A Simple Request

by Sam Page on Aug 16, 2009 6:00 AM EDT

Don't allow Carlos Beltran or David Wright to play any more baseball this year. Will Carroll wrote that Beltran could miss all of 2010 recovering from microfracture surgery. What many people didn't realize is that Carroll meant he would miss 2010 IF he played on his bad knee this season, while it still hasn't completely healed. Some people replied to that particular "Under The Knife" article by pointing out Brian Giles' successful recovery after the 2007 season and subsequent career-year in 2008. I tended to agree with that challenge, but that's totally beside the point, because there is literally 0 reason to even risk it. The Mets playoff odds (first time I've checked in a few months) are .189%, if anyone is interested. The knee specialist and Brian Giles himself have both advised Beltran to rest. With every report he is working out on it I get angrier with the total mismanagement of this team.

Mets fans know what a rushed concussion looks like, too. Seriously, let's see a Ike Davis/Daniel Murphy/Nick Evans corner infield rotation. It gives the Mets a look at the future and prevents another embarrassing mismanaged injury.

P.S. Livan Hernandez is still in our starting rotation. You might want to look into that.

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Agreed

on everything here. The injury situation has given the organisation a legitimate excuse to have a good look at some of these guys for the rest of the year.

by deadspy3 on Aug 16, 2009 6:15 AM EDT reply actions

Fuck the season

"We're investigating the investigative procedure of the investigation of Tony Bernazard"---Omar Minaya (he really didn't say it but he would"

by firejerrynow on Aug 16, 2009 7:35 AM EDT reply actions

Not Ike Davis

He’s not ready to be in the Majors and bringing him up would unnecessarily start his service time. I’m all for the rest the of it.

by Reg Dunlop on Aug 16, 2009 10:04 AM EDT reply actions

Was just going to say that, too

He doesn’t need to go on the 40 man yet. It would be fun, though!

by TheBigStapler on Aug 16, 2009 10:40 AM EDT up reply actions

I don't think your simple request is going too far.

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090815&content_id=6447702&vkey=news_nym&fext=.jsp&c_id=nym

by fxcarden on Aug 16, 2009 10:23 AM EDT reply actions

I agree one hundred percent

"I reject your reality and substitute my own"
-Adam Savage

by blueandorange4life on Aug 16, 2009 11:00 AM EDT reply actions

These are not things that should be messed around with

We’re talking serious injuries that have the potential to ruin years or careers (yes, I’m being dramatic this morning). It’s so GD obvious how Wright and Beltran should be handled, yet I’m terrified of the way they actually will be. I know wright will want to play tomorrow, but you’ve gotta strap him to his bed or something. Just be ready March 1st, and we’ll all be happy.

by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on Aug 16, 2009 11:38 AM EDT reply actions

The sad part..

is that even if this team was 100% healthy, they still probably wouldn’t have made the playoffs.

I have no clue what a GM (I mean a real GM, not Omar) would do this off-season to make this a playoff team in 2010. There is pretty much not one position or player that can be counted on for next year at this point.

How many more years do we have KRod and Ollie for? Omar is so horrible that the Castillo contract isn’t even in his top 10 worst moves anymore.

Anyway, yeah, it’s time for “operation shutdown” on this season. Buffalo can’t beat anyone in AAA, may as well try their luck in the NL East.

by Mex_17 on Aug 16, 2009 12:22 PM EDT reply actions

Well, either they get a 1B or corner OF with HR power and a good #2 like Lackey.

or break up the team and start over.

I agree that as presently built, this team does not compete with the Phillies and maybe even the Marlins and Braves, so the question is, do you ADD to what you have now, or start over.

BTW, this is what you get when you sign old guys to complement your core.

by fxcarden on Aug 16, 2009 12:35 PM EDT up reply actions

No, I disagree. We would have made the playoffs.

Just because the NL East sucked this year. If we were healthy, we would be in.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Aug 16, 2009 1:00 PM EDT up reply actions

We were two behind Philly when Beltran went down

Having been without Jose and Delgado. If the team had been whole, we had a very nice shot.

by SupT on Aug 16, 2009 1:17 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, and this team is known for sealing the deal.

If we couldn’t beat Philly when we were 7 up in September, I don’t get a warm fuzzy feeling that we would have caught them, passed them, and then outplayed them in September after trailing them this year.

I’d believe that when I saw it.

My fear is that Omar is going use the injury excuse, as if he had assembled a lock for the World Series, but only crazy bad luck derailed it.

by Mex_17 on Aug 16, 2009 1:27 PM EDT up reply actions

If you really think the Mets are "inherently" unable to finish

then…wow…just wow.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Aug 16, 2009 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions

Two years in a row though

That obviously mean we’ll never win in September. For the rest of this franchises existence, if we don’t clinch by August, or preferably July, we ain’t in the playoffs. The last two years proved it.

"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."

by Evan_S on Aug 16, 2009 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions

by BlackOps on Aug 16, 2009 4:17 PM EDT reply actions

Why are the requests here

always simple ones? There’s nothing wrong with a complex request. And the fact is, if you’re asking the Mets to do something logical, that probably is a complex request.

"I was so frustrated [Saturday], I [could have said] anything," ~Oliver Perez

by Lance Johnson on Aug 16, 2009 5:27 PM EDT reply actions