Pronk Speaks

Q: Is this the most you’ve looked forward to a year, to prove something?

TH: You look forward to every year and you prepare for every year, but it just feels like I haven’t played for so long that I’m excited to get back out there and start playing again.

Q: Do you have to fight doubt?

TH: Not really. I feel my shoulder is healthy now and it’s not going to be an issue.

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Nice little piece of audio on the PD website ...

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please please please

by APV on Jan 15, 2009 2:26 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

This

by Roger Dorn on Jan 15, 2009 3:42 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Macasson, do you pine for Travis Fryman often?

by stickpiano on Jan 15, 2009 2:31 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

The Fronk
Travis Frelano [Hafner]
Train Freight
Take Fright
The Fonz

by Brick. on Jan 15, 2009 2:49 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

and only now do i see that i got the initials incorrect … wowsa

by macasson on Jan 15, 2009 2:55 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

At least you know what a vowel is…

by Logodaedalus on Jan 15, 2009 5:16 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Good point. What kind of idiot doesn’t know that?

The best thing probably is to hit [Grady] 2nd -- Jay

by Buckeye Brad on Jan 15, 2009 8:48 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I mean, skrkkksl(sometimes-k)

by Logodaedalus on Jan 16, 2009 1:56 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Is that K, as in knife?

by SuddenSam on Jan 16, 2009 1:56 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

come on, Brick. the correct answer was “Turd Ferguson”. This is little league stuff…

by APV on Jan 15, 2009 3:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

sure seems that way, huh?

i pine for the days of grand slams … the days of pronk being the best hitter in AL … and think that, second only to the uncertainty in the starting rotation, hafner’s recovery is an important variable in the tribe’s ability to compete this year. not the be-all-end-all, mind you, but …

by macasson on Jan 15, 2009 2:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

also, i feel i should call attention to this comment on the PD website…

“Hope you are back you big muscular man you. I felt like an idiot for wearing your jersey to the game. I want to feel proud again like years past. Good luck to you fine sir.”

Yes, I too hope the big muscular man is back.

by stickpiano on Jan 15, 2009 2:42 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

“Cover me in gravy you big, dirty man”

by Chief WaDrew on Jan 15, 2009 3:56 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Here’s Castro’s complete write-up of the story

by APV on Jan 15, 2009 4:39 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

“It’s a night and day difference from this summer,” Hafner said. “This summer, I’d do a set of 10 [repetitions in lifting workouts], and it would take three to five minutes to recover. Now I can just hop in between with no rest at all. Just in general, it feels like it’s getting back to normal.”

by macasson on Jan 15, 2009 5:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

hopefully lifting weights is like hitting a baseball. We’ll be fine.

by hans on Jan 16, 2009 2:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I guess I didn’t realize he hasn’t actually swung a bat in several months. Well, at least he’s been drinking, so I don’t feel so uneasy now.

by RD74 on Jan 15, 2009 5:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Giving his left elbow a workout.

by odradek on Jan 15, 2009 7:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Who drinks with their left hand? I’m even mostly left handed and I don’t do that.

by NickFantana on Jan 15, 2009 10:23 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

As a lefty, I must say I’m ambidextrous in my alcoholic ways.

by JRontherim on Jan 15, 2009 10:25 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Let’s Go Tribe: Even Our Posters are Mostly Left-Handed.

Travis Hafner is overrated. Clarity is underrated. David Dellucci is David Dellucci.

by westbrook on Jan 15, 2009 11:17 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

(not me, btw)

Travis Hafner is overrated. Clarity is underrated. David Dellucci is David Dellucci.

by westbrook on Jan 15, 2009 11:17 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I’m lefthanded too. If the bartender puts the glass down on my left side, I use that hand. If the bartender puts the glass down on the right side, I go with the right hand.

by odradek on Jan 16, 2009 1:22 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs