The Mets tried to get rid of a distraction today by firing Tony Bernazzard, and somehow turned this into a bigger distraction. While at the press conference announcing the firing, Omar Minaya criticized Mets blogger Adam Rubin, who first broke the story of Bernazard's outbreak. the whole story can be found here:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4359215

lets get some facts straight.

1. Omar Minaya is a terrible public speaker. I personally think he's a great GM (I know I'm in the minority there but hear me out), but he is always jumbling his words and repeating himself. So when you see him bumbling through his sentences don't think he's making an ass of himself, thats just how he normally talks. He's like porky pig up there, he never speaks understandably.

2. Bernazzard was a close friend of both Minaya and the Wilpons. As a Mets fan with no friendship to Bernazard I'm happy he was fired, but obviously Minaya and the Wilpons were reluctant to fire a friend. As you can see in the above video, Minaya was a little pissed and a little shaken, and I think his emotions got the better of him because he was just forced to fire a comrade.

3. In that anger/frustration/sa dness, Minaya made the mistake of saying the things on the back of his mind which really weren't neccesary to say. I read Rubin's collumns and he's a nice guy and a good reporter, I don't think he would purposely make up some BS to get Bernazard fired to increase his own chances of a job, but its plausible. The Mets were all set to let this go, everyone had dropped it, until 2 weeks later Rubin drops this story which causes a media firestorm and gets Minaya's friend fired.

so obviously, the Mets and Rubin were not on good terms because he had made a big headache for them and had hurt a personal relationship with ownership by getting the guy whose job he wanted fired. Then he asked that question in the conference "What would it take to get a job in baseball?" and I can see why Omar went off on him! If your a GM and a writer who has previously asked you for a job writes a story that gets the holder of that job, who is also your friend, fired, then in the press conference to announce that firing again asks about how to get a job, you would be pissed too and want to go off on the guy. so thats how this all went down, I still like both Rubin and Omar but I can see why Omar would criticize Rubin. hopefully both sides will realize it is in both of their best interests to let this story drop so the Mets don't have yet another distraction.