David Wright's Broken Back

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Uh, we're fucked.

[metirish]

Just getting a blow or what?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

He's getting blown onto the disabled list is my guess.

[metirish]

My sources are telling me he asked out of the game , Alderson to give an in game interview in the third inning.

[metirish]

Jesus Christ I'm taking the mikey but apparently just like Posada Wright has back problems .....

[Gwreck]

Rubin says it's a back problem.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Jesus Christ I'm taking the mikey but apparently just like Posada Wright has back problems .....

Jorge Posada's wife just tweeted that.

[Guest Edgy DC]

At some level it's a relief.

And... HELLO, ZACH LUTZ.

[G-Fafif]

Wright backed (npi) out of an interview with Lupica on ESPN Radio. I just assumed it was good sense.

[Gwreck]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Uh, we're fucked.

Not like he had been hitting much recently.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Gwreck wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Uh, we're fucked. Not like he had been hitting much recently.

Oh sure but hate going without your No. 3 and 5 hitters, especially when they are replaced with Muffy and Willie Harris.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Lutz, hasn't played since 4/21. So if it's a DL trip, maybe they call up Evans and move Murphy to third. Either that or Russ Adams or some crazy stab in the dark like that.

[G-Fafif]

Sandy live on SNY, and I doubt it's for an update on Mejia and Young (though he's giving that right now).

[G-Fafif]

Had Wright examined. MRI on the back. Tentative diagnosis stress fracture lower back. Getting second opinion. Hospital Special Surgery. Possible DL two weeks, won't know til tomorrow AM.

[G-Fafif]

Still available tonight, though obviously not in lineup. Dates back to Carlos Lee play in April.

[G-Fafif]

Examined end of last homestand, no problem, but continuing issues. Another back specialist to have a look.

Would be non-surgical treatment.

[G-Fafif]

Would be treated with 10 days of rest, "not long term."

[G-Fafif]

Also Delgado is day to day.

[G-Fafif]

And Ryan Church is feeling fine.

[G-Fafif]

Mets "initiative" to get back checked. Not David's. "David himself was suprised" by diagnosis.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Good on Sandy.

Edgy DC wrote: Lutz, hasn't played since 4/21. So if it's a DL trip, maybe they call up Evans and move Murphy to third. Either that or Russ Adams or some crazy stab in the dark like that.

Real shame about Lutz. This seems like the perfect opportunity to road-test him at the major-league level-- more pressure than September, not the ridiculously focused attention of New York in a playoff race. Also... surrounded by familiar faces.

[G-Fafif]

Terry talking about guy coming in to help pick up the pieces, so apparently DL is fait accompli.

[G-Fafif]

David "shocked" by diagnois, per TC.

[G-Fafif]

"Severity of this thing may be something we can't deal with." --TC

[metirish]

Ed Coleman shocked too , thought Wright needed nothing more than a blow.

[G-Fafif]

Flushing Times reporter wants to know how this affects Hu.

(Not really -- though she might be thinking it.)

[G-Fafif]

"We're gonna ask other guys to pick it up, as of today," says Terry. He might have made that request a few weeks ago if that's all it took.

[G-Fafif]

metirish wrote: Ed Coleman shocked too , thought Wright needed nothing more than a blow.

That's what Filip Bondy thought Derek Jeter needed.

[metirish]

G-Fafif wrote: "We're gonna ask other guys to pick it up, as of today," says Terry. He might have made that request a few weeks ago if that's all it took.

what , he wants Beltran to carry the offense now and then he'll get a broken back.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Holy crap.