Saving for posterity

I tripped across a dandy of a post on Baghead Ray's blog, Fred Wilpon Is The Devil. It was originally posted back on december 1, 2004, regarding the new york mets management's 'big powwow' on the MSG messageboard. it's pretty funny and I'm glad Baghead Ray decided to save it.

First reports are filtering in... things got off to an awkward start when Bill Livesey, Al Goldis, Sandy Johnson and Tony Bernazard all attempted to sit in the two chairs labeled "SUPERSCOUTS" at the same time.

• Jeff: hmm, let's see. Bill, you sit on Sandy's lap. Tony, you sit on Al's lap.
• Fred: shut up, Jeffy. No, Bill and Al are the superscouts. you other two. Who are you? anyways, just stand behind them.
• Omar: wait a sec. I hired my own superscouts and I have full autonomy. I want them to sit.
• Fred: Oh ****. Yeah. okay, you two guys sit then, and Bill and Al, you can kneel on either side of my throne.
• Bruce: daddy, I thought Jeffy and I kneel beside you?
• Fred: oh ****. Let's take a two hour break and get Briq to draw up a damn seating chart!
• Briq: I need a pen and some paper.

... two hours later. seating chart is made. more folding chairs are brought into the rooom. everyone's seated.

Click here: Saving for posterity for the rest of this Hilarius re-enactment of the ultimate crime against the Mets faithful.

Wilpon: On Scott Kazmir Trade

Perhaps?!

"Perhaps we didn't have the right people in the right places then."

Click the link to read the rest of the article: Wilpon: losin' out on arms is no biggie by Adam Rubin - News Sports Writer.

When asked if he still thinks about Scott Kazmir and the deal that sent him away for Victor Zambrano, Fred Wilpon smiled and said,

"Is he still pitching?" he asked, joking. "Yeah, of course you do. At the time when they made that decision, Jeff [Wilpon] and I got on the conference call and there were I don't know how many people, but a lot of people, who had collectively more knowledge than you could imagine in terms of baseball. And they said just why they wanted to do that. It was obviously wrong. Zambrano is no longer here."

Click the link to read the rest of the article: Wilpon Likes What He Sees by Steve Popper - Staff Writer with The Record.

Never Forget!

For my first post, I thought to outline for a Mets screenplay called Never Forget. Consider this a rebuff to all the kiss-ass blog writers suggesting to us fans that we should put the Scott Kazmir debacle behind us simply because the indirect object of our disgust, Two-Time Tommy John with a Two-Bit Tommy Gun – Victor Zambrano, opted for a minor league contract with the Jays. I say, Never Forget.

Victor Zambrano may be gone; yet, Scott Kazmir is long gone too, so I'll never forget and some of those responsible are still around. I suggest we memorialize this sad saga with a fitting conspiracy flick directed by Oliver Stone.

Working title: Never Forget


The Chiefs: Think Dumb & Dumber, only Older & Younger. Picture Jackie Gleason & his inept son chasing Burt Reynolds in Smoky & the Bandit or maybe the father and son team of Jack Clampett & Jethro in the Beverley Hillbilly’s.

• Wilpon Sr. – Jed Clampett
  
• Wilpon Jr. – Jethro Clampett

The Scouts: Think of Montgomery Burns loyal sidekick Smithers in the Simpsons in the Simpsons squeezing lime juice for him in the morning, kissing his ass all day and then tucking into bed at night.





As for Peterson, think of the stumbling, bumbling Emmett 'Doc' Brown in Back to the Future complete with all his techno gadgetry.

• Jim Duquette - The Puppet
  
• Rick Peterson - The Nutty Professor
  

The Braves: Think back to any episode of the Rockford Files. Every episode features a couple of mobsters with greasy comb-over’s and gold medallions nestled in furry chest between long Seventies collars skying atop the shoulders of their ill fitting polyester plaid jackets as the open to reveal the revolver in the belt-less waste line of their ‘Sanabelt’ slacks.

Al Leiter – Senior Citizen #1 aka "The Senator"

Johnny Franco - Senior Citizen #2 aka "Mrs. Garrett"










The Naked Indian: Recall the naked Indian in The Doors. This is a metaphor for the mistake Wilpon Sr.’s made passing Minaya over as GM who was then hired by MLB to become the first Hispanic GM and exiled to the Expos. Omar Minaya – Montreal ‘Exposed’ and stalking Wilpon Sr. in his nightmarish dreamscapes.

• Omar Minaya - The Second Coming of the Messiah.

Beauty & The Beast:

Scott Kazmir: The Phenom

Victor Zambrano: Frankenstein



Plot: A100 MPH Lefty makes his MLB debut and two washed up Hall of Famers take ‘offense’ to rap music in the clubhouse and go on the ‘defensive’ talking Jethro (Wilpon Jr.), into a conversation with Dear Ol’ Dad. In turn, a couple of real estate executives tell Rick 'The Professor' Peterson and Jim ‘Lame Duck’ Duquette aka ‘Maryanne’ how to keep their jobs; and suddenly, the Mets ‘can’t miss’ prospect has ‘bad mechanics’ and an even ‘worse attitude’ so he's junked for damaged goods, Victor Zambrano, just in 'Lima Time' for a bogus playoff push.

Never Forget!

Dean Barbella















































On Deck: Watch Omar avenge his 'Passover' in Omar Strikes Back - A New Begining!