Mets Should Just Have Ike Davis Have The Surgery Already!

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• Not an MD August 15, 2011 at 1:38 pm

  are you an MD? Do you have expertise in ankle injuries?

  If not, perhaps you should let the medical experts take care of the medical issues.

  It probably felt good for you to vent your frustration, but you truly added nothing to the issue.
  • alex68 August 15, 2011 at 1:40 pm

    lmao!!! jeez man, calm down.. he’s just sepculating as to what should be done.. lol relax..
    • Metsfanatic August 15, 2011 at 2:03 pm

      Leave the speculating to the speculators and the deciding to the deciders.
  • Peter R. August 15, 2011 at 1:55 pm

    I’m not an MD, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Shut Ike down already and have the surgery!
  • t agee August 15, 2011 at 2:36 pm

    There is no guarantee at all that surgery will even work on this condition or that he will even be the same after surgery. It’s pretty much the same exact thing as Beltran had. The body’s just not healing itself.

    It certainly didn’t look like anything but when did Carlos get hurt? No one even knows.

    That’s why they waited so long in Beltran’s case and that’s why their waiting so long in Ike’s.

    The really scary thing is that it may not ever be healed. I’d say an ankle for a baseball player is even worse than a knee because of all the torque you put on them in the batters box and quick, short moves around the infield.

    I hate to say it but even under the best of luck with it this off season it may be something that has to be monitored throughout the rest of his career.
    • Clayton Collier August 15, 2011 at 3:27 pm

      Agee exactly I had this argument with someone a few days ago and I used Beltran’s knee injury from 2009-2010 as a prime example. They brought him back from a lost season in late 09 and made his injury exponentially worse, resulting in him out for half of the 2010 season. The Mets are know screwing around with Davis’s injury aswell.

      I’d hate to see the same fate occur to Ike.
      • jdon August 16, 2011 at 8:35 am

        microfracture surgery is very risky. This is a bruise in the bone. Beltran had a knee bone bruise that lasted from one July to the next. The surgery may not work. Rest probably will. The surgery involves improving the flow of blood, I believe, but I also am not a doctor. I am not in favor of surgery. Ike is not playing this year. Let him rest and heal. And please, does anybody really think a doctor gets on staff of the Hospital for Special Surgery by being incompetent?
    • METS62FAN August 16, 2011 at 10:15 am

      T, REGARDING CARLOS’ REINJURY, I RECALL HIS HAVING A KNEE CONTACT WITH THE CHAIN FENCE PROTECTING A LOW ELECTRONIC SCOREBOARD IN RCF, LATE ONE GAME AFTER HE’D RETURNED FROM HIS FIRST 2 PROCEDURES. I PARTICULARLY RECALL EXCLAIMING OH SH==! THE MOMENT IT OCCURRED; BUT NO ONE ELSE SEEMED TO NOTICE OR COMMENT DESPITE, AS I RECOLLECT, CARLOS RATHER GINGERLY RECOVERING WITH BALL IN GLOVE FOR OUT #3. AS I RECALL IT WAS AN EARLY SEASON INCIDENT NO ONE EVER REFERED TO AGAIN.

      THIS COMMENTARY ON IKE BY CLAYTON IS VERY IRRESPONSIBLE AS U NOTE NO ONE WITH MEDICAL CREDENTIALS HAS RECOMMENDED IT, AS FAR AS I CAN TELL, IT REMAINS AN EMERGENCY SUGGESTION LIKELY DUE TO RISK OUTWEIGHING REWARD. NEITHER HSS NOR OUTSIDE SURGEONS OF RENOWN HAVE RECOMMENDED IT AS THE PREFERRED SOLUTION, IT SEEMS CLAYTON PREFERS TO RETURN TO 1860s MEDICAL PRACTICES WHEREBY APENDAGES WERE AMPUTATED FOR EXPEDIANCY SAKE
      IMO, FORTUNATELY IKE CAN’T POSSIBLY LOSE ANY SPEED AND PLAYS THE POSITION RENOWNED AS THE LAST REFUGE OF THE CRIPPLED TALENTS(MANTLE,BENCH,BERRA, POSADA,ETC.)
• any August 15, 2011 at 2:01 pm

  if you read about the procedure, it is not that cut and dried. This is a relatively radical procedure, that carries its own risks. It is possible that he could get worse as a result. So, they were trying to avoid it if at all possible.

  as long as it is supposed to be within the rehab window to make ST, was not a huge deal to rush it.

  if the docs had seen no progress (including his 2nd opinion guy that agreed with the HSS ones), he probably would have had it done already.
• Metsie August 16, 2011 at 12:32 am

  Amen Clayton!
• martin August 16, 2011 at 9:31 am

  you truly couldnt be more ignorant about this. its a complicated condition and your inpute is of zero value.
• chuck August 16, 2011 at 12:20 pm

  The fact that his leg is taking that long to heal is alarming. All he did was walk into David Wright.