The Mets, My Favorite Running Joke
What a year it’s been for the Mets, 10 guys on the DL, a dropped popup to lose a game against the Yankees, a big contract for Oliver Perez, and now this (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4359215), a GM accusing a beat writer of getting the VP of player personnel fired. Classy, Omar. So, by Minaya’s logic, I am going to write a negative article about Derek Jeter, hoping that the Yankees cut him so I can finally play shortstop in the bigs.
Well, I guess we shouldn’t be too hard on him, considering his other recent episodes of incredible judgement. Lets not forget this is the guy who brought in 900 year old Moises Alou, and then did the only thing that could be possibly make the Mets outfield worse: replace 900 year-old Moises Alou with NOBODY. This is the same guy who signed Oliver Perez to a long-term contract, passing on much less incompetent pitchers such as Derek Lowe and well, everyone else. This is the same guy who has left the Mets with such a watered-down minor league system that their second best option at first base this season is a AA outfielder.
So, rather than manning-up and firing this fellow in the first place, Omar let it drag on for a week, then finally called a press-conference (after days of pressure from the media and fans) only to basically blame the situation on a writer. I guess the order of things goes players -> coaches -> managers -> front officer -> sportswriters?? Make sense. Too bad Phil Rizzuto isn’t still around. A few “holy cows” and he could clear out the whole Yankees front-office.
Needless to say, it has been a great week to be a Yankee fan.
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