Matsui to have surgery for… what?

Don’t the Houston Astros have a publicity department to make sure people don’t find out about things like this?

“KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Second baseman Kazuo Matsui will undergo surgery Monday morning at the Methodist Hospital in Houston to repair an anal fissure, the Astros announced Friday evening.

Dr. Eric Haas will perform the procedure. The estimated recovery time is two weeks.

Matsui has not played a spring game in one week, while dealing with symptoms originally diagnosed as hemorrhoids. He flew to Houston last weekend for further exams and continued with treatment that apparently did not work.”

I don’t know what an anal fissure is and I hope I never do. But, honestly, couldn’t they call it a muscle pull? Or announce that he’s having surgery on his leg or something? Anything but this! From now on Kaz Matsui will have this to live with in baseball stadiums all over the country. For his sake, I hope his bum feels better soon and that we never again have to hear about his anus.