New Season, New Decade, Clean Slate and here we go again…

Here the Mets organization goes and ruins a perfectly good blog. Everything was ready for a good beginning. You picked up Jason Bay; word is you are close to picking up Benjy Molina and now you go and make complete asses of yourself by releasing statements to the press about a player that has showed you guts baseball, heart and soul and spectacular offense and defense!

Carlos Beltran has played with a broken face, injured knees, etc. He sought with the Mets consent, what was a second opinion on his knee last November. Dr. Steadman agreed with the first opinion that the surgery was necessary, because the pain came back after doing all the maintenance that was required from the doctor’s care. The surgery was deemed obligatory to restoring his health. To restoring to what would be his star athlete capabilities. The Mets organization wanted a third(?) opinion. They had the opinion of two of the top knee orthopedic surgeons in country, who both agreed that surgery was the best recourse. From the sound of it, they are now angry that he went ahead and had the surgery. So that he could recover earlier rather than wait for a third opinion which meant that more than likely it would lead to surgery in February and Beltran returning to the game at the earliest in August.

After the complete disastrous meltdown of physical injuries last year and the medical miscalls regarding Reyes, you think they would have welcomed a direct approach to recovery. There is no up side to this wait and see approach. A third opinion? REALLY??? WTF??? Your knee is what holds you up when walking, running, hitting, what about it needing to be repaired didn’t they understand?

This continuous buffoonery of the way the Mets organization handles situations with their players and the media is the example of an immature, tight fisted, ignorant set of owners who have money, are fans and have no clue of the what it takes to have a winning ball club.

It is just inexcusable that we are close to spring training and instead of discussing the pitchers and catchers we are stuck in a quagmire of irresponsibility.

I am amazed at how instead of writing about Jason Bay, David Wright, and the excitement of a new season, we are looping around another badly handled Mets drama. This should have been handled quietly, in-house, there was no reason to bring this type of stupidity to the forefront. Once again the Mets organization dropped the ball. Carlos Beltran has had the surgery, It is done. It can’t be undone. They should be focusing on who will handle centerfield until his return this 2010 season, instead of whining about the fact that Beltran went and had the surgery, from a surgeon they had approved of in November. Who BTW did surgery on Tiger Woods and had him walking and swinging on the golf course in no time.

This is the epitome of stupidity in running a ball club. Will Mark Cuban please come and buy the NY Mets before they shoot themselves in the foot yet again? And need a second and third opinion to close the hole.

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Hawk

2010 Mets

Just wanted to wish all the great Met Fans a Happy New Year! Hopefully 2010 will bring all of us health, wealth and a solid season!

The Crime!!!!!!

The facts revealed these past weeks have made every synapse in my brain fire with questions.
The Mitchell report sites over 89 baseball players who have used steroids in one form or another to cheat at the game. Call it performance enhancing drugs, HDH, pixie dust, it’s all the same; an illegal substance purchased illegally for personal use. A drug whose side effects include but are not limited to anxious rage, violent outbursts and physical enhancements of muscles.
Let us address the fact that Roger Clemens on any type of steroids would be a danger to those he pitched to. Clemens steroid use would explain the behavior that he demonstrated while he was on the mound. He appeared like a caged animal ready to attack its prey. According to the Mitchell report Clemens was using steroids during the 2000 season.
As a fan of the game, I find it appalling that the pinpoint control and astounding velocity that Clemens encompasses, is being disregarded when it comes to the criminal aspects of steroid use. For example a boxer, a heavyweight champion, if he should strike his opponent outside of the ring he will be charged with assault, if he kills him the boxer will be charged with manslaughter. It is the professional boxer’s skills that classify him as a lethal weapon.
A pitcher irresponsible enough to take steroids (which carry the side effects of violent outbursts and roid rage) who then launches a rocket of a pitch at someone’s head, should be held accountable for his actions. Clemens knew exactly what he was doing when he took steroids. He knew what the side effects would be, and he was well aware of his own capabilities. All of these factors should be considered when implementing a criminal investigation. A pitcher with the capability of Roger Clemens knows that his pitches can cause brain trauma or be fatal.
Taking all of what I just said into consideration, let us remember the 2000 World Series. Roger Clemens picks up a large portion of a splintered bat and then hurls the bat in the direction of the runner Mike Piazza. When confronted by Piazza and the press, Clemens’ response was “I THOUGHT IT WAS THE BALL”. The ball ? This imbecile said he thought the large long wooden remains of a major league bat were a ball ? Can anyone tell me when has a bat or even a portion of one has ever appeared to be a much smaller white colored ball?
Not only does using steroids make you crazy but apparently it can make you stupid as well. Or is that just Clemens being Clemens.
Post Script; Something to consider: During the 2000 World Series between the Mets and the Yankees, nine of the Yankee players were found to be using Steroids at the time. There were five games played, four of the Yankee starting pitchers were found to be on steroids, the Yankee closer Mike Stanton also found to be on steroids, the Yankees went on to win that World Series. Now that we know the role steroids played during the 2000 season and World Series do we invalidate that year?
The Chicago Black Sox scandal in the early twentieth century invalidated the series and prosecuted the players who had cheated. Will the Yankees gloss over the steroid era and write press release after press release to cover the fact that illegal drugs were used and contributed directly to the outcome of the series? Will Baseball and Congress turn a blind eye to all the crimes that have occurred?
Time will tell.