Great Moments In Latino Self Defeat

For those of you that don't know, The NY Mets are run by a fun loving Dominican guy named Omar Minaya.

He has been running the Mets in the ground for a while now. Heretofore, his consigliere has been a dude named Tony Bernazard ostensibly titled the VP of Player Development (but maybe for the duration of this post we can call him Fredo). Really I think Omar just kept him around so he could play dominoes with someone on the road. Anyway, let's just assume Tony (i mean Fredo) took his job seriously. So seriously that last week, Tony showed up to a Met's AA affiliate game, marched right into the locker room, took off his shirt, and challenged the players to a fight. Nice one, Fredo.

The NY Daily News's Adam Rubin broke the story and Omar had no choice but to fire his friend. We can assume that Omar took this personally. During his press conference announcing the Bernazard's firing, Omar made it a point to tell everyone there that the Rubin had been sniffing around the Mets looking for a player development job; the implication being this was clearly sour grapes. In retaliation, Adam made it a point to call Omar an assh*le, though of course we can't hear it because the Mets did not give him a microphone. The video is here.

Nice one Omar. Meanwhile, who can blame Rubin, newspapers are dead anyway.