Now obviously I don’t expect Omar Minaya to address the elephant in the room, but I do love his dancing around the issue.

Doctors detected an abnormality during his physical, and Reyes was taken out of the lineup March 4 for additional medical tests. Reyes was told not to raise his heart rate and to refrain from eating seafood, which has iodine. He will be tested weekly.

Minaya and Greenberg said the thyroid should return to normal with rest and diet.

“There is no medication for this,” Minaya said.

The cause of the elevated thyroid wasn’t clear.

“We heard it could be something that could have been dietary or it could have been a virus,” Minaya said.

The Mets and medicine just don’t mix.  And when your star player is going to be missing time due to a health condition, as the GM you should probably educate yourself as to what’s causing him to miss time.  None of this “we heard it could be” bullshit.  Your fans deserve better than that.

And really?  Dietary or a virus?  Can a virus cause a hyperactive thyroid?  That’s nuts.  And if you’re going to throw out ridiculous potential causes for Reyes’ condition and not mention HGH, at least have some fun with it.  Why not an alien virus?  Maybe Reyes’ thyroid gland was transplanted from a baboon.

The best is that since this is the Mets, it’ll turn out that Reyes has got an ingrown toenail that was misdiagnosed.

[ESPN.com]