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"You know, it took me a while because I'm a human being, of course, and I'm a person who has feelings," Beltran told reporters. "It took me like a week for me to forget everything and focus on what is important for me. What is important for me right now is just to be with the team, be ready, and being able to play." The Mets said they had given Beltran permission to get a second opinion from a knee specialist in Colorado, but asked him to hold off on surgery. Beltran said he had followed the directions of his doctors and that the team had said nothing to him until it was too late. Dr. Richard Steadman, who offered the second opinion, operated on Beltran, removing cartilage fragments and inflammation, and shaving bone spurs. Beltran walked into the clubhouse without a noticeable limp. "I'm right on schedule," Beltran said of his rehab. "I'm not ahead of schedule because I don't feel like my knee right now is too stable. I wish I could run. But right now I don't feel like that. I feel like if I run, something wrong is going to happen, because the quad is not stable, the hamstrings are not stable. Once I strengthen those areas, I think everything else is going to fall in place and it's going to be feeling good." |
Carlos Beltran said Monday that there are "no hard feelings" between himself and the Mets following a dispute over his knee surgery.