What a stinky mess

The shit show Mets somehow created an even worse shit show at a press conference announcing the firing of the creator of the original shit show—that's a lot of shit.

Today the Mets fired former player personnel chief and future UFC competitor Tony Bernazard after an incident last week. Bernazard, in a heated rant to players on the AA MiLB affiliate, ripped off his shirt and challenged team members to fight him. This prompted an investigation by the Mets, which uncovered other past incidents: altercations with visiting scouts, an altercation with closer KRod and an altercation with other staff members.

In today's press conference announcing the firing, Mets' GM Omar Minaya singled out Adam Rubin, the reported who wrote the piece that prompted the investigation. Minaya accused Rubin of somehow having misplaced interest, as in the past he had inquired "about how to get into baseball."

A clip of the original press conference can be seen here. Minaya's comments prompted such turmoil and shit throwing that Rubin—a reporter himself—had to state a psudo press conference with his colleagues; that can be seen here.

This one makes absolutely no fucking sense to me. First off, he reported something that was 100% true. In no way did he make a malicious attempt at getting Bernazard fired. Read all the shit that is coming out about Bernazard now. Apparently, this is not a recent turn in his character. Second off, the guy made a general inquiry about how to get into baseball with baseball people. What the fuck is wrong with that? It would be the same as a student of journalism asking Rubin about how to get into sports writing. Would Rubin fear that the student wanted his job? Absolutely not. Ridiculous.

Well, all eyes are on Minaya now; he's made a stab at one of their own. You better believe this will be in the headlines for a while considering the Mets aren't doing anything on the feild that warrants being documented.

Update:

Jeff Blair's tweet on the fiasco is pretty damn funny. GloBlair posted,

This just in: Omar Minaya says he'll trade Adam Rubin to NY Times, but that there's a "premium" to being traded within the city.

Game Scores Update: July 27, 2009

It's Monday, meaning it's GSc update day. Here we go: It was an up and down week for Jays starting pitchers,


AGSc Chg GS Starts Week Avg
Roy Halladay 62.21 +1.98 19 2 79.00
Marc Rzepczynski 56.50 -3.00 4 2 53.50
Scott Richmond 55.00 +0.00 13 0
Ricky Romero 54.60 -2.48 15 2 38.50
Brett Cecil 48.60 +4.98 10 2 68.50
Robert Ray 48.50 +0.00 4 0
Brian Tallet 47.56 -0.50 18 1 39.00
David Purcey 41.00 +0.00 5 0
Jesse Litch 37.00 +0.00 2 0
Brad Mills 25.00 +0.00 2 0

Amongst all the trade diarrhea spewing from every crevasse of the baseball conglomerate, Roy "Pitching Machine SOK-7000" Halladay had a fabulous week; he went 9 innings in both starts and for the week his line was 10H, 2ER, 3BB, and 17K. Vintage Halladay. He recorded GSc of 78 and 80 respectively in those starts. Romero had a bit of a tough week; he didn't earn a QS in either of his outings. Cecil got the call form Las Vegas and was fabulous this week; over 14IP his line was 11H, 1ER, 7BB, and 16K. Rzep's first start of the week wasn't great and he was yanked after 4.1IP over which the Red Sox scored 4 runs (only two earned).

For notables in the MLB, this week's GSc stats are,

Pos Chg
AGSc Chg GS Starts Week Avg
1 +0 Dan Haren 66.75 -1.08 20 2 57.00
2 +0 Tim Lincecum 64.20 -0.69 20 2 58.00
3 +0 Zack Greinke 63.15 +0.37 20 2 66.50
4 +0 Chris Carpenter 62.47 +0.77 15 2 67.50
5 +2 Roy Halladay 62.21 +1.98 19 2 79.00
6 -1 Felix Hernandez 61.80 +0.86 20 2 69.50
7 -1 Javier Vazquez 60.40 -0.16 20 2 59.00
8 +1 Matt Cain 60.15 +0.93 20 2 68.50
9 -1 Josh Johnson 59.45 -0.02 20 1 59.00
10 +1 Justin Verlander 59.10 +0.78 21 2 66.50
11 -1 Yovani Gallardo 58.85 +0.18 20 2 60.50
12 +3 Adam Wainwright 57.52 +0.37 21 2 61.00
13 +5 Wandy Rodriguez 57.50 +1.17 20 2 68.00
14 +0 Josh Becket 57.26 +0.04 19 1 58.00
15 +2 Jake Peavy 56.69 +0.00 13 0
16 +6 Jair Jurrjens 56.52 +1.63 21 2 72.00
17 -1 Johan Santana 56.40 -0.71 20 2 50.00
18 -6 Jered Weaver 56.20 -1.97 20 2 38.50
19 +0 Matt Garza 56.05 +0.49 20 2 60.50
20 +10 Mark Buehrle 55.55 +2.44 20 2 77.50
21 -1 Jon Lester 55.50 +0.39 20 2 59.00
22 -1 CC Sabathia 55.48 +0.42 21 2 59.50
23 +1 Roy Oswalt 55.38 +1.22 21 2 67.00
24 +4 Cliff Lee 55.36 +2.05 22 3 68.33
25 -12 Chad Billingsley 55.19 -2.18 21 2 34.50
26 +3 Joel Pineiro 54.63 +1.34 19 2 66.00
27 +0 Kevin Millwood 53.95 +0.11 21 2 55.00
28 -3 A.J. Burnett 53.89 -0.22 19 2 52.00
29 -6 Carlos Zambrano 53.89 -0.55 18 2 49.50
30 +3 Jason Marquis 53.00 +1.00 19 1 71.00
31 +3 Ryan Dempster 51.76 +0.00 17 0
32 +0 Doug Davis 51.19 -1.34 21 2 38.50
33 -7 Dallas Braden 51.00 -3.00 21 3 33.00
34 +2 Barry Zito 49.75 +1.42 20 2 62.50
35 -4 Nick Blackburn 49.60 -3.46 20 2 18.50
36 -1 Tim Wakefield 49.53 +0.00 17 0
37 +0 Derek Lowe 48.77 +0.46 22 3 51.67
38 +1 Bronson Arroyo 48.16 +0.86 19 2 55.50
39 -1 Kevin Slowey 47.63 +0.00 16 0


Halladay led last week and moved up a couple of spots to now sit 5th on the list. On the heals of his perfect game—his GSc for that game was 93—Buehrle had the second best week. His other start was a QS agaist the Orioles: 7.1 IP, 8H, 1ER, 0BB, 7K. Jair Jurrjens had a great start against the Mets which he followed by another great start against the Giants; over the week he pitched 13.2IP, 5H, 1ER, 3BB, and 10K for the third best week.

Now for the bums: Blackburn had two horrible starts. The first was against the Athletics where he gave up 13H and 7ER over 5IP; the other was against the Angels where he gave up 6H and 6ER over 3.2IP. For the week we averaged a pathetic 18.50GSc. Billingsley's week was ruined by a horrible 1.2IP, 9H, 6ER, 0BB, and 0K against the Astros; he recorded a 13GSc for that outing. Braden's week was brought down by terrible starts against the Angels and the Yankees; he recorded GSc of 17 and 24 respectively in those starts.

Again, I'm open to adding any starting pitchers to the notables list. If you'd like to see someone included, let me know.