They should probably just hire Costanza...

[CarlSpackler]

The story about now-ousted Mets player personnel guy Tony Berzanard keeps getting better. Omar Minaya is apparently implying that NY Daily News beat guy Adam Rubin wrote the initial stories about Berzanard's Hulk-smash clubhouse outburst in Binghampton so he could get Berzanard's job.

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

Omar Minaya announced Bernazard's dismissal at a news conference Monday afternoon in which the general manager and New York Daily News reporter Adam Rubin squared off after Minaya inferred that Rubin wrote stories to try to get Bernazard fired so he could take his job.

The news conference took a bizarre turn when Minaya said that Rubin, who wrote the initial story about Bernazard's confrontation in Binghamton, had lobbied in the past to get a personnel job with the Mets.

Rubin told Minaya he was "despicable" for implying that Rubin wrote a story to get Bernazard fired so he could get a job with the Mets.

In an interview with reporters after the news conference, Rubin said he had never asked Minaya directly for a job in baseball.

"I don't know how I'm going to cover the team now," Rubin said.

So... how does he cover the team now? Has anyone here ever had anything even remotely as strange happen to them on a beat?

 

[Den1983]

Such a strange, strange situation. Interesting to see what happens to Rubin. Also, Rubin said he had never asked Minaya "directly" for a job, so does that mean he did so indirectly?

 

[spnited]

Steve Garvey is calling you to baseball thread, part 6

 

[CarlSpackler]

My bad... somehow I did not put Steve Garvey, illegitimate children and the Mets continuing circus together as one cohesive thought

 

[spnited]

My bad... somehow I did not put Steve Garvey, illegitimate children and the Mets continuing circus together as one cohesive thought

Obviously, you need to hang around here a little more often to understand everything

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

Deadspin re-posted the transcription of the press conference from another Mets blog. Certainly stands out in the regular schedule of monotonous baseball beat coverage, huh?


http://deadspin.com/5324064/minaya-calls-out-daily-news-reporter-mets-season-descends-further-into-farce?skyline=true&s=x

 

[Stitch]

Should this be moved to the journalism topics board? No explicit denial, but even if he wanted a job in baseball, getting rid of Berzanard would not put him in a VP post.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Peeve of mine:

Omar Minaya announced Bernazard's dismissal at a news conference Monday afternoon in which the general manager and New York Daily News reporter Adam Rubin squared off after Minaya inferred that Rubin wrote stories to try to get Bernazard fired so he could take his job.

No, he implied it. He did not infer it. Totally different meaning.