Can we cut cut the crap already?

Rotoworld's Monday team notes say what I've been saying for a while now:

Oliver Perez isn’t fine. Not even close, apparently, though he could undergo surgery before the Pirates would be willing to admit it’s anything more than stiffness in his shoulder. Some teams just don’t get the benefit of the doubt. It’s already been decided that Perez will skip a second straight start and a DL assignment could come in the near future.

Just a couple questions. First off, why lie to us? It's obvious he wasn't OK. He came into spring "stiff" and everyone feared the worst (at least I did). He first start was bad. He's only had one good start since then, a short glimmer of hope in an ugly April for him. It's pretty obvious to anyone that watched him last year and saw him again this year that something is wrong. Very wrong. So why lie to us? Most of us don't trust Littlefield, McClatchy, or McClendon. Most of us kind of feel like we know more about baseball than the three of them combined sometimes. If Perez had to get surgery in the spring, sure it'd be a PR hit. No one would've seen great commercial they filmed with him and his limited hold on the English language. They would've had to fire Spin Williams or someone after having three of their pitching prospects all go under the knife in 6 months (Burnett, Van Benschoten, Perez). But at least they would've been honest. They've been making him pitch hurt for about two months now (counting March) and it's obvious everything isn't OK. That leaves us to where we are now. Either they lied to us, or they don't know anything about the health of their best players. I'm not sure which is worse, but I sure don't like being lied to. I mean, he's had a stiff shoulder since March. Did we even do an MRI? Isn't that one of the first things you do when one of your prized possessions as an organization says he doesn't feel well and he isn't performing? If it's true that he doesn't always tell the truth about his health (which is a load of crap I'm guessing, they could say whatever they want about him the in papers and he'd never know, I think Dr. Seuss would challenge his mastery of the English language) then DON'T YOU WANT TO BE SURE??? This whole situation is infuriating and right now is casting a dark shadow over an otherwise positive run by the time. I don't even really care what the outcome is right now, I just want to know what's actually going on with the left arm of the future.