Everyone knows the Mets have had defensive issues this year, but it looks like there could be a worse problem than that sweeping through the clubhouse:
An SNY employee who travels with the Mets has been stricken by an unidentified strain of the flu, prompting concerns about swine flu in a clubhouse that has had two players come down with a stomach virus in the past several days.
The Mets would not identify the person, but a source close to the situation said it is a member of the network’s technical staff. The employee has been isolated from the team since coming down with the flu Monday, and — as with everyone who has the flu these days — is being tested for swine flu. However, it could take up to a week before test results reveal whether it is swine flu.
John Maine and Carlos Beltran are the two guys who came down with the stomach viruses, but the team is acting like there’s no fear that either of them has contracted swine flu. I think this is just a ploy by the Mets to get some media spotlight on them now that the Yankees are on fire. New York forgets about the Mets pretty fast when the Yanks are good. If spreading swine flu rumors doesn’t work, maybe they could try Ebola, or bubonic plague, or some kind of alien thing that crawls into people’s brains and turns them into soccer fans.
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