Oh sure. The Ollie Perez thing is shady. No doubt about it.
If you believe that this is all a big coincidence, then you obviously have more faith in humanity than I do. I commend you for that. But come on. This is the same Ollie Perez whose agent offered to send him to a “shrink” to hide his inability to pitch behind a psychological problem. (Yeah, I’m sure Zack Greinke was thrilled to read that.) So you expect me to believe that Oliver’s knee, which has probably always been mush, just happened to flare up on June 4th with Jon Niese needing to come off the DL on June 5th?
Here’s who else doesn’t believe it: Major League Baseball. Yup, they want to review the injury. And that makes me laugh. Because quite simply, if by some strange chance MLB finds something fishy like a clean MRI, what exactly is Bud Selig going to do? Is he going to order Perez back on the team and replay Saturday’s game with Niese back on the DL, wiping out his excellent start on Saturday? And wipe out Ike Davis’ first four hit game? Does Bud Selig want to risk the stigma of not liking Ike? He can’t even overturn an umpire’s call to preserve a perfect game … how exactly can you punish a team that’s been punished enough simply for employing a selfish, meticulously bearded, left-handed waste of a roster spot who collects his paycheck with a ski mask and a gun?
So go ahead, Bud. Punish the Mets after the perfect game fiasco. Wipe out the efforts of Niese and Davis. Consider yourself dared.
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