I’m not speculating as much as I’m simply saying it would be awesome if this were the case. If Kyle Tucker abandoned the Chicago Cubs training staff for a second opinion, which was actually just a black-market bayside Florida clinic that specializes in the cream & the clear, then that would be awesome.
Otherwise I’m trying to find the silver-lining with a touch of grey when it comes to him leaving the Cubs at this point in the season.
I talked through it with Mahoney on the Monday Morning Cubs Show yesterday and the big theme here is I’m Not Trying To Get Mad About This Kinda Shit. We repeated that theme repeatedly.
I merely just want to get to the bottom of why Kyle Tucker was better off getting a 2nd opinion in Florida with less than 10 games left in the regular season.
All the money and power and resources of the Cubs.
All the whatever else the fuck we have.
And yet:
“I want a 2nd opinion”
HOW? WHY?
Admittedly.
It’s the player’s right and he can accept/deny whatever medical care is afforded to him from the team. And there’s the HIPAA considerations mixed with the MLB Players Association collective bargaining and probably a bunch of other stuff that allows Kyle Tucker to spend time with a 3rd party for opinion #2.
HOWEVER:
- We’re late in the season
- He could have gotten 50 opinions in August
- The team clinched playoffs without him
- It makes me uncomfortable about the Cubs medical staff/situation
#1 – It’s pretty late for Kyle Tucker to be leaving the team. That’s fair.
#2 – It’s bad timing but I just want to say pretty much any other point in the season, no problemo. I could care less where you are or what you’re doing on the IL.
(These are getting progressively more important)
#3 – It would be nice for him to be with the team, craving the celebration and the camaraderie and the what-have-you. It would give me an indication he gives what The French call A Fuck about the boys in the clubhouse but now I’m sounding rather French myself by complaining. So I’ll just say it would be nice. I’m not mad. But it would be nice.
#4 – What’s going on with the Cubs personnel and medical staff that Kyle Tucker can abandon ship like this? Don’t we have Northwestern Medicine sponsoring every other Ron Coomer talking point? Isn’t there a Northwestern swipe-card intro/outro’ing every odd-inning strike zone replay? Am I wrong or does a morbidly obese Boog encourage me to get a second opinion from Northwestern on every mound visit?
So you’ll have to excuse me when it comes to our most precious players – we’re offshoring that 2nd opinion to the family doctor outside St. Petersburg?
That’s the basis for me being kinda annoyed about the situation. And obviously it’s all exacerbated by the fact that he should be our best player in the middle of the lineup as we prepare for postseason baseball. And obviously that makes the whole situation more dramatic for everyone involved.
Nevertheless.
I’m searching for answers because I don’t enjoy being pissed off nearly as much as you’d expect. Which is why I’m delighted to credit Mahoney for helping me uncover the most obvious reason for Kyle Tucker to be in Florida on yesterday’s MMCS.
More specifically.
It would just be so perfect if Kyle Tucker was down in Florida doing steroids right now. And if you think about it, it makes perfect sense.
- Contract year
- Been trash lately
- Value dropped at least $100M in the last month
- Playoffs nearing
- Bad calf
- Time to cash in
I’m not walking you through those 1-by-1 because it’s actually just so simple that we don’t need to do that.
What better set of circumstances to get a little PED boost before playoffs?
And what better place than the greater Tampa area for steroid expertise?
If we were talking about lip injections, etc. Then by all means. Oceanside South Florida is your golden ticket.
But from the standpoint of juicing up a body for competitive performance, I think Tampa is the perfect place and my records indicate that’s exactly where Kyle Tucker has been for the last week+.
If you say that’s because the Cubs doctors aren’t good enough. Or experienced or capable of healing a calf injury, then I have doubts.
But if you’re telling me it’s because he wants to do steroids and Tampa has the good shit, then I’m more inclined to follow along and that’s where I want to be mentally with respect to Kyle Tucker’s health.
I want to believe he’s doing steroids and rapidly improving his speed and strength for a deep playoff run that should give all of us great joy and notable distraction from our own realities.
So with that in mind, let me just say again, it would be awesome if that’s what Kyle Tucker was doing in Florida.
Otherwise I’m actually kinda still mad he’s not with the team as we discuss this week on the Monday Morning Cubs Show.
You can check it out here: