Cluttered Mind

I'm sitting here trying to unscramble the mess inside my mind, while awaiting the news announcement that Tom Brady's leg will need to be amputated above the knee as a result of ACL/MCL surgery.

Before the mess is unscrambled, let's talk about Brady's knee for a second. Doesn't it seem like everyday a new story comes out saying that, 'Brady had another procedure done to resolve the infection in his surgically-repaired knee'?

Last week the announcement was made that Brady had one procedure to clear up the infection in the knee. Today, it's being reported that has had two more procedures to clear up the infection in the knee.

I didn't know they are allowing first-year orthopedic surgeons operate on the NFL League MVP. Someone should tell them that this isn't the game of Operation and that they are performing surgery on a real person. It seems like they think they're still working on Cadavers.

The scariest part of it is that the surgeons-in-training might get another shot at opening up Brady's knee as the story in Thursday's Boston Herald says,

"the fear is the patellar tendon graft used to replace Brady’s anterior cruciate ligament is in danger of becoming compromised. Should that occur, the entire ACL reconstruction would have to be removed and redone from scratch. That would push back his rehab and recovery period, which in turn, could delay his return to the field."

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. They should be pretty familiar with the in's and out's of Brady's knee, considering they've been in there three times already.

From the publishers that give us the big blowhard, Dan Shaughnessy, the big story for the Boston Globe in today's online editions is local lawyers appearing in a calendar for charity (the editors of the Boston Herald are killing themselves for not having this first as this kind of crap is right up their alley).

They killed trees to produce this piece of shit calendar? There's only one month worth pointing out (Wendy Savage-Ms. March). The lawyers have nailed down exactly what I'm looking for in a pin-up calendar - a picture of a Mom and her two small daughters. Number of purchases of this calendar 12 (one for each of the people who appeared). I hope the Greater Boston Legal Services charity that is benefitting from the proceedes of the sale of this calendar isn't expecting a huge windfall from it.

If a group or an organization is going to put out a calendar why can't it be the Women of the Boston Media? How many calendars would be sold if the model lineup consisted of Maria Stephanos, Kim Carrigan, Sara Underwood (whom husband Michael Felger simply refers to as 'The Wood'), Heidi Watney, Kathryn Tappen, Bianca De La Garza, Heather Unruh, Anne Allred, Sorboni Bannerjee, Julie Donaldson, Mish Michaels and Dylan Dreyer.

A calendar with that lineup would sell hundreds of thousands of copies and raise a ton of cash for any charity. This needs to happen and would be worthy of a prominent story on Boston.com.

Finally, if the Boston Red Sox are interested in signing Mark Texeira, here's one way it could happen - move Kevin Youkilis to Leftfield, keep Mike Lowell at third base with Texeira playing first. You'd have to reorganize the outfield a little - Youk in left, J.D. Drew in center and Jason Bay in right and Jacoby Ellsbury serving as your 4th outfielder.

The lineup would be a killer. Drew, Pedoria, Oritz, Texeira, Youkilis, Bay, Lowell, Lowrie, Varitek.