Bottom line is this: Beltran needed surgery
Photo credit: Getty Images | Carlos Beltran underwent knee surgery, and the Mets are rather irate over not knowing about it until afterward.
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The smartest thing the Mets did Thursday in trying to put their own spin on the Carlos Beltran controversy was dial up assistant general manager John Ricco as the team's point man for the conference call with reporters.
But even Ricco, as deftly as he handled every question during the 30-minute call, failed to deflect any of the blame from where it actually belonged: right back on the Mets....
