You can’t see it, but I’m shrugging my shoulders right now. Here’s a story: The day before the Super Bowl I spent some time with a rabid Steelers fan. Obviously the non-Steelers fans among us brought up Ben Rothlisberger and his alleged habits, and the Steelers fan just kept defending Big Ben, insisting that nothing had been proven, maintaining that the quarterback hadn’t done anything wrong.

So while, in my eyes, what Sanchez supposedly did cannot compare in any way to what Rothlisberger allegedly did, I also realize that I am hopelessly biased toward the Jets’ Taco Bell-loving quarterback and unlikely to see fault in any of his actions until they somehow impact his ability to contribute to the Jets, and maybe not even then.

I’m sure some people probably take issue with Sanchez bringing a 17-year-old home, and perhaps rightfully — I’ve known enough 17-year-olds (and interacted with enough of them when I was myself 24 [not in the way Sanchez did, I just mean I worked in a high school]) to recognize that most of them aren’t really ready to be making grown-up decisions, even if they think they are. Hell, I’m not really ready to be making grown-up decisions and I’m 30.

As for Deadspin posting it, more shoulder-shrugging. Is it manufacturing a controversy, as @JoeBacci asked? Perhaps, but who am I to judge what they do? I still read the site with some frequency, and it gets about a billion times more traffic than this one. The Sanchez story is not the type of content that draws me to that site, so I suppose if it became entirely dedicated to exposing athletes’ affairs I’d stop reading. But until it does, I probably won’t.

I strongly advocate more Taco Bell, but I don’t think anything could guarantee 200 innings from Johan Santana, in 2011 or anytime beyond, really. It seems like Santana’s recovery is becoming a pretty big story in Mets camp, and, at the risk of sounding like Debbie Downer I’ll say this: Don’t hold your breath.

Shoulder injuries are very, very, very bad news for pitchers. As a Mets fan and a Santana fan (the pitcher, not really the band), I hope the lefty can recover and soon. But I’m pretty sure — and I can’t find the quote now — that at the press conference to announce Santana’s surgery, he listed other pitchers that had the same procedure and included Jorge Posada, Kelvim Escobar, Chien-Ming Wang and Mark Prior. Tell me which of those names sounds like a promising comp for a pitcher.

I’m not asking this rhetorically, I’m straight-up asking: Does anyone know of a pitcher who has fully recovered from surgery to repair the anterior capsule in his throwing shoulder? It’s entirely possible Santana’s condition and surgery were less severe than those of Escobar, Wang and Prior, but I’d love to be able to cling to an example of a guy who made it all the way back when I’m looking at that targeted July return.