newsday.com - 9/24/2009
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September 23, 2009 By DAVID LENNON david.lennon@newsday.com Mets' General Manager, Omar Minaya Photo credit: Newsday / Kathy Kmonicek | Mets' General Manager, Omar Minaya at batting practice. In happier times for the Mets , during spring training of 2007, members of the team's front office ...
nydailynews.com - 9/23/2009
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nydailynews.com —
Fred Wilpon may have offered a vote of
confidence to Omar Minaya , but the GM 's...
inner circle quietly is being dismantled. The Mets have fired Ramon Pena , the organization's top official in charge of signing Latin American talent, the Daily News has ...
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Mets fire Ramon Pena, top guy in charge of signing Latin ...
northjersey.com - 9/18/2009
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northjersey.com —
How s this for late-summer irony: the Mets
find themselves having to root for the Yankees to...
keep winning at their incredible pace (80 percent lately), because it provides cover for Flushing s worst season since 2003. No one disputes the Mets are ...
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Klapisch: Mets can’t bank on a better 2010
bases.nbcsports.com - 9/23/2009
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bases.nbcsports.com —
It's a mystery to me why the Mets
don't want to fire Omar Minaya, but maybe getting...
rid of everyone who works for and advises him may be the next best thing. The Daily News:The Mets have fired Ramon Pena,...
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The Mets clean house
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Read: Omar’s Inner-Circle is Shrinking
MetsBlog.com —
... To read quotes from Jerry Manuel, as well as from a team official, speaking about future moves, read Lennon’s report in Newsday, here. ...
Seems like the Wilpon's are undermining again...
Mets Fever —
... The Wilpons have been simmering behind the scenes about the Mets' terrible performance this season and this week's firing of Peña is the first of what is expected to be a bigger housecleaning within the organization. source Newsday ...
Mets in the Papers
The Real Dirty Mets Blog —
... to retire, the Daily News said, citing sources. The newspaper said that the Mets are trying to persuade Johnson not to retire.
Bart Hubbuch, “Staff Firings Mean Mets GM’s Only Guaranteed 1 Year”
But the recent machinations increasingly point to Minaya and Manuel getting 2010 — and just 2010 — to make up for this embarrassment of a season.
David Lennon, “Minaya Is Running Out of Loyal Followers”
Even as the Mets put ...
Minaya’s Remaining Friends : Disguised As Empty Seats At Citi Field
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... was the Mets’ 13th in their last 16 games, the club’s midseason flirtation’s with .500 a distant memory in what Newsday’s David Lennon projects will be the Amazins’ worst campaign since finishing 66-95 in 2003. Though GM Omar Minaya (above) and manager Jerry Manuel have received (qualified) votes of confidence from ownership, Lennon suggests the noose around the former’s neck has begun to tighten. ...
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Staff firings mean Minaya only guaranteed 1 year —
NY Post: Sports 9/24/2009
OMAR Minaya is getting a pass from Mets ownership for this miserable season and for his own public missteps, but it's becoming increasingly apparent that the general manager's pass is stamped "One Time Only."
A source close to owner Fred Wilpon t...
