Mets News: Luis Severino's injury comments clarified after taken the wrong way

The New York Mets got good injury news with Brandon Nimmo on Monday. Two teams competing alongside them for a Wild Card spot weren’t so lucky with their stars. The Atlanta Braves placed Austin Riley on the IL and he will probably miss the remainder of the regular season. The Arizona Diamondbacks did the same with MVP candidate Ketel Marte whose timetable isn’t as detrimental.

Mike Puma of the NY Post made a tweet before Monday’s game that had Luis Severino temporarily trending on X; until Michael Kay took over because Mets fans were commenting on how the Kidcaster was better at calling a ball game than him.

Unfortunately, as many will do with words, this was taken poorly by readers. In text, it doesn’t include tone. Puma also failed to provide much context or any additional commentary. “How about San Diego? Nothing on San Diego?” could have genuinely been a question. Severino has been around long enough and missed time due to injuries of his own. To think he’d outwardly hope for someone to get hurt is jumping to a conclusion.

Mets pitcher Luis Severino didn’t give the Padres the bulletin board material many rushed to make this

Puma later clarified the comment was tongue in cheek. Too late. The world saw it and ran hoping to make this into a big deal. Puma has been around long enough to know that was the likely outcome.

Severino has shown he can have a sense of humor, sometimes a little bolder than we’re used to seeing from athletes. Back when the Mets and New York Yankees faced off, a private chat with Yankees players ended up going public. Current Yankees were calling him out for not pitching against them. He commented how their lineup only has “two good hitters.”

The Mets managed to sweep the Yankees this year in all four games they played so the last laugh certainly fell with Severino. This time, Severino is probably laughing for a different reason. People like to take things the wrong way. At no point did he wish ill upon any member of the Padres or any other team.

It’s reminiscent of Tim Healey saying to Mickey Callaway “see you tomorrow” and the former Mets manager threatening the Newsday reporter with Jason Vargas at his side. Severino doesn’t need to worry about any internal conflict. He shouldn’t even have concerns over the Padres players being offended. His job is to beat the Padres the next time he takes the mound.