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Originally Posted by mr3856a
He was good to go, was he not?  What part of him winning suggests to you that he wasn't "good to go"? He won the tournament, so obviously he was good to go. What he did not say (that you have attributed to him) was that he was fine, uninjured, completely healed, no lingering problems, etc. |
The only thing I've attributed to him is that he looked like he was faking out there. That ain't calling him a liar, he said he was ready and would be just fine. Whether he won or not really has nothing to with whether he was fine or not. He wasn't fine, he was far from fine, he was (is) extremely injured. But, until Wednesday all we knew was that he had some arthroscopic knee surgery that he'd taken more than ample time recovering from. Everyone, including me and The Goose, who thought that has retracted it. He obviously was hurting, but to get from he's ready to go, fit for the US Open, don't worry about the knee to "Jeez, for a guy who is supposedly better and took ten weeks off, he certainly seems to be wincing a lot, and only half the time. When things are good, he seems to be fine. He's getting up and down on the greens easily, he's bouncing around like a crazy man on the 72nd, that knee appears fine when he is and bad when he wants it to be bad" is far from a stretch. And the last thing it is is calling him a liar. Like I said above, I've been pretty seriously hurt playing hockey and wince and grimace in situations where I know it hurts in my mind (strong physical contact, pivot) and then realize after it's over that it wasn't that bad, it doesn't really hurt. The anticipation of the pain is sometimes enough to make one wince. And it was only on the bad plays, like receiving a hit. If I was breaking into to try and score I wouldn't be thinking of it, I'd be thinking of beating the goalie. Was I lying about my injuries? No. Was I embellishing them? I can easily see how others might think so if I wince in pain when I get hit and then go off and score a goal with a guy all over my back and then I'm fine. Just like when someone takes a hit in hockey or a slash and then lays there and gets up and plays the next shift, a lot of people will say they were faking/embellishing their pain. Can you blame them? No, not even for a second. Even a guy like Sidney Crosby, who has never done anything to show that he is dishonest or cheap takes it from the fans. Lemieux went through it too, so did Gretz. It's part of it. It doesn't mean the fans who think Crosby dove or that Tiger was embellishing think they are lying, cheating, scum, it's that it appears they are in fact embellishing their injury/pain/whatever. It's not a lack of class by The Goose (or me, or anyone here who said it), no one is a fool for thinking it (unless they didn't change their mind about it after Wednesday which everyone did, and even then, that's just foolish doesn't mean anyone is a fool), and it isn't anything more than stating an opinion. Many people said the same thing about Phil's wrist and many will say the same about the next guys injury and calling people liars, fools, or that they lack class for thinking it or saying it is as wrong as we all were for thinking he was faking it.