Here it comes, the Mets reverting to the Mutts once again. Talk about a franchise that can't seem to embrace prosperity. Talk about hypocrisy. There is not one person, whether it be Nolan Ryan or any one of these pseudo-tough talkers -- hiding behind a newspaper column or a Twitter pseudonym -- who if faced with the same scenario outlined to Matt Harvey by both his surgeon and his agent, wouldn't do exactly the same thing, which is act in his own long-term self-interest. Period!! Should be end of story.
But no. We're talking about the Mutts here.
from the NY Post:
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To be fair, again, Harvey, in his first year back from 2013 Tommy John surgery, shouldn't be criticized one iota about being concerned over his health, or about not being "all in" or any of that macho nonsense. It speaks poorly of our society in general, and of the baseball industry in particular, that Washington's Stephen Strasburg and his representative Scott Boras (who is of course Harvey's agent, too) and the Nationals still get guff for constructing a plan that kept Strasburg out of the 2012 playoffs yet ultimately succeeded in keeping the right-hander's surgically repaired arm intact.
No, this is all about Harvey wanting it both ways and being a nuisance both ways. He surely increased Advil sales among Mets employees with his incessant whining about everything from not wanting to rehabilitate in Port St. Lucie last year to wanting to pitch in a 2014 game to not liking the team's six-man rotation. And then, here in the stretch drive, he suddenly found religion on health matters after being opposed to them for so long.
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And when Harvey gets tired of being the villain he can become the King of Gotham in Yankee pinstripes just as easily as he can in Mets second-class pinstripes. So be careful what you wish for Mutts fans, you just might get it, good and hard.
To the Mets, Matt Harvey is an expendable part. If he blows out an elbow for good, here comes Jacob deGrom or Noah Syndegaard or Zach Wheeler or Stephen Maatz or any one of a number of seemingly endless pitching prospects until one day you wake up and you've run out of pitching elbows to blow out and you're back in the bottom of the division, where you seem to be more comfortable.
The Mets need a surgeon who can do a brain transplant collectively on the organization and the culture surrounding the team rather than one that can continuously and endlessly perform Tommy John Surgery on young pitching prospects. And I will say if you think that Matt Harvey in any way shape or form needs a heart transplant given the circumstances then that to me is proof positive that, from a baseball standpoint, you might need a brain transplant.
And we hear time and time again, with nauseating repetition, from Mets announcers and pundits how smart and well informed Mets fans are. Read some of the comments from the NY Post article referenced above and make
THAT case for me again. Pure garbage.
And using a Nolan Ryan quote from a pitcher who started his career playing under the shackles of The Reserve Clause is a totally asinine comparison from the Mets Twitter site. Granted they, as an organization, might pine romantically for a return to such a bygone era, but it sure does display their organizational bias, mind-set and ignorance. Maybe they have forgotten how Tom Seaver was run out of town. Or maybe they remember. I'm not sure which is worse.
Good Luck Mets, trash your product, eat your young and grind out them elbows. See how far you get. The height of organizational douche-baggery IMO.
