1) 1886? People get shingles in 2012. It's not especially rare. Most people don't get the vaccine, and the vaccine only cuts the chance of infection by half or so.

2) The Giants might not score more than 3 runs in a game for the duration of the illness. Gerald Dempsey Posey and Fat Panda are the entire lineup. This year's Giants' lineup isn't even Regular Bad Giants Hitting.

Shingles isn't some sort of old disease that people in modern day don't catch, submitter. It's the adult form of chicken pox. Same virus. Kids still get that, don't they?

I was wondering if this was some sort of super-obscure factoid about the 1886 Giants. For the record, they had a Hall of Fame catcher (new window) with healthy power (*), and there's no record of him getting shingles. For all I know, back then, shingles just killed you, or the local villagers burned you as a witch.

A good omen for Posey, though:
Buck Ewing, career: .303/.351/.456
Buster Posey, career: .294/.355/.463

(*): The first man ever to achieve the lofty goal of hitting TEN home runs in a single season!

You'll never make it as a catcher in the bigs if you're only a shingles hitter.

shivashakti: Shingles isn't some sort of old disease that people in modern day don't catch, submitter. It's the adult form of chicken pox. Same virus. Kids still get that, don't they?

Mainly just the kids of hippy parents who have anti-science views on vaccination.

Harv72b: You'll never make it as a catcher in the bigs if you're only a shingles hitter.

You should feel bad and sit in the corner.

_{/I chuckled}

chimp_ninja: The Giants might not score more than 3 runs in a game for the duration of the illness

well, they scored 8 last night, so there goes that thought.

jackiepaper: chimp_ninja: The Giants might not score more than 3 runs in a game for the duration of the illness

well, they scored 8 last night, so there goes that thought.

I've seen that 'Shopped box score going around the Internets. If you look at the pixels, it claims Brandon Crawford hit a home run. FAAAKE.

By the way, if you ever hear: "Now playing left field, Ryan Theriot", something has gone very, very wrong with your baseball team.

You're not supposed to scratch it.

chimp_ninja: 1) 1886? People get shingles in 2012. It's not especially rare. Most people don't get the vaccine, and the vaccine only cuts the chance of infection by half or so.

2) The Giants might not score more than 3 runs in a game for the duration of the illness. Gerald Dempsey Posey and Fat Panda are the entire lineup. This year's Giants' lineup isn't even Regular Bad Giants Hitting.

Except for last night, you know the first game he missed?

jackiepaper: chimp_ninja: The Giants might not score more than 3 runs in a game for the duration of the illness

well, they scored 8 last night, so there goes that thought.

Scored 8, and lost.

Go Rockies!


/skipping work and going to today's game

In 1980 Geogre Brett didn't start a world series game because of hemmeriods. That was funny. Shingles are not hurts like a sob.

meanmutton: Mainly just the kids of hippy parents who have anti-science views on vaccination.

Or adults who didn't get the vaccine as a kid because it didn't exist then.

Ichiro Suzuki suffers from the vapors

I think submitter means scurvy, which, by assumption, still makes him/her and idiot.

I had the shingles about 3 or 4 years ago...and I had chicken pox as a kid (no vaccines for it back in the old days of 1969-ish....

I don't know what child birth feels like...but I can tell you this, I think I would rather pass a bowling ball through my urethra than go through shingles again....fark me that was painful!!. Felt like a few thousand needles poking me constantly and continually for three weeks....

Yikes. I can't imagine how painful having to put on catcher gear with shingles would be.

I had them in 8th grade (well before the vaccine came out) and someone patted me on the back...I had to go sit down and cry.

/Unlike chevydeuce, I would rather have them than pass a bowling ball though...ouch.
//OUCH!

chevydeuce: I had the shingles about 3 or 4 years ago...and I had chicken pox as a kid (no vaccines for it back in the old days of 1969-ish....

I don't know what child birth feels like...but I can tell you this, I think I would rather pass a bowling ball through my urethra than go through shingles again....fark me that was painful!!. Felt like a few thousand needles poking me constantly and continually for three weeks....

Sounds like we are about the same age, I had shingles in my early thirties. Was not fun. Still get pain along my rib cage, where the rash was, when I don't feel well or when I am run down.

meanmutton: shivashakti: Shingles isn't some sort of old disease that people in modern day don't catch, submitter. It's the adult form of chicken pox. Same virus. Kids still get that, don't they?

Mainly just the kids of hippy parents who have anti-science views on vaccination.

The last I checked on it though they hadn't ruled out if the chicken pox vaccine works for shingles though...and the chicken pox vaccine seems to lose effectiveness after a few years, so a booster is needed or else you might get the full-blown chicken pox as an adult.

/Get the vaccine for your kids!

Shortest start of Timmy's career. Hurry back, Buster.

chimp_ninja: jackiepaper: chimp_ninja: The Giants might not score more than 3 runs in a game for the duration of the illness

well, they scored 8 last night, so there goes that thought.

I've seen that 'Shopped box score going around the Internets. If you look at the pixels, it claims Brandon Crawford hit a home run. FAAAKE.

By the way, if you ever hear: "Now playing left field, Ryan Theriot", something has gone very, very wrong with your baseball team.

I turned it off after it got to like 14-8, so I must have missed that part. It was a game of agony and then ecstasy and then agony.

/Theriot sucks. as does Pagan.

xtalman

Sounds like we are about the same age, I had shingles in my early thirties. Was not fun. Still get pain along my rib cage, where the rash was, when I don't feel well or when I am run down.

Same here....when I had them, they started in the middle of my back and wrapped around my right side, almost to the center of my stomach, kind of an oversized football shaped deal, and I still get ghost pains in that area....just the tingling sensation of being poked with needles...goes away as quickly as it comes on, but still brings back shiatty memories...and dazrin, I also was slapped on the back and did the same thing, but mine were so painful, I would also just lay down and cry when trying to put on a shirt...just a farking awful condition to have...

chevydeuce: xtalman

Sounds like we are about the same age, I had shingles in my early thirties. Was not fun. Still get pain along my rib cage, where the rash was, when I don't feel well or when I am run down.

Same here....when I had them, they started in the middle of my back and wrapped around my right side, almost to the center of my stomach, kind of an oversized football shaped deal, and I still get ghost pains in that area....just the tingling sensation of being poked with needles...goes away as quickly as it comes on, but still brings back shiatty memories...and dazrin, I also was slapped on the back and did the same thing, but mine were so painful, I would also just lay down and cry when trying to put on a shirt...just a farking awful condition to have...

I think I have forgotten some of the pain, it was over 20 years ago, I remember it was hard to do much of anything.

I had shingles in the 90s that required hospitalization and a month of home health. It was on the right side of my face and it was absolutely horrible. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

/never had scurvy though

One of the stupidest things to come out of the whole awful anti-vaxxer bullshiat is that the "chicken pox party", in which parents gather kids together when one of them has chicken pox so the others will catch it, seems to have made a comeback.

And this is the reason why it's such a bad idea: if you had chicken pox as a kid, you could very well get shingles as an adult. The vaccination doesn't guarantee you won't get shingles later, but you at least have a chance of not getting it you wouldn't otherwise.

OtherBrotherDarryl: I had shingles in the 90s that required hospitalization and a month of home health. It was on the right side of my face and it was absolutely horrible. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

/never had scurvy though

I knew of a guy in grad school who got diagnosed with scurvy. He decided at one point that the best way to free up some money was to eat nothing but the cheapest foods he could find-- oatmeal, rice, etc. He was also a shut-in, so he didn't accidentally eat a variety of food while joining friends for lunch or anything. He finally went to the doctor complaining of fatigue, and it took a few visits before a diagnosis, because American doctors just don't think "scurvy" in an otherwise healthy-looking mid-20's male. (He apparently initially just told the doctors that he ate very healthy, because he thought a super-low-fat nearly-all-grain diet counted.)

Prescribed treatment: Go eat some fruit, dumbass.

/csb

HA HA... subby doesn't know the difference between shingles and scurvy!!!

Had a couple dime size spots on my back a few weeks ago. God DAMN that hurt! Cannot imagine the pain a full blown case would cause. I hope I never get it again.

/And submitter is a dumbass.

I had the shingles a few months ago. Luckily it was only a few spots the size of a quarter. It only began to hurt after I started taking the medicine to get rid of it, but it felt like someone punched me in the ribs.

had shingles when i was around 14.

oddly, don't recall it being too incredibly painfull.

there was a patch on my back left shoulderblade; and it somehow arced through to my front left pec.

reading up on it now; i was rather lucky, no pain, no skin sloughing off.

Got chicken pox at 16 (a few months before the vaccine came out) and it sucked.

Sure hope I don't get shingles.