18 into my early 30’s was kind of an ish show. I also used to crush Dr Pepper, gave up soda about 7-8 years ago… just black coffee to get my caffeine these days. I drink too much of it.

My grandmother told me many years ago that if you drink it black, you can have as much as you want

Exactly. And those that say else wise either missed it; or are lying about it.

I have played ice hockey for over 40 years and baseball, then softball, for over 30 years and there's no comparison. Hockey is 3X+ as brutal.

jcgmoi wrote: ↑20 Jun 2025 17:58 pm What's your point?

jcgmoi wrote: ↑20 Jun 2025 17:58 pm What's your point?

Well, obviously his point is, do you ever go wto work with a ? Or be a labor?

Seriously, though, any day now I expect Dodgers Faberge Egg Tyler Glasnow to call off the mound due to a menstrual pad blowout.

Every pro jock knows how precarious his job is, with a hungry backup just waiting to Wally Pipp him (ask your grandparents). Chances are that's how he got his job, when the incumbent slumped or got injured.

I look at people who do Mike Rowe's "Dirty Jobs" every day, and no way could I do that (nor want to).

In between the jobs I did want, and got, I invested blood, sweat, and tears like many here in nasty jobs:
--- dockhand for trucking companies in freezing weather, called at 11pm to be there at 12 with no sleep
--- almost 7 years, and handsful of Advil, on the bruising production floor of a major St. Louis candy factory
--- 16 years moonlighting waiting tables, including hoisting heavy trays of huge pasta bowls at age 60 at Buca di Beppo
--- 15 months in the sweltering, backbreaking food warehouse and freezer at Stouffer's Riverfront Towers, until promoted to cushy Food Buyer...then a new owner eliminated the post
--- My resume for many years looked like Dr. Richard Kimble's from TV's "The Fugitive"...with 12 employers going out of business
--- Because of all the above, and underfunded radio employers, I moved 31 times in six states, including 11 times in 3 years, with 6 of those 11 moves of 150-600 miles; and two of those 31 moves of more than 2,000 miles. The last one, by professional cross-country movers, cost $28,000. For all the others, I should have a Lifetime Achievement Award from U-Haul.

Hey...a lot of us just did what we HAD to do for the chance to do what we WANT to do, right? That's why, in blissful retirement --- every day in retirement is Saturday --- , I'm catching up on all the sleep and afternoon naps I was denied for 55 years...and see a great chiropractor weekly.

Knowing what I know now, would I have done it all again? Hell, NO! I would have stayed at the County Government Center in Clayton for 50 years; would have never left my nice Florissant apartment, and spared my back, feet, and joints......kicking myself all that time for never daring to dream.