Review: The Wilpon-Minaya Show
In a report for Newsday, Wallace Matthews writes the following in response to yesterday’s press conference with Jeff Wilpon and Omar Minaya:
“So much for accountability. So much for consequences. So much for seeing any improvement next year, or the year after that, or the year after that. In fact, don’t expect anything to change in Flushing until the year after they change ownership.”
…i’m still stuck on how something can be ‘unacceptable,’ a phrase that was said three years in a row by the way, and yet essentially the same group of people are all allowed to return to the helm for 2010…
In case you missed yesterday’s events, in Citi Field and on WFAN, Eric Simon posts a nuts-and-bolts recap on Amazin Avenue.
Ted Berg of SNY.TV hopes Minaya does ‘no harm,’ while attempting to ‘put a winning team on the field.’
Steve Popper of the Bergen Record looks more closely at Wilpon’s comments about next season’s payroll. Meanwhile, on his blog, here, Popper describes yesterday as, ‘The Mets Day of Apologies.’
…sadly, Mets Day of Apologies is becoming an annual event, like some sort of sad holiday, it seems… all Mets fans should get the day off from school and work…
For a response-by-response response of Jerry Manuel’s comments yesterday, check out Fire Jerry Manuel… and for a similarly snarky rundown on the day’s events, read Paul Moro’s post on Ump Bump.
Wilpon and Minaya later talked in-studio at WFAN, and asked host Mike Francesa what he would do to the team this off season, to which Mike Silva of NY Baseball Digest asks, “Honestly, wouldn’t it be easier to consult the magic eight ball instead of Francesa? At least the eight ball has an excuse for not watching the team.”
Silva also picks apart Wilpon’s argument, which claims the team spends money on their top draft picks.
Lastly, in a report for MLB.com, Marty Noble explains why yesterday means Minaya and Manuel are facing ‘monumental tasks.’
