Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Wanker of the Day



a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2009/07/27/2009-07-27_bondy_cheap_shot.html"Omar Minaya./abr /br /Aside from the bullying in and of itself -- perhaps an homage to the departed Bernazard? -- what's striking is that this is inept even as Machiavellian politics. Even if he succeeded in getting Rubin taken off the Mets beat for a while, this will obviously result in much greater media hostility overall, heading into an offseason where Minaya is going to need all the support he can get. br /br /In broad strokes, I've seen the Mets tracing the history of my beloved early 80s Expos -- a team with formidable front-line talent but holes management didn't take seriously enough, following a heartbreaking deciding game playoff loss with two disappointing seasons and one disastrous one. Ironically, the Expos failed to win pennants they should have in part because they traded Bernazard -- one of the better-hitting second basemen in baseball -- in order to play the likes of Doug ".552 OPS with overrated defense" Flynn at second base. I suppose his a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/07/mets_minaya_fir.php"executive career/a explains why they might have made the move...div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-4333817011504990507?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div

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