Note: Beltran and Maine Don’t Have Flu Symptoms
Carlos Beltran not only missed his third-consecutive 
start last night due to a stomach bug, but he never left his hotel room.
In the New York Post, Dr. Bart Hubbuch writes, “The Mets were on high alert here yesterday after a producer on their SNY broadcast crew was sent back to New York and put in isolation with a possible case of swine flu.”
However, according to the Daily News, Mets assistant GM John Ricco told reporters that Beltran and John Maine most likely do not have a flu, because they have not yet shown flu-like symptoms, such as a fever.
…the thing is, the SNY producer traveled on the team plane to Pittsburgh over the weekend, meaning, because it can take up to seven days for the flu to turn up, it could be days before other people on the team get sick, if they get sick at all…
“If I got it,” Maine told Newsday, referring to swine flu, “at least I’ll go out with a winning record.”
Maine re-joined the team yesterday, and said he will be able to make his scheduled start Friday in Washington, DC.
…the concern with beltran is, how will his body respond once he starts feeling better… if you’ve ever had a severe stomach bug, it knocks you out… i caught a bug like this, subsequently when i returned from spring training, where a ton of people were experiencing a similar illness, and i was immobile for about three days… it’s brutal… beltran plays through pain, and i know if he was able he’d be in center field, so this must be a rough one… the thing is, when he returns, how depleted will he be… will he have lost weight, be dehydrated, etc., and need additional time to work back… this is a new one, as Jerry Manuel said before last night’s game, so i suspect it will be a rocky return…
