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Originally Posted by jonumberone
Just so you know Mac, After that story broke it was reported that David Wright didn't make the trip to Walter Reed in 2009.
Some started accusing the Media of racism since Wright not going wasn't reported and 3 Latinos not going made the front page.
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At first that is what the news reported...but after some research was done, Wright was indeed present (he just showed up late). The other three never showed. That has stuck with me and always will.
******WASHINGTON— The Mets visited Walter Reed Army Medical Center Tuesday and unlike last year managed to escape without igniting a controversy. A team spokesman was quick to inform reporters that 42 players, coaches and team officials visited the hospital's rehab center. The only players that did not attend, relievers Francisco Rodriguez and Taylor Buchholz, traveled here Tuesday morning instead of with the rest of the team Monday night. The Mets gave both players permission to travel here Tuesday—and by extension, to skip the visit—because of family obligations. Of course, the hospital visit was voluntary. But that didn't stop last year's visit from turning into another episode of Mets Circus when Oliver Perez, Luis Castillo and Carlos Beltran didn't attend. David Wright was reported missing, but was cleared by management to arrive late. Wright showed up an hour after the team arrived.
—Brian Costa
*****“I don’t like to see people like that, so I never go there,” Castillo said. “Sometimes you see people with no legs, no arms. I don’t like to
see that.”
*****Beltran explained that he had a meeting that morning for the baseball academy he is building in Puerto Rico, but privately, he was fuming for being called out on his decision.
*****Perez declined to discuss it.
*****David Lennon of Newsday wrote on Twitter, ‘It was noticed,’ in regards to Carlos Beltran, Luis Castillo and Oliver Perez skipping yesterday’s trip to Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
“Everybody should go,” David Wright told Lennon.
*****“I think that just being an American and living in this country, we owe it to those guys to say thank you and tell them how much we appreciate what they put on the line every day,” David Wright told the MLB.com.