MetsFail

Bart Hubbuch of the New York Post tweets along a link of CSN Chicago’s interview with JJ Putz, essentially confirming what most of us have already known: the Mets front office and/or medical staff sucks.

I knew that I wasn’t right. I wasn’t healthy. The toughest part was having to face the media and tell them that you feel fine, even though you know there’s something wrong and they don’t want you telling them that you’re banged up.  -JJ Putz

In a nutshell, the Mets traded for Putz’s bone spur (along with the rest of Putz) and opted to wait to give him a physical.  He knew something wasn’t right, and they told him to shut his pie hole.  He went under the knife and still didn’t feel right afterwards, and only then did the team reveal the extent of the damage.

Take it for what it’s worth (were the docs/surgeons also under a gag order to not tell Putz he “blew out” his elbow?), but at least we have some quotes from a former Mets player who was mired in last year’s injury mess.  Instead of hearing from ‘a source’ that Beltran’s “mad” (grr!) at the team, or reading the implications that an opposing team’s doctors sabotaged a diagnosis, we have a credible first-hand account of the dis-organization’s dealings (see what I did there?).  And Santa doesn’t exist, either!