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Jeff Wilpon talked to reporters from the dugout in Citi Field today and said he put a call in to Adam Rubin of the Daily News to extend an apology .
He also said Omar Minaya is’ remorseful and upset,’ about the way things were handled, noting this has taken a toll on him in a very big way.
Wilpon said Minaya feels badly for the way the organization has been portrayed, and he apologized to ownership.
“Omar made a mistake,” Wilpon said. “He admitted he made a mistake and is apologetic for his mistake. It definitely went against all our company values… Omar is our GM. He’s going to be our GM… He has not been reprimanded… It hurt the organization. He has admitted that. He didn’t do the right thing… All I can do is apologize for that.”
I wish he could have answered some questions regarding the state of the ball club, and if he expects any moves made before the deadline. I would have tons of questions to ask him …
It was nice of Jeff to apologize but I think it is way to late. He is only apologizing cause he got killed in the papers this morning. Anyone read Wallace Mathews article in Newsday? It sounded like I wrote it – It was perfect.
ENOUGH is ENOUGH!! Its over move on. Lets play baseball. I dont care, do you?
No I dont care.. Did you not read the first paragraph I wrote??????
I said I wish they asked him about the state of the team and if they were going to make any moves before the deadline…
Here is Wallace Mathews article from this morning… I can’t stand the guy but I agree with everything he wrote today:
http://newsday.com/columnists/wallace-matthews/dumb-and-dumber-steal-mets-show-again-1.1330844
Matthews has never written a positive thing about the Mets, it is impossible to take him seriously. He has a painful jealous streak when it comes to Jeff Wilpon and it borders on stalkerish.
Jeff Wilpon did the right thing yesterday, period.
It is no Minaya’s job to humble himself to the media.
I said I didnt like Mathews but this one article hit the nail on the head…. Read my entire post!
Lorenzo, you are being misunderstood here today, uh?
I have to say that although I am not the hugest fan of Jeff Wilpon, he expressed himself pretty well in the snipet that I saw during the 3rd inning. I didn’t get the feeling he was BS’ing and I do think the organization is truly upset with what happened.
It will be interesting to see if the NY Media lets it go or if they will pile on. I can tell you that if I were Rubin I would definitely speak with Wilpon but not so sure about Omar. He was totally thrown under the bus on NY if not national television. Saying sorry now is a little late.
this is why you dont work with friends.
Seven: this rule is so underrated
Keep your family and business completely separated
(there is more… but i cant post it here)
Wilpon did a pretty good job, I must admit.
The only thing is I wish he wouldn’t have said it was “the wrong forum” as if there’s a proper forum for that garbage Minaya was spewing yesterday.
technically, some believe there is, if you go read Murray Chase’s blog, while many papers are suddenly fans of Adam Rubin, most of the writers and beat reporters have questioned his actions and motives long before Minaya. Go ask Bart Hubbach why he felt it necessary to call Adam Rubin a sycophant on his blog last year during the Manuel story about fertilizer. (I think Bart got the Manuel part wrong, but he and others had enough of Adam’s “connective tissue” with the Mets at that point)
You know what I think is funny? Omar says a couple things and Jeff Wilpon waits, but comments. Yet he didn’t confront the Tony Brenezard thing? What about apologizing to your own employee for subjecting him to be harrassed by an unintelligent lunatic? Or how about Jose Corenado?
No, the only one who matter is Adam Rubin. The little p*ssy who finally got showed up. You know what, there’s actually a way of liking a general manager – if they do their job. But there’s no one who can genuinely say that a newspaper is out to be moral. They’re out to do what sells.
I’m not on the side of Omar at all, but I have a lack of respect for reporters with overly bloated egos. What he doesn’t realize now is that every organization is going to remember this on Rubin. They’re going to question it. They’re going to question how cooperative of a person he is. If Omar Minaya actually did this in the proper setting and didn’t speak with terrible grammar, maybe it wouldn’t so bad.
Wilpon did a very good job? What are you kidding me? So let me get this straight. Because a businessman makes a remark to the media to try to not embarrass his business any further – that makes him a good owner? Really.
Let me tell you something. Jeff Wilpon is the definition of a p*ssy at it and there’s not any other way of saying it. And you know what? None of you should look for another way of saying it. The guy has been man handled by Tony Brenezard for the last 5 years. He doesn’t speak up – even when he needs to and his dad is no better.
The reason the Mets don’t snap out of this is because of ownership down. That’s where it starts out. We’re run by cowards. That’s why we are cowards. That’s why we ”collapsed” 2 years. That’s just the way how it is. Nothing is going to change.
Saying Jeff Wilpon is doing his job would be like the equivalent of saying a parent went to their child’s middle school graduation because of ”no school left behind.” That parent was never there if a teacher called home. They never helped their kid with homework. They weren’t even cooperative when they did speak.
That’s Jeff Wilpon. The plastic little coward with some ugly late-1800’s western bartender hair cut. He needs to get his head out of his *ss so guy’s like Bernie Madoff, Tony Brenezard and Omar Minaya don’t give it to him when he’s not looking.
um, Jeff is not Fred, he had nothing do with Bernie Madoff other than meeting him likely.
Patrick I dont know why you always make excuses for Jeff. He could be the worst baseball executive in all of Major League Baseball.
So you didn’t get the feeling Jeff Wilpon was bs’ing? So the only time he’s able to pop his head out of the whole is when someone is verbally embarrassing in public? According to Jeff Wilpon’s media appearance schedule, it’s okay for Tony Brenezard to call Jose Corenado a ”derogatory term for a female anatomy”, but not for Omar Minaya to randomly pick out reporters. How about holding all people to the same standard? How about everything Jerry Manuel’s said about Ryan Church and the medical staff?
You know what, if Jeff Wilpon wants to be a coward fine. But how about hiring some people who can operate your business? There’s a lot of people out there who have crappy business skills, yet lots of cash. Omar Minaya public speaking skills range in between a gym teacher and a homeless man. He has a ”win now – forget the future” mentality that’s cost us development in our farm system. He signed Luis Castillo and Oliver Perez to inexcusably lengthy contracts.
Honestly, I don’t think this is going to end. The NY media never stops tentatively covering the Mets when it comes to ”gossip.” Outside of discussing, I’d actually say the Mets are more discussed than the Yankees. They’re more dramatic and interesting I guess.
discussing games that matter*
Regardless of what rights and wrongs there are, this season has been a complete mess and a disaster. Next year should be a fresh start. In 2008, we wanted a fresh start but didn’t get one. We wanted the same thing this year and we didn’t get it.
I am very pleased that Omar Minaya has put himself in this position. Unlike when Willie Randolph was asked about race, you can actually say Minaya wasn’t egged on. He went out of his way to criticize Rubin. I don’t know if I can say that is suprises me, but at some point you’d think these guy’s said enough is enough. The funny thing about all this is that more is to come. More that we haven’t even seen yet. It might even be worse than this too. There’s just this linger in this Minaya era that makes you believe there is no light at the end of the tunnel.
We are over due for a clean house in November. It’s bad enough we’ve had to deal with this fool for a half a decade. Don’t spoil the next one by letting him be in it. I don’t we can’t eliminate Wilpon from the picture, but we may as well root for Minaya, Jerry and everyone else to be pushed over. They deserve it.
Becareful what you wish for, the next Al Harazin can lurk behind door number two.
I agree with nyj0126 we need a complete over haul… To bad we cant get rid of our owners.