Wilpon kisses butt of New York Daily News
It's amazing how smart Adam Rubin, Jeff Wilpon and The news editorial staff have become about baseball matters.
How on a dime Darling, Hernandez & Cohen the more often objective trio can in unison assume Minaya is wrong - and that Rubin didn't in fact explicitly campaign for a job as all indications would suggest. It's almost as if it doesn't matter - although in jounalism - even the sorry state it's in today - it would not be acceptable for a writer to publish articles about something they had a personal interest in - one has to wonder if the articles would have been published had Rubin been given a position - or if Bernazard had not rubbed Rubin the wrong way during one of Rubins self-defined exploratory "rhetorical" conversations with Bernazard among others. It really doesn't matter - the News & Rubin & co. not the Mets or SNY or the Wilpons have the bully pulpit. At least Minaya still has some self-respect for not playing along with the media's feeding frenzy on Bernarzard - the need for The News to create news to fill the vacuum of a long summer. SO it's not about injuries - that would be much to obvious and boring - it's about Bernazard or Minaya - it will always be about anything that sells newspapers - often not the truth - the truth doesn't sell - speculation, controversy and fiction is much more entertaining - they can be created, manipulated and molded to match what people want to read and hear -
It's much too simple & boring to acknowledge that if Mets pitchers and position players had remained healthier - the team would be in a much better place.
News has become indistinguishable from talk radio - with articles written as if reacting to frenetic fans phone calls and rigged polls - and ignorance has become a tool not to be avoided but to be exploited.
If you want to help build a NY Metro area vehicle for truth in sports news - this blog is the place to start. It is devoted to telling the truth - starting with the simple premise that you can not trust what is reported by the NY sports News media.100% of the players will vouch for that - in private of course!