Three Mets skip team's visit to military hospital

[SandraC]

It's just amazing when a team seems to find a way to do everything wrong. Even something that should boost another sagging season has turned around and smacked the Mets in the face...again.

Carlos Beltran, Luis Castillo and Oliver Perez, three players who have annoyed Met fans the entire season (actually more than a season) and all who have issues with Mets management, decided not to show up when the team visited a military hospital recently to visit injured soldiers. It's just unbelievable that they would skip out on something like that, especially when the team needs all the positive publicity it can get.

Boggles the mind.


Sandra

 

[HD MM]

Boooo!!!

 

[cosmo_kramer]

What probably made it worse was that the visit was to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. These players were on the road and couldn't attend?? I could see excuses possibly if they were home and had to make their way on their own, but traveling with the team??

 

[Jimbo]

Can't wait till they go to the Children's hospital ....

 

[Ramy]

If they were home I could understand since most of them don't get to see their family a whole lot.

 

[salsadancer7]

Somewhat explination of what happened:

Given the trio involved, it's not surprising that this became the mess that it did. Castillo and Perez have felt alienated by the Mets for a while now, and Beltran to a lesser degree after his public scuffle with the Wilpons over his January knee surgery.

That's as much the fault of the Mets as those three players, who were then cornered by reporters the following day and grilled about their decision to skip the hospital visit. Beltran explained that he had a meeting that morning for the baseball academy he is building in Puerto Rico, but privately, he was fuming for being called out on his decision.

The other two didn't provide much of an explanation. Castillo suggested he was not comfortable with the idea and said, "sometimes when you see people with no legs, no arms, [from] when they fight, and to also be in the hospital like that, I don't like to see that."

Read more: Mets drag mess into Walter Reed visit - Baseball - NewsObserver.com

 

[SandraC]

That's hardly an explanation. Sounds like damage control by the players. Give me a break, they didn't attend because they feel alienated by the team.


It's unbelievable how often the Mets and their players can turn chicken soup into chicken s***.


Sandra

 

[HD MM]

Somewhat explination of what happened:





Read more: Mets drag mess into Walter Reed visit - Baseball - NewsObserver.com

Sounds selfish to me.

 

[salsadancer7]

HEY.....it is what it is. Either way you look at, BOTH the players should have voiced their displeaure and the team is doing what it can to make the players look bad and them look good.

 

[SandraC]

HEY.....it is what it is. Either way you look at, BOTH the players should have voiced their displeaure and the team is doing what it can to make the players look bad and them look good.

The team tried to make the players look bad by scheduling a visit to a military hospital? Huh?


Sandra

 

[yaz96]

HEY.....it is what it is. Either way you look at, BOTH the players should have voiced their displeaure and the team is doing what it can to make the players look bad and them look good.

Reread what you wrote. If it still makes sense, you need some education.

Same as it's the fans fault that preseason football games are full price.

 

[salsadancer7]

Reread what you wrote. If it still makes sense, you need some education.

Same as it's the fans fault that preseason football games are full price.

LOL!!! So you are going to educate me on what?

I meant to say that according to accounts, some did not want to go....especially the ones that did not go. One had an obvious conflict of interest, the other seems like he hates going to the hospital and the 3rd had no reason. It IS WHAT IT IS.

You last comment had NOTHING to do with this subject..... But whatever floats your boat.

 

[SandraC]

And yet every other player found the time and the wherewithal to visit the hospital...visit soldiers who were injured defending our country. As I said, it sounds like total damage control from the players who didn't go. .


Sandra

 

[cosmo_kramer]

Maybe David Wright has the answer:

"Forget about being the New York Mets and playing baseball," Wright said. "I think that just being American and living in this country, we owe it to those guys to say thank you and tell them how much we appreciate what they put on the line every day -- and a lot of times what they've sacrificed. You're talking about guys a lot younger than me that are going over there and giving up their lives trying to fight for our freedom."

Mets visit troops at Walter Reed in DC | mets.com: News

 

[HD MM]

Well said David Wright!!

 

[salsadancer7]

And yet every other player found the time and the wherewithal to visit the hospital...visit soldiers who were injured defending our country. As I said, it sounds like total damage control from the players who didn't go. .


Sandra

And maybe their issues with METS management is so bad they used this time to spurn the team....who knows. Two of those guys aren't even US citizens and are in the US on work visas....Carlos Beltran, who is Puerto Rican....had his excuse.

 

[salsadancer7]

Maybe David Wright has the answer:



Mets visit troops at Walter Reed in DC | mets.com: News

From the same article:

And Beltran said that he could not attend due to a meeting regarding the high school he is helping to build in his native Puerto Rico.

Who is to say he does not visit the vet hospitals in Puerto Rico during his off time? There is a huge VA hospital there.

 

[salsadancer7]

Everything is not as cut and dry as it seem or assumed....

 

[SandraC]

And maybe their issues with METS management is so bad they used this time to spurn the team....who knows. Two of those guys aren't even US citizens and are in the US on work visas....Carlos Beltran, who is Puerto Rican....had his excuse.

You're making a huge assumption, but if that's true...that's just terrible. As I said, it sounds like total damage control from the players. Difficult to believe Beltran could not have found a different time to have a phone call regarding his baseball academy...if the phone call even happened.


Sandra

 

[salsadancer7]

You're making a huge assumption, but if that's true...that's just terrible. As I said, it sounds like total damage control from the players. Difficult to believe Beltran could not have found a different time to have a phone call regarding his baseball academy...if the phone call even happened.


Sandra

And how do you know it was a phone call? You are doing THE SAME in assuming he didn't have the meeting.

IF this was their version of protesting against the METS management....it was a terror PR move. But let's not ASSUME they did this or they didn't do that.

Like I said, not all things are as black and white as they seem.....