Get Well Soon

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

floyd still hasn't played a rehab game yet.

Scared shitless for my boyfriend Duaner.

[Frayed Knot]

Sanchez has been sent back to NY to get his shoulder looked at via MRI.

Supposedly (acc. to Eddie C) he was feeling OK just minutes after it happened and and hoped it was a one-time "stinger" instead of something torn/broken/pulled/yanked/cracked/shredded/etc.

Other pitchers said that they've experienced the same thing from time to time.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Could it be related to the fact that he was hit by a pitch while attempting to bunt the other day?

[Frayed Knot]

Not if it's his shoulder.

[smg58]

Has anybody heeard anything specific regarding Floyd?

Heilman had better get his best suff back and FAST. Hopefully the Sanchez injury is not as bad as it looked last night, but it did not look good at all.

[Guest Hillbilly]

The Mets� trainers need to get a can of that spray that�s used on the World Cup players. That stuff cures terrible injuries and works instantly!

[metirish]

Here is the magic of the spray.

http://www.slate.com/id/2144194/?nav=fo

[Theoldmole]

]Sanchez, who is critical to the Mets' bullpen, will have an MRI exam in New York on Saturday. He wasn't certain what to make of the sensations he experienced; nor were the Mets' trainers or Blue Jays doctor Ron Taylor, the former Mets pitcher.

Ron Taylor is the Jays' team doctor?

[Frayed Knot]

Yup!

Taylor went to med school after his baseball career and returned to his native Toronto. He latched onto sports medicine and eventually wound up with the hometown Jays - although there was a detour along the way a bunch of year back when he got snagged for writing perscriptions to himself or something along those lines.

[Theoldmole]

I knew he was a doctor. Just the Jays part I didn't know.

[Guest heep]

If the Mets take a precautionary route with Duaner, which I think they should considering our bullpen has thrown the most innings, its time to summons MR. OWENS from AA.

I think he deserves the shot. His K total is nasty...I am interested to see the kid throw.

[Frayed Knot]

TheOldMole wrote: I knew he was a doctor. Just the Jays part I didn't know.

Been there a long time.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Could be wrong, but I think Owens --- and Pelfrey --- will see AAA first.

[Elster88]

] It was a matter of nerves for Duaner Sanchez -- one pinched, the others jangled. One made him unavailable to pitch Sunday in the third game of the Mets' Interleague series against the Blue Jays, the others were just settling down after flights from Toronto to New York and back and his first experience with an MRI cylinder. The news was good -- no damage to his shoulder, and the pinched nerve in his neck shouldn't be a problem after the anti-inflamatory medication takes effect. "Pretty uncomfortable days," Sanchez said Sunday morning after seeking sanctuary in the visiting clubhouse at the Rogers Centre. He is likely to pitch again soon -- perhaps this week against the Red Sox. And if Sanchez has another flight on a small plane or another MRI, it will be too soon.

[Elster88]

]And the MRI experience was worse. He was shown a button to push in case of panic or emergency. "Like I'll need this," he said. Then: "Bzzzzzzzt!"

I've never had an MRI before, though my thought is what Duaner thought at first, that it'd be no problem. Maybe you can't tell until you're actually in there.

[MFS62]

He's back with the team, but asked Willie not to pitch him yesterday. He said he might be able to try pitching again in the Boston series.
(insert sigh of relief emoticon here)

Later

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

MRI machines are like the noisiest things ever and a session usually lasts 45 minutes of so. They gave me headphones last time I had one (Counting Crows first album).

[soupcan]

I had one and listened to WFAN during mine.

Fell asleep.

[Frayed Knot]

Steve Somers must have been on.

[seawolf17]

Steve Somers here and YOU THERE falling asleep in the MRI machine.

[Elster88]

soupcan wrote: I had one and listened to WFAN during mine. Fell asleep.

You can get the radio in there?

I can't even get a signal at my gym.

[Elster88]

]No catch: Paul Lo Duca doesn't believe his bruised left thumb will prevent him from playing for an extended period, and he said he expected to play on Tuesday. The thumb has hurt for 10 days, and Lo Duca aggravated it Friday night and again on Saturday.

[Gwreck]

Cornelius made his first rehab start last night as St. Lucie's DH. 1-2 with a Homer and a Walk.

[Centerfield]

New injuries in need of updates:

Carlos Delgado

Steve Trachsel

Billy Wagner

Any news would be appreciated.

[Gwreck]

Trachsel and Wagner are fine, so says Marty Noble's notes column on Mets.com.

[Elster88]

I'm guessing we have reported in another thread, but Pedro will not start tonight.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

It came up a lot in last night's IGT, explaining why the bullpen options last night were so limited.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

]July 04, 2006 Life of Brian Happy July 4th. Brian Bannister was kind enough to check in with an update on his health. He originally suffered what seemed like a Grade 1 right hamstring strain in San Francisco in April. Here's the E-mail he sent: Adam, I hope you are doing well, and I just wanted to give you an update on my injury because I know there has been a lot of confusion about it from everyone as you indicated in your blog. My original injury in San Francisco included a partial tear (more severe than a Grade 1) deep in the middle of the hamstring close to the Sciatic Nerve. The original MRI that was done in Atlanta revealed that the hamstring had a Grade 1 strain, which it did, and we rehabbed according to that information. In my rehab start in Norfolk, while covering first, I felt pain at the tendon at the top of my hamstring. I did not re-injure the original injury. Because the original injury included a partial tear which requires a much longer recovery period than the 3 weeks that had elapsed, it was not keeping up with my other hamstring and this put undue stress on the tendon. This was actually not a setback, but helped us discover that the original injury included a partial tear deep down in the leg. Because the partial tear was near the Sciatic Nerve (the large nerve that originates in the lower back), the resulting scar tissue that formed while healing was irritating the nerve and not allowing me to rehab at full capacity. The only way to break up the scar tissue is through anti-inflammatories and deep-tissue massage, and that has been my treatment for the last few weeks. The scar tissue is now gone, the leg is approaching 100%, and I will begin simulation games and rehab starts in the next two weeks. My arm has remained in pitching shape throughout this entire process, because it has never bothered me to pitch, just to run. I have also used the time to work on many aspects of my pitching, and have developed two new pitches that are sharper and more consistent. I hope this clears up any confusion and gives everyone the proper information, because it was a complicated and unique injury. The Mets staff have done an outstanding job in the rehab process, because there were things that only I could feel and that were difficult to diagnose medically. I am now stronger and throwing harder than before because of the intense physical workouts. Please use this information to give everyone the proper update, and I am looking forward to helping the Mets when I return. Take care, and have a good evening. -Brian Bannister

[Theoldmole]

We can use him.

[Guest Edgy DC]

]My arm has remained in pitching shape throughout this entire process, because it has never bothered me to pitch, just to run.

Throw him out there. Let the secondbaseman cover first on grounders to Delgado. Yeah, it'll cost us maybe one or two singles per game, but as long as we're going to act desperate.