Ed Hates "Los Mets" Bulls**t

Ed returned today from a business trip to Boston. After my flight landed at LGA a little after 6 this evening, two gentlemen began discussing an upcoming Yankee game that they were attending. One of the gentlemen made a comment about the lack of intelligence on the part of Mets fans. Ed turned and gave him a relatively nasty look, but then smiled. The gentleman was probably about 50.

The gentleman then then began to discuss how the Yanks will rehire Willie. I said "do it, then the Wilpon's won't have to pay him". He then said they handled it wrong and disrespected him. My response "Well, they learned from the Yankees, and how they fired Billy, and Dick, and Yogi, and Billy, and Billy again..." He chuckled. The gentleman then said:

"The thing is Willie wasn't the problem. It was Minaya, signing all those latin players."

Ed was not happy. Ed said "That's kinda overblown". The gentleman then said "Well, he signed Alou, Pedro...". I cut him off and said "And Wagner, LoDuca, Schneider, Shoeneweis, Wise. Like I said, overblown." At that point, we deplaned.

This type of veiled racist bullshit pisses me off to no end. Mad Dog has done it. Some writers (I'm looking at you Larry Brooks) have made allusions to it. And the fans at many websites do it. Does Omar have a problem signing players he has past experience with (i.e., the Expos curse)? Yes. But to make comments about how the Mets have signed "too many latinos" IN PUBLIC is the height of stupidity. Funny how that gentleman said that Mets fans were stupid.

IMNSHO Omar obtains who he THINKS is the best available player. That might be Carlos Beltran. Or is might be Billy Wagner. It might be Carlos Delgado. Or it might be Paul LoDuca. The fact that there are people who drop to the "Los Mets" thing causes me to worry about this country. I don't give a crap if the player is white, black or latino. I care if the player is good. Bottom line, end of story.

The goal of a GM is to obtain the best available player. We may quibble with who Omar views as best available, but the fact of the matter is this team is a hell of a lot better than it was before he got here. Anyone really want to go back to 2004? Or 2003 or 2002?

I didn't think so.

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