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TheMatts
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Yesterday we talked about the similarities between American Idol and Spring Training. In that piece we briefly touched upon Tommy John Surgery. For those of you that don’t know, Tommy John was a great pitcher for many years, 26 to be exact, with the Tribe, Chisox, LA (the Dodgers, not the Los Angels of Angeles Anaheim Orange County club) He won 288 games, just twelve shy of the coveted 300-win plateau. But the most amazing thing about him and the reason he will forever be immortalized in the sports world, is that he is the first pitcher to ever come back after having surgery to fix his blown-out elbow. And boy, did he come back. After sitting out the entire 1975 season, we won 170 games – not in one year, mind you – that would be really remarkable. Instead, he did it over the next 15 years. And in that time helped the Dodgers beat the Yanks in the World Series, then he helped the Yanks beat the Dodgers. The surgery itself, known by doctors as ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction (or UCL), is a surgical procedure in which a ligament in the medial elbow – near the humerus – (ha, ha) is replaced with a muscle from elsewhere in the body – not the buttocks – that would be ASSinine - but often from the forearm, hamstring, knee, or foot. Tommy's procedure was performed and authored by the legendary Dr. Frank Jobe. At the time of John's operation, Jobe put his odds at 1 in 100 - and that was just to play the piano again. After the 1974 surgery, John spent 18 months rehabilitating his arm and went on to pitch in the major leagues until 1989 at age 46. Now, all that aside, we'd like someone out there to tell us how we can get a surgery named after us. How do we get immortalized with something other than our wardrobe choices? How do we get The Matts’ Surgery up and running? Would it be elective? What would it be for? The obvious would be hair transplantation but cosmetic surgery is for dames and sissies, Ann Coulter said that, didn’t she? Maybe we could tie it in with our Matt-Tervention piece. This is where we see someone that is obviously in need of switching their fan affiliation over to the Mets – to the point that family members call upon us to intervene. The Matts’ surgery could be a kind of stomach staple thing where they can’t stomach the team they formally liked… The possibilities are endless.. What say Ye? Thoughts, prevarications... That’s it for today. Please, check out the podcasts, the new clips and chime in below… Have a marvelous day, everybody…. See you tomorrow. 
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MATT FACTS:
Chad Pennington is NOT a Brett Favre fan... Hillary Clinton and Don Nelson have never been seen in the same place... Jerry Manuel is not related to Charlie ManuelJerry Manuel is not related to Charlie Manuel... Somebody namd Michel coaches the Pittsburgh Penguins... Tiki Barber quit the Giants. The Giants then won the Super Bowl... The New England Patriots only lost ONE game out of 19!!! Aaron Heilman was actually funny in re to Eli and Plaxico Burress helping the Mets as a pitcher and outfielder, respectively. Repeat, Heilman was funny... Jessica Simpson would rather date Tom Brady - trust us... Eli Manning is better than Archie - now... Alyssa Milano is a Met fan. RRRRR... Rickey Henderson speaks in the 3rd Person... Shawn Green has big ears... Howard Johnson likes to stay at the Holiday Inn, ironically... Sandy Alomar, Sr. is the youngest of 9 kids. That's why he was quick around the dish. Jiminy Cricket was the Philly Phanatic in a previous life…Fred Wilpon is pals with Sandy Koufax... Mike Ditka is a really tough guy.. Buffalo has a Triple A baseball team. They are NOT called The Snowballs... Chan Ho Park has people thinking of naming a ballfield after him - it would be called Chan Ho Park Park... John Maine has never been, oddly enough, to Maine... Curt Gowdy, Jr. has never been to Yellow Knife, Canada... Kevin Mitchell played 6 positions for the Mets in '86 and, according to Doc Gooden's book, didn't like cats... John Olerud & Wayne Gretzky have never been seen in the same place... Kevin McReynolds now makes his living doing laugh tracks for sit-coms... Tony Gwynn is nearing 300 lbs... Carlos Beltran has Mercedes Benz dealerships named for him in Barcelona, Spain... Willie Montanez was called Guillermo by Lenny Randle... Rusty Staub beat Jeff Kent in a race – TODAY... Jay Horwitz is a dynamite Cricket players – somebody said... Jeff Wilpon was a decent minor league catcher... Ziggy Palfy lives in Slovakia and is a big Met fan... Superman Returns, yet still can’t hit Billy Wagner... David Wright will win the Triple Crown – on a horse... Omar Minaya is Tobey McGuire’s stunt-double in Spider Man 3... Hilary Clinton has Mr. Met pajamas – we think... Albert Einstein was a HUGE Met fan... The Metropolitan Opera House was named for the Mets after their 2nd season in ’63... Wally Backman, ’86 sparkplug, considered changing his name to Wally Back-Matt... Neil Allen and Mike Stanton, former Mets, have Allen & Stanton Streets on Lower East Side named for them.
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