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Apologetic, gracious K-Rod frustrates Mets fans by not being God

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"He makes everything look so easy," Rodriguez said of Rivera, admiringly. "So easy, the fans think it's like that. But it's not. Look around at 29 of the 30 closers. He's the one, you know what I'm saying? He's got one pitch, and they want you to do this, and you can't." More

By Howard Megdal

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July 30, 2010 7:53 am

 

Presenting ... Omar Minaya's freakshow Mets of 2010

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Minaya had arrived in New York, amid great fanfare and optimism, from the (now-defunct) Montreal Expos, where he had shown a knack for building competitive teams for very little money. Five years on, confidence that he could engineer a winner here was all but gone.

Sure enough, after a disspiriting an 18-20 start to the current campaign that left the Mets in last place in the National League East, and amid conspicuous signs that the team's owner-heir and "chief operating officer" Jeff Wilpon was taking a more hands-on role in personnel decisions, reporters didn't even bother asking Minaya if he still enjoyed the “full autonomy” he’d claimed he had in a preseason interview. More

By Howard Megdal

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July 2, 2010 3:06 am