Chris Sale watched every ‘Breaking Bad’ episode while resting foot injury
Injured Chicago White Sox ace Chris Sale had a lot of time on his hands recently after suffering an avulsion fracture of his right foot back on Feb. 27. It was three weeks of non-baseball activities to be exact, which to a baseball player can feel like a three-year prison sentence.
Fortunately for Sale, he made a wise commitment early in his rehab which helped him get to the other side with his sanity mostly intact and a renewed perspective on quality television.
That’s 62 episodes of AMC’s award-winning series “Breaking Bad” 18 days, which averages out to 3.5 episodes per day.
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As someone who was also very late to the Walter White and Jesse Pinkman party, I know the overwhelming feeling of wanting to sacrifice sleep and a connection to the living world just to jump into the next episode. But that’s a mighty impressive, almost unsustainable pace. One must applaud Sale for that level of commitment, and one must also tip their cap to series creator Vince Gilligan for presenting such an addicting episodic thriller. Once it grabs you, there’s simply no getting away.
But it wasn’t strictly TV watching for Sale. As noted by Colleen Kane of the Chicago Tribune, Sale is expanding his list of knock-knock jokes.
For example…
That might be a sign that Sale is losing his mind a bit, so it’s probably a good thing his rehab has progressed to throwing off a mound. On Friday, Sale tossed 60 pitches and came away feeling great, according to general manager Rick Hahn.
“Sale had a good today,” Hahn said. “Sale had a really good day today. He threw a live bullpen session, four sets of 15 and was pretty much full bore in doing that. And he remains on track to not miss significant time.”
“We are working with what we’re expecting internally in terms of timing of him coming back and so far he’s progressing as we had hoped.”
The injury will prevent Sale from making his third consecutive opening day start, but the hope is he’ll be ready to jump in during the White Sox second turn through the rotation.
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In the meantime, maybe he can get started on the Breaking Bad spin-off series “Better Call Saul.” It, too, has all the making of a gripping television classic.
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