The Mets Are Office Space
By Mike Silva ~ September 24th, 2009. Filed under: Mike Silva.
I mentioned a Ken Davidoff column earlier when talking about the Yankees potential postseason roster. There was a small blurb at the end of the piece regarding the Mets and the recent firings of some Omar Minaya staffers.
The Mets will fire Ramon Pena in the front office (scroll down, on Buster Olney’s blog), and that’s good news for Mets fans. More by force than by choice, Omar Minaya has now jettisoned two of his most controversial hires, Pena and Tony Bernazard. Neither was good at his job, and neither had any respect whatsoever throughout the game. Minaya desperately needs to run a tighter operation, in which people prioritize doing their assigned jobs over acting important and sucking up to superiors.
It makes me feel great to hear another story about nepotism, incompetence, and lack of attention to detail regarding the Minaya regime. I would say it reminds me of NBC’s “The Office”, but Michael Scott actually gets results. This is more “Office Space” with Omar playing the role of Bill Lundbergh. That trailer never gets old.
In all seriousness, the last sentence where Davidoff says “people in the Mets organization need to focus on their jobs rather than being important” sounds like a page out of my company. I know how inefficient my Fortune 500 is, which makes me cringe at what is going on with the Mets. I almost want to say WFAN is run better, but even I couldn’t make that comparison.
I am using satire to make a point. The Mets front office is a mess and my concern is that ownership still is going to create the same type of management dysfunction with any new hires. Remember, Minaya is still in charge. Do you think lack of attention to detail is something that just improves overnight? Perhaps the only hope is that ownership will bring in good baseball people and not more of Omar’s drinking buddies.
September 24th, 2009 at 10:27 am
But the farm system isn’t that bad. There are a lot of good prospects,but they’re a few years away. Just wait until 2012!