Last night, Luis Castillo proved that the Mets are truly cursed. Just when you thought all the injuries were over with, Castillo showed that there were new and better ways for players to go on the disabled list. In fact, he didn’t even hurt himself on the field. Luis fell down the stairs while stepping into the dugout and sprained his ankle. 16 players have hit the DL for the Mets this season, some more than once, and now we can make that number 17 as Castillo is limping once again. Well at least, with a limp, we’ll all recognize Luis once again.
Later on today the Mets will announce that Castillo is “Day to Day” and that the ankle injury is only a slight sprain. A few days rest will do him just fine and he’ll be back in the lineup by the end of the weekend. By this weekend, Castillo will re-aggravate the ankle while doing running drills. He will then see the team doctor again, get it looked at, and we’ll be told that he’ll need another day or two. The Mets will then take Castillo on a flight for the road trip, only to send him back to New York a day later when they realize he can not walk off the airplane. When he gets back to New York he will be sent for an MRI, finally, only to find out that he’s had a broken ankle the whole time and should have been put on the DL. Soon after, Castillo will be seen sitting in the dugout in a full body cast. The Mets will tell us that the body cast is not related to the initial ankle injury and we’ll all wonder what the hell they are doing. The media will ask the Mets questions about their medical staff and how they misdiagnosed the injury, and the Mets will insist that they were correct in their initial evaluation, simply that Luis Castillo was pregnant and was suffering from nothing more than swollen ankles.
That is the Mets front office and medical staff in a nutshell.
Here is a nice video that I found on youtube. It’s from Family Guy and portrays Bobby McFerrin falling down a flight of stairs. I just pretend that it’s Luis Castillo and it makes me laugh. Try it … it will help you forget the absolute disaster that the 2009 Mets have been, even if it’s only for a little while.
Yes, I am aware that the video is 10 minutes long. It’s a 10 minute long video of a guy falling down the stairs that is played in a repetitive loop. What’s funny and sad at the same time about this, is I find more entertainment in watching this 10 minute video of Bobby McFerrin falling down an endless staircase than it is watching the Mets. It actually makes a pretty good beat if you listen to it. Maybe the Mets should make this the 2009 theme song. In fact, there is even more irony to this.
The Mets, as a team, have been seemingly falling down this endless staircase for a couple of years now. Everything about the franchise has been tumbling further and further down the stairs, from the ownership all the way down to the feelings of even the most optimistic fans. Players have been getting battered and bruised, fans have been getting angry and numb, the front office has been falling on its face, and the owners have been getting swindled.
The basement is near. As the tumbling continues and the band aids continue to do a bad job in trying to cover up the gaping wound that is the Mets, the team will start to enter National territory. Yes, the competition is on to see who will lose more games … the Mets or the Nationals. I wonder if the Wilpons even notice. Maybe they’ll give Omar another extension.
God I fucking love that video!
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