An actual headline from the sporting press today:
New York Mets’ Johan Santana to start Opening Day, sources say…
Good thing they have sources! Because it’s a total shock about Santana getting the nod on Opening Day at Citi Field Monday. Holy Wally Backmans, Batman!
Then there’s the insanity of the back page of the New York Post. Under the breathless “Post Exclusive!” label, the banner head implores the Mets: “Don’t Baby Him!” – the infant in question being shortstop Jose Reyes, back this last week from a thyroid condition – oh, and most of last year from a horrendous hammy tear. From the Pearl Harbor-style coverage, you’d think a unanimous delegation of teammates had stalked Jeff Wilpon with an anti-Reyes petition.
Nah. Mike Puma’s shockingly lame back-pager hangs by a single thread – one, lone unidentified Met. Whose quote, by the way, seems clearly to be of the off-handed variety. Yet there’s Ballbug with not one but – count ‘em – five separate link farms on Jose Reyes, the new “Reyes Rules,” and whether the Mets are babying the 27-year-old.
If there are two players who get the top spot at Ballbug more than Reyes and Joba Chamberlain, I don’t know who they are. Back in the day, only Darryl Strawberry commanded this kind of obsession. But in the A-Rod era, it trickles down. And with the endless spring griding slowly toward real baseball, what else is there to write about?
Unless it’s the Mets rotation and the earth-shattering news that the team is adjusting the rotation to move Jonothan Niese up and the ineffective Mike Pelfrey down. Let me be the first to use the metaphor: see Titanic, deck chairs.
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