Your daily injury report

Daily is obviously a term I will be using loosely. Anyway firstbaseman Daniel Murphy sprained his knee in a rundown Tuesday afternoon. That ups the count to three starting position players who will begin the season the disabled list, joining centerfielder Carlos Beltran and shortstop Jose Reyes. I'll try not to be pessimistic before the season even starts, but it's sure starting to smell like 2009 all over again. Murphy led the team with 12 (!!!) home runs in 2009 and OH MY DOG I LOVE THIS PICTURE!



The final decision has yet to be made, but it looks like the Mets will start Alex Cora who can't hit or play defense over Ruben Tejada who can't hit but is an excellent defender at short. They will start Mike Jacobs who can't hit or play defense over Frank Catalanotto who can't hit but plays okay defense and Chris Carter who can't play defense but he's better than Jacobs and at least he can hit plus he wrote the fucking X-Files at first. Right now it looks like they may start the awesomely named Angel Pagan in centerfield over Gary Matthews Jr which doesn't make a damned lick of sense since Pagan is far and away the superior hitter and fielder.