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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: Chamillitary Click on January 14, 2010, 02:55:58 PM
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http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-mets-beltran&prov=ap&type=lgns
NEW YORK (AP)—The New York Mets are upset All Star centerfielder Carlos Beltran(notes) had knee surgery this week after they asked him to wait while management discussed options with its medical staff.
Assistant general manager John Ricco said Beltran had permission to be examined on Tuesday by Dr. Richard Steadman, a knee specialist in Colorado who also looked at Beltran last summer. Steadman recommended surgery.
AP - Jan 13, 10:41 pm EST 1 of 2 MLB Gallery “We told the agent for the player that we wanted to have the ability to discuss the diagnosis and possibly have a third option because, you know, of the nature of this injury,” Ricco said during a telephone conference call on Thursday. “We wanted to have the opportunity to digest the information, the diagnosis, and unfortunately we were never afforded the opportunity to do that.”
Despite the Mets’ request, made to agent Scott Boras late Tuesday, Steadman operated on Beltran on Wednesday, removing cartilage fragments and inflammation, and shaving bone spurs.
New York said Beltran was expected to resume baseball activities in 12 weeks — although Boras said it could be as few as eight. Ricco said the team will be “losing his services, at least for the early part of the season.”
“We thought we had cooperation from their side,” Ricco said. “And to find out afterward that, you know, the surgery occurred, that’s where we’re most upset.”
Thus far, the Mets have stopped short of taking action against Beltran for going ahead with the operation. He is entering the sixth season of a $119 million, seven-year contract.
lol, it starts again for the Mets.
sick athlete when healthy though.
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wheres teflom tommy
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He has been kind of abust in Ny hasent he?
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haha whos next? wright? johan? krod?
the mets' luck is something else.
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*anxiously awaits the word of Carlos*