What Is Paul Saying?

There's now much more on Kerry Wood's injury, including the possibility that his career may be over.

But Paul Sullivan poses some interesting questions:

Wood has suffered a partial tear of his right rotator cuff, the Cubs announced Saturday, and he likely has thrown his last pitch of the season.
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Wood had an MRI of his sore shoulder two weeks ago in Cincinnati, but after consulting with Timothy Kremchek, who performed the labrum surgery, the Cubs announced Wood had a "slight muscular imbalance" in the shoulder that was causing the soreness. Wood thought the pain was something far more serious.

"I know I'm not crazy now," he said.

(Cubs trainer Mark) O'Neal said the reason the rotator-cuff problem was not detected in Cincinnati was that no arthrogram was taken of the area. The test includes an injection of dye to pinpoint inflamed areas.

"It's much more detailed and gives a lot more information, and that's what showed it," O'Neal said.

Could Wood already have had the rotator problem when Kremchek performed the surgery on his labrum last August?

"We've been on the phone with this countless [times] over the last 18 hours, and I think there's no answer to that," O'Neal said. "I don't think there's any way we could decide that right now, and I don't think we ever will."

So was a torn labrum all that Wood needed to correct last summer?

"That's not for me [to say]," O'Neal said. "My point is that's a question that can't be answered. It's all throwing. This is what pitchers get. There's not a pitcher out there who doesn't have some under-surface irritation to the rotator cuff. This has developed to the point where there's a significant strain in the cuff."

I wonder how a board of directors of a company under severe financial strain will respond to blowing $15 million in salary on one guy with a questionable medical history where every medical test was not performed?

Does Andy MacPhail ever get to be questioned face to face by Denis FitzSimons?

Does Andy MacPhail ever get to be questioned face to face by Jeffrey Chandler?

God, I'd love to know.