Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
June 10, 2008
Broken Steeple

John Delcos rips the Mets over the handling of Ryan Church's concussion:

Church said he told the team he felt he could play and absolves the team of all blame. He's being the good soldier. And, don't forget, he was thinking with a head injury.

I asked Omar Minaya, sarcastically, I admit, where Church got his medical degree so he could make such a decision. The Mets weren't happy with the question and told me so, and my response was to tell them I still thought they mishandled the situation.

He continues:

Then again, why weren't the Mets smart enough to get a second opinion? For that matter, why didn't Church's agent? How about acting in the best interest of your client?

Willie Randolph said concussions weren't common in baseball and little is known about them. When I asked if the team didn't seek advice from the Giants, Jets or Rangers, who deal with concussions all the time, he said he didn't think so.

Well, why the hell not? And, by the way, plenty is known about concussions. Also, while I'm in full attack mode right now, how as manager can you not know what the front office is doing regarding your best player so far this year?

If you don't know, then ask somebody who does.

The Mets and Church screwed up on this one, and I just hope there was no permanent damage.


Posted by David Pinto at 05:56 PM | Injuries | TrackBack (0)
Comments

John's comments are a bit harsh, but he's quite right. Even a decent high school trainer should have been all over this. And that's where the real blame should be placed....against the training staff (unless Met management ignored them, in which case the person(s) doing the ignoring should be in jail!). There are plenty of inexpensive tools now available to trainers to aid in diagnosing concussions....no excuses not to use them.

Posted by: Zippercat at June 11, 2008 04:56 AM
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