Crazy Bastards

By: Harvey

Fun times at the New York Mets headquarters.

Last night's headlines out of Queens had the downtrodden franchise firing a team executive, and during the press conference to announce that firing . . . Mets GM and resident stupid asshole Omar Minaya accused a New York Daily News reporter for surfacing the story in an attempt to get himself a job in the Mets organization.

The axed exec is Tony Bernazard, VP of player personnel. The title sounds impressive, but somehow I doubt the overall importance of a guy who lets himself get fired for tearing off his shirt and challenging members of the Mets' Class AA Binghamton affiliate to a brawl during a postgame tirade.

In a moment of pure professionalism during the press conference to address the Bernazard issue, Minaya decided to single out Daily News beat writer Adam Rubin in what sounds to me like some sort of lame-brained attempt to remove the focus from himself and the clusterfuck he has allowed the Mets organization to become.

"You got to understand this: Adam for the past couple of years has lobbied for a player development position. He has lobbied myself, he has lobbied Tony," Minaya said of Rubin, more or less implying that Rubin's recent stories about the Mets' tumultulous farm system have been nothing more than an attempt to get people fired and open up a position for himself.

Rubin acknowledged his desire to work for a big league club in some capacity, but of course denied any "conspiracy" and denied Minaya's bizaare claims.

Keep in mind that while he was at this press conference, Rubin hadn't said a word up to that point. Minaya walked in there and did this all on his own. Certainly sounds like the mentality of a powerful decision-maker with a major league franchise.

Then again, I'd probably be cracking up, too. After all, Minaya's Mets were supposed to be contenders to win the NL East . . . and now they're pretty much left to be thankful for not finishing in the basement thanks to the god-awful shitty mess otherwise known as the Washington "Let's-Not-Sign-The-Number-One-Pick-For-The-Second-Year-In-A-Row" Nationals.

Only in New York, right? I'm glad it's happening there. All those asshole Mets fans deserve it. Hopefully they're taking notes in the Bronx.