From a milblogger (and Mets fan), we get this pathetic story: Three Blind Mets It seems the Mets’ bottom line has trap doors. It is a writer’s job to arrange context, but some things are almost beyond words. According to the New York Post, three members of the New York Metropolitans refused to join their team on a trip to Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Tuesday. The purpose of the trip was to bring cheer to the gallant men and women of our military who bring cheer to us. This stretches the already chasmal gap between celebrity and civilian, between those who fly in corporate jets around the world and those who live in it. The triumvirate is almost as predictable as it is sad. Oliver Perez, who has the work ethic of pregnant cattle, said he only discusses baseball matters while he hasn’t mattered to baseball in two years. “I don’t answer anything about outside the stadium,” said Perez when asked why he didn’t attend. God gave him a heavenly left arm and he did nothing with it beyond signing the obscene, $36 million contract the Mets myopically offered. Luis Castillo, renowned for dropping balls then wondering why he doesn’t play, had this gem:“Sometimes you see people with no legs, no arms. I don’t like to see that.”... Wow.
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Sep 09 2010, 06:12 AM
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