New York Post had a field day with Matt Harvey’s bladder infection

The New York Post had a lot of headline ideas for the Matt Harvey bladder infection headline.

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The New York Post is known for its ribald and entertaining headlines, so when news hit that Matt Harvey had to undergo a procedure to remove blood clots from his bladder, eyes were all trained on the paper’s back page to see what it would come up with.

It turns out the journalists were overloaded with ideas for potty humor, deciding to share mockups of a few of the runner-up headlines along with the winning pun.

The @nypost had so many Matt Harvey bladder headline ideas that they mocked up front pages for all of them. pic.twitter.com/DZsmuC7vMX

— Pat Kiernan (@patkiernan) March 30, 2016

The organization’s crosstown rivals at the New York Daily News would not be outdone and brought a strong pun of their own.

https://t.co/jjPRvO54yE
Here's our @nydnsports back page. @royals @kcstar #mattharvey @apse_sportmedia @mets pic.twitter.com/5ryJZal5cc

— Back Page Guy NYDN (@BackPageGuyNYDN) March 30, 2016

The headlines are very good, but the best option would, of course, have been “Bladder Up! Harvey will not miss start after infection”