During pandemic, Mets and Redsocks maintain evil status

To invoke a Trumpian phrase, "some people are saying" the Mets and Redsocks recently abused the nation's moratorium on non-emergency, elective surgery by sending Noah Syndergaard and Chris Sale to Dr. Tommy John.

Thor had his elbow done March 26, and Sale apparently underwent surgery March 30, long after the rest of us had to cancel our penile implants and boob jobs. Both operations came after governments had called for bans on elective surgery, so that critical items like surgical masks, gloves and gowns could be saved for the looming virus avalanche.

Of course, Syndergaard and Sale were emergencies: Their teams will need them next season! To wait would hamper their pennant chances!

Insert sigh here. 

Listen... In the overall scheme of injustice, this isn't a scandal. It's not Thorgate or Salegate. Honestly, I'm almost out of bile to fling, and we all know the deal here: This is about money - cabbage, moolah, bread, clibash, gigmoool, sklingah -  and when it comes to the almighty dollar, there are no rules, just shortcuts around them. Questions of fairness and ethics are suspended in the warm glow of gold. Since the dawn of currency, this has been the case. No virus will change that.

Kudos to Sports Illustrated for breaking the story. Today, a professor at New York University tells the Times: 

"The argument is: ‘Well, this needs to be a go because even though sports is suspended at the moment, this is a person’s livelihood and when things are up and running, it throws off all sorts of schedules, like rehab time. It’s an understandable argument, but it’s a no-go, because what we’re dealing with now in the world, it’s not a question of people’s livelihoods, it’s people’s lives, and there’s a big difference there. The scene out there in hospitals and clinics, it’s severe. It’s just not the time for Tommy John surgeries.”

There you have it: Some very, very rich people stood to lose money. Doors that should have been closed were greased open. Happens all the time. Let's not pretend otherwise. If the Yankees did it, you better believe there'd be an outcry. But these are two "lovable" teams. Get well, Thor! Stay safe, Chris! The Mets and Redsocks are doing their part to follow the corona protocols: They've washed their hands of them.