Joe Straus' story about Albert Pujols recent out-patient surgery set the record straight once and for all: A. Pujols is not human. Just reading the following makes me cringe, and forces me to grab my elbow as if I just knocked my funny bone.
The procedure transferred the ulnar nerve from a groove running along the inside of Pujols' elbow to in front of the joint's bony prominence. Paletta called the nerve "clearly irritated and inflamed." Before surgery, the nerve popped from its groove whenever Pujols tried to straighten the elbow, according to Paletta. The condition caused tingling and numbness in Pujols' right pinky and ring finger.
That's just the ulnar nerve aspect of his sickly elbow. All told, Pujols' elbow ligament has been deemed a high grade tear, and in worse condition than that of Chris Carpenter following his 2007 injury which required Tommy John surgery. Even with the sickly elbow ligament and inflamed ulnar nerve, Pujols hit .357 with 37 homers, 116 RBI and a 1.115 OPS - tops in all of baseball.
You think Randy Savage could do this if he had an inflamed ulnar nerve? What about Dusty Rhodes, could he do this? Don't think so, people. Hell, Johnny 5 couldn't move his robo-elbow when he began leaking fluid.
As fans of Pujols and the Cardinals, we're taken back to a time when we had to play hurt -- almost as hurt as Pujols has been for several years. During the 2006 postseason, the Cardinals fan was not doing too well.
Somehow, we managed to see it through and win a championship. We just didn't dominate as much as Pujols.
Joe Straus' story about Albert Pujols recent out-patient surgery set the record straight once and for all: A. Pujols is not human. Just reading the following makes me cringe, and forces me to grab my elbow as if I just knocked my funny bone. 
