I hate snakes!
Omar Minaya accomplished something today. He did something very difficult. He completely made the Mets front office look even worse than they already do. When the GM of your favorite baseball team basically reveals his scales and spits his venom, in a live press conference, at a reporter who simply stated facts, you know you’ve entered the Twilight Zone.
As if “13 investigations” about a shirtless bully carrying himself as if he had a hot poker permanently lodged in his sphincter were not enough. This was a punk who was in charge of player development, yet the only developments worth talking about on his resume are the developments that arose from his hot temper and behavioral problems. There was reason enough to fire Tony Bernazard for his ineptitude in “player development” alone, but his ongoing attitude disorder was what ultimately did him in. Terrible Tony ripped off his shirt and tried to fight players on the AA team. He chastised an intern publicly, having a meltdown and screaming expletives because someone was sitting in his seat behind home plate at the Mets home ballpark. He had a heated exchange with Francisco Rodriguez and also had words with Johan Santana on the team bus. This, mind you happened mostly in the past month. That’s not counting the “bus driver incident” that happened a while ago. Who know what else this guy did. Curious how Omar needed “13 investigations”, after the fact, when all this has been going on for quite some time.
Omar sent the fans a stupid letter today. One quote from this letter illustrates his incompetence:
“Prior to a series of articles published in the media, our Baseball Operations and Human Resources departments had begun looking into several matters involving Tony. Once those reports became public, we accelerated our investigation.”
OK, so what he did right there was openly admit that Baseball Operations and Human Resources had already been aware of Terrible Tony’s bizarre behavior. The were already looking into it, yet Omar needed to investigate it by using the word investigate 13 times in 2 minutes, only because Adam Rubin reported it.
Here is another nice quote from Omar, in his letter:
“Personnel decisions are never easy. And one can’t make them without giving it a lot of thought. It’s even harder when you know someone as I do Tony. Tony and I go back a long time.”
It is a horrible way to run an organization when you surround yourself with your cronies. Omar has shown a pattern in his time here, that shows he’d rather hire his buddies than hire smart baseball people. He’d rather run the farm system into the ground, simply to have his punk pal running around like a mad man. He’d rather hand out stupid contracts to players he’s had a relationship with in the past, even if it hurts the performance of the team long term. Worst of all, as he showed his true colors today, Omar would rather stick his neck into the guillotine and carry on like a paranoid child because he was forced to fire his unqualified friend, who deserved to be fired.
For Omar Minaya to accuse a newspaper reporter of trying to tear down Terrible Tony in an attempt to take his job, in the middle of a live press conference, when he was supposed to be ridding the air of all the scandal and negativity, it just shows the level of class that Omar possesses. None. Zero. Zilch. Omar Minaya is a complete embarrassment. That embarrassment is even worse than the product he’s constructed and put on the field the last 2 1/2 seasons.
Adam Rubin reported facts that were proven to be true. Omar Minaya knew those facts to be true and that is why he had to fire his pal, yet he went on a ridiculous offensive against Rubin. Maybe he was dealing with that “eye for an eye” mentality or maybe he’s just as big a buffoon as I think he is. Either way, it’s sad that this is the guy who is running our baseball team. This is not the way an executive should carry himself and this is not the way the GM of a Major League baseball team should handle public relations. This is a public relations nightmare for the Mets and Omar created all of it. If I can give him credit for something, it would be for staging the best drama on television. Drama is never good for baseball teams, though.
Omar Minaya is completely unprofessional. I hate snakes!
To make matters worse, Jeff Wilpon, crawled out of the shadows of the circus today and spoke to the public. He did so with Omar Minaya at his side and basically threw Minaya under the bus. Wilpon stated in so many words that Rubin did nothing wrong and had no problem with him. Omar then spoke a few seconds after and his words were comical. “I still stand by what I said, I just regret doing so in that forum”. He’s a complete idiot. His boss threw him under the bus while standing next to him and he was completely oblivious to it.
Omar Minaya should never speak again in front of a camera and he should never work another day as the GM of the New York Mets. He has done a bad job both on and off the field. Hopefully that moronic extension given to him does not dictate him staying on any longer and causing more chaos in the organization.
One thing is for sure. Omar started an all out war with the media today, and I don’t think he’ll survive it because he simply can’t win that war. He brought this all on his own head, so the outcome will be deserving. Let the slithering commence.
If only we had Indiana Jones to come to the rescue.
3 CommentsThis was too easy.
“Fight Club was the beginning, now it’s moved out of the minors, it’s called Project Embarassment.”
Seriously, what does a guy have to do to get fired? I think this snake Bernazard went to the same school Isiah Thomas did. Apparently, Omar Minaya is planning to “investigate” how to get enrolled into the same school.
Once he “investigates” the investigation at the investigation, there will be another investigation pertaining to the investigation and why the investigation took 10 days to start, which will be investigated. Got it?
Sadly, Omar Minaya would be an even worse “Dick” than he is a GM.
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