FOR EDMONDS, '99 IS A SEASON TO FORGET.Byline: Joe Haakenson Staff Writer If Jim Edmonds James Patrick "Jim" Edmonds (born June 27, 1970 in Fullerton, California) is a left-handed batter who plays for the St. Louis Cardinals. Edmonds is affectionately known as Jimmy Baseball [1], "Lassie" and as "Hollywood"[2] among Cardinals fans. had his way, the center fielder would be back in the Angels' lineup A criminal investigation technique in which the police arrange a number of individuals in a row before a witness to a crime and ask the witness to identify which, if any, of the individuals committed the crime. tonight when they start a three-game series against the Minnesota Twins The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Twins are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Twins have played in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. at Edison Edison, township (1990 pop. 88,680), Middlesex co., NE N.J., inc. 1870 as Raritan Township, renamed 1954. Edison's varied manufactures include light trucks, chemicals, metal products, electrical and electronic equipment, machinery, and instruments. Field. But the imminent return of Edmonds Edmonds, city (1990 pop. 30,744), Snohomish co., NW Wash., a residential suburb of Seattle, on Puget Sound; inc. 1890. There is boatbuilding and the manufacture of lighting equipment, machinery, and laboratory apparatus. , likely to happen in a few days, is too late to help the Angels make a run at the playoffs even if it is sooner than many expected. He began a rehab assignment at Single-A Lake Elsinore Elsinore: see Helsingør, Denmark. on Monday Monday: see week. , the final step in recovering from the April 22 surgery on his right shoulder. He was expected to be out four months but should be back about three weeks early because he will accept a limited role as the DH. The Angels' medical staff is more concerned about Edmonds reinjuring the shoulder playing defense, where he might run into a wall or dive for a ball. Edmonds, though, needs to be back in a major-league uniform, even if the last two months have lost some meaning following a season-destroying 11-game losing streak. ``I want to play in as many games as I can,'' Edmonds said. ``. . . to prove I can play, to prove my worth to this team. I want to show I'm recovered and can play.'' He was planning to have a memorable year and it's turned into one he'll never forget. Coming back strongly in the season's final two months, he believes, also will show something to those who doubted him, figuring he wouldn't make it back this season. Edmonds hasn't forgotten what some of his teammates said regarding his surgery. There were some players unhappy with Edmonds because they believed he should have had surgery in the offseason instead of waiting until the season began. They questioned his motives for the timing of the surgery, suggesting maybe he didn't want to spend his offseason rehabilitating the shoulder instead of enjoying his free time on the Colorado River Colorado River River, south-central Argentina. Its major headstreams, the Grande and Barrancas rivers, flow southward from the Andes Mountains and meet to form the Colorado near the Chilean border. It flows southeastward across northern Patagonia and the southern Pampas. . ``It was a tremendous lack of knowledge to my situation, it was an unprofessional reaction,'' Edmonds said. ``The guys on the team, what they said . . . they had no idea what I was going through. If I needed surgery in the winter, I wouldn't have hit .420 in spring training.'' Although Edmonds has had shoulder problems in the past, he says the injury that required surgery occurred while lifting weights two days before opening night. ``I wish I was there. I could say, `I'm terrible,' or `I'm having a bad year.' But I feel left out. Everybody has a bad year. Every team, every player . . . just accept it and move ahead.'' Despite all that's happened, Edmonds wants to stay with the Angels. The team is expected to pick up the $4.65 million option it holds for next season. But that wouldn't prevent the Angels from trading Edmonds sometime next year if they felt re-signing him after the 2000 season would be difficult. ``I definitely want to be here,'' Edmonds said. ``I have family here, I have friends here. This is the organization I came up in. I don't want to change. ``But it's a business. They made me realize that in the last year.'' Edmonds, 29, figures he has his best years ahead of him. Just where that will be is the big question. ``I really don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. and I don't care
"Don't Care" is a 1994 (see 1994 in music) single by American death metal band Obituary. to worry about it right now,'' he said. ``Whatever happens, happens. I'll be playing somewhere. From this day on I'll do everything I can to better myself every day.'' CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Jim Edmonds is ready to return and prove his worth to the Angels and his teammates. Special to the Daily News |
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