Omar contemplates how to fuck up Johan's career
It has been stated, and overstated and stated over that the Mets have had a lot of injuries. That the Mets have been embarrassing. That the Mets are mismanaged. I have resigned myself to the fact that this is the case but yesterday was just unbelievable. Johan Santana is having season ending surgery. Throw him on top of the DL pile with Delgado, Reyes, Beltran, Putz, Maine, Cora, and Wright. The fact that he is hurt is not so shocking it is that he has been in pain since THE ALL-STAR BREAK AND HE HAS CONTINUED TO PITCH. Yes, that needed all caps. Are we fucking serious? I know Johan is a warrior. I do. But it is the Met organization’s job to protect his best interests and their’s. How has he been allowed to pitch for 6 weeks? It is not like they didn’t know. He hasn’t thrown a side session in a month.
He has bone chips in his arm and is going to be scoped. He will be back for Spring Training. The fact that it is only this is good news but let me give you this quote from Dan Warthen, the Mets Pitching Coach:
The thing with chips is they may not bother you for two weeks or three weeks, but sometimes they float and they get into a dangerous area. I think that probably happened more than anything. At times it didn’t hurt him. It really didn’t bother him. He was able to pitch a couple of different times and then the last few you could see the velocity going down and you start to really concern yourself. Johan never, ever says anything about his own physical pain. And he actually finally came clean and said, ‘This thing is kind of bugging me
OK, so Johan didn’t really bitch. But you noticed. Why didn’t you stop him? Don’t say it’s just bone chips either. Here is more from Warthen:
The stuff was still decent,” Warthen said. “I thought he had lost a lot of location and was really working hard to make pitches. . . . The only thing that we would ever worry about is him changing a delivery. We felt we started to see him start to ‘cheat underneath’ the baseball a little bit more. He wouldn’t say it, but you watch the video, you can see. He will on occasion get under a baseball anyway and really try to turn over a changeup. But you saw that a little more on his fastball.”
So he was working too hard to make pitches. I understand Bone chips are a minor thing that cause discomfort but what if he started over compensating and changing things? What if that led to a bigger injury? This is the shit we criticize the Mets for. This is what they don’t get. If this was a close Pennant Race, I would still have issues with his decision to keep going. But the season has been over since the end of June. Why are you risking the loss of your Franchise pitcher for an extended period of time? Why? Exactly. There is no reason but incompetence and mismanagement. Good thing Omar is coming back.
In other Met news, Gary Sheffield left last night’s game with back spasms, J.J Putz tore a forearm tendon rehabbing and is done for the year, Ollie Perez was flown to New York to get his knee examined (it should be his fucking head) and Billy Wagner was sent to Boston for a 26 year old minor league slugger who can’t field. Great day. Great fucking day. Oh, and they lost.
h/t NY Daily News for the quotes
The Mets are pussies. The Angels play in the far superior league, had a shit ton of injuries and are still in first.
FACE
and you know this is karma for talking shit about cliff lee the past few days, right roman?
Cliff Lee Sucks Little Boys Testies
Thank goodness Cashman passed on this fag.
The Mets have had a lot of injuries and have been embarrassing and are mismanaged. I just wanted to re-state that.
/Uncle Roy’d?
At least you don’t have to watch Brad Lidge melt down on a nightly basis.
You need to be leading in a ball game to have your closer meltdown Rev.
/no sympathy
i bet cliff lee can actually spell “testes” correctly, though.
Not according to the book, “Cliff Lee: all-star pitcher but poor speller of slang terms for men’s reproductory body parts”.
I’m paraphrasing here, but as I recall, the author claimed that Cliff Lee spells it with 3 t’s.
Does the author know that reproductory isn’t a word?
As a man who can’t help but get people pregnant, let me assure you that not only is it a word but you are now pregnant.
I thought that’s what you said.
I hope Cliff Lee’s T-Cell count is as low as his ERA
now that he is out of cleveland, probably not.
I was going to say I feel sorry for you, but you have crossed the line.
/pulls white glove off of hand, promptly slaps you in the face. It’s go time.
Go Time for what? You have Cliff Lee. I have Nelson Figeroua. You have Ryan Howard. I have Daniel Murphy. I am bringing a knife to a gun fight.
/I hope Brad Lidge faces Albert Pujols in the Postseason again. I pray for this.
I cried for 20 minutes after last night’s game. Please feel sorry for me.
Your dictionary’s no good. You need a medical dictionary. When a patient gets difficult, you reproductory them. /hernia’d
Oh also, I can fix my original typo and make your comeback seem silly. Don’t test me.
That would be gayer than Cleveland AIDS.