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Well, Jose Reyes is out 2-8 weeks with his hyperthyroid problem – which has everyone in this juiced-up era understandably suspicious – and the Mets season appears to be headed toward another broken tumble into the baseball region known as lower mediocrity. Some call it Pittsburgh…but expensive.
All the king’s horses and all the Ike Davis bombs and Jennry Mejia fastballs won’t put the 2010 Mets back together again unless their core studs regain post-injury form. And so far, it’s not looking good. No Carlos Beltran. No Jose Reyes.
The 2010 Mets Suicide Hotline is now open for business, fans. We’ll be updating later with some of the best “end it all” notes we find out there. But for now, here’s hoping for another Chris Carter longball to provide the salve on the open sore that is your New York Metropolitans.
UPDATES:
Man, I can feel the pain in Greg Prince’s blog voice over at Fear and Faith…er….Faith and Fear in Flushing:
Jose Reyes is not running. He’s not swinging. He’s not fielding or throwing. He’s not functioning as a baseball player. We understand today he’s resting. With any luck, he’s healing.
But he’s a Met, so I wouldn’t go that far.
Reyes’s thyroid condition has sidelined him for a truly Metsian diagnosis of two to eight weeks. Nobody is sidelined from two to eight weeks. Nobody is projected as out from doing anything — not just playing — within a range of 14 days to 56 days. What this means, I’m going to guess, is nobody really knows what exactly is wrong with Jose Reyes or, more pertinently, what it will take to get him back to being a fulltime Met.
Right now, he’s a ghost, hovering over this organization. Him and Carlos Beltran, both still on the roster, neither by any means active, each allegedly en route at some point. When 2009 became 2010, we were told this team would be better than the team before it because we’d have, once again, two of our three indispensable men in the lineup every day. “Don’t count on it,” the little Met voice in my head said. “Don’t necessarily count on guys who played 81 games and 36 games the season before.”
Tough stuff, but hey, he’s earned it. He’s a freaking Mets fan. Trapped on plunging airliners, Mets fans merely shrug in resignation. Meanwhile, the wizened Robert Duvall-like visage of Kranepool is already looking to the post-Reyes era:
This not a woe- is- us post or a bash Omar and management post as we will have all summer for those, no this one is let’s get on the phone and find a shortstop post because even when (if ?) Reyes comes back, the days of him playing 150+games look to be over.
Apparently still touring the deepest subterranean reaches of the new McFadden’s out at Citi Field, Shannon Shark over at Mets Police pronounced himself “speechless” at the disastrous Reyes news. And the simple gist of Hojo’s Mojo is eloquent in its blue and orange brevity: “Why does this keep happening? And I think Matt Cerrone speaks for us all:
It’s frustrating. I mean, this team does not make it easy to be a Mets fan, whether it’s being without its best players, or the constant up and down, or the public relation ‘situations,’ which all lead to constant mocking from media and other fanbases; lately, it always feels like there is some other issue, totally unrelated to real-life baseball, that makes being a fan exhausting…. yet I keep watching.
More Reyes of Sunshine via Ballbug:
You wanna listen to Omar Minaya’s conference call on Reyes? You enjoy a certain degree of punishment, perhaps. Here it is:
UPDATE II: Is the highly-ranked prospect Ruben Tejada ready to step into Reyes’ shoes over Alex Cora, wonders Adam Rubin at the News? I’d rather see that, yes. Some other opinions: FanGraphs Baseball, TedQuarters.net, MetsBlog.com, New York Mets Fan Blog, New Jersey Online, Mets Fever and Surfing The Mets
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