When you have the luck of a New York Met fan you just wait for the moment when you hear something that is going to ruin the season. Any little amount of bad news can turn disastrous for this franchise. Last year first basemen Ike Davis went to catch a little pop up in the infield and "rolled" his ankle. He was later pronounced out for the year with that injury; they called it damage to ankle cartilage.
This spring the Mets have started off pretty much where they left off, with injury news flowing all around and Ike Davis is involved again. Davis has likely been diagnosed with early Valley Fever, a fungal disease that starts in the lungs. It is considered to be non contagious and he might not even miss any action, but its still a serious diagnosis and it is something that can get progressively worse over time. The more intriguing news comes from the Mets star third basemen David Wright. Wright has a rib cage injury that has already sidelined him for the first two games of the spring.
When you look at both of these injuries you could say that they aren't season threatening or even threatening to the start of the regular season, but its the Mets. The team that, over the past two years, has had their said to be star Jason Bay go down, Jose Reyes was out for over a month with a hamstring injury, their best pitcher Johan Santana has been out for two years, even the back ups who were coming in to play were getting hurt. The injury cloud that is over this team is amazing. And the start they have had to this spring is something that should be alarming for Met fans. We are only starting the second week of spring training and the news surrounding the New York Mets is negative injury news.
Sooner or later they will be able to get away from this injury bug, but as of right now, if you wear a Met uniform BEWARE of SERIOUS INJURY.
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