Jun 26
bye bye
David Lennon and Bart Hubbach are reporting on their twitter pages that John Maine developed pain in his shoulder while playing catch on Thursday. He was then given a cortisone shot and Lennon says that Maine doesn’t expect to return until after the All-Star Break
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22 comments
gipperpdx
6/26/2009-5:24pm at 5:24 pm (UTC -4)
Cursed. We’re cursed, I say!
metfreak
6/26/2009-5:27pm at 5:27 pm (UTC -4)
Shocking
DNDJohan aka kistics
6/26/2009-5:30pm at 5:30 pm (UTC -4)
Why couldn’t it be Ollie?
sabermetrician
6/26/2009-6:54pm at 6:54 pm (UTC -4)
Amen.
steveo
6/26/2009-5:50pm at 5:50 pm (UTC -4)
John Maine is becoming Rich Harden enough with this guy
Kingman 26
6/26/2009-5:57pm at 5:57 pm (UTC -4)
That’s real intelligent.
dirtysanchez
6/26/2009-5:58pm at 5:58 pm (UTC -4)
Thats fine…Nieve is doing a good job in the interm. Take your time Johnny….no need to rush back.
charlies
6/26/2009-6:06pm at 6:06 pm (UTC -4)
The Mets should get a new medical team.
GravediggerHebner
6/26/2009-6:18pm at 6:18 pm (UTC -4)
I can only take solace in the thought that my favorite team’s trade deadline acquisitions are going to include: Carlos Delgado, Jose Reyes, John Maine, Oliver Perez, Carlos Beltran, Angel Pagan, and some others that are slipping my alcohol addled brain.
Kingman 26
6/26/2009-6:19pm at 6:19 pm (UTC -4)
A late-season waiver wire deal should bring us JJ Putz and Billy Wagner!!
Listen to the bourbon!!
GravediggerHebner
6/26/2009-6:21pm at 6:21 pm (UTC -4)
It’s Newcastle Brown Ale but I’m listening intently to it!
http://www.colourlovers.com/uploads/2007/07/newcastle_brown_ale.jpg
stickguy
6/26/2009-6:19pm at 6:19 pm (UTC -4)
Wagner, Putz (sept. call up)
stickguy
6/26/2009-6:21pm at 6:21 pm (UTC -4)
I have always been a big Maine fan, and thought that he was close to putting it all together and having a dominant break through season.
Now, I am wondering if his career is effectively over (becoming one of those ugys who misses a ton of time, pitches briefly, gets hurt, etc.)
Of course, after about 3 years, he will sign a MiL deal with the Yankess, get healthy, and pitch a perfect game!
GravediggerHebner
6/26/2009-6:22pm at 6:22 pm (UTC -4)
That last paragraph sort of sums it up.
Kingman 26
6/26/2009-6:33pm at 6:33 pm (UTC -4)
I have been a big Maine fan too, and this is indeed really frustrating, but I think it is too early to throw in the towel…after all, any of us who throw in a towel will surely tear a rotator cuff doing it….
sabermetrician
6/26/2009-6:53pm at 6:53 pm (UTC -4)
I love Maine. I think he can provide for this team big time, but he really needs to know what’s going on. Is it just a pinch nerve? Is it something serious the Mets’ crack medical staff is missing? How do our medical people miss so many things for so long?
Kingman 26
6/26/2009-6:56pm at 6:56 pm (UTC -4)
I have no idea…it makes no sense, and I hope the training and medical staff are the first changes after the season.
Again, in spring 2008, with no WBC, we had injured and unprepared players all over the place, and we have seen player after player continue playing hurt and have “setbacks” again and again this year.
There has to be a better way of handling this.
sabermetrician
6/26/2009-7:00pm at 7:00 pm (UTC -4)
You’re completely right Kingman. I just look at the way the medical staff has handled the Wagner and Reyes injuries and I completely shudder. Not to mention that they didn’t send Delgado off for surgery the first flare up, they wait until it gets more severe and puts the rest of his season in jeopardy.
charlies
6/26/2009-6:36pm at 6:36 pm (UTC -4)
And, here I go being a sunshiner! And still, we are just .5 game out!
sabermetrician
6/26/2009-6:51pm at 6:51 pm (UTC -4)
Here’s the thing. We knew he’d be out a while. There were a few people who drank the Kool-Aid and thought he’d be back after two starts, but most of us were realistic and knew it would be a while. We’ve treaded water without him and we can continue to do so if Nieve stays as solid as he’s been (unfortunately as much as I like Nieve, that’s a big if).
stickguy
6/26/2009-7:37pm at 7:37 pm (UTC -4)
With Maine, I wonder how much of it is a problem vs. being in his head? That is, it is quite common after a surgery to have some level of soreness, scar tissue, etc, which you are going to feel.
So is this really “pain”, as in dang it hurts ans something must be very wrong, or “ooh, I feel something, and I am going to become a basket case about it”?
I’m not big on playing through pain, since it usually makes the problem worse, but if he is really just working through normal post-op stuff, he might just have to get mentally comfortable enough to just let it rip, and trust that his arm isn’t going to fall off.
dentulous
6/26/2009-11:32pm at 11:32 pm (UTC -4)
Well, it should be a busy off season for Minaya.
Cant this team catch a break?